words and music by Phillip Morgan
02:08
- 05/06/2013
BLOOD
IS ON THE SQUARE
words
and music by Phillip Morgan
A
song was heard in China
in
the city of Beijing.
In
the spring of 1989
you
could hear the people sing.
And
it was the song of freedom
that
was ringing in the square,
the
world could feel the passion of
the
people gathered there.
Oh
children, blood is on the square.
For
many nights and many days,
waiting
in the square.
"To
build a better nation"
was
the song that echoed there.
"For
we are China's children,
we
love our native land,
for
brotherhood and freedom
we
are joining hand in hand."
Oh
children, blood is on the square.
Then
came the People's army
with
trucks and tanks and guns.
The
government was frightened
of
their daughters and their sons.
But
in the square was courage and
a
vision true and fair,
the
Army of the People would not harm
the
young ones there.
Oh
children, blood is on the square.
On
June the 3rd in China,
in
the spring of '89,
an
order came from high above
and
passed on down the line.
The
soldiers opened fire,
young
people bled and died,
the
blood of thousands on the square
that
lies can never hide.
Oh
children, blood is on the square.
For
four more days of fury
the
people faced the guns.
How
many thousands slaughtered
when
their grisly work was done?
they
quickly burned the bodies
to
hide their coward's shame,
but
blood is thick upon their hands and
darkness
on their names.
Oh
children, blood is on the square.
There
are tears that flow in China
for
her children that are gone.
There
is fear and there is hiding,
for
the killing still goes on.
And
the iron hand of terror can
buy
silence for today,
but
the blood that lies upon the square
cannot
be washed away.
Oh
children, blood is on the square
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