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Group: 
The East is red 
The sun is rising 
The East is red 
The sun is rising

Solo: 
Accept this face of mine, mute and beginning 
Accept this love
I ask for – accept – 
the part of me that is inside you 

Group: 
The East is red 
The sun is rising 
The East is red 
The sun is rising  

Solo and Group:
Mankind grows stronger in stormy wind and waves 
and revolution progresses in raging flames  

Facing the future,
with our hot blood and a red heart
Let’s join the workers
and the peasants
to march
bravely toward our victory
It’s you absorbed inside of me  

Remember the force at the core 
Leading our cause forward 
Remember the force at the core 
Leading our cause forward  

Chorus I: 
Are you ready to die again?
Everyone will know your name  

Lose yourself to the new image 
(Full devotion)

All the things you lost 
will be regained 

Lose yourself to the new image
(Full devotion)  

You need words
We need bodies (jinjja!)

Lose yourself to the new image 
(Full devotion) 

Are you ready for death
and immortal fame? 

Lose yourself to the new image 
(Full devotion)

This is the revolution  

Solo (Rap): 
Shades of red
Shades of blood
Old flesh found a new body
Influencers on the rise
Songs are our weapons
our weapons of power
Like it, like it, like it
We are the answer I swear
that you’re gonna find out
The world keeps spinning and we keep on winning
Our blood is pumping as one,
one, one 

Welcome to an era where (yeah!) 
war became a memory (hey!)  

If revolution is a sickness
I wanna be sick, sick, sick (hey, hey, hey!) 

You had no language before us
This heart beats together 
Forever
Forget where you came from
Forget history, it’s full of pain (pain!)
Kill your shadows, draw the curtain
No new idols
Public shaming
is public healing
Welcome to the new victimhood (oh yeah!) 

If revolution is a sickness
I wanna be sick, sick, sick 

No new idols

This is the end of history 

Group: 
Did your loneliness have a name?
Was the freedom worth the pain?

Solo:
I swam from the ocean searching for a new nation
I lost my family that day
Years I spent swimming backwards
but their voices were lost to the
crashing waves 

Group:
You belong on the sun
We are reflected in everything
The sea looks like glitter
from here 

Chorus II: 
This is where your shadows come to die 
This is where your shadows come to die 
This is where your shadows come to die 
This is where your shadows come to die 
This is where your shadows come to die 
This is where your shadows come to die 
This is where your shadows come to die 

This is the revolution 

Solo (Rap) and Group: 
Are you ready to die again? 
Everyone will know your name 

Lose yourself to the new image 
(Full devotion)

All the things you lost 
will be regained

Lose yourself to the new image 
(Full devotion) 

You need words
We need bodies (jinjja!)

Lose yourself to the new image 
(Full devotion)

Are you ready for death 
and immortal fame? 

Lose yourself to the new ima –  
Ima-, ima, ima… (Sick, sick, sick…)

Group (Outtro): 
The East is red
The sun is rising
The East is red
The sun is rising 
The East is red
The sun is rising
The East is red

Revolutionary youth of the world unite!

Oo, oo, oo… 

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