A Song a day: 29th Jul 2013 (忘

The song that I chose for today is “忘” by Denise Ho. This is one of the song from the first album that I bought by Denise, and it is also one of my favourite. The direct English translation of the title is “Forget”.

The lyrics of the song are about love. It is about the protagonist who is about to lost her memory. She was holding a photo and she wonder why their faces were so close together. She can’t remember when did it happened, she was thinking perhaps it was the day when they broke up. Before she begins to forget, she decided to use a camera to record it down. She asked him who he was. What he did was that he uses a cigarette butt to burn on her body to hope that the pain will remind her of her past. She thought maybe they weren’t happy together and so the happy moment would remind her of him, so perhaps pain will remind her who he was. But if she needs to go through the pain, she rather forget. Looking at these video, she felt that she once love this guy very deeply, but all these just felt like she is watching someone else life. She wanted to experienced again what they did before she forget everything, but now he felt like a complete stranger to her. This make her wonder why he wanted to break up with her. Doing so much together, she started to remember, but at the same time, she also remembered that she once tried so hard to forget, and today, she tried so hard to get her memory back. Hope you will like the song.

Update:

A reader request for the direct lyrics translation, so I have added it here.

“Why I got this photo? When did we meet overseas? Why I lean toward your face? Perhaps on the day that we breakup. I soon will forget everything, holding my face which I hit. Still couldn’t get you to feel the tangling of love and hate. Soon will forget about your life, I will use a camcorder to record it. But first, pleas say that you were once my special someone. Then use a cigarette butt to burn my body. Then let me remember, keeping this kind of pain make me feel very bad. So it is worth it to remember it. It is not sweet enough for me to remember you, so perhaps bitterness will remind me of you. I would rather to have this me who is about to lose my memory to be idiotic, keep feeling the pain until I die. What method will I use to meet with you again? What could be more painful than this? This video recorded that I once loved you so deeply, but it felt like it is someone else’s, so weird. While I still haven’t fully forgotten about it yet, let start from the beginning to do things that we have done in the past. The warm you now turned to be a stranger, so how could I let go. Loved me for so long, how could you decided to breakup? Come and explain it. Wong (note, the word also means yellow) is your surname, red is your love. This are all common sense. What can remind me of you? Don’t say sorry. I would rather to have this me who is about to lose my memory to be idiotic, keep feeling the pain until I die. I once strongly decided to forget, but today I worry that I couldn’t remember. So funny, as this is how I realised that I still love you deeply. If feeling is not dead, thanks to you.”