"Moon Over Hong Kong" genre: Folk Rock
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	More images and thoughts from the World's Most Stressful City (HK) and what HK people are feeling and experiencing post handover (hangover). More of a ballad than other songs I've done about HK.
	MP3.com CD: Waiting for a Chinese Sun... - buy it! CD: Waiting for a Chinese Sun... to Shine   Label: self released in Hong Kong (pm productions) Credits: written, arranged, recorded and performed by Paul Meredith. Drums: Peter Suart. Production help from Simon Hui in HK
	Story Behind the Song This song actually did get started as I noticed the moon peeping through 2 skyscrapers outside my apartment window. I laughed to remember that in rural Michigan where I'm from, you don't think twice about things like that. The phrase World's Most Stressful City was a Time or Newsweek cover about HK some years ago. I thought it was apt, and would make a good hook for a song. Thanks to Peter again for great drumming. Lyrics MOON OVER HONG KONG 1. You can see the Hong Kong moon glowing in the night haze If you got the view, and the time to turn your head But the workin' people here tend to put in long days Best thing to do at night is go to bed It bothers me that we barely see the stars here When it comes to nature, I know we're out of touch But for six million people pushin' on the subway cars here Life goes by too fast to think about it much Such are the ways of the World's Most Stressful City It's a label harsh, but some say well deserved Haze hangin' over the World's Most Stressful City And no one knows what's gonna be preserved 2. Well the Chinese try to keep their ties to tradition They sweep graves, light lunar lamps, and watch fireworks explode But the government's changed now; society's in transition Afraid to see their castle in the sky erode They'll rename all the streets and institutions After revolutionaries instead of queens Then they'll be left on their own to find their own solutions That's hard when you're still not sure what freedom's supposed to mean Such are the ways of the World's Most Stressful City The label's harsh, but some say well deserved Haze hangin' over the World's Most Stressful City And no one knows what's gonna be preserved 3. It'd do me good to get away from all this worry Be nice to have space to sort things out in my mind But there's no escape when everybody's in such a hurry And if it only comes down to fate -- we're already resigned But when the day is done I take my son swinging in the courtyard I tell him one last push, then c'mon -- we gotta get home soon Well as I pulled him away he lay down laughin' -- catching me off guard "Hey daddy," he said, "Look up -- I can see the moon." Such are the ways of the World's Most Stressful City The label's harsh, but some say well deserved Haze hangin' over the World's Most Stressful City And no one knows what's gonna be preserved No one knows what's gonna be preserved c) Paul Meredith, 1999

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