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Clean Water is an original Afrobeat song written, produced and with lyrics by Paul Robert Thomas with music exclusively commercially licensed to Paul from the album Alkebulan
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You can download the album Alkebulan on all download platforms from 10 July 2026 HERE
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A heartbreaking Afrobeat plea calling for global action against a deadly humanitarian crisis. Children are dying from drinking poisoned, cholera-ridden well water in a hostile land. The singer passionately urges the world to stop turning a blind eye and provide the basic necessity of life.
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Clean Water lyrics
In a far away land
That is hostile to man
Children are crying in the dust
Children are dying in the dust
Children are buried in the dust
For a lack of clean water
So please don’t turn away
No, don’t you turn away
Help them live another day
Please help them live another day
All they need is clean water
So much sorrow, so much sorrow
But if you’d care
They will see tomorrow
For how long can we close our eyes
As another child dies?
For how long can we turn away
And don’t do and don’t say?
Thousand’s silently die
Can you hear their last cries?
They are children without a voice
Their lives in pain they have no choice
No they have nothing to rejoice
Just give them clean water
I’m saying for Christs sake
When will the world awake?
They drink from a polluted well
Where cholera and poison dwells
Their lives are just a living hell
Help them drink clean water
So please don’t turn away
No, don’t you turn away
Help them live another day
Please help them live another day
All they need is water
Just give them clean water
For how long can we close our eyes
As another child dies?
For how long can we turn away
And don’t do and don’t say?
So please don’t turn away
No, don’t you turn away
Help them live another day
Please help them live another day
All they need is water
Just give them clean water
Paul Robert Thomas PRS No. 497904008 (London)97904008 (London)
PRS Tunecode: 037884QH
Audiosparx Catalog ID: 1431047 ISRC: US5UL2659403
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