TÔI ĐI | I LEAVE
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Author: Hùng Cường | Water-Moon subs
Like the stars in the sky,
Which round of bullets lit up the night?
Whose hand’s trying to pick the morning star?
Like the torch lighting up gloriously within my heart…
Showing me the way to leave!
I leave … like a leaf leaving its branch
Like a tree separated from its roots … but I still have to leave!
I leave like the water forsaking its source
To meet compassionate people,
To keep my life passions.
I leave … like millions of people will leave
To find the Truth!
Alas! This đark and gloomy life
On our homeland without any future.
I feel the sorrow for our hungering and suffering people.
Please forget me!
O Mother Vietnam,
O Mother Vietnam!
Mother had cried for many generations.
But why are you still crying,
Mother, oh Mother.
Because of those faithless children.
Because of those treacherous sons deceiving their own people.
Because of those children whose souls had died.
They no longer have Compassion and Love.
They torture the homeland.
O Vietnam, O Vietnam
My homeland, they say, is a nation with liberty
So it doesn't have prisons.
But there are concentration camps
That keep people in them for a lifetime.
My homeland, they say, is prosperous
But why there are people
Who still attend and wait for a few spoons of salt,
Or for a kilogram of potatoes.
My homeland, although beautiful,
But why are there still a lot of homeless people.
From the newly formed, distant economic zones
Running to the stinky city of Bác.
With their wives and children.
So pitiful!
O Vietnam, O Vietnam
I’m leaving … like millions of people will leave
To find a land of liberty and truth.
Alas! A dark and gloomy life!
Pity my people suffering day and night.
Please forget me!
I leave like millions of people will leave.
I leave like millions of people will leave.
I leave like millions of people WILL LEAVE!