Simple, simple thoughts
Rich, rich language
Foreign clothes, smiling face, starving eyes
but your heart is anxious
anxious to cry out
Living underneath
underneath hypocrisy
No one’s ever looked at you twice
This is a realistic
This is a realistic place
Simple, simple thoughts
Rich, rich language
Foreign clothes, smiling face, starving eyes
but your heart is anxious
anxious to cry out
Living underneath
underneath hypocrisy
No one’s ever looked at you twice
This is a realistic
This is a realistic place
Tearing open the hypocritical opera mask
You face this place
Choose once more a world of your own
Throw out your old shoes, get a brand new face
Only then will you find the world that you’re looking for
Simple, simple thoughts
Rich, rich language
Foreign clothes, smiling face, starving eyes
but your heart is anxious
anxious to cry out
Living underneath
underneath hypocrisy
No one’s ever looked at you twice
This is a realistic
This is a realistic place
© Hei Bao, 1992, music and lyrics by Li Tong
Translation by Andrew Jones, 1992