A Cockroachs Tarantella(Next Life)

作词：杜韵
作曲：杜韵

The last time I led my children to flee from an accustomed-to extermination, twenty of my children did not make it. I myself was too much in a hurry to escape so I ran without even turning back my head. But later that night I went back, wanting to cry and waiting to be sorrowful and all - for you know how much I would like to be a human - but the grief did not happen. The weep did not come.

Next life, next life when I am a human, I will feel the sorrow and the tears. How amazing it is to lament, just as a human would.

It was in my Nymph years when maman found me the husband. I was not ready then. I was not capable of understanding love. I was only a nymph. You cannot tell differences between an adult cockroach and a nymph cockroach, considering we only differ in size. And I happened to be a very big nymph. Maman told me: 'Uodfy silly girl, you are thinking too much. We only use them once to get us pregnant. For the rest of life, we don't need them.' So, I did. But now you see, I am the one who has to be stuck with this obscene belly throughout the rest of my life. And gee, now I don't even remember what my husband smells like.

Next life, next life when I am a human, I will understand about love and I will do the love right; I will also age properly, gracefully, just as a human would.