Chinese Pop Songs

浮光掠影 – 阿肆 Flickering Light and Passing Shadows – A Si

Say hello again to the multitalented A Si. She’s great at creating something I’d call “jolly melancholy.”

Mourning a friendship that became a thing of the past? This song is for you.

作词:阿肆
Lyricist: A Si
作曲:阿肆
Composer: A Si
编曲:韦伟
Arranger: Wei Wei

回眸看那长江水 怎么流
I glanced back at the Yangtze River to see how it flow
我在黑白时光里 静坐了很久
I sat long and still in the monochrome time
已很久没有过联络的 朋友
Friends with whom I haven’t kept in touch for a long time
也曾与你无话不说 手牵着手 一起走
I once kept no secrets from you, and we held hands and walked together
最怕那浮光掠影里 过往伏笔的小事情
I fear the most those foreshadowing little things lying in the flickering light and passing shadows
过期以后才记起 却早已无法回应
I recalled them only after things expired, and I could no longer respond
最怕那浮光掠影里 还留恋过去的痕迹
I fear the most the reluctance to let go of the traces of the past [while life’s just] flickering light and passing shadows
一点一滴慢慢堆积 直到足以让我失去前进的 勇气
They accumulated little by little until it’s heavy enough for me to lose the courage to move forward
回眸看那爱与恨的 伤口
I glanced back at the wounds of love and hate
顺着时间的沙漏 模糊了痛的感受
Following the shape of the hourglass, the feelings of pain became a blur
盲目追求得不到的 虚构
I blindly pursued the fiction [mirage] I couldn’t obtain
却忘了身后的温柔 挥霍也有尽头
only to forget that there’s an end to the gentleness behind me if I squandered it with abandon
青春的时候 难免有些许遗憾的忧愁
In youth, I couldn’t resist feeling blue in the face of imperfections
却不该成为束缚我放手追逐的借口
But that shouldn’t become the excuse that kept me from putting my all into the fight to pursue bigger dreams
感谢那浮光掠影里 能拥有你们的幸运
Thank you for having the fortune to have you guys in the flickering light and passing shadows
所有往事都会过去 但至少我已经历
Everything would become a thing of the past, but at least I had the experience already

Chinese Pop Songs, My Favorite Songs

靜止-杨乃文 Still-Yang Naiwen / Faith Yang

Wowkie Zhang and Faith Yang sure know how to describe depression, decadence and loneliness.

Living in the shadow of COVID-19, don’t we all feel that life stopped at some point?

詞:大張偉
Lyricist: Da Zhang Wei / Wowkie Zhang
曲:大張偉
Composer: Da Zhang Wei / Wowkie Zhang
演唱:杨乃文
Singer: Yang Naiwen / Faith Yang

寂寞圍繞著電視 垂死堅持 在兩點半消失
Loneliness surrounded the TV, dying yet persisting, [until it] disappeared at 2:30 am
多希望有人來陪我 度過末日
How I wish to have someone keep me company, to survive doomsday
空虛敲打著意志 彷彿這時間已靜止
Emptiness kept striking the willpower, as if time was still
我懷疑人們的生活 有所掩飾
I suspected that people were hiding something about their life
啊 啊 啊 垂死堅持
Ah ah ah, dying yet persisting
啊 啊 啊 已靜止
Ah ah ah, it stopped already
衝動在瞬間消失 夢被稀釋 不停轉動著手指
The impulse disappeared in a split second. Dreams were diluted. I kept twirling my fingers
我幻想美麗的生活 何時開始
I imagined when a beautiful life would start
時光不經意流逝 像顆在耗費的電池
Time elapsed when I wasn’t paying attention. It’s like a battery in use
我感到有點失落 無法抑制
I felt a little at loss. I couldn’t suppressed that feeling
啊 啊 啊 垂死堅持
Ah ah ah, dying yet persisting
啊 啊 啊 已靜止
Ah ah ah, it stopped already
啊 啊 啊 垂死堅持
Ah ah ah, dying yet persisting
啊 啊 啊 全部消失
Ah ah ah it’s all gone
啊 啊 啊 垂死堅持
Ah ah ah, dying yet persisting
啊 啊 啊 全部消失
Ah ah ah it’s all gone
啊 啊 啊 垂死堅持
Ah ah ah, dying yet persisting
啊 啊 啊 已靜止
Ah ah ah, it stopped already
寂寞圍繞著電視 垂死堅持 在兩點半消失
Loneliness surrounded the TV, dying yet persisting, [until it] disappeared at 2:30 am
多希望有人來陪我 度過末日
How I wish to have someone keep me company, to survive doomsday
空虛敲打著意志 彷彿這時間已靜止
Emptiness kept striking the willpower, as if time was still
空虛敲打著意志 彷彿這時間已靜止
Emptiness kept striking the willpower, as if time was still
我懷疑人們的生活 有所掩飾
I suspected that people were hiding something about their life