A Song a day

29th Aug 2014 (活得比你好 – Amanda Lee)

偏偏 – Amanda Lee

Wednesday, April 13, 2016

13th Apr 2016 (銷魂 – Amanda Lee)

The song for today is “銷魂” by Amanda Lee. I personally quite like Amanda Lee. Probably not many people remember, back in the 90’s Amanda and Sammi were direct competitor, fighting for the crown for the Queen of Canton Pop. At the end, Sammi become more popular and Amanda slowly faded away. At some point she damaged her vocal cords, so her voice is much much deeper and unclear comparing to her 90’s voice. But anyhow, she is still a very good singer. This song was released around 2 years ago. The closest English translation of the title is “Ecstasy”.

The lyrics of the song are about love. The protagonist said: “Allow me to be sleep worry free tonight. As love made me tired. Buried into the ground to sleep worried free, not to think of who I should revenge. Allow me to be sleep worry free tonight, as all my tears have dried up. Never intended to planned again, just waiting for the day when the thunder arrive. The sins that was attracted when I fallen in love with you, it is like I will never be forgiven. Just let this heart slowly aged, never chase it back when it leaves. Why life carried so many hate. Hatred is blocking my future. Rather put down the knife and get rid of the old people, and never bother with the things happening again. Rather buried all the anger when they are fresh; reborn and get back on track again. From now on, pretend that I was dead since yesterday. Smile when I go to the funeral. Allow me to be sleep worry free tonight, as this life is rather tired. The type that couldn’t let go when it ended, the good ending never followed. The sins that was attracted when I fallen in love with you, it is like I will never be forgiven. Just let this heart slowly aged, never chase after it when I reincarnated. Why life carried so many hate. Hatred is blocking my future. Rather put down the knife and get rid of the old people, use the courage to calm down the broken heart. The things that got buried are only the unlucky things. Tomorrow, I will be back on track. From then, I will sing that I have been dead yesterday. I have already been to the funeral of the nightmare, rub away the footprint from the past.” Hope you will like this song.

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5th Jun 2016 (偏偏 – Amanda Lee)

16th Jan 2014 (囍宴 – Amanda Lee)

16th Jan 2014 (囍宴 – Amanda Lee)

銷魂 – Amanda Lee

Friday, August 29, 2014

29th Aug 2014 (活得比你好 – Amanda Lee)

The song for today is “活得比你好” by Amanda Lee. From memory this song was quite famous back at the time when it was released. The direct English translation of the title is “Live better than you”.

The lyrics of the song area bout love. The protagonist said “Since that year, when you left me, made me underestimated myself, lowered my self-esteem. It was that year, I let myself go, destroy my body for you, destroy my soul. Fallen to the darken point, I suddenly understand, I wasted my life but I haven’t made you care about me. I must cheer up tomorrow and pretend that this relationship never happened. Then after that, I will live better than you a bit. So that when you see me again today, you would realised that leaving me behind that day is your lost. Only a few years had passed, the me in front of you is living better than you”. Hope you will like the song.

活得比你好 – Amanda Lee

Thursday, January 16, 2014

16th Jan 2014 (囍宴 – Amanda Lee)

The song that I chose for today is “囍宴” by Amanda Lee. The direct English translation of the title is “Wedding banquet”

The lyrics of the song are about the protagonist feeling sad when she attends her friend’s wedding banquet. The protagonist said that all the guests that were invited as a family have already arrived, but she is going to the banquet alone. Someone asked why she is alone and she doesn’t want to answer. Her friend told her that a wedding banquet has been arranged and she must go to celebrate. She knows that the bride in the next wedding wouldn’t be her. She wanted to avoid these situations, so she sits at the furthest corner. She is scare of being alone, but the happy feeling, she doesn’t have that much. Others told her that attending more wedding would help her, but now at the end of the banquet, she is still along. Others have all found their special someone, but there is always an empty spot next to her. Other’s wedding banquets, so sweet that it turns bitter and sour; it also remind her of the dream that she put away for many years. Attending this wedding banquet make her realised what she lack. Why there is so little time and considered too much. Perhaps her spring had passed and didn’t wait for her. Other’s wedding banquet, guesses could you please behave yourself, there is no need to be so happy that tears coming out from your eyes. Hope you will like the song.

14th Aug 2013 (秘密 – Amanda Lee)
27th Jun 2013 (藍色傘下等 – Amanda Lee)

囍宴 – Amanda Lee

Sunday, September 8, 2013

8th Sep 2013 (我為我生存 – Amanda Lee)

The song that I chose for today is “我為我生存” by Amanda Lee. I really like Amanda’s songs. It is a pity that her voice had changed so much these days. This is one of Amanda’s more famous songs. The direct English translation of the title is “I live for myself”.

The lyrics of the song are about a couple, while it didn’t say explicitly, I am guessing that the protagonist’s boyfriend passed away. She told him that he doesn’t need to worry about her, please don’t wait for her or wish that they would meet again. Getting rid of this love, the world hasn’t change a single bit. She feels that she cans finally life for herself and face all challenges that will come. She will be able to find her self-esteem back. Hope you will like the song.

我為我生存 – Amanda Lee

Thursday, August 15, 2013

14th Aug 2013 (秘密 – Amanda Lee)

The song that I chose for today is “秘密” by Amanda Lee. I really like Amanda’s songs, but these days her voice had changed so much and hardly make any new songs. The direct English translation of the title is “Secret”.

Personally I don’t quite understand the lyrics, but I think it is about one night stand. The protagonist had sex with a male, but then she realised that he is not the guy that she love. She tried to hide the emotion, so that the guy would not know about the truth. Hope you will like the song.

秘密 – Amanda Lee

Friday, June 28, 2013

27th Jun 2013 (藍色傘下等 – Amanda Lee)

I have been very busy yesterday and didn’t manage to post a song. So this post is for yesterday. The song that I chose for yesterday is “藍色傘下等” by Amanda Lee. Personally I quite like Amanda, but these days her voice is broken and become very deep. The direct English translation of the title is “Waiting under the blue umbrella”.

The lyrics of the song are about love. The protagonist is looking out of the window with her boyfriend and they were very happy. She remember that year when she looked into his eyes, they felt embarrassed. She remembered that he used to wait for her under the blue umbrella. She is grateful that they are still together. Hope you will like the song.

藍色傘下等 – Amanda Lee

Sunday, March 10, 2013

9th Mar 2013 (橫濱別戀 – Amanda Lee)

The song that I chose for today is “橫濱別戀” by Amanda Lee. This song is one of my favourite and it was from 1995. Back then Amanda was very popular. Sadly these days Amanda hardly sing, I think part of the reason is that her voice is broken now, her voice is a lot deeper than it was and it sounds a bit murky as well. Anyway, this is was from her golden era so she sounds perfect in it. The direct English translation of the song is “Goodbye my love in Yokohama”.

The lyrics of the song are about trying to move on. The song started by the protagonist going into a café that was playing some sad music. She meets this guy there and listens to him talking about his life. He likes to wait, waiting for his love one to respond to him, but love one never did reply. He remembers it was autumn in Yokohama, he kisses his girlfriend before she left. A few days later, he hears that she didn’t make it through the storm during her travel. He remembered that the yellow street light in Yokohama, they used to hug and kissed on the bridge. He is looking over this bridge every night hoping that she would come back, but no miracle occurred. Now he is living alone in already familiarised Tokyo, living a normal life. Ever since she left, he kept quiet and isolated himself from others. It is rather a sad song, but I hope you will enjoy it.

橫濱別戀 – Amanda Lee

Saturday, January 5, 2013

4th Jan 2013 (伴你高飛 – Amanda Lee)

The song that I chose for today is “伴你高飛” by Amanda Lee. This song is quite old, it came out in 1997. The direct English translation of the title is “accompany you to fly high”.

The lyrics of the song are about love. The lyrics said that the protagonist love her boyfriend very much, she would like to go anywhere with him regardless where they are traveling to. She said that she love him even more than she love herself. Hope you will like the song.

伴你高飛 – Amanda Lee

Wednesday, December 12, 2012

11th Dec 2012 (遲婚的女人 – Amanda Lee)

The song that I chose for today is “遲婚的女人” by Amanda Lee. This song was very popular back in 1997. The direct English translation of the title is “Late married woman”

The lyrics of the song describe the feeling of modern woman. It talks about how woman have been seen as an attachment of man, how they are of lesser important. It says that man don’t want to get marry because they can have more time to choose. The protagonist then go on and say that it is fine with her, as she can also have fun as well. Hope you will like the song.

遲婚的女人 – Amanda Lee

Thursday, August 9, 2012

9th Aug 2012 (公主復仇記 – Amanda Lee)

The song that I chose for today is “公主復仇記” by Amanda Lee. I like Amanda’s songs and this one is one of my favourites. The direct English translation of the title is “Revenge of the princess”. This song is quite old, from memory, it was from the mid to late 90’s.

Back then I have no clue what the lyrics was about, all I like about this song was the fast tempo and the beats, it got me quite excited just by listening to this song. Now when I look back at the lyrics I finally understand what this song tried to say. This song is actually about a girl wanted to be single. She think about the time she had with her boyfriend, and she wonder why she has to tread him like a prince. She has enough now, and so she decided to break up with him to get her freedom back. Hope you will like this song.