Jane Birkin - Aung San Suu Kyi lyrics

Aung San Suu Kyi will be gone and
She'll be on a T-shirt the marketing's good

Monks are dying soldier children crying
We're playing bubbles
With four years old curls

Torture, drug deals finance our dreams
Why should we care? The stock market's good
Petrol's booming generals' wooing
Trucks are looming in Rangoon

We know your faces come out and die
And welcome the tourist under the
Burmese sky

But tomorrow Christine and
Me'll feels just the same with our china tea

2008 "Amnesty report" burma
The eighth to the eighth of eighty eight
The people's uprising was
Bloodily and brutally
Repressed by the military junte
Twenty years of prison and
Torture would follow
In 1990 Aung San Suu Kyi
And her Democratic Party
Won the general election by
Eighty three per cent
In 1991 she won the Nobel peace price
Seventy thousand children are soldiers
Ten children out of a hundred don't get
To live to five years old

Aung San Suu Kyi will be gone and
She'll be on a T-shirt the marketing's good
Monks are dying soldier children crying
We're playing bubbles
With four years old curls

But tomorrow Christine and
Me will feel just the same
Maybe shed a tear in our china tea

But tomorrow the world will see
We did nothing for Aung San Suu Kyi

2008 Amnesty report, Burma:
Birma is one of the poorest
Countries in the world
But one of the richest in
Jewels, drugs, teck, petrol, natural gas
Total's pipe lines give the
Military junte more
Than a million dollars a day
Birma has one of the worst records
For child mortality and aids
The international comity of the
Red Cross withdrew from
Burma because it could not
Fulfil it's mission
No one knows the numbers of the tortured
The numbers of the dead

This song is dedicated to Aung San Suu Kyi
Her democratic party
The monks, the students, the people of Burma
The children
This is a plea For Aung San Suu Kyi