A Song a day: 20th Oct 2013 (起跑

Sunday, October 20, 2013

20th Oct 2013 (起跑 – Shiga Lin)

The song that I chose for today is “起跑” by Shiga Lin. This song came out last year. If you have been listening to Singa’s songs, you would have notice that her song somewhat connected, they tell a love story and each songs dedicated to a different stage of a relationship. This ‘story’ was summed up quite well by her last album “Moving on”. The story goes from a girl wishing to fall in love (“讓我享受談戀愛”), to after breaking up she still wishes that they could be together (“I’m still loving you”), then to the next song (“到此為止”) which is about her ex-boyfriend have moved on, but she still think about their past. After that in the second last song (“好好過”) she tried to move on as she knows that she can’t be like that for the rest of her life. And finally to this song (“起跑”), she can finally move on. The direct English translation of the title is “Start running”, which give the sense that she is finally ready to start a new relationship.

The lyrics are of cause about love and continue on the story. At the beginning, she told herself that the past have past, but why she is still torturing herself. The past have past, but why her brain is still thinking about the past and hurt herself. So let’s stop wasting time, as she realised that she can jump out of the box. Start running has made her to pull herself away, she finally understands that she doesn’t need to fix all the things; she could just leave it aside even though when she is out of breath. There are many kilometers in life, when she have reach the end she wouldn’t remember him. After she decided to restart her life, she tried to do something new every day. She tried to take control of her life once more and escape all the troubles in life. Every day and night, no matter it was a hot day or rainy day, up in the mountain or near the cost, she will be there. When she sweet, she escape the pain, and without knowing it, running have made her feel better. Running let her escape. Sometime she is out of breath, but she finally makes a break through. This is magical, and she can run for a few more kilometers. She keep running to another day, her body is already escaped, her legs had jumped over the memories and she had got over her ex. She is sired and she understands that there are unlimited kilometers in her life. She finally feels that she doesn’t need to remember. Everything fades away. Hope you like the ending of this story.