A Song a day: 10th Jan 2014 (木紋

Friday, January 10, 2014

10th Jan 2014 (木紋 – Denise Ho)

The song that I chose for today is “木紋” by Denise Ho. This is one of my favourite song, I used to loop this song for the whole day. The direct English translation of the title is “Wood grain”.

The lyrics of the song are about love. The protagonist said she if a person cut down a dead tree, the wood wouldn’t feel the pain, but she, who water the tree every day, would feel empty. If a relationship have to end, it is hard to pretend that it never happened. So let her count the years, and these years, she felt pain. That relationship was beautiful, and the memories have already engraved to a hundred years long letter. In the letter, they hold hands and their love was deep, the ending that they got is not caused by a wrong start. It is easy to be separated, but hard to wipe their past as they have many candle dinners. It is hard to use an axe to cut it and turn the memories to ash. She doesn’t have a partner now, but there are still memories, they gazed at the star together. These memories was just like it happened yesterday, they have been recorded. But now, the tree had fallen, she is by herself; it is impossible to destroy the record and it will not disappeared. They are finished now, but human is not like plants, so it is difficult to forget. If he engrave a wooden heart for her, it wouldn’t reduce her pain. She rather to forget everything they have done together when they are done and burn it to ashes, but when she tried she already started to cry. There are a hundred nights between breaking up and being calms, and she is worry about that night when she can’t control herself and looked back for 1 second, all the memories will spread. There are a hundred nights between breaking up and being calm, she is worry that the night before her wedding, she looked back and bring she some sadness. Hope you will like the song.