Salt, Pepper, Birds, and the Thought Police - Mili

[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