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The milkmoons dwell in their quiet shell |
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Where they fell from the Heaven |
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Two pearl fishermen |
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Hold their breath again |
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Fight to the death again... for the same price |
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Oh my brother, one of us loses |
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One must drown and the other she chooses |
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The jade of the blue offers diamonds to you, |
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But you find it's not true when the sun sets. |
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You dive far below, |
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Where the sun doesn't go, |
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Where your brother won't know, |
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And you hear her saying: |
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"Oh my lover, now that you've found me, |
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Now your brother is bound to be drowned, |
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I don't know why you feud over me, |
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All those pearls lay asleep on the sea bed..." |
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The pearl in his hand, |
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She's just a grain of sand, |
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She's dressed up as snow in the moonlight, |
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She's porcelain on the sallow skin, |
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He's been taken in by illusion... |
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Oh my brother, we're both of us losers |
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I don't know why she ever did choose us |
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To call one her lover, |
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And bury the other, |
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So I'll hold my breath 'till |
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The story is over... |
