A Song a day: 21st Dec 2012 (末日

Friday, December 21, 2012

21st Dec 2012 (末日 – Ivana Wong)

The song that I chose for today is “末日” by Ivana Wong. The version that I chose is the story version, which got a narrator to tell the story of the song. This is one of my favourite songs. The direct English translation of the title is “End of the world”. This is the second song of my “end of the world” special

The lyrics of the song are about end of the world. It say that there are many theory about the end of the world, their existent are like reminding her how well she is living her life. If there isn’t much time left, what would you do. Since we can’t control our fate, we should treat every day as the end of the world, as we don’t know what will happen to us the next day. That way we at least have lived our life the way we wanted. It could be short but bright, much better than a dull life that last. What I really like about this song is the narration. The narrator start off telling us that 4 minutes and 40 seconds before the end of the world we got an email telling us that the world will end, we will leave the world that we know, what would you do in this last 4 minutes and 40 seconds. Then the narrator go on and tell us that only 2 minutes and 50 seconds left, everything that we know of will vanish, and asked what would we most yearn. Then when there is only 1 minute and 30 seconds he told us that they made an wrong calculation, the disaster is approaching right now, there is only time to make our last phone call, who would that be. In the last 18 seconds, it’s the end, but we realised it was all wrong, nothing happened, but if you have already know who you were about to call and what to say, why don’t you make the call now.

I really love the narration, it really tell us the message why we only yearn about what we got when we lost them, why don’t we value them when we still got it. Perhaps this end of the world myth is here to remind us to love one another. Hope you will enjoy the song as much as I do.

End of the world series:

20th Dec 2012 (十二月二十 – Kay Tse)
22nd Dec 2012 (十二月二十二 – Kay Tse)