Salt, Pepper, Birds, and the Thought Police

[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
[00:30.96] 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”
[01:23.28] 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
[02:11.99] 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
[02:49.45] 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
[03:35.22] 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