"Walk On!" genre: Acoustic
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	This is a slow song with only acoustic instruments, kind of folk/pop style. The text is about the persecution of Falun Gong. About human rights
	CD: Walk On!   Label: - Credits: Lyrics and music: Anders Eriksson
	Story Behind the Song Hi! During my three trips to China (-96 to -99) I met many Chinese Falun Gong practitioners. Their pure minds and unselfish behaviour made a very strong impression on me. After the persecution of Falun Gong started I often wondered what happened to the friends that I’d met. Have they suffered from torture? Are they still alive? Why are such good people being persecuted? I just could not understand. A man I met on every trip to China was Lin Chengtao, a successful scientist in Beijing. He has now been mentally disabled as a result of intense torture in Tuanhe Labour Camp, Beijing. This case is however only one of many. Why this persecution? It’s all because of one man’s jealousy. Jiang Zemin (sued for genocide in the USA) couldn’t stand the popularity of Falun Gong so he initiated this campaign in 1999. Many Chinese people were fooled by his nazi style propaganda about Falun Gong. In the song ”Walk On!” I am trying to reach you who is reading this right now. I hope you can understand the severity, urgency and extent of this persecution. It is aimed at 100 million people! Falun Gong practitioners suffer mental and physical torture, brainwashing, and sexual abuse. They are disfigured with wooden batons and electric cattle prods. When they protest this barbaric treatment, they are force-fed with toxic liquids; even those mixed with human faeces and urine. The absurdity in all this is that Falun Gong practitioners’ main goal in life is to become a better and a healthier person, and follow the principles of Falun Gong: Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance. Isn’t this in fact what this chaotic world needs today? Anders Eriksson, singer/songwriter in Yellow Express Lyrics Walk on! They put my wife into prison. They beat her up until she went insane. It reminds me of the time way back then, of all the sorrows, and so much pain. I can see Yellow River is turning to red. So many tortured and thousands are dead. CHORUS: Some worn out shoes. That's all I own. And I've been walking all night long. China, what’s gone wrong? Yeah I wonder what's gone wrong. The road is long to Tianmen Square, but I don’t mind I will make it there. And tell the whole wide world our leader’s wrong, in persecuting Falun Gong Well the Tai Shan Mountain, is shedding it’s tears. Seen so much violence for thousands of years CHORUS: Some worn out shoes... Walk on, walk on. People, wake up from the illusion. Walk on, walk on, walk on. Stop the persecution! Read in Chinese: As one body we have been walking thousands and thousands of miles. We have been walking through the major cities in the world. We have been walking for our freedom and for our human rights. We have been walking to Beijing and to Tianmen Square. We have stood up for Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance. For that we have been punished. But we will never give up. We will keep on walking until the persecution is over. Stop the persecution! Walk on, walk on. People, wake up from the illusion. Walk on, walk on, walk on. Stop the persecution!

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