A Song a day: 4th Mar 2015 (禁色 – Tat Ming Pair/Denise Ho)

The song for today is “禁色” by Tat Ming Pair. This song was released in 1988. This song was covered by Denise Ho in 2005. The direct English translation of the title is “Forbidden colour” (though I think it is better to translate as “Forbidden love”). Although the lyrics doesn’t spell it out clearly, but the song is about same sex relationship (or more broadly, a type of love relationship that is not accepted by the general public). Just a side note, the key singer in Tat Ming Pair, Anthony Wong and Denise Ho are both singers that have publicly come out and admit that they are homosexual.

The lyrics of the song, as mentioned before, are about forbidden love. The protagonist said: “The rain on the window is trying so hard to distract us from sleeping, and once again it make the messy hair pile wet. No need to be scared, you are crying because you are frightened. Don’t worry, as love is innocent. Please close the window, place your dreams in the future and let me hold your hand again. No need to run away. Although the public view is ridiculous, but for you, I am willing to take it. Wish that there is some place on Earth that wouldn’t harm love, wiping the colour in our heart. Wish that someday, we don’t need to hold up with the pain, and let this forbidden colour dye outside our soul. A thousand types of pain, all formed within the nightmare, wish that I will not change even until I die. The clock stopped, I waited quietly, the scary rainy sound is outside the door. If this place has to harm love, killing the colours in our heart, then let me disappeared in the storm outside, I would be able to reborn in some dreamy world.” Hope you will like the song. I have also linked to Denise version for comparison.

Other Tat Ming Pair related posts:
21st Jan 2017 (每日一禁果 – Tat Ming Pair)
14th Jan 2017 (今夜星光燦爛 – Tat Ming Pair)
8th Mar 2015 (馬路天使 – Tat Ming Pair)

27th Jan 2015 (你還愛我嗎 – Tat Ming Pair (with Beyond as backing vocalist))

1st Oct 2014 (講野 – Tat Ming Pair)

20th Aug 2014 (石頭記 – Tat Ming Pair)

7th Feb 2014 (玫瑰園 –劉以達與夢 (Tats Lau with Dream))

25th Aug 2013 (排名不分先後左右忠奸(無大無細超) – Tat Ming Pair)

21st Feb 2013 (十個救火的少年 – Tat Ming Pair)