I think it's really cool that my favorite band have got a song out on my favorite historical figure, Commandant 'Che' Guevara. You might argue that he has got alot of blood on his hands, but so do alot of other people, politicians the likes of Harry Truman with the atomic bombs , Deng Xiaoping and Tiananmen, JFK and the Bay of Pigs, and you don't even need to start on George W Bush.   Some call him a hero, while others see him as a villain. To me, Che is an inspiration because he saw injustice in the social order of his time, rather than remain comfortable in his relatively privileged upper class position, he took up the struggle against all the odds, His life story symbolizes idealism and rebellion.  

摩托車日記/  Motorcycle Diaries

Translated from Chinese

Hurtling Acrossing South America,  across 12,000 miles of poverty

I ride on, driven by a moment's impulse 

橫越過南美洲一萬兩千里的貧窮

我騎著　狂妄的　一股衝動

Vast and boundless earth , yet I can’t see a way out 

For the countless hungry children and hopeless tenant farmers

無垠的大地　種不出一個夢
只看到　那無數的　飢餓的孩子　和　絕望佃農

Ah, They are all waiting for a hero
Ah, with my revolver I take aim at the heartless sky

嗚　誰在等待英雄
嗚　我把左輪瞄準無情天空

Who’s willing to come with me, together we will create a legend
Do you dare to dream? Are you crazy enough?
Do you still have your youthful idealism

誰願意和我　一起寫一個傳說
你還夢不夢　瘋不瘋
還有沒有當初　浪漫溫柔

Who’s willing to come with me, to create a legend together
Even if they eliminate me
They can never take away our freedom to dream
誰願意和我　一起寫一個傳說
就算誰能　消滅了我
卻奪不走我們　作夢的自由

In a thousand years, a rainbow hasn’t appeared in the Indian skies
Unemployed  old people are playing the banjo
Who is sleeping in the streets, and who lives in a royal palace
The diary is full of dreams, I decide to dedicate my life to the pursuit of them

印地斯的天空　千年沒有出現彩虹
失業的　老人在　彈著斑鳩
誰露宿在街頭　誰卻住在皇宮
日記上　寫滿了夢想　我決定要用　這一生背誦

Ah, who cares to shout for freedom
Ah, I use my life to challenge fate.

嗚　誰在呼喊自由
嗚　我用生命挑戰宿命宇宙