Monday, March 2, 2015

2nd Mar 2015 (閉目入神 – Ronald Cheng/瞳をとじて – Ken Hirai (平井堅)/BENI (安良城紅))

The song for today is “閉目入神” by Ronald Cheng. This is one of my favourite song, I often listen to it. It is the Cantonese cover version of the Japanese song “瞳をとじて” by Ken Hirai (平井堅). This song was the theme song for movie version of a very popular Japanese drama “在世界中心呼喚愛” (note the movie got the same name as the TV drama). A side note, there exist an English version of this song covered by BENI (安良城紅, a Japanese singer). I recently love to listen to BENI’s covered songs, so far she got 3 covered albums (“Covers”, “Covers: 2” and “Covers: 3”), all of them are of classic Japanese songs (many of these songs got Chinese cover version as well) and she fill them in with English lyrics. Most of all she is a mixed, so she got no accents that distract you from the songs, so I really like her covered version :D Ah, got so off tracked, back to Ronald’s version, the direct English translation of the title is “Close your eyes and meditate”

The lyrics of the song are about love. It said, close your eyes and meditate, the image start to shake. The white bed sheet covered up hopeless and it is full of light. Too attracted, which direction am I standing? I wish that I could hug you and sweat again, it would calm me down. I once saw that the world is full of gardens. It makes the sky warm, but no matter how beautiful they are, they will be worn down. If you have chosen a season, then changes is inevitable. No point to continue, just follow the record, resisting the pain to reconnect with you again. Your love forever, close my eyes and look up to the sky; close my eyes and follow again. The body that I chase after suddenly disappeared. I am worry that the happiness from the past will disappeared, so I tried to describe the feeling from that day. So perhaps it is worth it to lose my memory?  Oh, your love forever. Close my eyes and saw you disappeared. Turing my back on you and there is me crying. The moment that I lean onto the curtain, I felt the world disappeared, and I couldn’t describe the problem. There is only myself in my memory. Close my eyes and look up to the sky; close my eyes and follow again. The body that I chase after suddenly disappeared. I felt the world disappeared, and I tried to repaint the image from the past. It is worth it even if I cried badly. I followed my memories to kiss you.

I have also linked to the original and BENI’s version for you to listen, hope you will like the song.

27th Sep 2013 (戒情人 – Ronald Cheng)

閉目入神 – Ronald Cheng


瞳をとじて – Ken Hirai (平井堅)


瞳をとじて – BENI (安良城紅)

1 comment:

  1. Hi Sunny.

    Can you do a post for this song?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gzw6xs9PZI4

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