"The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 culminating in the Tiananmen Square massacre (referred to in Chinese as the June 4 Incident, to avoid confusion with two other Tiananmen Square protests) were a series of demonstrations in and nearTiananmen Square in Beijing in the People's Republic of China (PRC) beginning on April 14. Led mainly by students and intellectuals, the protests occurred in a year that saw the collapse of a number of communist governments around the world."
Dias depois, num concerto em Roma, os The Cure dedicavam a última canção da noite a esses mesmos acontecimentos, numa das mais admiráveis versões do seu tema Faith, com letra alterada e uma intensidade arrepiante.
Speech before the song : "its like theres two different ways at looking at things, you can either think it doesnt make any fucking difference at all anyway, so that your like stuck in the same place and it wouldnt make any difference if you were to die now with a coin stuck right in the middle of your head or if you were prepared to go and say I need to sing a song called faith, but someone says you cant, someone says you cant sing it, so what do you do? This is for everyone that died today in china, its called faith".
Catch me if I fall
I'm losing hold
I can't just carry on this way
And every time
I turn away
Lose another blind game
The idea of perfection holds me...
Suddenly I see you change
Everything at once
The same
But the mountain never moves...
Rape me like a child
Christened in blood
Painted like an unknown saint
There's nothing left but hope...
Your voice is dead
And old
And always empty
Trust in me through closing years
Perfect moments wait...
If only we could stay
Please
Say the right words
Or cry like the stone white clown
And stand
Lost forever in a happy crowd...
No-one lifts their hands
No-one lifts their eyes
Justified with empty words
The party just gets better and better...
I went away alone
With nothing left
But faith
If i would doubt this, it makes me think, if i would doubt this
Someone walks up to you and theyre so much bigger than you, they say "shut your fucking face", you can grab hold of their eyes and go *mumbles*
Fall down in front of you x2
But its so much different if a man walks up and is this high and he says "Shut your fucking face" and holds a gun to my mouth, what will i do? What will i do? What would you do?
He wont let me speak, he says "you can only say the word yes, if i ask you a question and you say no, i will shoot the back out of your fucking head!" He says "Do you love me??!?! Do you love me!?!?!"
Ill say, ill say, ill say
Is this more? This far away he says "I'm fucking waiting for you answer, answer me now! Do you love me? Do you love me?"
*screams* ooooooooowwwwwwwwww
OF COURSE I FUCKING DONT LOVE YOU! COURSE I FUCKING DONT LOVE YOU! WALK INTO THE ROOM, PUSH ANYTHING IN MY FACE, ANYTHING IN MY MOUTH! ILL NEVER FUCKING LOVE YOU!
Push this deep inside your head x2
This means nothing! Means nothing!
Theres nothing left but faith, nothing left but faith, nothing left but faith.
Só mesmo os The Cure...
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