One by one The answers come Rung by rung Toward the sun Fire on the moutain-top And blld in the snow Chased from his ancient home The white crane has flown They've come for your livestock And they've come for your land They've come to chop your forests With the labor of your hands A land in isolation On the roof of the world A pawn in the greater game Wrenched into the modern age By the bullet and the blade News roads and new factories Such progress you have made Line by line The poets rhyme In a quiet mind The light will shine There's no surrender in my heart There's no surrender in my song There's no surrender in my faith There's no surrender Flowers on the Lhasa Road Flowers on the Lhasa Road Flowers on the Lhasa Road Flowers on the Lhasa Road They've taken all your wise men They have made you kill your own They came to liberate your From your families and your homes They've forbidden your religion They have levelled your shrines Though re-education They have cleansed your brainwashed minds We most favored nations We partners in crime To the mighty spoils And so it has always been And so shall it be Another culture is conquered In the name of liberty Brutal are the means of oppression Power grows from the mouth of a gun The flower bows its head in the darkness Bathed in the light of compassion The dawn will come Say a prayer for the dead and the tortured Raise your voice for the raped and the wronged The spirit lives though the flesh may be broken There is no surrender when all you believe lives on There's no surrender in my heart There's no surrender in my song There's no surrender in my faith There's no surrender Flowers on the Lhasa Road Flowers on the Lhasa Road Flowers on the Lhasa Road Flowers on the Lhasa Road We'll grow Flowers on the Lhasa Road Toll the bell Beat the drum so the people will know Your prison walls cannot kill the light Through the cracks the flowers still grow There's no surrender There's no surrender There's no surrender There's no surrender