The Legend of Pai Mei

Song The Legend of Pai Mei
Artist David Carradine
Album Kill Bill Volume 2 (O.S.T)

Lyrics

[00:02.49] Bill:
[00:02.71] Once upon a time...
[00:03.48] ...in China...
[00:03.98] ...some believe around the year...
[00:05.86]
[00:07.69] ...head priest of the White Lotus Clan, Pai Mei, was walking down a road...
[00:13.63] ...contemplating whatever it is that a man of Pai Mei's infinite powers would contemplate ...
[00:19.44] ...which is another way of saying, "Who knows?"
[00:22.54] ... when a Shaolin monk appeared on the road...
[00:25.58] ... traveling in the opposite direction...
[00:28.06] ... As the monk and the priest crossed paths...
[00:36.22] ...Pai Mei...
[00:36.59] ...in a practically unfathomable display of generosity, gave the monk the slightest of nods...
[00:41.59] ...The nod...
[00:44.61] ...was not returned...
[00:45.93] ...Now, was it the intention of the Shaolin monk to insult Pai Mei? ...
[00:57.04] ...Or did he just fail to see the generous social gesture?
[01:00.76] ...The motives of the monk remain unknown...
[01:05.50] ...What is known...
[01:09.43] ...were the consequences...
[01:10.75] (Bill plays the flute)
[01:12.16] Bill:
[01:16.63] The next morning, Pai Mei appeared at the Shaolin temple...
[01:21.71] ...and demanded of the temple's head abbot...
[01:24.12] ...that he offer Pai Mei his neck to repay the insult...
[01:28.82] ...The abbot, at first, tried to console Pai Mei...
[01:32.66] ...Only to find Pai Mei was...
[01:34.31] ...inconsolable...
[01:36.34] (Bill plays the flute)
[01:45.70] Bill:
[01:46.01] ...So began...
[01:46.78] ...the Massacre of the Shaolin Temple, and all sixty of the monks inside, at the fists of the White Lotus.
[01:49.26] ...And...
[01:54.36] ...so began the legend...
[01:56.96] ...of Pai Mei's Five-Point-Palm-Exploding-Heart-Technique...
[02:02.32] The Bride:
[02:02.80] And what, pray tell, is the Five-Point-Palm-Exploding-Heart-Technique?...
[02:06.15]