Rocket Man
Enviado por MatiasCandia • 5 de Septiembre de 2011 • 401 Palabras (2 Páginas) • 752 Visitas
We were watching T.V.
Watching T.V.
We were Watching T.V.
Watching T.V.
In Tiananmen Square
Lost my baby there
My yellow rose
In her bloodstained clothes (ropa manchada de sangre)
She was a short order pastry chef (una orden corta chef de pastelería)
In a Dim Sum dive on the Yangtze tideway
She had shiny hair
She was the daughter of an engineer
Won't you shed a tear (¿No derramó una lágrima)
For my yellow rose
My yellow rose
In her bloodstained clothes
She had perfect breasts
She had high hopes (grandes esperanzas)
She had almond eyes (ojos almendrados)
She had yellow thighs (muslos)
She was a student of philosophy
Won't you grieve (afligirse) with me
For my yellow rose
Shed a tear (derramar una lagrima)
For her bloodstained clothes
She had shiny hair
She had perfect breasts
She had high hopes
She had almond eyes
She had yellow thighs
She was the daughter of an engineer
So get out your pistols
Get out your stones
Get out your knives
Cut them to the bone
They are the lackeys (los lacallos) of the grocer(almacenero)'s machina (maquina)
They built the dark satanic mills (molinos)
That manufacture hell on earth
They bought the front row seats on Calvary
They are irrelevant to me
But I grieve (afligirse) for my sister
People of China
Do not forget do not forget
The children who died for you
Long live the Republic
Did we do anything after this
I've a feeling we did
We were watching T.V.
Watching T.V.
We were watching T.V.
Watching T.V.
She wore a white bandanna (pañuelo) that said
Freedom now
She thought the Great Wall of China
Would come tumbling down (derrumbarse)
She was a student
Her father was an engineer
Won't you shed a tear
For my yellow rose
My yellow rose
In her bloodstained clothes
Her grandpa fought old Chiang Kai-shek (dictador de Taiwán)
That no-good low-down (muy bajo) dirty rat
Who used to order his troops
To fire on the women and children
Imagine that imagine that
And in the spring of '48
Mao Tse-tung got quite irate (aireado)
And he kicked that old dictator Chiang
Out of the state of China
Chiang Kai-shek came down in Formosa
And they armed the island of Quemoy
And the shells were flying across the China Sea
And they turned Formosa into a shoe factory
Called Taiwan
And she is different from Cro-Magnon man
She's different
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