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Tuesday, 16 August 2011

A promise on a date by Faye Wong

Attempting to translate into english one, not done good job, as the lyric is just too beautifully put. I dont read alotta poems but sometimes lyrics to me is some form of poem.....:)

Another version by Jackie Cheung


還記得當天旅館的門牌 (Still remember that day, the hotel number & signboard)
還留住笑著離開的神態 (we were still smiling while leaving. the smile burnt in memory)
當天整個城市 那樣輕快 (that day, the whole city was so light)
沿路一起走半哩長街 (and we walked along the roadside for half a mile)
還記得街燈照出一臉黃 (still remember the street lamp shining on our faces making us 
look yellowish)
還燃亮那份微溫的便當 (also lighted up the warmth of the food eatery store on the side)
剪影的你輪廓 太好看 (Looking at your perfect silhouette )
凝住眼淚才敢細看 (I had to control my tears to look again in details)

* 忘掉天地 (Forgetting the heaven & earth)
彷彿也想不起自己 (even, seems I forget about myself too)
仍未忘相約看漫天黃葉遠飛 (but I dont forget our promise, our date to gaze at the yellow
 leaves flying, roaming, dancing in the sky)
就算會與你分離 淒絕的戲 (even though I will have to separate from you, such a sad movie
....)
要決心忘記 我便記不起 (if I have to, I can forget, I wont remember)
明日天地 只恐怕認不出自己 (Tomorrow, the heaven & earth - I am just afraid I cant 
recognize myself)
仍未忘跟你約定假如沒有死 (But I dont forget our promise if we are still alive)
就算你壯闊胸膛 不敵天氣 (despite, you may not be able to fight the enemies of weather,
 of time)
兩鬢斑白 都可認得你* (till your hair turns grey, I still recognize you)

還記得當天結他的和弦 (still remember that day the smooth rhythm of guitar playing)
還明白每段旋律的伏線 (and there N then, I understood, every musical score has its 
designed set & climax)
當天街角流過你聲線 (that day you left your voice resonanting at the street corner)
沿路旅程如歌褪變 (along the journey, just like a song fading away......)

4 comments:

  1. I had all her CDs back in uni!! (^^) Use to love 1) Summer of love and 2)Simple is the most romantic... oh oh and 3) Night and Day!! (^^)

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  2. hehe, yes, she was in our uni days.......
    ai.....how come no one sings as good as her nowadays in HK gah....

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  3. Yes! Sometimes when I'm in a cab and they play the oldies ie 70's as well, 'em singer's voice were so much more richer, fuller, and with heaps of talent! Nowadays, even with all 'em karaoke practises, the new idols all seem to be short of breath!

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