A Song a day: 24th Jan 2013 (阿牛

The song that I chose for today is “阿牛” by Eason Chan. This song remind of my early university days. I remember back then I need to catch the tram to my university and it took around 1 hour. Back then Eason just left his last music company (EEG), but as he didn’t continue his contract with EEG, the company didn’t let him make any albums or new songs in the year before he left (to try to make him less noticeable and less famous). Obviously that didn’t work, as everyone end up looking forward to Eason’s next album when he changed company. “夕陽無限好” was the first song that came out after he changed company. Back then I remember I listen to it day and night, though to be honest, I really didn’t like that song that much, but just that I haven’t heard anything new from Eason for so long, I had a larger tolerance. The second song that came out was the song that I chose for today (“阿牛”). I really like this song back then (or at least I like it much more than “夕陽無限好”), I immediately replaced “夕陽無限好” with “阿牛” and loop it every day on my boring tram trip. This song was my most played song in my iTunes before I accidently reset the play count. The direct English translation of the title is “Ar Cow” (or you can say it means “Mr. Cow”). Note that in Chinese, the word “cow” could sometime use to describe people are stubborn (which is how it being use here) or hard working.

The lyrics of the song are about the protagonist have broken up with his ex-girlfriend for many years, but he still love her. Now his ex-girlfriend is getting married and invited him to her wedding. He felt extreme down, as he felt that he had lost his identity (as his boyfriend). At one point he had thought of taking her back in her wedding, but took no action. He told himself not to be sad and let go. He wishes that if one day she broke up with her husband, she would go back to him, so he don’t mind to spend the rest of his life waiting, just so that he might have a chance to be back with her. He realised that he have turn stubborn about this relationship, but he also know that he can’t turn away from her anymore. Hope you will like the song.