Cai Xukun 蔡徐坤
默片 lyrics with English translation
- Language
- Chinese
- Level
- Advanced
- Released
- 2021
- Genre
- Pop
- Length
- 3:41
那张古早唱片
That old record,
曾刻下你的容颜
Once captured your visage,
唱针划过弧线
As the needle glides in arcs,
寄存了多少光年
Storing countless light-years,
我无力分辨
I can't distinguish,
穿梭平行时间线
Crossing through parallel timelines,
为何不能再次遇见
Why can't we meet again?
只是你的脸
It's just your face,
仿佛还清晰可见
Seemingly still vividly clear,
却模糊成遥远默片
Yet fading into a distant silent film.
刻在百年之前未解的爱
Engraved in a love unresolved from a century past,
我仍守着花海等你归来
I still guard the sea of flowers, waiting for your return.
夜幕降临燃烧我所有孤寂
As night falls, it burns away all my solitude.
最荒唐的人最清醒
The most absurd ones are often the clearest.
当时穿越我们的心电感应
Back then, our hearts crossed through telepathy.
也许早已失灵
Perhaps it has long since lost its power.
也许早已经失灵
Perhaps it has already lost its touch.
一寸密纹一寸情
An inch of fine lines, an inch of love,
百年踪迹百年心
A century of traces, a century of heart.
灵魂坠入万丈深渊
The soul plunges into a bottomless abyss.
甘之若饴困在人间
Sweet as honey, trapped in this world,
遗落了缱绻
Lost the lingering affection,
今生还在念
In this life, still remembering,
错失的曾经
The past I missed,
时光交替你的泪水已成冰
As time shifts, your tears have turned to ice,
唯一的宿命
The only destiny,
蜿蜒世纪来回找寻
Winding through the ages, searching back and forth,
最后背影
The final glimpse,
刻在百年之前未解的爱
Carved a hundred years ago, an unresolved love,
我仍守着花海等你归来
I still guard the sea of flowers, waiting for your return.
夜幕降临燃烧我所有孤寂
As night falls, I burn with all my solitude
最荒唐的人最清醒
The most absurd ones are the most awake
当时穿越我们的心电感应
Back then, our hearts had an unspoken connection
也许早已失灵
Perhaps it has long been out of tune
也许早已经失灵
Perhaps it has long been out of tune
一寸密纹一寸情
An inch of intricate patterns, an inch of love
百年踪迹百年心
A hundred years of traces, a hundred years of heart
Key vocabulary
- 早zǎo
- early1
- 人间rén jiān
- world7
- 唱片chàng piàn
- record7
- 世纪shì jì
- century3
- 仍réng
- still3
- 曾céng
- once5
- 刻下kè xià
- engrave
- 容róng
- allow
- 颜yán
- face
- 划huà
- draw6
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About this song
Cai Xukun, Chinese singer, songwriter, producer, and actor, makes genre-blending pop with influences from soul and dramatic cinematic production. He is known for his work as a former child actor and boy-band alumnus and for topping China’s C-pop singles charts with releases like “I Wanna Get Love” and the 2021 solo album Lost.