Sunday, April 15, 2012

15th Apr 2012 (空凳 – Danny Summer)

The song for today is “空凳” by Danny Summer. Another song about the love between father and son. This is the last one of the series  (checkout “單車”and “追憶”) (edit on 25th May 2013: A new song is added to this series, check out 負親”)

I don’t like this song as much as the other two in the series, but since I have posted the other two, I should complete my series with this song as well. Although all three songs are about father and son, but they are all slightly different from each other. Eason’s “單車” is about growing up and understanding the love from his father, George’s “追憶” is about the memory that the father and son share and the pain of losing a father. Danny’s “空凳” (by the way, the English translation of the title is “Empty chair”) is about regret. The lyrics goes like this “There is an empty chair, but it still attract me to get closer. A long long time ago, in this chair, my dad was like a giant. There is only regret left in this wear chair. Long time ago, this chair used to be beautiful, and there were little wrinkle on dad’s face. Staring at this chair along make me wish that I could sit with him again. Looking at this chairing make me sad, why I didn’t tell him what I wanted to say. I was lazy to say “I love you”, lazy to say “I love you”. I used to think that I was the most important. But today I realised that I love him, I love him forever, but I can only say it to an empty chair.”

I guess all these 3 songs bring out a point that the love between father and son are not in words. Unlike the love from mother, father’s loves are usually not shown to you directly, but they would try their best to protect you behind your back. I guess this is the way of love between men, and it would be hard for female to understand it. Hope you will like the song for today.

Just for your information, the lyrics of “追憶” and “空凳” were written by the same person.
Other songs in the Father and son series post:
25th May 2013 (負親 – Terence Chui/說不出的 – Rico Long)

空凳 – Danny Summer


Bonus:
A medley of the three songs by George Lam.




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