Salt, Pepper, Birds, and the Thought Police-Mili

[ti:Salt, Pepper, Birds, and the Thought Police] [ar:Mili] [al:To Kill a Living Book -for Library Of Ruina-] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Salt, Pepper, Birds, and the Thought Police - Mili [00:00.22]Lyrics by：Cassie Wei [00:00.45]Composed by：Yamato Kasai/Cassie Wei [00:00.67]Bamboo basket reflector working brakes [00:05.94]Never forget your helmet trusty Mips [00:08.89]See ya I'm off to the morning market [00:13.24]Thirty-three lemons [00:15.12]A healthy-looking chicken [00:16.67]And a dozen of free-range eggs [00:20.51]Thanks keep the change [00:22.88] [00:24.34]Whistling a tune pffhw [00:27.65] [00:28.27]I'm home [00:28.98] [00:31.24]What a perfect day [00:34.04]I hanged the sheets out in the yard [00:36.75]Oiled up my baking tray [00:40.07]Thinking about you Mother [00:42.81]To recite her famous words [00:45.98]All you need are salt and pepper [00:48.90]To taste the happiness of life forever [00:53.54] [00:55.90]Then the moon rosе [00:58.28]And creamed lemon chicken roasted in the oven [01:03.15]Men in black kicked down my front door [01:06.29]Hey [01:06.67]Who [01:07.29]What [01:07.73]Why [01:08.17]"You violated act 617 - Illegal Thoughts" [01:11.99]"You're under arrest" [01:12.98] [01:13.58]We all know the real answer was [01:15.30]"You shouldn't have been born the way you are" [01:17.61] [01:23.54]And we're packed in a cargo choo choo train [01:25.86] [01:26.68]Squeezing against the bodies similar to me [01:31.23]With tears rolling down our faces [01:33.58]We began to sing [01:35.09]"They can never take anything from our souls" [01:39.12]Louder and louder [01:41.46]"They can never take anything from our souls" [01:44.93] [01:45.43]Louder and louder [01:48.25]They shaved off my hair [01:50.94]Fed me a foreign language [01:53.77]Looking on the bright side [01:55.53]Yeah [01:55.91]I'm alive [01:56.78]I still remember all the people I love [01:59.60]So come at me and do your worst [02:03.38]All this pain and suffer [02:05.97]Don't stand a chance against our iron hearts [02:10.53] [02:12.43]As the morning came and went [02:15.26]Ah [02:15.48]And the people stayed and left [02:18.25]Ah [02:18.50]And the earth went 'round and around [02:22.37]The stars never looked so kind [02:24.36]The wind ever so fragrant [02:26.75]Through the tiny slit on the wall [02:29.71]Every night I was invited to watch [02:32.67]A theater played by moonlit birds [02:35.66]They spread their wings [02:36.66]Carrying our silenced voices [02:40.14]Singing our historic songs [02:42.83]Letting everyone in the future know [02:45.95]That we existed [02:47.19] [02:49.67]What a perfect night [02:52.27]I felt the urge to write a book [02:55.35]Pass down my life [02:56.50] [02:57.33]Until recently time didn't feel so fast [03:01.34]With my bloody fingertip [03:04.47]All I needed were sticks and paper [03:07.53]I started to write poems after poems [03:10.67]Then the moonlit birds came to meet me [03:13.99]They stole the key and opened the gates [03:16.74]We're finally free [03:18.05] [03:18.63]I picked up my bicycle [03:20.06]Riding home to Mother [03:22.99]Writing my delusion world [03:25.97]I saw a version of heaven [03:27.44]Where I sat in my yard [03:29.32]Reading a paperback print of my book [03:33.52] [03:35.46]On a hillside your little fist clutching sweat [03:41.25]Walking to the memorial park [03:43.69]You put down freshly cut white chrysanthemums [03:48.42]A former Thought Police lowers her hat [03:51.31]Children lying on the grass [03:53.05] [03:53.61]Singing to poems written by me [03:58.39]Du-du-du-du