The
song that I chose for today is “落葉歸根” by Leehom Wang. I went to Leehom’s
concert tonight. I don’t really listen to his songs often but I went to his
concert as someone gave me a ticket for free. I wasn’t his fans, but I guess
now I am. He is so talented, played piano, guitar, violin and a Chinese
instrument call erhu (二胡). The night was enjoyable. In the
concert I heard the song “落葉歸根” and I love it, so I thought I
will talk about it tonight. I am not quite sure how to translate the title into
English, the best that I can come up with is “falling leaf returning to root”.
It is a phase used in Chinese to describe people who live away from home are
returning.
The
lyrics of the song are about the protagonist returning home. It start off
telling us that the protagonist work very hard, day and night he work just so
that he can get enough money to feed his family. One day he packed all the
money that he got and decided to return to his home town to meet his family.
When he got back home, he found that his wife have passed away. So all of a sudden
he felt that everything that he has done is for nothing. He originally wishes
that they could finally have some good time together, but now everything is too
late. Hope you will enjoy the song.
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