Na Ying 那英
反省 lyrics with English translation
- Language
- Chinese
- Level
- Advanced
- Released
- 2001
- Genre
- Pop
- Length
- 4:37
反省
Reflection
今夜天黑太早 爱已变潦草 你的每句安慰 听起来都教人伤心
Tonight it gets dark too soon, love has become so hasty, your every word of comfort sounds heart-wrenching.
世界变得好静 想问个原因 是你孤独了我 还是我 我孤独了你
The world has grown so quiet, I want to ask why, is it your loneliness that left me, or is it me who's lonely for you?
在你转眼的爱情里 请你不要自己感动自己
In the fleeting love of yours, please don’t get moved by yourself.
就让你抹去爱的指纹 念著遗忘咒语 要知道爱情最终是一次反省
Just let you erase the fingerprints of love, reciting the spell of forgetting, knowing that love ultimately is a reflection.
在你转眼的爱情里 请你不要自己感动自己
In the fleeting love of yours, please don’t get moved by yourself.
要知道一场爱情就是一次反省 我拿什么为你哭泣
Know that every love affair is a kind of reflection, what do I have to cry for you?
今夜多么希望 天亮得要早 为何亲近为何远离 都没有意义
Tonight, how I wish dawn would come early, why does closeness and distance hold no meaning?
在你转眼的爱情里 请你不要自己感动自己
In the fleeting love of yours, please don’t get moved by yourself.
没有你我不哭不醒 不在寂寞中死去 我知道爱情最终是一次反省
Without you, I neither cry nor awaken, not dying in the silence, I know that love ultimately is a reflection.
在你转眼的爱情里 请你不要自己感动自己
In the love that turns in your eyes, please don't let yourself be moved alone.
要知道一次爱情就是一次反省 我拿什么为你哭泣
You must know that each love is a reflection; what do I have to cry for you?
Key vocabulary
- 今夜jīn yè
- tonight
- 世界shì jiè
- world3
- 伤心shāng xīn
- sad3
- 天黑tiān hēi
- darken
- 太早tài zǎo
- too soon
- 已yǐ
- already3
- 变biàn
- change2
- 你的nǐ de
- your1
- 每句měi jù
- each sentence
- 安慰ān wèi
- comfort5
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About this song
Na Ying is a Chinese singer who performs Mandarin pop and became prominent in the late 1980s, later building a cross-strait career with Taiwanese label Linfair Records. She is known for winning the Golden Melody Award for Best Mandarin Female Singer in 2001 for “Sad and Romantic” and for her work as a long-running coach on The Voice of China.