Текст песни: 4 June 1989 + перевод

I told them we heard singing

First before we reached the Square

«Arise the wretched of the earth» filled the air

So many fists clenched to the sky

We couldn’t count them all

But then the sea of weeping

Washed over the Hall

I told them no one saw me

There was no one who would know

I was an army soldier

Dressed in students clothes

Between the smoking bonfires

We held our rifles high

As the ashes of the banners

Soared into the sky

Ah, I was seventeen that spring

Ah, we were just obeying orders

Ah, I still see everything

Through the factory’s yellow windows

In the dirty stinking river

In the messages that find you

Then vanish in the ether

Then vanish in the ether

I told them not to fear me

But history tells the tale

The artists and the poets

Fill up every jail

Before I held a rifle

I held an artist’s brush

Before Tiananmen

I even dreamed of love

Ah, I was seventeen that spring

Ah, we were just obeying orders

Ah, I still see everything

Through the factory’s yellow windows

In the dirty stinking river

In the messages that find you

Then vanish in the ether

Then vanish in the ether

I told them they’d see me

Walking in the rain

In Budapest, in Prague

In Soweto’s lanes

Between the burning oil drums

And the graffiti on the wall

I told them, yes I told them

I told them all

Ah, I was seventeen that spring

Ah, we were just obeying orders

Ah, I still see everything

Through the factory’s yellow windows

In the dirty stinking river

In the messages that find you

Then vanish in the ether

Then vanish in the ether

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