The Lhasa Road (No Surrender)

One by one
The answers come
Rung by rung
Toward the sun

Fire on the moutain-top
And blld in the snow
Chased from his ancient home
The white crane has flown

They've come for your livestock
And they've come for your land
They've come to chop your forests
With the labor of your hands

A land in isolation
On the roof of the world
A pawn in the greater game

Wrenched into the modern age
By the bullet and the blade
News roads and new factories
Such progress you have made

Line by line
The poets rhyme
In a quiet mind
The light will shine

There's no surrender in my heart
There's no surrender in my song
There's no surrender in my faith
There's no surrender

Flowers on the Lhasa Road
Flowers on the Lhasa Road
Flowers on the Lhasa Road
Flowers on the Lhasa Road

They've taken all your wise men
They have made you kill your own
They came to liberate your
From your families and your homes

They've forbidden your religion
They have levelled your shrines
Though re-education
They have cleansed your brainwashed minds

We most favored nations
We partners in crime
To the mighty spoils

And so it has always been
And so shall it be
Another culture is conquered
In the name of liberty

Brutal are the means of oppression
Power grows from the mouth of a gun
The flower bows its head in the darkness
Bathed in the light of compassion
The dawn will come

Say a prayer for the dead and the tortured Raise your voice for the raped and the wronged
The spirit lives though the flesh may be broken
There is no surrender when all you believe lives on

There's no surrender in my heart
There's no surrender in my song
There's no surrender in my faith
There's no surrender

Flowers on the Lhasa Road
Flowers on the Lhasa Road
Flowers on the Lhasa Road
Flowers on the Lhasa Road

We'll grow Flowers on the Lhasa Road

Toll the bell
Beat the drum so the people will know
Your prison walls cannot kill the light
Through the cracks the flowers still grow

There's no surrender
There's no surrender
There's no surrender
There's no surrender