We were watching TV
Watching TV
We were watching TV
Watching TV
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In Tiananmen Square
Lost my baby there
My yellow rose
In 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
In 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
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We were watching TV
Watching TV
We were watching TV
Watching 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
In 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's 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's 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
my niggas
just bust yo' tech for me
Everybody from every hood
bang yo' head
'til you break yo' motherfuckin
neck for me!
Just let me give
you real street shit
to rap in yo' shit with
We clap yo' seat
we whyle this heat
Keep bouncin up
and down these streets
So nod yo' head and
Break yo' neck nigga!
Break yo' neck nigga!
Break yo' neck nigga!
Bang yo' head until you start to
Break yo' neck nigga!
Break yo' neck nigga!
Break yo' neck nigga!
Break yo' neck!