Back in 1989 in Germany the Berlin wall was fallin’ down.
The same year tanks were rollin’ in on Tianmen Square,
I heard the crazy sound.
Today China is a battlefield between good and bad.
Soon the walls gonna fall down here.
The frustration’s like a ticking time bomb,
that’ll make all the walls disappear.

Hey you people on the outside, outside the border of this land.
Can’t you hear my call? We are suffocating! Can somebody understand?

So many dynasties ago the emperor let folks have liberty.
Nowadays the men in charge are so afraid of losing power,
they talk about stability.
And the leaders of the party, they got blood on their hands.
They got blood on their minds too.
They control my mind, my heart and soul,
they even control my tears. So what can I do?

I wanna cry out loud, I wanna cry my tears away.
But it’s not allowed, to sob in silence is the Chinese way.

Hey you people on the outside…

I wanna cry out loud, I wanna cry those tears away.
But it’s not allowed, to quit the party THAT’S the Chinese way.
To quit the party, to quit the party, to quit the party,
is the Chinese way, the Chinese way.

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From the CD “Music For Freedom”. Buy it here or on iTunes