A Song a day: 11th May 2012 (千千闕歌 – Priscilla Chan/夕焼けの歌

Friday, May 11, 2012

The song for today is “千千闕歌” by Priscilla Chan. Priscilla was once a very famous singer in Hong Kong. She is one of my favourite singers, I have almost got all the albums that she produced, only missing a few that I am still searching in second hand CD shops (these shops are rare these days.)

Just like yesterday’s song (10th May 2012 (理智與感情 – Jason Chan & Rainie Yang)) This song is also a song that I listen to during my night walk when I was living in Japan. This song is also one of the few songs sung by Priscilla that I remembered from my childhood. I am pretty sure that when I was I kid, I have no idea what the lyrics means, but I just love the melody.

My interpretation of the lyrics is that it talks about love. In the lyrics, the girl says that she enjoyed last night so much. Her boyfriend is about to leave her (not in the sense that they are breaking up, more like they have to be physically separated for a long time), she felt that there are still so much that she haven’t said to him. She said that there might be a more starry night than last night, the moon could be brighter than the moon last night, but any night will never be as enjoyable as last night because her boyfriend was with her.

Hope you will enjoy this song. By the way, there is another version of this song in Cantonese sung by Anita Mui. I might link that up for tomorrow. Note that both of these songs are cover song of a Japanese song call “タ燒けの歌” by Kohji Makaino (近藤真彥). I will talk more about these song next time.