Lyrics: The Legend of Pai Mei – David Carradine and Uma Thurman
Album: Kill Bill Volume 2
Artist: Soundtracks
 

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 it is that 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,

insult.

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 five-Point Palm
Exploding Heart Technique.

Uma Thurman :
And what praytell
Is a five-point palm
Exploding heart technique?