Wake Up, released in March 2018, discusses the
contemporary predicament faced by Chinese hip hop musicians as a result of
political pressure and expresses a resistant attitude to rubbish music.
Audio Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8Dfxea9wuc
Composer: Key.L
Lyrics by KungFu-Pen功夫胖, Key.L
The Chinese lyrics are from https://music.163.com/#/song?id=553815244
Key.L：
醒来 醒来 站起来
醒来 醒来 站起来
醒来 醒来 站起来
醒来 醒来 站起来
倘若必须要恩断义绝 要江山有何用
怎么能看你拱手让人 亲手搭建的梦
我没法再违背我的心 应该何去何从
耳边是冰冷的风 我不在乎一纸合同
而谁会从一而终
不爱来虚的出身就一介布衣
开门见山你的局真难入席
谁真表里如一 谁心口不一
你我心知肚明 都绝口不提 给你面子
朱门酒肉臭真音乐没人听
听口水歌你们就挤破头 脑残
无脑的商业歌 遮住了光线而
原来的路还剩几人留 真兄弟
权力的压迫 和金钱的枷锁
用劣质食品喂养的牢笼帮你画一个
你选择冷漠 你选择看祸兮
被他们定的规则压垮你可能是下一个
所以我拒绝被垃圾音乐洗脑
血色的历史让你把思路理好
不平等的起跑线再次起跑
为了自己为了明天拳头举高
比干挖心屈原冤死你该明了
自己的命运该由自己来领导
是出一份力不是只在家祈祷
为了自己为了明天拳头举高
醒来 醒来 站起来
醒来 醒来 站起来
醒来 醒来 站起来
不愿做奴隶的人们醒来
东方巨龙醒来
English version (translated by me):
Key.L：
Wake up! Wake up! Stand up!
Wake up! Wake up! Stand up!
Wake up! Wake up! Stand up!
Wake up! Wake up! Stand up!
If we have to cut off all relations, what's the point of creating this world?
How can I let you give up the dream we built together by our hands?
I have to follow my heart. What should I do?
Freezing wind flows around my ear. I don’t care about the contract.
But who will persevere?
I don't like fake background. I'm just a commoner.
Let me be straightforward. It's really difficult to get onto your chessboard.
Who is really real? Who is fake?
We all understand but we shut our mouth. It's for your sake.
Wine and meat rot behind the riches' gates while nobody listens to true music
You scramble to enjoy crap songs
Inane ad songs block the lights
How many people are sticking to their original path, real bros?
Oppression from above and the shackle of money
Draw you a cage fed by bad food
You choose indifference. You choose to stand by.
You may be the next one to be crashed by their rules
So I reject to be brainwashed by rubbish music
Bloody history helps you organize your thoughts,
And start over again from unequal starting line
For yourself, for tomorrow, raise your fist.
You should know the stories of Bi Gan(1) and Qu Yuan(2)
Your destiny should be led by yourself.
It's about endeavoring, not praying at home.
For yourself, for tomorrow, raise your fist.
Wake up. Wake up. Stand up.
Wake up. Wake up. Stand up.
Wake up. Wake up. Stand up.
Wake up! Those who don't want to pay efforts!
Wake up! The Great Dragon of the east!
Note:
1. Bi Gan was a loyal minister during the last king of Shang dynasty, Di Xin’s tenure. Di Xin was annoyed by Bi Gan's advice to stop being corrupted and manage the country. He ordered Bi Gan's execution through the extraction of his heart, under the eerie curiosity of finding out "whether the Sage's heart has seven openings" suggested by his notorious concubine Daji.
2. Qu Yuan was a brilliant politician under King Huai’s reign of the State of Chu during the Warring States period. He opined resistance to the State of Chin, but was envied by other aristocrats and officials. Later he was banished by King Huai. When the capital of the State of Chu was conquered by the state of Chin, he committed suicide by leaping into the Miluo River in memory of his country.
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