MP3 08. Salt, Pepper, Birds, and the Thought Police
[00:02.58] Reflector, working brakes
[00:05.23] Never forget your helmet, trusty Mips
[00:08.69] See ya, I'm off to the morning market
[00:12.67] Thirty-three lemons
[00:14.53] A healthy looking chicken
[00:16.39] And a dozen of free-range eggs
[00:19.84] Thanks, keep the change
[00:24.09] Whistling a tune
[00:26.22] Pffffth
[00:27.54] I'm home
[00:31.00] What a perfect day
[00:33.39] I hanged the sheets out in the yard
[00:36.31] Oiled up my baking tray
[00:39.50] Thinking about you, mother
[00:42.42] To recite your famous words
[00:45.34] All you need are salt and pepper
[00:48.53] To taste the happiness of life forever
[00:55.17] Then the moon rose
[00:57.83] And cream lemon chicken roasted in the oven
[01:02.87] Men in black kicked down my front door
[01:05.53] Hey! Who? What? Why?
[01:07.92] "You violated Act 617, illegal thoughts
[01:11.39] You're under arrest"
[01:13.25] We all know the real answer was
[01:15.37] "You shouldn't have been born the way you were"
[01:23.34] And we're packed in a cargo choo-choo train
[01:26.00] Squeezing against the bodies similar to me
[01:30.78] With tears rolling down our faces
[01:33.44] We began to sing
[01:35.30] "They can never take anything from our souls"
[01:38.48] Louder and louder
[01:41.14] "They can never take anything from our souls"
[01:44.86] Louder and Louder
[01:48.31] They shaved off my hair
[01:50.17] Fed me a foreign language
[01:53.11] Looking on the bright side (yeah?)
[01:55.53] I'm alive, I still remember all the people I love
[01:59.25] So come at me and do your worst
[02:02.43] All this pain and suffer
[02:05.62] Don't stand a chance against our iron hearts
[02:12.00] As the morning came and went
[02:15.45] And the people stayed and left
[02:18.37] And the Earth went 'round and around
[02:22.09] The stars never looked so kind
[02:23.95] The wind ever so fragrant
[02:26.08] Through the tiny slit on the wall
[02:29.00] Every night I was invited to watch
[02:32.18] A theatre played by moonlit birds
[02:35.64] They spread their wings
[02:36.70] Carrying our silenced voices
[02:39.36] Singing our historic songs
[02:42.28] Letting everyone in the future know
[02:45.73] That we existed
[02:49.73] What a perfect night
[02:51.86] I felt the urge to write a book
[02:54.52] Pass down my life
[02:56.64] Until recently, time didn't feel so fast
[03:00.89] With my bloody fingertip
[03:03.81] All I needed were sticks and paper
[03:07.00] I started to write poems after poems
[03:09.92] Then the moonlit birds came to meet me
[03:13.41] They snagged the key, and opened the gates
[03:16.33] We're finally free
[03:18.45] I picked up my bicycle
[03:19.78] Riding home to mother
[03:22.18] Writing my delusion world
[03:25.36] I saw a version of heaven
[03:26.95] Where I sat in my yard
[03:28.81] Reading a paperback print of my book
[03:35.00] On the hillside, your little fist clutching sweat
[03:40.58] Walking to the memorial park
[03:43.24] You put down freshly cut white chrysanthemums
[03:48.02] A former Thought Police lowers her hat
[03:50.94] Children lying on the grass
[03:53.33] Singing to poems, written
[03:57.04] By me
