Listen to this articleArtist: Andy Lau (劉德華, 刘德华, Lau Tak-wah)
Song: 来生缘 (lái shēng yuán)
来生缘
寻寻觅觅在无声无息中消逝
总是找不到回忆找不到曾被遗忘的真实
一生一世的过去你一点一滴的遗弃
痛苦痛悲痛心痛恨痛失去你也许分开不容易也许相亲相爱不可以
痛苦痛悲痛心痛恨痛失自己
情深缘浅不得意 你我也知道去珍惜
只好等在来生里再踏上彼此故事的开始生生世世在无穷无尽的梦里
偶而翻起了日记翻起了你我之间的故事
一段一段的回忆回忆已经没有意义
痛苦痛悲痛心痛恨痛失去你也许分开不容易也许相亲相爱不可以
痛苦痛悲痛心痛恨痛失自己
情深缘浅不得意 你我也知道去珍惜
只好等在来生里再踏上彼此故事的开始生生世世在无穷无尽的梦里
偶而翻起了日记翻起了你我之间的故事
一段一段的回忆回忆已经没有意义
痛苦痛悲痛心痛恨痛失去你也许分开不容易也许相亲相爱不可以
痛苦痛悲痛心痛恨痛失自己
情深缘浅不得意 你我也知道去珍惜
只好等在来生里再踏上彼此故事的开始
只好等在来生里再踏上彼此故事的开始
Yuanfen in the next life
Seeking here and searching there [in vain] soundlessly and motionlessly [it] vanished
[No matter how much I tried] [I] just could not regain memory unable to retrieve factual truth that had been once abandoned
[As] a lifetime an incarnation passed you abandoned [it] drop by drop
Painful suffering painful grief painful heartache painful regret of having lost youPerhaps parting is not easy perhaps caring for and loving one another is forbidden
Painful suffering painful grief painful heartache painful regret of having lost myself
Feelings run deep [yet] yuanfen shallow a wish could be fulfilled that we needed to treasure you and I both knew
[We] can only bide the next incarnation when we [may] embark on the beginning of our shared storySuccessions of lives and incarnations [tumbling] in an endless and boundless dream
Once in a while [it] churns up a chronicle [and] the story between you and me resurfaces
Footage after footage of memory memory that has become meaningless
Painful suffering painful grief painful heartache painful regret of having lost youPerhaps parting is not easy perhaps caring for and loving one another is forbidden
Painful suffering painful grief painful heartache painful regret of having lost myself
Feelings run deep [yet] yuanfen shallow a wish could be fulfilled that we needed to treasure you and I both knew
[We] can only bide the next incarnation when we [may] embark on the beginning of our shared storySuccessions of lives and incarnations [tumbling] in an endless and boundless dream
Once in a while [it] churns up a chronicle [and] the story between you and me resurfaces
Footage after footage of memory memory that has become meaningless
Painful suffering painful grief painful heartache painful regret of having lost youPerhaps parting is not easy perhaps caring for and loving one another is forbidden
Painful suffering painful grief painful heartache painful regret of having lost myself
Feelings run deep [yet] yuanfen shallow a wish could be fulfilled that we needed to treasure you and I both knew
[We] can only bide the next incarnation when we [may] embark on the beginning of our shared story
[We] can only bide the next incarnation when we [may] embark on the beginning of our shared story
Submitted by Emmanuel13
Author’s comments:
来生缘 Lit: 来生 “coming life”, “next life”; 缘 “yuanfen”, this is a concept that does not translate into English, although routinely treated as “fate”, “destiny” or “serendipity”, these terms fall well short of “yuanfen” which is actually absorbed into the English language. Yuanfen is all those “fate” and related ideas, but beyond that there is a notion of connections, entanglement, not just applicable to lovers, but between friends, animals and even events.
寻寻觅觅在无声无息: 寻寻觅觅 suggests looking and searching repeatedly and desperately; 无声 Lit: “without sound”; 无息 “without sign of life”
生生世世 Lit: 生 is abbreviated from 生命 “life”; 世 is an “incarnation” within the Buddhist belief of rebirth. As written using repeating characters, to me, it is about a succession of lives and reincarnations.
日记 Lit: “a journal” or “diary” but in the context of this song and successive incarnations, this is about long term history over many reincarnations like a chronicle kept by the gods.
