Dear Ancestors

爷爷，奶奶
姥姥，老爷
孙子回来拜年了

YOU fought for us, wrought for us, got mauled for us
Made a cave safe tonight when you talk to us
This slippery existence that you caught for us
To have a chance at happiness already bought for us
With blood, sweat, and tears, you paid the rent for us
Laid the tent, tamed the pen, had rain made and sent for us
Dug a hole, sowed a seed, and died on top for us
Gave your flesh, fertilized a bunch of ferns for us
Burned for us - on the pyres of history you laid
Turned for us - 6 feet beneath our sick feet of clay
Sought for us - as we slowly lost our way
Wept for us - never think we could go so astray!
But you dreamt for us too - that much is clear to us
In every hole we fall a hopeful rope appears to us
Our lives, they look bright, and unnaturally plump for us
So arise, and feel fresh, for tomorrow has come for us!
We can have all these things, because you made them for us
Have or have not - have you at least saved them for us
Cleared the field, chopped the wood, the stones you leaned them for us
Pulled the pricks, picked the ticks, and damn well cleaned them for us
How much can we tell you what all this means to us?
Would fill a thousand volumes with conceits from us
Suffice to say that self-same Power beats in us -
The little piece of you you squeezed in when you conceived of us!

Dear ancestors
儿子回来了，儿子想你们了
Here I am again to atone for my old sins
I've been remiss
原谅我吧，又一年它快过去了
To remind myself how much I owe to all your pains
There I go
我们三代聚这里可是不容易的
Tossed into the wind to fall again again
But before I went
明白了，每一分钟都是珍贵的
I left you all a piece of my UNDAUNTED HEART!

YOU bounced on us - leaving us but a gravestone and a name
It sounds honest but took ages off-and-on to forgive
Owning every move was I guess too much for you - you'd sooner
Pass it on - 'go get the baton' - and be gone, untrue?
Well, look at the state of the world you left behind for us
The dog-eat-dog sh*t-ducking world that's stuck on us
Every morning a billion souls suit up to position
And every night a billion children starve from malnutrition
Prophesying everywhere it's hard to know what to believe
Every minute a bombshell blowing up ur heart sleeve
Making u mad, sad, permanently bereaved
Emotionally drained, and a sneaky feeling of being deceived
Sometimes I wish it were all so easy like the old days
When kids just got together, built a house, made more babes
How did you do it - manage to be happy when things fell apart
The same ending to every story, fatal from the start
When 7 on 10 never shed the essence of adolescence
How did you finesse frescos that never go obsolescent?
And what did you say to her to help her face her mourning?
Did you tell her he's in heaven, that what got her thru her 40s?
And how did y'all meet again? Was it love at first sight?
We don't have those anymore; oh well, swipe right
Hey I know I'm inquisitive but this may be my one chance
Before another million moments get in between us again

Dear ancestors
儿子回来了，想赞美你们一两句,行吗？
Your praises to sing and memories to keep alive
Shine your light
它 - 字到嘴边 - 它不出不去了
Forgive me if my words are but a trifling thing
Before I go
孙悟空还有72个变招呢
I need to tell u something that's been troubling me
But just maybe
那看来我们真的是倒霉完蛋了？
We are the last descendants then it's smithereens

WELL, another year has passed, the people are a bit taller
The world's a bit warmer, the oceans a bit higher
Stocks a bit dearer, the Apocalypse a bit nearer
And global consciousness feels a bit fancifuler
Multipolar is the power that haunts our hour
From tower to tower the same damn Schopenhauer
Now more than ever, it's 'let's go get that cheddar' hour
The sorta sh*t that makes a ch*ga wanna take a shower
But I never thought it would hurt me so personally
Until the C O V I D knocked me down thoroughly
Then everything changed so suddenly, was unreal
Dear Ancestors, tell me what this thing is I feel
Now every tragedy leaves me an outsized wound
And every other man's pain is now mine too
And the less I can do the more I seem to cry
Gets a brother feeling all lonely up inside
So this is me getting down on both knees
Praying for any rightful guidance you could offer me
I know - you weren't perfect - but at the same time
'Like father, like son' - I guess that's where that came from
Still I'm drawn to the melancholy of missing you
And if I have kids - I'mma teach them too to learn to love you
So until the next time tradition bids me back along
祖宗们, 借我一点力量 吧---。

Dear ancestors
儿子回来了，儿子想你们了
Here I am again to atone for my old sins
I've been remiss
原谅我吧，又一年它快过去了
To remind myself how much I owe to all your pains
There I go
我们三代聚这里可是不容易的
Tossed into the wind to fall again again
But before I went
傻瓜，祖宗们是永远在你身边的
I left you all a piece of my UNDAUNTED HEART!

Hey
Pull that ham outta the fire
I can smell it's done from this side of the universe
早晚也得把
希望
放在下一代
呵,傻瓜
谁能听得懂你啊？