25th Nov 2014 (高山低谷 – Phil Lam)

The song for today is “高山低谷” by Phil Lam (林奕匡). While he started his music career from 2010, I didn’t really noticed him as he produce album at a rather slow pace and that the time when he start his career, the company he is in (Sony music) was having some copyright argument with TVB (generally considered as the biggest TV station in Hong Kong). This song though catches my ear. For some reason, when I listen to this song it reminded me of “心寒” by Patrick Tang and Ronald Cheng, which is a song that I often listen to (oddly enough, after running this blog for a few years now and I still haven’t talked about it, will probably do it soon). The direct English translation of the title is “High mountain, low valley”.

The lyrics of the song are about love, it talks about the protagonist trying to get close of the distance between him and the girl that he likes, but he felt that no matter what he does, they will never get closer. It said, in the forest, he felt that as if he is out of oxygen. During sunset, he is lonely and he felt that he doesn’t have the right to see her. He knows early on that the high mountain and the low valley separated them, lacking human warmth. Her royalty game, his street travel journey; he think that he was too naïve to believe that true love. She happily lives her life, while he works very hard to live. How many people are at the peak of the mountain gazing at him being tired? He just hopes to be accepted, not scare to work hard. But the finish line is at the edge of the world. While she defined her living, he looked down at his life, so he is only suited to stay in the valley to sort himself up. He wishes that there would be a good ending, but the distance is hard to be shortened. He hasn’t seen the finish line and hasn’t found grace, so there is a large distance between him and her. The more he hope, the more he felt hopeless, there isn’t him in her future. So let’s end this at the cliff as he never had happiness. He felt that after the sky turn dark and brighten again, someone will say goodbye and someone will fall off. No matter how much he tells people about his situation, she wouldn’t comfort him. She distinguish it too clearly, too harsh. He still needs to live, so he quietly stay in the mountain and the valley until he die. She keeps going her way and he keeps hiding his love. There is no finish line, never will have a finish line. That is very far away. Hope you will enjoy the song.

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高山低谷 – Phil Lam