The Legend Of Pai Mei Lyrics

The Legend Of Pai Mei lyrics

David Carradine:

Once upon a time in China

Some believe around the
year, one-double knot-three.

Head priest of The White Lotus Clan Pai
Mei

Was walking down the road

Contemplating whatever a man with Pai
Mei's infinite power would contemplate

Which is another way of saying, who
knows.

When, a Shaolin monk appeared on the road traveling in the opposite
direction.



As the monk and the priest crossed paths...

Pai
Mei in a practically unfathomable display of generosity

Gave the monk the
slightest of nods.

The nod, was not returned.



Now was it the
intention of the Shaolin monk to insult Pai Mei ?

Or, did he just fail to
see the generous social gesture?

The motives of the monk, remain
unknown.

What is known, were the consequences.



The next
morning Pai Mei appeared at the Shaolin Temple,

and demanded that the
temple's head Abbot offer Pai Mei his neck to repay the insult.

The
Abbot, at first, tried to console Pai Mei, only to find, Pai Mei was
inconsolable.



So began, the massacre of the Shaolin Temple,

And all sixty of the monks inside,

at the fists of the White Lotus.

And so began, the legend of Pai Mei's Ten-Point Palm

Exploding Heart
Technique.



Uma Thurman :

And what praytell

Is a
ten-point palm

Exploding heart technique?