A Song a day: 18th Nov 2013 (薩拉熱窩的羅密歐與茱麗葉 – Sammi Cheng/With

The song that I chose for today is “薩拉熱窩的羅密歐與茱麗葉” by Sammi Cheng. This song is from the same album that yesterday’s song (熱愛島) comes from. This song was very popular, but similar to yesterday’s song, in recent years people seems to have forgotten this song. The direct English translation of the title is “Romeo and Juliet in Sarajevo” (note that this title is also used for a documentary, and the lyrics of the song are based on the story). This is a very touching song. Also note that this song is the Chinese cover version of a Japanese song “With” by Nakajima Miyuki 中島美雪.

As mentioned above, the lyrics are about the story of the documentary “Romeo and Juliet in Sarajevo”. At the beginning of the lyrics, it tells us that there is a young couple. They have bright eyes, it feels like that they are warm and always sunny. Their laughter is peaceful. The male is young and tall and the female is cute. They promise each other that they will always be together, even when war was around. Even though each of them has a different region and in this chaotic world war seems to pull the different race apart, the two of them never change, they stay together, share their dreams and sing this song. Love, we can rely on each other no matter whether the time is sweet or bitter. Love, there are no distinction between different region and never involve the fight between different nation. Rather to spent the rest of my love in love with you and rely on love. Regardless there is good or bad time, we will rely on each other. There is no distinction in region in love, we will not be afraid of guns and cannons. Anything happened, we will spent our life together, life or dead. But the war had locked us in the city and covered the stars and moon. There are no sunlight, we can only rely on each other and run until we see the sun again. But sadly, this couple was shot in the war, before she passed away she was carrying him to find their sun. They were a good pair of young couple, but one day both of them fall to the ground. They leave this chaotic world and contradiction, I felt that I could hear the wind are singing this song. Hope you will like the song.