(Sung in Swahili)
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Kile unapanda utavuna wewe (What you sow, you shall also reap)
Ukipanda mazuri, utavuna wewe (If you sow goodness, that is what you’ll reap)
Kile unapanda utavuna wewe (What you sow, you shall also reap)
Ukipanda maovu, utavuna wewe (If you sow evil, that is what you shall reap)
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Katika maisha yako jifunze kuwa na kumbukumbu
(In your life, teach yourself to have remembrance)
Lolote ufanyalo, lazima kuweka kumbukumbu
(In everything you do, remember it)
Mema na mabaya, lazima uandike kumbukumbu
(Goodness and evil, you must remember)
Basi, yale uliyopanda jana, ndivyo unavyoishi leo
(For what you sowed yesterday, that is your life today)
Na yale unayopanda leo, kesho utalipa gharama
(And what you sow today, you shall pay for it tomorrow)
Ikiwa mmebana mabaya, lazima utalipa gharama
(If you have forbidden evil, you must pay the price)
Gharama, gharama, gharama! (The cost, the cost, the cost!)
Gharama, gharama, gharama!
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Na ipo/ninalipa gharama flani ya mambo/vitu flani nilifanya
(There is a price for some things I did)
Gharama ya choices, decisions, conflictions nilimake
(The cost of choices, decisions and conflicts that I caused/made)
Ninajutia makosa nilifanya, mami
(I regret the mistakes I made) (Repeat)
Kumbuka dunia haisemi uongo, ni lazima utalipa
(Remember the world does not lie, there is a cost for everything)
Usije beba mawe ukaumiza mgongo, ukaharibu future
(So that you would not be like Sisyphus, hurt your back and destroyed your future)
What would I go, what would I do?
Maji yakimwagika hayazoleki
(Spilled water cannot be collected)
What you should do, mwombe Mungu
(You should pray to God)
Akishasamehe, wala hakumbuki
(For when he forgives, he no longer remembers)
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African Gospel Lyrics 