🔑 if you forget everything
山海坞!
shahn · high · woo — shout it, mic at the room
来了就是一家人
lie-luh jyoh-shrr ee-jyah-ren → “once you’ve come, you’re family”
(their Shenzhen slogan — they WILL shout it back)
(their Shenzhen slogan — they WILL shout it back)
“mountain to the sea,
the door is never closed”
the door is never closed”
intro · just talk over the vamp
“I came a long way to this room.
Mountain people, sea people — 山海坞.
You don’t need the words.
You already know the feeling.
Sing the part you know.”
Mountain people, sea people — 山海坞.
You don’t need the words.
You already know the feeling.
Sing the part you know.”
verse 1 · thumb & brush only
C We came in strangers with a bag and a dream
Am Mountain in the throat, salt water in the seam
C Nobody asked us for a name or a key
Am The door was just open — 山海坞
(G lands on “dream” / “seam” / “key” — just keep the loop turning)
pre · half-time, push
F Build it in the open,
G break it in the light
Am Everything we make tonight —
🔥 chorus · give it away
山海坞!
Mountain to the sea
Mountain to the sea
The door is never closed,
the fire’s always free
the fire’s always free
来了就是一家人
Once you’ve walked in,
you were always home
you were always home
2nd time: drop out on the Chinese line — let them carry it.
verse 2 · the 女娲 verse
C 女娲 took the sky when the sky was tore
Am Five colored stones, she patched it to the core
C Seventy-two hours and a soldering gun
Am 给世界打个补丁 — we patch this one
gay-shr-jyeh · dah-guh · boo-ding = “put a patch on the world” — their own hackathon line
bridge · whisper it · point at people
Am Somebody here is building a hand
C Somebody here is teaching a machine to sing
Am Somebody left home so the work could begin
C And nobody — nobody — built it alone
say their real names, their real projects. this is the part that lands.
last chorus → tag → closer
a cappella: 山海坞! … then everything in
“You don’t join the orchestra —
you notice you were always in it”
you notice you were always in it”
hum it until it belongs to the room → straight into Aloha ʻOe, one verse, slow, no explanation. Bow. 🌺
improv kit
Melody: verse low (do-re-mi) · chorus jumps to sol on 山海坞, falls home.
Rhymes: sea free we key 坞 · sky try high why · home roam alone · hand land stand
Drop-in lines:
- “Shenzhen built the thing that built the thing”
- “Half of us don’t share a language and we still agree”
- “I flew in Friday and I’m family by Monday”
- “This isn’t a conference — it’s a village with a soldering iron”
quiet room → teach the chorus first, 30 sec
loud room → bridge, then chorus ×2
90 sec → talk · chorus · 女娲 · chorus · tag