A Song a day: 4th Jan 2015 (摩登時代

Sunday, January 4, 2015

The song for today is “摩登時代” by Joey Yung. This song was from 2006. The English translation of the title is “Modern Time”, purposely to coincide with the name of a file that Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin stared in.

The lyrics of the song are about the interaction of a couple in a relationship. It said, who is dare to say how many audience are in the theatre to watch this, this spontaneous confronting silence act. Every section, trying to keep quite while hating the opponent. If it get bored, then stop dragging it on. No need to say, she knows that her act is much more quite than Charles Chaplin. Tried to disappeared, living separately in the city would be much happy. It obviously has ended but why hasn’t the curtain lowered yet. She can only blame that she is too strong, she tried to let it go, but she couldn’t. When they meet up, she didn’t even complain a single bit, so quite that he could easily get away with it. Too much movement, her nerves starting to hurt when she isn’t as forgetful as he is. She can hold it up, and act, but what’s the purpose? Not saying anything will in return get a lot of anger and movement. They have said breakup too many times to a point that this line no longer involve emotion. Even to the end, she still doesn’t need him to apologise. So let’s breakup, this line, they acted perfectly. When the sky got dark, they don’t have much to say to each other. They tried to last until the morning, and lucky that there was two silence movies were on at the same time, but sadly this one is so boring. Hope you will like the song.