26th Jan 2013 (One more time – Ronald Cheng/One more time, One more chance – Yamazaki Masayoshi 山崎將義)

The song that I chose for today is “One more time” by Ronald Cheng. This is one of my favourite songs by Ronald. This song came out many many years ago, but to be honest I only notice about this song a few years ago when I wanted a Japanese animation call “5 Centimeters Per Second” (Byousoku 5 Centimeter) by Makoto Shinkai. It is an amazing animation, the best part is the last part, at which Makoto uses an old Japanese song for ending, it is very touching. This Japanese song is the original version of “One more time”, and it was because of that song I found out that Ronald sung the Chinese cover version. The Japanese version is very amazing, although I don't understand a single word but Yamazaki (The singer of the original version is Yamazaki Masayoshi 山崎將義) somehow manage to get the feeling across.

The lyrics of the song are about the protagonist can’t let go of the feeling that he has for his ex-girlfriend. The song didn’t tell us why they broke up. At the beginning, we found out that they have broken up for a few years. While they are still living in the same city, they have never met each other in these years. He still feels warm when he thinks of her, but he also remembers her sadness. He follows a road that they used to take, and he remembers that they used to be very sweet even though they didn’t have much to talk about. Back then, they were naïve, they didn’t think about their future much as love has taken them over. He asked himself how many time in our life we would have the chance to fall in love with our ex-girlfriend, now that he is deeply hurt, he can’t just wipe his tears and found another person to fall in love. Though he still wishes that she can forget about their past and start again, even though he knows the chances are slim. Hope you will like the song.

Someone seems to have replaced the original from “5 Centimeters Per Second” and combined it with Ronald’s version. So I have linked to that version along with the original, enjoy. (By the way the original is call “One more time, One more chance” by Yamazaki Masayoshi 山崎將義, the lyrics are pretty much about the same story. As someone has translated the lyrics to English in YouTube, I would talk about it much here.)

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One more time – Ronald Cheng

One more time, One more chance – Yamazaki Masayoshi 山崎將義

Below is the "5 Centimeters Per Second" version of "One more time, One more chance". Personally I think this is the best match between the visual and audio.