4 June 1989 Lyrics - Age Of Miracles - Mary Chapin Carpenter

I told them we heard singing first before we reached the Square 

"Arise the wretched of the earth" filled the air 

So many fists clenched to the sky we couldn't count them all 

But then the sea of weeping washed over the Hall 

I told them no one saw me, there was no one who would know 

I was an army soldier dressed in students clothes 

Between the smoking bonfires we held our rifles high 

As the ashes of the banners soared into the sky 

Ah, I was seventeen that spring 

Ah, we were just obeying orders 

Ah, I still see everything 

Through the factory's yellow windows 

In the dirty stinking river 

In the messages that find you then vanish in the ether 

They vanish in the ether: 

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I told them not to fear me but history tells the tale 

The artists and the poets fill up every jail 

Before I held a rifle I held an artist's brush 

Before Tiananmen I even dreamed of love 

Ah, I was seventeen that spring 

Ah, we were just obeying orders 

Ah, I still see everything 

Through the factory's yellow windows 

In the dirty stinking river 

In the messages that found me, then vanished in the ether 

In the messages that found me:. 

I told them they'd see me walking in the rain 

In Budapest, in Prague, in Soweto's lanes 

Between the burning oil drums and the graffiti on the wall 

I told them, yes I told them, I told them all 

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Ah, I was seventeen that spring 

Ah, we were just obeying orders 

Ah, and I still see everything 

Through the factory's yellow windows 

In the dirty stinking river 

In the messages that find us, then vanish in the ether 

Oh the messages will find us, then vanish in the ether