A song written by Kazufumi Miyazawa (of the band The Boom) about Okinawa.
Recorded for the "Occupation Preoccupation" project.(http://www.occupationpreoccupation.org) 
Although this recording was intended to benefit groups engaged in nonviolent opposition to the U.S. Military bases in Okinawa, for the moment, all proceeds will be going to Mercy Corps for earthquake / tsunami / nuclear disaster aid. 
The translation I've used borrows heavily from one used by a singer named Isobel Cooper (&amp; Andrew WK), but with a some changes which I averaged out and selected from a couple more literal versions.
lyrics
Deigo - The Flowers That We Held
Distant Winds Will Breathe And Sigh Beneath The Clouds 
Deigo - The Flowers That We Lost
Distant Winds Are Calling Up A Distant Storm 
I Embrace All My Sorrow Deep Within
Like The Waves Roll Across The Ocean Shore 
Uuji Where We First Met
In A Forest Green And Gold
Now I Stand Beneath The Tree
Where I Cried My Last Farewell 
Shima Uta My Island Ride The Wind
Together Fly Like Birds
Across The Ocean Waves 
Shima Uta My Island Ride The Wind
Deliver All My Tears Across The Ocean Waves 
Deigo - The Flowers Gently Sway
Gently Fall As They Ripple In The Breeze 
Time Goes By And My Dream Of Happiness
Drifts Away Petals Floating On The Sea 
Uuji Where I Would Sing
Close Together With My Friend
Now I Stand Beneath The Tree
Where I Cried My Last Farewell 
Shima Uta My Island Ride The Wind
Together Fly Like Birds
Across The Ocean Waves 
Shima Uta My Island Ride The Wind
Deliver All My Love Across The Ocean Waves 
To the sea, the universe, the god, and to life
Please let the evening calm remain forever. 
Shima Uta My Island Ride The Wind
Together Fly Like Birds
Across The Ocean Waves 
Shima Uta My Island Ride The Wind
Deliver All My Tears Across The Ocean Waves


Shima Uta

a track from the sweet dreams edition of "The Tropics Of Phenomenon"
http://www.sweetdreamspress.com/

12 Dragging an Ox through Water - Bank Treatment

cover of a song by Bahraini singer Saleh Al-Durazi.

original can be heard here: http://j.mp/rsw80S

This song was recommended (http://j.mp/ueQVsO) to me by Bahraini Activist Zainab Alkhawaja (http://j.mp/v5mySb) as one of her father’s favorites.  With some extremely generous translation help (http://j.mp/tfkIgw) this cover has been completed.

The United States continues to maintain the presence of its 5th Naval Fleet in Bahrain, and is considering the sale of $53 million in military equipment despite the regime’s ongoing brutal crackdown on pro-democracy protesters.  Send a message via Amnesty International to protest this to your representatives here: http://j.mp/vHnvxK 
More info and other Bahraini music has been compiled here: http://j.mp/vubkt8

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ثورة البحرين : ندعوا بـسلمِ ومحبه .. وجيشنا يقتلُ شعبه
(Saleh Al Durazi - “We Call In Peace And In Love And The Army Kills Its People”)
With victorious tears I read
The chapters of this massacre
Hear me, o world
Of people who are kind I sing,
A people who would live in peace  
But one that would never yield

One who longs to dream of hope,
Who stands unarmed in cannon smoke,
Hear me oh world
Heading toward our destiny
The will to set our people free
We bow only to god

A proud people
With peace as its battlefield
Drawing our strength while we gather now as one
Justice has called us to this pearl revolution
And if we must die, it is for justice to be done

Honor the blood
Spilled in the name
Of the good
Praise to the blood
Spilled for the people’s pride [x2]

And to all of those who sacrificed
We hail to you a thousand times [x2]

A thousand times over

Rightful and just
Rightful and just
Our demands
Answered with cold
Bullets and blood-
Shed [x2]

We call in peace and in love
While our own army turns to murder us [x2]

Systematic massacres
are always the tools of these
Violent regimes
Oppressive governments
Stamping out the people’s hope
Justice is never near

Broken hearts bear flags of peace
Messages so true and sweet
Hear me o world
I dream to do my homeland proud
And yet to work in peace is called
Lowly treachery

The fiends attack in the dead of night
While the people of Bahrain peacefully sleep
Killing the old and slaughtering the young ones
We awake to the people’s blood running in the streets

Tomorrow has
Been torn away
By their crimes
An army of
Mercenaries [x2]

The appalling face of the regime
Is now bared today for all to see [x2]

For all to see

Rightful and just
rightful and just
Our demands
Answered with cold
Bullets and blood-
Shed [x2]

We call in peace and in love
While our own army turns to murder us [x2]

Treachery and fire betray
The false condolences you pay
We know your hand
Then you mourn pretentiously
Thinking that we would not see
Lord hear my cry

You who do not share our faith
We ask for peace to make our way
To our destiny
But war and mayhem in the night
Have come to those who cannot fight
O for shame!

You summon killers, condemning us to loss
Our army works against the peaceful people of Bahrain
Heartlessly killing, and coweringly wasting,
Our people are dying by your money and your tanks

Witness, o world
Hear what has be-
Come of us
Supplanted by
Gross authority [x2]

Waging war on those who ask for peace
Yet injustice surely soon will cease [x2]

Will come to an end soon

Rightful and just
Rightful and just
Our demands
Answered with cold
Bullets and blood-
Shed [x2]

We call in peace and in love
While our own army turns to murder us [x2]

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http://dragginganox.tumblr.com/post/12494867615/armykillsitspeople

Dragging an Ox through Water - The Army Kills Its People

10 Dragging an Ox through Water - POSI

11 Dragging an Ox through Water - Pond Sickness

13 Dragging an Ox through Water - I Understand Wood

15  Grouper - Dice Airlock

16 The Polyps - Not Harping On Powers (Candle Dub Mix)

17 Thicket - Lilacs Sprang (Difficult Phase Mix)

18 TJO - Devil's Prayer (TJO Mix)

19 ZZ Tapes - Snowbank Treatment (Murder Mix)

from the Japanese expanded edition of "The Tropics of Phenomenon" released on the Sweet Dreams label.  http://www.sweetdreamspress.com/

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