June Fourth 1989: From the Shattered Pieces of a Stone It Begins

[People speaking in Chinese]

[Verse 1]
This place begins to cave
These are a madman's days
A trembling land must play a murderer's game
The blind man's flickering eyes
A flame as black as night
The unborn children die before me now

[Chorus 1]
But from the soldier's broken bones
From the mothers' silent song
From the pieces of a shattered stone it starts

[Verse 2]
We learn and then forget
The screams and silhouettes
In time you'll find
We'll make the same mistakes
So ruins are reborn
An ever blood-red dawn
The palm-lines turn to cracks beneath our feet

[Chorus 2]
But from the silence of the tombs
From the broken, barren wombs
From the pieces of a shattered stone it starts
From the parted lovers' lips
From the nailless fingertips
From the whispers of a silenced voice it starts

[People speaking in Chinese]