河 lyrics with English translation

时间像一条 不回头的河流

Time flows like a river that won't turn back,

我们还企盼着 可一瞬都变了

Yet we still hope, but everything changes in a blink.

我们在想象着 有什么没来呢

We wonder what is yet to come,

还能够惊起怎样的波折

What waves might still arise?

习惯有些事 选择权衡太久

Getting used to some things, weighing choices too long,

决意奋身逆流 河已干怎么游

Determined to swim against the current, but how to swim when the river's dry?

然后只感慨着 如果当初如何

Then we can only sigh, if only we had done things different,

将会是多么不同的我

How very different I would be.

我们走太远太远了 看不清来时的路了

We've wandered too far, too far, losing sight of the path we came from,

那些寂寞 绝望 无常

Those loneliness, despair, and impermanence.

还会经过多少呢

How much more will we pass through?

也许是看过太多了 已变得梦都不信了

Perhaps I’ve seen too much, now I don't even believe in dreams.

所有等的 爱的 要的

All that waiting, loving, wanting,

都被丢在哪里了

Where has it all been cast aside?

曾经的你呢

What about the you from before?

习惯有些事 选择权衡太久

I've grown accustomed to some things, weighing choices for too long.

决意奋身逆流 河已干怎么游

Resolutely pushing against the current, how to swim when the river has run dry?

然后只感慨着 如果当初如何

And then I can only sigh, what if things were different back then?

将会是多么不同的我

How much of a different me it would have been.

我们走太远太远了 看不清来时的路了

We've walked too far, too far, I can’t see the way we came from.

那些寂寞 绝望 无常

Those lonely moments, despair, and the fleeting

又能够将人怎样

What can they really do to a person?

就算是看过太多了

Even if I've seen too much now

可是这梦还要做啊

But this dream still needs to be chased, ah

所有等的 爱的 要的

All the waiting, the love, the desires

一直都在那里啊

Have always been right there, ah

曾经的你呀

The you from back then, oh

所有等的 爱的 要的

All the waiting, the love, the desires

被丢在哪里了

Where have they been cast away?

曾经的你呢

What about the you from back then?