1st Apr 2013 (冇腳雀仔 – Eric Kwok and at17)

The song that I chose for today is “冇腳雀仔” by Eric Kwok and at17. I didn’t notice about this song until a few days ago when I accidently clicked on it. The melody is very simple (though the lyrics are complex). When I listen to it, it give me a sense of freshness and I feel quite relax. The direct English translation of the title is “Bird without legs”.

The lyrics of the song are about life. The lyrics are quite complex and I found it hard to do a line by line translation so I will just give a brief description of the meaning. The lyrics mentioned that there is a bird, it spent all it strength to fly forward to the most glamorous place on Earth. The bird just keeping looking to the future, thinking where to go next and didn’t seems to care about where it is now. The bird start to aged, and it realised that the world that it live in started to change. It tried to remember where it been to, but it got no memory of it and no proof of where it had gone before. Now, where does the bird wanted to go? It started to realise that it misses its childhood time, but there is no way it can go back now.

I found the lyrics are very strong. It basically tried to tell us that in our life, we just keep trying to move forward, chasing after our dreams. But in the process, we seems to forget about our surrounding, we don’t seems to enjoy the world that we are living in. So one day, when we stop, we might realise that we still haven’t reached our dreams, but at the same time, we have no memory of our past, we have never enjoyed our life. By then, we might want to go back in time to enjoy our life, but it is too late, as we can never go back. Hope you will enjoy the song.

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冇腳雀仔 – Eric Kwok and at17