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Jul 21

So, I’ve completely humiliated myself (refer to the post below, if you really need to know). So, to somehow regain my sanity and integrity, here is ‘Our Love’ and ‘Listen to the Sea’ in much better quality and accuracy.

F.I.R. - 我们的爱
My memories emerged when I reminisced my blurry childhood:
a blue sky full of flow-y clouds.
You said then, that we would go hand-in-hand,
until the end of time…

Ever since then, I’ve been afraid to glance upwards,
Scared that my sky had become colorless.
From that day on, I forgot how to breath…
And tears, would never
never flow…

Our Love…
Passed and would never return.
Even now, I am still silently waiting.
Our Love, I understand,
has already become your burden.
It’s just that I can’t ever let go,
that last warmth… that warmth which you gave me.

Ever since then, I’ve been afraid to glance upwards,
Scared that my sky had become colorless.
From that day on, I forgot how to breath…
And tears, would never
never flow…

Our Love…
Passed and would never return.
Even now, I am still silently waiting.
Our Love, I understand,
has already become your burden.
It’s just that I can’t ever let go,
that last warmth… that warmth which you gave me.

I don’t need to ask you if you still loved me,
Right now, I just want a sky all to myself.
Leave this choking world,
no longer alone…

Our Love…
Passed and would never return.
Even now, I am still silently waiting.
Our Love, I understand,
has already become your burden.
It’s just that I can’t ever let go,
that last warmth… that warmth which you gave me.

张惠妹 - 听海
Write a letter telling me the color of the sea today.
The sea that stays with you during the night. What are your emotions?
Gray means you won’t say, and blue is hesitation.
Yet the drifting you, with your crazed heart, stopped where?

Write a letter telling me what you want to dream about tonight.
And the me outside of your dreams, do I give you endless choices?
I clenched onto this heart, couldn’t even close my eyes this whole night.
Our affections are obvious, then why don’t you come close?

Listen…
To the sound of the crying sea.
While breathing out a sigh, and wondering who’s been heartbroken,
and not yet calmed…
Surely it’s not me; at least I’m fairly calm.
But the tears, even the tears, don’t believe in me…

Listen…
To the sound of the crying sea.
This sea truly is a bit too sensitive—
it has been crying with grief ’til dawn.
Write a letter to me, and let it be our last promise—
Expressing your emotions when you left me.

Write a letter telling me what you want to dream about tonight.
And the me outside of your dreams, do I give you endless choices?
I clenched this heart, couldn’t even close my eyes this whole night.
Our affections are obvious, then why don’t you come close?

Listen…
To the sound of the crying sea.
While breathing out a sigh, and wondering who’s been heartbroken,
and not yet calmed…
Surely it’s not me; at least I’m fairly calm.
But the tears, even the tears, don’t believe in me…

Listen…
To the sound of the crying sea.
This sea truly is a bit too sensitive—
it has been crying with grief ’til dawn.
Write a letter to me, and let it be our last promise—
Expressing your emotions when you left me.

Jul 21

The wind could carry all the labor away,
in spite of my exertions it’s not real to me.
Your words will come floating in the air,
so let us just surrender ourselves to the skyRie fu - Beautiful Words

Do you still remember yesterday, that summer day?
The moment that was blown away by a swift wind?
Seemingly taking everything along,
Leaving only loneliness and precipitation… 林俊杰&金莎 - 被风吹过的夏天

Although I want to tell you about this feeling,
somehow my voice can’t keep still; I can’t say it.
I need to voice it in words however way I can.
More than anything, I want this hesitance to disappear… 東方神起 - HUG (Japanese Version)

Inside this heart, hiding, are swirls of worry.
I must keep going in front of me;
Which way is the road?.. ayaka - I believe

As it is, my love will not reach you,
I’m by myself, hugging myself to sleep.
Please give me your love once again,
even if I could go back in time… Crystal Kay - きっと永遠に


If there was no future,
and that everything of today will end,
what will you do?.. SHOWTA. - Trans-winter ~Fuyu no mukou gawa~

There’s no life, no life without it’s hunger.
Each restless heart, beats so imperfectly.
But when you come, and I am filled with wonder;
sometimes I think, I glimpse eternityLENA PARK; Westlife; Secret Garden - You Raise Me Up

You were my strength with I was weak
You were my voice when I couldn’t speak.
You were my eyes when I couldn’t see.
You saw the best there was in me.
Lifted me up when I couldn’t reach.
You gave me faith cause you believed.
I’m everything I am, because you loved meCeline Dion - Because You Loved Me

Claim an open soil,
even if it’s merely a tree… 胡彦斌 - 蝴蝶

Until hearts are shattered,
and dreams are buried under the mists of river south,
then we’ll understand… 林俊杰 - 江南

(You can’t say I didn’t try. Lyrics translated very roughly and possibly very much incorrectly by me.)