I’m from the south; my brothers are from the north
We sort of like each other, but we could never get along;
We despised one another, for the littlest of things;
Like husband and wife squabble over different desires.
I want freedom that was sold to me, he wants autonomy;
we disagree and settle with guns and bombs,
not communication like brothers from the same womb
we kill and butcher, like pig in the slaughter
in the end for what? For the freedom that was pander
by a country that make big picture, for you to see
Are you blind, are we blind? Can you see? Can we see?
The war is killing you and killing me.
A long journey to independence, I couldn’t celebrated
I was make to suffer for the mistake I didn’t make
I was force to leave while my ancestor bereave,
taking nothing but the shirt on my back, and last bit of rice
for that night could be the last time in my land and life.
Did you enjoy it brother? Did you like it sister?
Did you have fun seeing me suffer? Did you huh? Did you?
Did you party and held ceremony while massive exodus the country?
Did you made a decree, decry my thought of leaving my homey?
Of course you didn’t, of course you weren’t enjoy,
The thought of destroy one another was more than toy
Because we came from the same mother, from the same father
They made you and me, and everyone that we see,
From the yellow skin, to the hazel eyes, and the thought of sacrifices
Oh brother, in the end, we are the same,
To hate you, was to hate me, and the person we were meant to be;
We are brother, we are twin, We are siblings and next of kin
Can we live together, and treasure our differences?
Can we not be like our forefather and learn to be tolerance-d?
Can we live and work together to build a better world shoulder to shoulder?
Like a wise man one said, united we stand, divided we will fall.
To call you brother, are to call you “con rong chau tien”
We share the same destiny, the same future, the same fate.
And it will takes more than war, and place
to take us apart, from one another
from our common faith.
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