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A Handful Of Hope

from Peace by Ars Pro Vita

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“To forget a holocaust is to kill twice.”
(Elie Wiesel)

lyrics

Nanjing, China, on any day between 1937-38

They took him every day
To break rocks in a quarry
In his land, now raped
But now, thinking is dangerous

Even so, he was very lucky
Way back is always perilous
A small handful of rice, like sand
The most important thing in his life

Exhausted, he gets back to his family
Huddling around the fire beside his barrack
Waiting for the rice porridge to be ready
To mitigate family's hunger, almost nothing

A japanese military slowly approached
Making his way for the bonfire
He looked with a fierce hatred towards us
And started to urinate in our food

Nothing was said, eyes down to the floor
Their lives are so threatened, all day long
Anything could be a pretext for a bullet to the head
And he kept urinating, the longest pee in the world

We never looked at his face, those bright eyes
He whistled some song, he was happy
And when he was satisfied and left
We ate our spicy food, quietly

他們每天都把他帶走。
在採石場裡破岩
在她的土地上, 現在被強姦了
但現在思考是危險的。

即使如此, 他還是非常幸運。
回來的路總是危險的。
一小把米飯, 像沙子
他生命中最重要的事

精疲力竭, 他回到了家人的家
擠在他的軍營旁的爐火旁
等待米粥準備好。
為了減輕家庭的饑餓, 幾乎什麼都沒有。

一名日本軍方慢慢靠近
為篝火讓路
他帶著對我們的強烈仇恨看著我們
並開始在他們的食物中小便,

什麼也沒說, 眼睛盯著地板。
他們的生命整天都受到如此大的威脅。
任何事情都是頭部中彈的藉口
他不停地小便, 世界上最長的尿

我們從來沒有看過他的臉, 那明亮的眼睛
他吹口哨唱了幾聲歌, 他很高興
當他滿意地離開的時候
我們以安靜的方式吃辛辣的食物

credits

from Peace, released June 1, 2020
Storytelling: Yinhe Chen and Rui Zhang
Music and lyrics by Ars Pro Vita

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