Music: We Want Freedom For the People

Music and lyrics by Anders Eriksson, 2005

Torbjörn Nordstrand – drums, Sofia Partanen – vocals, Ting-Ting Jin - vocals, Anders Eriksson – vocals, guitar, bass (keyboard), Jenny Brandt – flute

Recorded in Linköping (thanks to Ilias Kotsamboikidis) and Gothenburg
Mixed by Anders Nordell, Gothenburg 26-27 September 2005

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Lyrics:

It has ruined a nation, the evil CCP*
Hypnotised the population, made people think that they are free
But let's all speak out! Stop suppression now!
Mind control and torture is something that the world just can't allow

Chorus:
Ooh we want freedom for the people
Ooh let's all stand up for human rights
We'll make that icy northerly wind, turn into a summer breeze somehow

The world must speak out, when there's something wrong.
What scares dictators is when people know what's going on.
Soon a new dawn is rising, the red dragon will fall.
A shining bright horizon and finally the people are standing tall

Chorus:
Ooh we want freedom for the people
Ooh let's all stand up for human rights
We'll make that icy northerly wind, turn into a summer breeze somehow

Solo

Chorus:
Ooh we want freedom for the people
Ooh let's all stand up for human rights
We'll make that icy northerly wind, turn into a summer breeze somehow
We'll make that icy northerly wind, turn into a summer breeze somehow

* CCP - Chinese Communist Party

Comments

We have all heard about the terrible crimes by Hitler and Stalin during World War II. Millions and millions were killed. Later we came to know about dictators like Castro, Idi Amin, Pinochet, Ceausescu, Kim Jong Il, Milosevic and Saddam Hussein. The crimes they commited against mankind are unimaginably evil.

If one were to place all these killers and their crimes together; they still couldn't match the horror that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) have inflicted upon the people of China since it took power (1st October 1949). Since then 60-80 million people have died from unnatural causes, numerous families have been torn apart, and the whole population has been brainwashed with mass propaganda. The crimes are still continuing and the Chinese people are under the spell of the party.

To make a change the governments, mass media and companies of the democratic countries need to clearly take a stand and openly criticise the Chinese regime for it's suppression of the people.

After I read the editorials by The Epoch Times about the crimes of the CCP - Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party - I wrote the text to this song as a way of expressing my support to the Chinese people. It's the first time that the history and the crimes of the party have been so comprehensively and systematically revealed. The Nine Commentaries are written by people who experienced the system from within, and this historical document is a key for the Chinese people to unlock and break away from the CCP's chains.

Anders Eriksson, singer/songwriter in Yellow Express. 1st October 2005