Tenananem Square lyrics

The bleating of the sheep

Held at bay for so long

For those who did not follow

Traded lives for the wrong

A government of few

Held up by Mao's policies

Took choices from men

Washed away their liberties

Like marionettes dancing

Upon the chairman's strings

Voices of others directed

Propaganda mindless things

Their spirits did not believe

Those hearts betrayed so

An endeared one, but many

A party with no occasion

Not a candle of hope, a wish

To be free, to find democracy

In a troubled land of lies

Ancient idealists, rivalries

In Tenananem Square they died

For free speech is a threat

Change like a tide ebbs and flows

A red tide of blood, warm and wet

To live life was but a dream

Then one day too late to awaken

And find that life was lived chained

Roused to be old, aware, mistaken