A Song a day: 28th Jan 2013 (明目張膽

The song that I chose for today is “明目張膽” by Denis Ho. This song was rather old, I remember it was in the second Denis’s album that I bought, which came out 1 to 2 months after the death of her teacher Anita Mui. From the album you can feel Denis sorrow as there were songs in the album that dedicated to Anita (7th May 2012 (如無意外 – Denise Ho/孤身走我路 – Anita Mui) ). Anyways, I don’t think this song that I chose today have anything to do with Anita. The direct English translation of the title is “Flagrant”.

The lyrics of the song describe a forbidden love. To certain degree, I believe Wyman (the person who wrote the lyrics of this song) wrote this especially for Denis (Denis had recently admit that she is a lesbian). The song start of telling us that the protagonist have to wait to the night just so that she can collect an item of her love one without being found out. She told us that if she wanted to spend the rest of her live with her lover, then she will have to take a few steps back and relay on her own imagination. She is worry that if one day she publically admits about her love, her lover will be shock. So she minimise her love toward her lover so that as if it doesn’t exist. She realised that it is rather stupid to love a person in the way that she does, but she said that she should have the right to choose her own way of loving, even this way will not lead her to anywhere. Hope you will like the song.