ct20092012-08-18 19:04:03

1992年推出的老歌。

We were watching T.V./ Watching T.V./ We were Watching T.V./ Watching T.V./ In Tiananmen Square/ Lost my baby there/ My yellow rose/ In her bloodstained clothes/ She was a short order pastry chef/ In a Dim Sum dive on the Yangtze tideway/ She had shiny hair/ She was the daughter of an engineer/ Won't you shed a tear/ For my yellow rose/ My yellow rose/ In her bloodstained clothes/ She had perfect breasts/ She had high hopes/ She had almond eyes/ She had yellow thighs/ She was a student of philosophy/ Won't you grieve with me/ For my yellow rose/ Shed a tear/ For her bloodstained clothes/ She had shiny hair/ She had perfect breasts/ She had high hopes/ She had almond eyes/ She had yellow thighs/ She was the daughter of an engineer/ So get out your pistols/ Get out your stones/ Get out your knives/ Cut them to the bone/ They are the lackeys of the grocer's machine/ They built the dark satanic mills/ That manufacture hell on earth/ They bought the front row seats on Calvary/ They are irrelevant to me/ But I grieve for my sister/ People of China/ Do not forget do not forget/ The children who died for you/ Long live the Republic/ Did we do anything after this/ I've a feeling we did/ We were watching T.V./ Watching T.V./ We were watching T.V./ Watching T.V./ She wore a white bandanna that said/ Freedom now/ She thought the Great Wall of China/ Would come tumbling down/ She was a student/ Her father was an engineer/ Won't you shed a tear/ For my yellow rose/ My yellow rose/ In her bloodstained clothes/ Her grandpa fought old Chiang Kai-shek/ That no-good low-down dirty rat/ Who used to order his troops/ To fire on the women and children/ Imagine that imagine that/ And in the spring of '48/ Mao Tse-tung got quite irate/ And he kicked that old dictator Chiang/ Out of the state of China/ Chiang Kai-shek came down in Formosa/ And they armed the island of Quemoy/ And the shells were flying across the China Sea/ And they turned Formosa into a shoe factory/ Called Taiwan/ And she is different from Cro-Magnon man/ She's different from Anne Boleyn/ She is different from the Rosenbergs/ And from the unknown Jew/ She is different from the unknown Nicaraguan/ Half superstar half victim/ She's a victor star conceptually new/ And she is different from the Dodo/ And from the Kankanbono/ She is different from the Aztec/ And from the Cherokee/ She's everybody's sister/ She's symbolic of our failure/ She's the one in fifty million/ Who can help us to be free/ Because she died on T.V./ And I grieve for my sister /