We were watching TV, watching TV... In Tiananmen Square Lost my
baby there My yellow rose In her bloodstained clothes She was a
short order pastry chef In a Dim Sum dive on the Yangtze tideway
She had shiny hair She was the daughter of an engineer Won't you
shed a tear For my yellow rose My yellow rose In her bloodstained
clothes She had perfect breasts She had high hopes She had almond
eyes She had yellow thighs She was a student of philosophy Won't
you grieve with me For my yellow rose Shed a tear For her
bloodstained clothes She had shiny hair She had perfect breasts She
had high hopes She had almond eyes She had yellow thighs She was
the daughter of an engineer So get out your pistols Get out your
stones Get out your knives Cut them to the bone They are the
lackeys of the grocer's machine They built the dark satanic mills
That manufacture hell on earth They bought the front row seats on
Calvary They are irrelevant to me But I grieve for my sister People
of China Do not forget do not forget The children who died for you
Long live the Republic Did we do anything after this I've a feeling
we did We were watching TV Watching TV We were watching TV Watching
TV She wore a white bandanna that said Freedom now She thought the
Great Wall of China Would come tumbling down She was a student Her
father was an engineer Won't you shed a tear For my yellow rose My
yellow rose In her bloodstained clothes Her grandpa fought old
Chiang Kai-shek That no-good low-down dirty rat Who used to order
his troops To fire on the women and children Imagine that imagine
that And in the spring of '48 Mao Tse-tung got quite irate And he
kicked that old dictator Chiang Out of the state of China Chiang
Kai-shek came down in Formosa And they armed the island of Quemoy
And the shells were flying across the China Sea And they turned
Formosa into a shoe factory Called Taiwan And she is different from
Cro-Magnon man She's different from Anne Boleyn She is different
from the Rosenbergs And from the unknown Jew She is different from
the unknown Nicaraguan Half superstar half victim She's a victor
star conceptually new And she is different from the Dodo And from
the Kankanbono She is different from the Aztec And from the
Cherokee She's everybody's sister She's symbolic of our failure
She's the one in fifty million Who can help us to be free Because
she died on TV And I grieve for my sister Roger Waters - Amused to
Death