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留​下​还​是​逃​跑 (Stay Or Run Away)

by The Burgers

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harderwinshears This is like Chinese Elvis Costello! So many good songs. Don't skip New Place, Happy Deserter, or Cowboy Facing the Sun. Favorite track: 孤岛超人(Island Overman).
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1.
On the wall is a freshly drawn poster My phone number is in the most prominent place You can call me right now if you want Let's look for the place you want to find together No tickets are needed here Your unique face is your only badge You can step in boldly if you want Or you can turn around and leave, closing the door Perhaps you think it's a bit funny Maybe this is just another kind of playing house I admit, maybe I'm just a little bored You can stay and look for it with me Or you can turn around and leave, closing the door Then you'll never see that beautiful place again On the wall is a freshly drawn poster My phone number is in the most prominent place You can call me right now if you want Let's look for the place you want to find together You can dial my number right now if you want Let's find a beautiful new place together
2.
If your hometown has an earthquake, I would be very angry Because you should never die together with those unrelated people This unreasonable intimacy disgusts me This should never happen, otherwise I will be very sad Such things are happening here Those things are happening there I can't cover your eyes I just want to take you away We breathe the same air Even excrement is gathered together Those extremely pure and dirty things Always happily mixed together I'm desperately thinking about our commonalities But I find that you and I speak the same language This is the only common ground I can think of between you and me But it's also the same thing you have in common with those bastards You donated all your money To those unrelated people I just sneer at this It has nothing to do with jealousy, you have to believe Is there also dirty people around you Just like them This is exactly where my pain lies They are still hovering in front of you I'm desperately thinking about our commonalities But I find that you and I speak the same language This is the only common ground I can think of between you and me But it's also the same thing you have in common with those bastards Something that was born unconsciously Is something that was crushed by a finger Like a crushed lemon soda bottle Afterwards, there is nothing left here One day, you entered my dream again Together with that obscene and numb face You are just a symbol that I fantasized about In the end, you will only become dirtier than them
3.
There's a overman on a desert island He lies in bed all year round He says there's no sun in his bedroom No one can see him Under the sunlight, mites are jumping around Colorful and full of hope They enjoy the sunshine so legitimately But no one can see him There's a overman on a desert island The place where a faint voice comes from He uses a guitar as a horn No one can hear it Human society has abandoned him He screams wildly in his bedroom This is the most three-dimensional place in the world You'll never see it There's a overman on a desert island The dictator in your eyes is me He writes paranoid and unreasonable beliefs No one here will believe it God and the gods are already dead The true overman is right next to you But even if you put on glasses, you won't see him Why can't you see him No one can find him No one can recognize him No one will remember him
4.
Oh god, can you believe that this is already the 21st century Hatred and prejudice are still growing here as usual Some people say, don't delude yourself into thinking you can uproot it They are afraid of freedom, but talk about the freedom of hatred They trample on your rights and shout that it's our right Freedom is illegal, but hatred does not pay a price I just want to live in a place of absolute freedom But we are only living in a new Dark Ages Let's eliminate it All remaining prejudices, let's eliminate them Look, someone is shouting "beat and kill" by the wall that says "freedom and equality" Love and peace in the new era are just another form of supremacy Another outsider falls in an invisible place They are good at labeling you with a politically correct name In their eyes, hatred and prejudice are the real right They say all freaks should be killed I just want to live in a place of absolute freedom But we are only living in a new Dark Ages Let's eliminate it All remaining prejudices, let's eliminate them All limitations of the times, let's eliminate them Let's seek the boundary of a new world I just want to live in a place of absolute freedom
5.
People on the street are all the same They all look the same Tall or short, fat or thin They all look identical They laugh loudly But don't know what they're laughing at They shout loudly Their voices echo everywhere They're still jumping around But I'm already on the verge of death The power of the masses can't be defeated They can never be killed off Thousands of miles away from me Another baby is born in the delivery room He looks just like his mom and dad I can never find a place without them On this filthy street Small ads are flying everywhere No one thinks they're dirty Everyone has one in their hand Ugly and unappealing small ads They're colorful but all the same No one thinks they're dirty Everyone has one in their hand
6.
On a sinking ship Everyone is trampling each other Isn't this enough I see its cost Pushing and pulling with the enemy closely Better to just drown alone I don't want to bet my life Dealing with them I want to escape When I raise my middle finger I can't hate them We have nothing in common So I tell myself Cover your ears quickly But there's something around me Always trying to wake me up But the more I'm awakened, the more I want to go back to sleep I want to escape When I raise my middle finger No matter where I go It's always with me I hear a voice Warning me not to try to escape You are one of them too It also threatens you all the time So you need to fight To kill them all I want to escape When I raise my middle finger I want to escape When I raise my middle finger
7.
If you promise not to read the news today Let's stay in bed all day Doing nothing, just lying there And not feeling bored all day Whether you choose to stay or run away in the end Don't put your life on struggle at all until I overthrew all of my ideals That I realize I just want to stay home with you Stay home~~ Endless struggles make me unable to see hope I finally discover those things that are extremely boring Well, maybe that's just my cowardly excuse Never mind, now I just want to stay home with you Whether you choose to stay or run away in the end Don't put your life on struggle at all until I overthrew all of my ideals That I realize I just want to lie in bed with you If one day they breed here Maybe I will regret not choosing to stay If we can't find that absolutely pure place in the end Let our bedroom become that place Whether you choose to stay or run away in the end Don't put your life on struggle at all until I overthrew all of my ideals That I realize I just want to lie in bed with you
8.
On a Sunday morning, drink a cup of coffee and think about everything you can let go of The games in the Steam library are still waiting for you to discover them in the corner Occasionally, wonderful things run to you when you least expect it But your hands are occupied because the spear and shield have already taken over everything I don't want to be a warrior, I just want to be a child Put down the weapon and pick up the toy When you cling to your weapon Knorrig on your bed is slipping away from you Actually, you can retrieve everything you've lost The yo-yo in your hand can also become your world But you can't even pick it up anymore, your arm has become accustomed to the weight When you put down the weapon When you put down the weapon When you put down the weapon Put down the weapon I know you can never give up the heavy weapon in your hand But you always remind yourself that your hand is going to break Quickly put down your weapon Put down your weapon Put down your weapon Put down your weapon Today, you remind me again to be careful not to be eaten by monsters I ask you if you can give me a plane ticket for tomorrow now When you wake up one day and find yourself lying in a beautiful place But another sensitive, fragile, and thin shadow Is still on that battlefield
9.
I want to write a song For my friends to sing along But some can no longer participate So I dare not even think about it anymore Well let me just sing it alone Can those who have departed still hear it I'll carry what you left behind To a place you can't see I can't write about what I've lost on paper But tomorrow the sun will still be shining I still have shattered ideals At least I still want to seek the sun Some say I'm still very young But only I know that I have aged At least I'm not like them Died at the youngest age Star, chubby, astronaut, are you watching me from the sky That new place without you all Will there still be burning I can't write about what I've lost on paper But tomorrow the sun will still be shining I still have shattered ideals At least I still want to seek the sun I can't write about what I've lost on paper One day, I knelt and looked at the moon Even if all meaning is destroyed I'm still going to face the sun The cowboy is riding on his horse He's still going to seek the sun The silhouette you saw in your dream that year He's still seeking the sun

about

This is an album born under the influence of Billy Bragg-style folk-punk.

Struggle as an instinct has run through the first half of my life. As a child, I was naive and believed that struggle could truly change something, but things were not as simple as I had imagined...

I constantly swayed painfully between staying and running away, and I turned them into this album. In the end, this album does not provide an answer because I have not found one even now.

Perhaps one day, after I finally persuade myself to lay down my weapons, I will instinctively pick them up again at some point; or maybe one day when I pick up my weapons, I will weakly flee in panic.

Whatever your choice is, you are a hero.

---- Zac Cheng Lee(电未)


The whole album was created, performed and recorded by Zac Cheng Lee from 2020 to 2022.

Album artwork and design by Zac Cheng Lee.


这是一张受到Billy Bragg式民谣朋克影响下诞生出的专辑。

斗争作为一种本能贯穿了我的前半生,儿时的我很天真,我以为斗争真的可以改变一些东西,但事情并不像我想象的那样单纯……

我不断在留下和逃跑中痛苦地摇摆,我把它们做成了这张专辑。这张专辑最后并没有给出答案,因为直到现在我也没有找到答案。

或许有一天我终于劝说自己放下武器后,我又会在某一刻本能地拿起我的武器;或许有一天当我拿起武器时,我又会懦弱地落荒而逃。

无论你的选择是什么,你都是个英雄。

----电未

整张专辑由电未在2020年至2022年期间创作、演奏和录制。

专辑封面设计由电未完成。

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released November 17, 2022

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The Burgers Glasgow, UK

The Burgers originated from Beijing, starting as Zac Joe‘s solo bedroom project. He started writing songs and producing them all in his bedroom from beginning of 2020.
In November 2023, Zac ran away to Glasgow, UK, unable to bear the dirty rock music scene in China, which glorifies pseudo-profundity, promiscuity, and misogyny. In the beginning of 2024, The Burgers was formed as a band in Glasgow.
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