Watching TV
We were watchin' tv...watchin'tv
We were watchin' tv...watchin'tv
In Tiananmen Square
lost my baby there
My yellow rose
And her bloodstained clothes
She was a short order pastry chef
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
For my yellow rose
My yellow rose
And her bloodstained clothes
She had perfect breasts
She had high hopes
She had almond eyes
She had yellow thighs
She was a student of philosophy
Won't you grieve with me
For my yellow rose
Shed a tear
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 of the grocer's machine
They built the dark satanic mills
That manufacture hell on earth
They bought the front row seats on Calvary
They are irrelevant to me
And I grieve 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 watchin' TV...Watchin' TV
We were watchin' TV...Watchin' TV
She wore a white bandanna that said
Freedom now
She thought the Great Wall of China
Would come tumbling down
She was a student
Her father was an engineer
Won't you shed a tear
For my yellow rose
My yellow rose
And her bloodstained clothes
Her grandpa fought old Chiang Kai-shek
That no-good low-down 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
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 from Anne Boleyn
She is different from the Rosenbergs
And from the unknown Jew
She is different from the unknown Nicaraguan
Half superstar half victim
She's a victor star conceptually new
And she is different from the Dodo
And from the Kankanbono
She is different from the Aztec
And from the Cherokee
She's everybody's sister
She's symbolic of our failure
She's the one in fifty million
Who can help us to be free
Because she died on TV
Viendo TV
Estábamos viendo la tv... viendo la tv
Estábamos viendo la tv... viendo la tv
En la Plaza Tiananmen
Perdí a mi amor allí
Mi rosa amarilla
Y su ropa manchada de sangre
Ella era una chef de repostería de pedidos rápidos
En un bar de Dim Sum en el río Yangtsé
Tenía cabello brillante
Era hija de un ingeniero
¿No derramarás una lágrima
Por mi rosa amarilla
Mi rosa amarilla
Y su ropa manchada de sangre
Tenía senos perfectos
Tenía grandes esperanzas
Tenía ojos almendrados
Tenía muslos amarillos
Era estudiante de filosofía
¿No te afligirás conmigo
Por mi rosa amarilla
Derrama una lágrima
Por su ropa manchada de sangre
Tenía cabello brillante
Tenía senos perfectos
Tenía grandes esperanzas
Tenía ojos almendrados
Tenía muslos amarillos
Era hija de un ingeniero
Así que saca tus pistolas
Saca tus piedras
Saca tus cuchillos
Córtalos hasta los huesos
Son los lacayos de la máquina del tendero
Ellos construyeron los oscuros molinos satánicos
Que fabrican el infierno en la tierra
Compraron los asientos de primera fila en el Calvario
Son irrelevantes para mí
Y lamento por mi hermana
Pueblo de China
No olviden, no olviden
Los niños que murieron por ustedes
Viva la República
¿Hicimos algo después de esto?
Tengo la sensación de que sí
Estábamos viendo la TV... Viendo la TV
Estábamos viendo la TV... Viendo la TV
Ella llevaba un pañuelo blanco que decía
Libertad ahora
Ella pensaba que la Gran Muralla de China
Caería derrumbándose
Ella era estudiante
Su padre era ingeniero
¿No derramarás una lágrima
Por mi rosa amarilla
Mi rosa amarilla
Y su ropa manchada de sangre
Su abuelo luchó contra el viejo Chiang Kai-shek
Ese maldito rata despreciable
Que solía ordenar a sus tropas
Disparar a mujeres y niños
Imagina eso, imagina eso
Y en la primavera del '48
Mao Tse-tung se enfureció bastante
Y pateó a ese viejo dictador Chiang
Fuera del estado de China
Chiang Kai-shek bajó a Formosa
Y armaron la isla de Quemoy
Y los proyectiles volaban sobre el Mar de China
Y convirtieron a Formosa en una fábrica de zapatos
Llamada Taiwán
Y ella es diferente del hombre de Cro-Magnon
Es diferente de Ana Bolena
Es diferente de los Rosenberg
Y del judío desconocido
Es diferente del nicaragüense desconocido
Mitad superestrella mitad víctima
Ella es una estrella victoriosa conceptualmente nueva
Y es diferente del Dodo
Y del Kankanbono
Es diferente del azteca
Y del cherokee
Ella es la hermana de todos
Es símbolo de nuestro fracaso
Es una entre cincuenta millones
Que puede ayudarnos a ser libres
Porque murió en la TV