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Riding down a long straight road, you turn off at a corner Along the narrow road, scattered country houses in the valleys Past palm-sized rice fields, some fairly large greenhouses The village you find is no ordinary place - rounded mountains full of vigor, the sound of water and wind feels refreshing Look at that person walking there - step by step, the whole mountain shakes Though the body is thin, the face shines A true mountain village - no trace of the city remains Gullies and gullies, ditches and streams, valley water, brook water, clear air welcomes you This beautiful village is named Soseong-ri A THAAD base came in, brought by people from across the sea Over the Ummallae peak, the American THAAD came in Police of this country, with batons, beat our grandmothers and grandfathers The base that moved in - its address is California Over there, across the Pacific Ocean, a mass of land rises Roll up your pants and step in - welcome to the Hotel California But what kind of thing is this - here too, California? Is this land your land, is this land my land? This land is not your land, this land is my land Is this land your land, is this land my land? This land is not your land, this land is my land This land is not your land, this land is our land A true mountain village - no trace of the city remains Gullies and gullies, ditches and streams, valley water, brook water, clear air welcomes you This beautiful village is named Soseong-ri

In brilliant memories, those people All wearing the same clothes We held a grand festival When the laughter passes and the bonfire goes out Only gray smoke and sighs Only gray smoke and tears When it all passes, the same things Repeat like a wheel My song and your tears Flow into those waves How much must I cry and cry again To meet you within me I ask you You ask me What is beauty When it all passes, the same sorrow Repeats like a wheel My song and your tears Flow into those waves

If the same wind is within you and me (then) We are wishing for the same world from far away (we) To you who do not know my name (hello) To you who do not know my face (hello) To you in a distant place whose name I don't know (hello) To you in a distant place whose face I don't know (hello)

I was afraid of the world It was like a forest blazing Nuclear bombs that could explode at any time, and brown dust covering the air My teacher across the distant sea said Child, the world is changing The voices you hear are not only yours; they are the prayers of the world We are droplets of the waves The resonance you feel is not only your own agitation One of billions of droplets feeling the waves on the vast sea I felt the world was bleak Like a locomotive that lost its steering wheel There is so much I want to protect, but I was smaller than David In the deep mountains my teacher said Child, look at the world with faraway eyes Listen to the heartbeat of life that has been running since before you were born We are a single caterpillar We live now eating trees But if we spend the time of the cocoon with threads of anguish and longing, we will bloom as a butterfly I decided to grow strong I will not close my painful eyes Acknowledging my limits, I decided to live I decided to hold hope From the gaze of a turtle that lives five hundred years We have developed, and now we will transition Transition power! Peace to the world, the hearts of people, another culture Find what truly matters, to another world Peace to the world, the hearts of life, another civilization Find what truly matters, to another world

He ran to see the stars Countless lights Were there He felt strange So many things Were lost The stars in that sky must remember All our sorrows and joys If I could share with you again A piece of the moon that smells warm O stars beyond reach Please hear my wish Please let this war Come to an end I will remember the night When we leaned our shoulders together I earnestly wish and wait For your peace, for everyone's peace

We anchored up and sailed out from the shore of Spain on our boat Zaytouna Olive that's her name And Olive is the symbol of a far away place to which we steer our course across the waves We are thirteen women here to sail with peace in our hands towards our sisters in this foreign land From many different corners of this world we have come to bring to you the freedom of a song We will sail for your freedom our sisters in Palestine We will never be silent until you are free We are guided by the light of the stars at night and the power of the sea so very bright As the world is watching us we bring our women's voice with a message that we all should have a choice Your Grandmothers they planted olive trees Up on this land where you should live in peace Those trees of a thousand years they have been dug away May your daughters plant new trees and watch them stay We will sail for your freedom our sisters in Palestine We will never be silent until you are free We will sail for your freedom our sisters in Palestine We will never be silent until you are free

In my world, sorrow and joy Come and go and linger In your world, the pictures we see Are missed, yet grow faint One person's heart and steps Become wind across the whole world Love and peace, though unseen, Are in the things before my eyes, in my heart May every heart reach that place I will pray and sing

Another day fades away like this The day of leaving is not far Twenty-four is still far, right Another day will come I'll miss this neighborhood too The frantically busy people May they be happy even without money For a romantic night People don't know How young and foolish I am I want to live Pure like rock and water I set out, far away somewhere After the time of tears Raise a glass, my friend For the night of Seoul The guy who gave a book as a birthday gift Built a home on a handcart The guy who fell deep into hippie culture Is a public service worker You all know How young and foolish I am Grow well and eat well In the places you each stand I set out, far away somewhere After the time of tears Raise a glass, my friend For the night of Seoul I set out, far away to Jeju Where the one I love lives Live well, my friend For a wandering life Raise a glass, my friend For the night of Seoul

If this can be tolerated, what can't be? Why we bear catastrophe if we're so free?

I saw a photo of a girl in a pink padded coat, smiling brightly And on the next page I saw that girl in the pink padded coat, with one arm lost War is pain Sorrow in the war The girl asks if she can have a pink artificial arm stained with flowers She says it is not because she is bad, and the pain is delivered with the child's smile War creates pain Children are hurt within it War leaves suffering Children are hurt within it, just like that War is pain Sorrow in the war In the violence of war The children get hurt

We live holding thorns We walk as if our chests are pierced We want peace without knowing it Even breathless to the chin, we insist on life We Want freedom We, we Want peace Sorrow more than joy Is close to this place The opposite of loneliness Does not exist here We Want love We, we Want peace We live holding thorns We walk as if our chests are pierced We want peace without knowing it Even breathless to the chin, we insist on life We Want freedom We, we Want peace Sorrow more than joy Is close to this place The opposite of loneliness Does not exist here We Want love We, we Want peace

I'm walking a road no one knows I'm dancing without anyone knowing No one knows our days The scenery outside my (your) window that no one knows Even when I move, it feels like I'm in place Even if the distance between you and me feels far The scenery around us slowly changes With your one step Ahhh I'm walking following the heart we met I remember the face that laughed I keep the warmth of the two hands we held La la la la, la la If you follow love Someday you will reach it Even if you are afraid to speak of love We have the gestures we share We have a song to sing together We have a song to sing together