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Yang, Ru-Men was raised on the family farm
with the love of the land in the morning and the muscle in his arm
out in the China Ocean on the island of Taiwan
it's a story worth the telling and I'll sing it in a song
the family farm is the rock of humanity's anchor
in the 21st century world war between the farmer and the banker
the great corporate bullies ride on the money train
where the farmers stand to lose the corporations stand to gain
Yang, Ru-Men saw the danger coming from a dark and angry place
and he thought of all the farmers whose lives would be displaced
he made calls and he wrote letters but what good did it do
politicians never read them nor the newspapers too
Yang, Ru-Men went walking one night
the moon shone like a lantern and the stars were shining bright
and there came a voice talking so clear inside his head
maybe it was the ancestors, this is what it said
when god closes a door he opens a window
when god closes a door he opens a window
Yang, Ru-Men the farmer made a paper box
he folded in the corners and he weighted it with rocks
with a little black powder and a little bit of rice
a warning on the label, words of advice
"Danger" said the paper box, the words were bright and bold
"do not buy imported rice, our futures can't be sold
support the local farmers, resist the foreign trade"
and he left it in the city where his point would sure be made
and he left one at the bank and outside the railway station
the little paper boxes with their little explanations
at the government offices, the bomb squad on alert
but they were only made of paper, no one ever got hurt
they called him the Rice Bomber and they made a great campaign
they said he was a terrorist and they vilified his name
but in the farming country when these matters were discussed
they would tip their hats and smile, and say "he's one of us"?
(they said) when god closes a door he opens a window
when god closes a door he opens a window
seventeen paper rice bombs, seventeen times
every one of them a statement though they called them each a crime
and though they scoured through the country side they did not have
a clue Yang, Ru-Men decided then just what he had to do
he drove to the station to give himself away
he said "I am the one you're looking for, this is your lucky day
"my name is Yang, Ru-Men"?he said, and he took a little bow
he said "I did it for the farmers and I do this for them now"?
"if you did it for the farmers, well, that's just what you say
but we have you in our custody and that's where you're going to stay”
and justice was a stone wall, it never shed a tear
they tried and convicted and they gave him seven years
seven years for seventeen little boxes of rice
what kind of mathematics would arrive at such a price
at the crossroads of the humanity the future holds its breath
in the orders of uncertainty anything could happen next
(because) when god closes a door he opens a window
when god closes a door he opens a window
in the 21st century world war between the farmer and the banker
one side has the money and the other has the plow
and its anybody's guess what happens now
I went to visit Yang, Ru-Men, they had him in Taipei
in the detention center, it was on a visiting day
I didn't speak his language and he didn't speak mine
there was Plexiglas between us, we didn't have much time
he said you have to hold your purpose and you have to hold on tight
have faith in your accomplishments and don't give up the fight
and when the time was over, when they led him away
he put his fist up in the air and I can still hear him say
when god closes a door he opens a window
when god closes a door he opens a window
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我不能說 我不能說 我不能說
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