Music, as there hasn't been for a while
May. 21st, 2004 06:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
petroniaOops, forgot to take down the TeniPuri FST yesterday. o_O; Well, it's done now. Have a spot of music, flist persons:
Sun Yanzi - Aiqing Zhenshu (Love Diploma)
Love Diploma (Aiqing Zhengshu)
Of course there's a bit of loneliness
When you're not by my side
I always think more about your face
Distance is an examination
Testing if the promises we made
To love each other
Will become concrete in the end
We're still learning about love
Learning the language of partnership
Learning to forgive, learning not to shed tears
And when we've learnt to fly
Winging over dark nights and obstacles
Our days will graduate from solitude
We'll exchange a little more hard work
For a little more happiness
Even if there's still a ways to go
When we've learnt to endure, when we've learnt to give
Surely this love will have a diploma
To prove that we'll never be lonely again
Usual kind of sensitive wistful Cpop love song; Chinese fic tends to have this feel as well. The album this comes off is one of those killer pop albums that don't pretend to anything but that you can just spin forever. This is track 2, the following is track 3:
Sun Yanzi - Tian Hei Hei (The Sky Is Dark)
Piano ballad, emo as fuck. ^^; One pictures people hearing this on the radio for the first time, bawling their eyes out for a solid hour and then calling the radio station to demand that they play it again. I'll translate the lyrics once I get home so non-Mandarin speakers can get a sense of the thing, though it may simply not be as atavistically tearjerking if you don't have Chinese grandparents who speak a different dialect from you (ah, childhood).
Tian Hei Hei (The Sky Is Dark)
Note: The pinyin corresponds to the Mandarin pronunciation of the song title but not how those words are sung in the actual lyrics - the grandmother's lullaby is in Fukienese.
When I was little
And threw tantrums
My grandmother
Would always sing to soothe me
Summer afternoons
An old song comforted me
I think it went like this
"The sky is dark, about to rain
The sky is dark, is dark"
I left childhood behind
I had my own life
Novel songs and novel ideas
At times when I couldn't control
My waywardness and impulses
I forgot there was such a song as this
"The sky is dark, about to rain
The sky is dark, is dark"
I fell in love with someone who made me struggle
Without a thought for myself
I was sure that was the world to which I aspired
I hit walls head-on and sideways
I was misunderstood, I was deceived
Is there's alway something missing
Behind the facade of the adult world?
Every day I'm faced with branching choices
On the path that I walk
I miss the simple little joys of the past
Love always makes one cry
Makes one feel unfulfilled
The sky is wide but hard to see clearly
It's so lonely...
When the sky is dark
I remember that song again
And suddenly I'm hoping for
A quiet rain to fall
So grandmother sang her wisdom to me a long time ago
Even when it rains you must walk forward bravely...
I believe everything will blow past
I want to go home very badly now
"The sky is dark, about to rain
The sky is dark, is dark"
Toquinho e Vinicius de Moraes - Carta Ao Tom 74
Brazilpop classix... I said I'd post this the other time, so I am. Gorgeous melody, light as sunshine on water. Also like the lyrics, or what I could gather from babelfishing and squinting. XD
Sun Yanzi - Aiqing Zhenshu (Love Diploma)
Love Diploma (Aiqing Zhengshu)
Of course there's a bit of loneliness
When you're not by my side
I always think more about your face
Distance is an examination
Testing if the promises we made
To love each other
Will become concrete in the end
We're still learning about love
Learning the language of partnership
Learning to forgive, learning not to shed tears
And when we've learnt to fly
Winging over dark nights and obstacles
Our days will graduate from solitude
We'll exchange a little more hard work
For a little more happiness
Even if there's still a ways to go
When we've learnt to endure, when we've learnt to give
Surely this love will have a diploma
To prove that we'll never be lonely again
Usual kind of sensitive wistful Cpop love song; Chinese fic tends to have this feel as well. The album this comes off is one of those killer pop albums that don't pretend to anything but that you can just spin forever. This is track 2, the following is track 3:
Sun Yanzi - Tian Hei Hei (The Sky Is Dark)
Piano ballad, emo as fuck. ^^; One pictures people hearing this on the radio for the first time, bawling their eyes out for a solid hour and then calling the radio station to demand that they play it again. I'll translate the lyrics once I get home so non-Mandarin speakers can get a sense of the thing, though it may simply not be as atavistically tearjerking if you don't have Chinese grandparents who speak a different dialect from you (ah, childhood).
Tian Hei Hei (The Sky Is Dark)
Note: The pinyin corresponds to the Mandarin pronunciation of the song title but not how those words are sung in the actual lyrics - the grandmother's lullaby is in Fukienese.
When I was little
And threw tantrums
My grandmother
Would always sing to soothe me
Summer afternoons
An old song comforted me
I think it went like this
"The sky is dark, about to rain
The sky is dark, is dark"
I left childhood behind
I had my own life
Novel songs and novel ideas
At times when I couldn't control
My waywardness and impulses
I forgot there was such a song as this
"The sky is dark, about to rain
The sky is dark, is dark"
I fell in love with someone who made me struggle
Without a thought for myself
I was sure that was the world to which I aspired
I hit walls head-on and sideways
I was misunderstood, I was deceived
Is there's alway something missing
Behind the facade of the adult world?
Every day I'm faced with branching choices
On the path that I walk
I miss the simple little joys of the past
Love always makes one cry
Makes one feel unfulfilled
The sky is wide but hard to see clearly
It's so lonely...
When the sky is dark
I remember that song again
And suddenly I'm hoping for
A quiet rain to fall
So grandmother sang her wisdom to me a long time ago
Even when it rains you must walk forward bravely...
I believe everything will blow past
I want to go home very badly now
"The sky is dark, about to rain
The sky is dark, is dark"
Toquinho e Vinicius de Moraes - Carta Ao Tom 74
Brazilpop classix... I said I'd post this the other time, so I am. Gorgeous melody, light as sunshine on water. Also like the lyrics, or what I could gather from babelfishing and squinting. XD
