[Verse 1: ] The ambulance siren accompanies the students to sleep Just to be stormed awake by hordes of police at midnight The volunteer guards disheartened and apologize for unable to pretect Then kneel down and bow to the courageous students The journalists asks a female student if she is afraid of police evacuation She says very much so but I have been ready since day one Then the students raise their hands in the air, showing no resistance Just to see their boiling blood spilled on the ground No time for cop to rest, no line for parent-children to connect A teacher taking the hit for the students, twitching on the ground High presure water truck appears from history textbook to refresh your memory Students covered in blood yelling 'it's not the cop's fault' Injured students cried 'my father is also a cop' People are forced to confront, polarized, tension rising In this round, we are helpless. This is the threnody of our era At the break of dawn, the sky in Taiwan is still dark
[Chorus: ] We are beaten by the baton of fate My head is bleeding, but we have never let it down We climb across the barbed wire and barricade To place a sunflower to light up the darkest corner
[Verse 2: ] They are not shouting in anger for their own sake They are shouting for the helpless poor They open the eyes of the people, to bring to their attention Is this a warming scarf or a hangman's knot? They criticize the tumbling core value of the businessmen You can't buy freedom with money, but for money you're selling us out They remind us not to stay complacent Just as the old saying goes A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves They inspire us not to be the bystander of justice Stop being the mind of a giant yet the act of a dwarf They have freed the country from the strangle of blue and green This time they will navigate the fate of this island on their own They are the truest seeds in the poorest soil Seeing through the political formulas of power and greed Whether the sunflowers blossom or wilt. Please do not be sad! The black island's ray of sunlight will forever be in our hearts
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[Verse 3: ] Maybe the news is still twisted But there are still righteous press at scene to resist Maybe the politicians still don't understand where their power is granted from But we will remember not to vote for you again Maybe there are a lot of flaws to be discussed in this student movement But to witness people cheering when students take a beating, it's unbearable One simple reason to uncheck your badmouthing friends You can choose not to fight for freedom But you shouldn't lay more bricks for the wall Maybe discussing politics could turn your friends into enemy But without discussing politics you might lose your country Maybe we will continue to argue But we are still hopelessly in love with the Taiwan that we hate with a passion Maybe Taiwan does have too many issues and unsolvable problems But if you gave me 1000 lives to be born This is the only place I choose to be born If you gave me 1000 lives to die This is the only place I choose to die