The following is the latest song from the Shenzhen migrant worker band, Zhong D Yin 重D音, performed at Beijing Migrant Workers’ Home’s 打工春晚 or Migrant Worker Spring Festival Gala, along with translated lyrics. Zhong D Yin’s name literally means Heavy D Sound, but the english character D sounds like the Chinese character for low, so the name connotes the “sound of the lowly.”
跟着机器 我们在跳舞
With the machine, we are dancing,
踏着永远 不变的步伐
Beating an ever unchanging beat,
日日夜夜 我们在跳舞
Day in day out, we are a-dancing
跟着节奏 停不下脚步
With that rhythm, can’t stop our feet
我的力量很小 无法改变这冰冷的规则
My force is slight, can’t change these icy rules
一直在人群中 我却感觉一直很孤独
Always in a crowd, yet I always feel alone
一台机器突然改变了节奏
A single machine suddenly changes its rhythm
一舜间有人失去了双手
In just one blink a person’s hands are gone.
一声撕吼机器声淹没
Your roar is drowned by the sound of the machines
你的热血无法让机器燃烧
Your hot blood can’t set fire to those machines
你已被他们慢慢抛弃
You have already been by them slowly abandoned
就像一台报废的机器
Just like a broken machine
你的鲜血已被谁擦去
Who has your fresh blood been wiped away by?
没有留下任何痕迹
They left not a trace
