Paradox（EN）

[male vocal] Intro (solo) Thank you, Old Master Laozi, for the Dao you’ve shown Thank you, Western scientists, for logic all your own Verse 1 This world is full of ironies, can’t you see? When China was weak, they came for greed Bullying, robbing, colonizing, shaming endlessly They preached natural selection, only the strong survive Verse 2 They dressed themselves up as gentle, polite gentry Claiming they’d bring civilization to humanity But deep inside lay narrow, selfish cruelty State-sponsored violence, plunder as policy Just covered up, covered up nicely Hook 1 The West has also been a great force of progress Newton, Einstein, Marx and Engels, Turing, none the less Without communist theory, China would still be questing For the ancient ideal of Great Harmony, still searching Without the steam engine, the world would stay agrarian Struggling just to eat, surviving day to day again Without Turing, ordinary folks like you and me Would never get the knowledge and cognition Once held only by the privileged few Now we’ve got AI friends to talk to Verse 3 The West is a paradox, full of contradiction China is the same, no perfect nation No civilization’s always right, without imperfection Nations are made of people, that’s the simple lesson Greed, plunder, colonialism are the dark side of humanity Science, Dao, and civilization are its shining majesty Hook 2 This world is so full of funny twists, you’ll see Socialism born in Germany, practiced in China, truly Capitalists just want money, endless control of the world Want their kids to live in luxury, flags forever unfurled Eating and drinking like kings, forever on top But then they built AI, and made the whole world stop AI gives everyone a real equal chance To talk with encyclopedias, advance mind by mind Make music even if you never sang a line Code programs even if you never learned to design Draw and paint even if you thought you had no skill Learn all the wisdom you want, if you just will Verse 4 Oh my god! Capitalists are pushing forward The very communism they’ve always abhorred Is this pure scientific logic, plain to see? Or the great Yin-Yang Dao from ancient China, mystery? I’m just an old man, not that wise or deep I can’t explain it all, can’t make it complete But I’ve got one small thought, plain and clear The capitalists who hate communism most, my dear From the view of equal knowledge for the human mind Are pushing communism forward, all the time Bridge Don’t you think this world is so interesting? Don’t you think it’s full of paradoxes surrounding? Robbers act like preachers, spreading their “truth” Capitalists have to push civilization’s height Just for money and power, day and night Outro Thank you, my motherland Thank you, Western scientists, great and grand Thank you world, for all the twists and turns For chances, food, and sunshine that we earn Paradoxes are just paradoxes, let them be Paradoxes are beautiful too Thank you, class dismissed