Oh Shanghai - Frida Hyvönen

Our love is a flower that blossoms in China

Cigarettes in boxes with roses in crates

I write your short name on my wrist in China

Ink so black that night you’re renamed

Ooooh… and trouble in the name

Oh Shanghai, who do you belong to?

Who do you care for and who do you forget?

Admit I got lost in your embrace

What to care for and what to forget?

Came another night and, slow, the wind rolled through Shanghai

Purple and green, the light under bridges and in the park

It’s not like in my Russian days when my brain shot with wit and style

But the bars are ours, and my heart is yours

And our love is a flower and a running horse

Ooooh… oh, stallion with your shiny polished black hooves

Oh Shanghai, who do you belong to?

Who do you care for and who do you forget?

Admit I got lost in your embrace

What to care for and what to forget?

The sparks outshine the stars when windmill scrapers in the sky

Fake of night and their burning clouds dark with their torch

It’s on the ground, underground, can you feel the underground

It’s really not here, it’s a little below to cover the holes, to cover the holes

Oooh… to say farewell to you

And to mean it too

Oh Shanghai, who do you belong to?

Who do you care for and who do you forget?

Admit I got lost in your embrace

What to care for and what to forget?