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Rainbow Nation

from Ubuntu by Jonathan Butler

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lyrics

From the place you meet your very edge
Your thoughts held together all alone

So beautiful, so beautiful

With the world view reaching end to end
You focus on bringing it all home

So beautiful, so beautiful

We are the rainbow nation
Reflecting off the sun
Droplets of water light and love
All of us affirmation
Fountains of fire, holy survivors

Like a song that wants to save us all (Save us all)
A wall of sound racing slowing down

So beautiful, so beautiful

Let’s slow it down, allow ourselves to fall
Up in life’s arms we’re wrapped around

So beautiful, so beautiful

We are the rainbow nation
Reflecting off the sun
Droplets of water light and love
All of us affirmation
Fountains of fire, holy survivors

Speaking our minds, spreading our stories
Seek and we shall find those allegories
Trying to fix the messes that we messed up
The haze before it clears, the salt of our tears

We are the rainbow nation
Reflecting off the sun
Droplets of water light and love
All of us affirmation
Fountains of fire, holy survivors

We’re here to equalize (We’re the equalizers)
Share this mission wide (Share our mission wide)
Reach and rewire (Reach and rewire)
Un-leash the dividers (Un-leash the dividers)

We’re here to equalize (We are the equalizers)
Share the mission wide (Share our mission wide)
Reach and rewire (Reach and rewire)
Un-leash the dividers

We are the rainbow nation
Reflecting off the sun
Droplets of water and love
All of us affirmation
Fountains of fire, holy survivors

We are the equalizers
Un-leash the dividers

credits

from Ubuntu, released April 28, 2023
Jonathan Butler, Michèle Vice-Maslin • Joran Music/Gliding Dove Music Publishing (BMI); Even Sweetersongs (SESAC)
Arranged by Marcus Miller; background vocal arrangement by Tony Soll

Jonathan Butler: lead vocals, acoustic guitar • Marcus Miller: bass guitar, piano, keyboards, tenor saxophone • Tony Soll: background vocals • Ernie Smith: electric guitar • Mornay Hoffmeestet: drums • Tlale Makhene: percussion • Russell Gunn: trumpet

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Jonathan Butler Los Angeles, California

GRAMMY®-nominated singer-songwriter/guitarist Jonathan Butler was born in South Africa under the shadow of apartheid and raised in poverty. While still a teenager, his first single broke down racial barriers, becoming the first song by a non-white artist to be played on South African radio. He went on to earn multiple GRAMMY nominations and recognition for his music and his humanitarian work. ... more

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