Aung San Suu Kyi will be gone And she'll be on a t-shirt, the marketing's good Monks are dying, soldier children crying We're playing bubbles with four-year-old girls Torture, drug deals, finance, our dreams Why should we care? The stock market's good Petrol's booming, generals wooing Trucks are looming in Rangoon We know your faces come out and die And welcome the tourists under the Burmese sky But tomorrow, Christine, we'll feel just the same With our China team 2008, Amnesty Report, Burma The 8th of the 8th, 1988 The people's uprising was bloodily and brutally repressed by the military junta 20 years of prison and torture would follow In 1990, Aung San Suu Kyi and her Democratic Party won the general election by 83% In 1991, she won the Nobel Peace Prize 70,000 children are soldiers 10 children out of 100 don't get to live to 5 years old Aung San Suu Kyi will be gone And she'll be on a t-shirt, the marketing's good Monks are dying, soldier children crying We're playing bubbles with four-year-old girls But tomorrow, Christine and me'll feel just the same Maybe shed a tear in our China team But tomorrow, the world will see We did nothing, Aung San Suu Kyi 2008, Amnesty Report, Burma Burma is one of the poorest countries in the world But one of the richest in tools, drugs, tech, petrol, natural gas Total's pipeline gives the military junta more than a million dollars a day Burma has one of the worst records for child mortality and AIDS The International Committee of the Red Cross withdrew from Burma because it could not fulfill its mission No one knows the numbers of the tortured, the numbers of the dead This song is dedicated to Aung San Suu Kyi, her Democratic Party The monks, the students, the people of Burma, the children This is a plea for Aung San Suu Kyi