A Song a day: 29th Mar 2012 (單車- Eason Chan)

Today’s song is “單車” by Eason Chan. This is one of my favourite songs. This song came out in 2001, in an album called “Shall We Dance? Shall We Talk!” If you have read my other article on Eason before (25th Mar2012 (Shall We Talk - Eason Chan)), you would probably realised that this song “單車” come from the same album as Shall We Talk. The album “Shall We Dance? Shall We Talk!” is one of my all-time favourite albums, if I got the chance, I will introduce more songs from this album to you.

For those of you who don’t understand Chinese, 單車 means bicycle. This song is about the relationship between father and son. Typically, fathers wouldn’t show that they love their kids even though they love their kids a lot. And this song is questioning about this. It started off saying “Don’t assume I know that everything that you have done is for me. Why being so great, but so hard to feel it. How good can love be without words? I only remember I have felt it once, when I was leaning on you back on the bicycle.” Then in the second part, the son have grown up, and realised that it is so hard to be dad. “You already have given (your love) to me, but why can’t I see it. Now I am acting in your role, why should I just stand on the side instead of give (my son) a hug? How can I believe in your style of teaching, love me so much but not letting me know. I miss the time when we were on the bicycle, the only time we were so close.”

The original lyrics is 100 times better than my poor translation. Almost every time I read the lyrics, I can feel that tears are coming out from my eyes. Not sure why the song is so touching, maybe because this song was dedicated to Eason’s father, and he had put in his true feeling when he sing the song. Not sure whether it was a coincident or was it done on purpose, when this song came out, Eason’s father was actually in a lawsuit (his dad lost at the end and went into jail). So I guess you could say the song sort of came out at the right time.

Hope you will be touched by this song as much as I do.

Other songs in the father and son series:
25th May 2013 (負親 – Terence Chui/說不出的 – Rico Long)

14th Apr 2012 (追憶 –George Lam)

15th Apr 2012 (空凳 –Danny Summer)