a cabbage's soliloquy

作词 : Vanessa Tinberus

作曲 : Vanessa Tinberus

编曲 : Vanessa Tinberus

I wasn't taken to the market

or that busy restaurant where ancestors go

I stayed quietly in the basket

the disinfected air felt so cold

some middle-aged men woke me up

their conversation sounded strange behind the mask

I lost all my friends when they put me in a sack

then fell asleep again in a pickup truck

there may have passed a century

I dreamed about my homeland and some angels in white

what's ahead of me? Who will I meet?

why do those angels weep at night?

the dream ended in a dilapidated house

an old lady was cooking with pajamas on

I smelled broth, lard, and a tantalizing aroma

'what a feast!' I thought

she carefully packed the meal into a lunch box

wiped her hands on an oily rag, then left the kitchen

she came back wearing a new wadded jacket

glowing with life as a girl soon to get married

then she was out for a long time

the light squeezed through the window crack darkened

slow and heavy footsteps arrived at midnight

I couldn't know what had happened

the next morning I was held in her arms

as we passed the dining table

I saw the lunch box and some moldy steamed buns

I didn't dare to look at her face

I felt her breath, her mind was drifting far away

she walked to the house next door and knocked three times

a skinny boy came out and gazed at us

he was trembling, eyes shone with tears

"take it, son, they gave me for free."

that was the last time I saw the old lady

nothing I heard could prove her living

three days later the siren of an ambulance rattled the neighborhood

I couldn't know what had happened