Leon Lai 黎明
一生痴心 lyrics with English translation
- Language
- Chinese
- Level
- Advanced
- Released
- 1995
- Genre
- Pop
- Length
- 4:58
看岁月如梦
See the years flow like a dream
听誓言如风
Hear the promises drift like the wind
回首往事已朦胧
Looking back, the past is now a blur
为你喝的酒
The wine I drank for you
为你忍的痛
The pain I endured for you
谁记得谁愿带走
Who remembers who is willing to take away
用一身伤口
With a body full of scars
换一夜寂寞
I exchange it for a night of loneliness
不该为爱再停留
I shouldn't linger for love any longer
放开你的手
Let go of your hand
面对我的愁
In the face of my sorrow,
无力分辨是对是错
I can't tell what's right and wrong.
站在飘著细雨的街口
Standing at the street corner in the light rain,
让这往事历历上心头
Let these past memories flood my heart.
曾是我期待已久的温柔
Once, it was the tenderness I longed for,
为何又从我手中洒落
Why does it slip away from my hands again?
谁知道我一生痴心一场梦
Who knows I've spent my life in this foolish dream?
你又忍心让我梦醒成空
How could you bear to let me wake up empty?
我甘心付出所有
I'm willing to give up everything,
情愿承受折磨
And endure the torment willingly.
留不下你为我守候
I can't keep you waiting for me.
一生痴心一场梦
A lifetime of infatuation, just a dream.
终究还是难脱命运捉弄
In the end, it's still hard to escape fate's teasing.
当春雨秋风走过
When the spring rain and autumn wind pass by.
当你蓦然回首
When you suddenly look back.
是否你会告诉自己
Will you tell yourself.
深爱过我
That you loved me deeply.
Key vocabulary
- 看kàn
- see1
- 记得jì de
- remember1
- 风fēng
- wind1
- 忍心rěn xīn
- heartless7
- 情愿qíng yuàn
- willingly7
- 折磨zhé mó
- torture7
- 无力wú lì
- powerless7
- 甘心gān xīn
- willingly7
- 痴心chī xīn
- devotion7
- 终究zhōng jiū
- ultimately7
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About this song
Leon Lai is a Hong Kong singer and actor of Chinese origin, associated with Cantopop and Mandopop. He is known for dominating the Chinese-language music scene in the 1990s as one of the Four Heavenly Kings, while also building a major film career with award-winning performances and original songs.