Salt, Pepper, Birds, and the Thought Police
[00:00.15] Bamboo basket
[00:02.81] Reflector, working brakes
[00:05.46] Never forget your helmet, trusty Mips
[00:08.67] See ya, I'm off to the morning market
[00:12.66] Thirty-three lemons
[00:14.78] A healthy looking chicken
[00:16.49] And a dozen of free-range eggs
[00:20.21] Thanks, keep the change
[00:24.29] Whistling a tune
[00:26.15] Pffffth
[00:28.01] I'm home
[00:30.93] What a perfect day
[00:33.59] I hang the sheets out in the yard
[00:36.50] Oiled up my baking tray
[00:39.96] Thinking about you mother
[00:42.36] To recite your famous words
[00:45.54] All you need are salt and pepper
[00:48.73] To taste the happiness of life, forever
[00:55.63] Then the moon rose
[00:58.29] And cream lemon chicken roasted in the oven
[01:02.97] Men in black kicked down my front door
[01:05.89] "Hey, who, what, why?"
[01:08.03] "You violated Act 617, illegal thoughts
[01:11.75] You're under arrest"
[01:13.33] We all know the real answer is
[01:15.37] "You shouldn't have been born the way you were"
[01:22.97] And we're packed in a cargo choo-choo train
[01:26.43] Squeezing against the bodies similar to me
[01:30.95] With tears rolling down our faces
[01:33.07] We began to sing
[01:34.93] (They can never take anything from our souls)
[01:38.65] Louder and louder
[01:41.30] (They can never take anything from our souls)
[01:45.03] Louder and Louder
[01:47.94] They shaved off my hair
[01:50.61] Fed me a foreign language
[01:53.26] Looking on the bright side (Yeah?)
[01:55.58] I'm alive, I still remember all the people I love
[01:59.29] So come at me and do your worst
[02:02.91] All this pain and suffer
[02:05.56] Don't stand a chance against our iron hearts
[02:12.21] As the morning came and went
[02:15.40] And the people stayed and left
[02:18.31] And the Earth went 'round and around
[02:22.04] The stars never looked so kind
[02:23.90] The wind ever so fragrant
[02:26.29] Through the tiny slit on the wall
[02:29.21] Every night I was invited to watch
[02:32.14] A theatre played by moonlit birds
[02:35.06] They spread their wings
[02:36.38] Carrying our silenced voices
[02:39.48] Singing our historic songs
[02:42.40] Letting everyone in the future know
[02:45.84] That we existed
[02:49.30] What a perfect night
[02:51.96] I felt the urge to write a book
[02:54.88] Pass down my life
[02:57.01] Until recently, time didn't feel so fast
[03:00.98] With my bloody fingertip
[03:04.18] All I needed were sticks and paper
[03:07.10] I started to write poems after poems
[03:10.28] Then the moonlit birds came to meet me
[03:13.73] They snagged the key, and opened the gates
[03:16.40] We're finally free
[03:18.26] I picked up my bicycle
[03:19.85] Riding home to mother
[03:22.51] Writing my delusion world
[03:25.70] I saw a version of heaven
[03:27.22] Where I sat in my yard
[03:28.81] Reading a paperback print of my book
[03:35.16] On the hillside, your little fist clutching sweat
[03:41.00] Walking to the memorial park
[03:43.39] You put down freshly cut white chrysanthemums
[03:48.17] A former Thought Police lowers her hat
[03:50.83] Children lying on the grass
[03:53.22] Singing to poems, written
[03:56.94] By me
[03:58.01] (Du du du du)
