[00:00.000] 作词 : Cassie Wei [00:00.024] 作曲 : Yamato Kasai/Cassie Wei [00:00.49]Bamboo basket, reflector, working brakes [00:05.83]Never forget your helmet, trusty Mips [00:08.77]See ya, I’m off to the morning market [00:12.88]Thirty-three lemons [00:15.02]A healthy looking chicken and a dozen of free range eggs [00:20.17]Thanks, keep the change [00:24.11]Whistling a tune, (Attempting) pffhw [00:27.96]I’m home [00:28.99] [00:30.96]What a perfect day [00:33.83]I hanged the sheets out in the yard [00:36.68]Oiled up my baking tray [00:39.87]Thinking about you, Mother [00:42.62]To recite her famous words [00:45.95]All you need are salt and pepper [00:48.91]To taste the happiness of life forever [00:55.76]Then the moon rose [00:58.38]And creamed lemon chicken roasted in the oven [01:03.28]Men in black kicked down my front door [01:06.26]Hey! Who? What? Why? [01:08.39]“You violated act 617 - Illegal Thoughts” [01:12.29]“You’re under arrest” [01:13.45]We all know the real answer was [01:15.44]“You shouldn’t have been born the way you are” [01:18.31] [01:23.28]And we’re packed in a cargo choo choo train [01:26.43]Squeezing against the bodies similar to me [01:30.97]With tears rolling down our faces [01:33.59]We began to sing [01:35.35]“They can never take anything from our souls” [01:38.93]Louder and louder [01:42.11]“They can never take anything from our souls” [01:45.16]Louder and louder [01:48.12]They shaved off my hair [01:50.66]Fed me a foreign language [01:53.56]Looking on the bright side, I’m alive [01:56.64]I still remember all the people I love [01:59.64]So come at me, and do your worst [02:02.86]All this pain and suffer [02:05.80]Don’t stand a chance against our iron hearts [02:10.61] [02:11.99]As the morning came and went [02:15.31]And the people stayed and left [02:18.30]And the earth went ‘round and around [02:22.17]The stars never looked so kind [02:24.21]The wind ever so fragrant [02:26.48]Through the tiny slit on the wall [02:29.61]Every night I was invited to watch [02:32.15]A theatre played by moonlit birds [02:35.49]They spread their wings [02:36.82]Carrying our silenced voices [02:40.01]Singing our historic songs [02:42.77]Letting everyone in the future know [02:45.79]That we existed [02:47.42] [02:49.45]What a perfect night [02:52.16]I felt the urge to write a book [02:55.12]Pass down my life [02:56.94]Until recently, time didn’t feel so fast [03:01.28]With my bloody finger tip [03:04.33]All I needed were sticks and paper [03:07.30]I started to write, poems after poems [03:10.49]Then the moonlit birds came to meet me [03:13.94]They stole the key and opened the gates [03:16.55]We’re finally free [03:18.34]I picked up my bicycle [03:19.94]Riding home to Mother [03:22.87]Writing my delusion world [03:25.92]I saw a version of heaven [03:27.52]Where I sat in my yard [03:29.09]Reading a paperback print of my book [03:33.59] [03:35.22]On a hillside, your little fist clutching sweat [03:41.18]Walking to the memorial park [03:43.62]You put down freshly cut white chrysanthemums [03:48.40]A former Thought Police lowers her hat [03:51.37]Children lying on the grass [03:53.33]Singing to poems written by me