11th Jul 2013 (冬戀 – Danny Chan/The End of the World – The Carpenters)

The song that I chose for today is “冬戀” by Danny Chan. This song is the Cantonese cover of “The End of the World” by The Carpenters. The direct English translation of the title is “Winter love”.

The lyrics of the song are about love. It begins with the protagonist said that no matter how tired he is he can’t sleep at night. It felt like there was a mist locked on his eyes. He is scare that he would think about that night in winter. He remembers that in the wind, she walked away from him. Since then he always had a sad face and was stuck in loneliness. He is worry that he will fall back to that winter again. He resist to gaze at stars as he feel that the stars are laughing at him because he is holding on a dream that will not come true. He always tries to his eyes that are so tired from crying. If they are not meant to be together, then why there is full moon. He felt that he no longer be able to distinguish between cold and warm, and he felt that his breathing had stop since they last kissed. Hope you will like the song.

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7th Jul 2013 (旅程 – Danny Chan/そねぞねの秋 – Tanimura Shinji (谷村新司))

3rd Apr 2013 (幾分鐘的約會 – Danny Chan)

22nd Mar 2013 (一生何求 – Danny Chan)

13th Mar 2013 (不再問究竟 – Danny Chan)

13th Dec 2012 (漣漪 – Danny Chan)

31st Oct 2012 (喝采 – Danny Chan)

冬戀 – Danny Chan

The End of the World – The Carpenters

24th Apr 2012 (Desperado - The Carpenters/Eagles)

Today’s song is “Desperado” by The Carpenters. The original version was sung by an American band called Eagles.

My interpretation of the lyrics is that there is this person who is trying to protecting herself by not letting herself to fall in love. The singer (the person telling the story), who love this woman, is saying that she should let herself to fall in love before it is too late.

I love the tune of this song, and I like both the original and The Carpenters covered version, but I think the way The Carpenters present this song is slightly better. Anyways, I have linked both version, so you can decide yourself. Enjoy the songs for today.

Desperado – The Carpenters
(The attached video might got some problems when playing on Blogger, so here is a direct link to the YouTube video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUiph6JPO2g)

Desperado – Eagles

30th Mar 2012 (Goodbye to Love – The Carpenters)

Today’s song is “Goodbye to Love” by The Carpenters. This song is rather sad, as it talks about a person isn’t able to find love and decided that she is going to give up on searching and start preparing to live her life alone. She realised that she could be wrong that she isn’t able to find the special one, but yet she is all exhausted and tired of searching.

If you are ever in this situation, please don’t give up. I believe that everyone is born in a pair, there is always a perfect match somewhere waiting for you. So all you need to do is to find that special one. If you ever feel lonely, your family and friends are always there for you. Or you can talk to me or others by leaving comment below :) Hope you will enjoy the song.

Goodbye to Love – The Carpenters

21st Mar 2012 (Yesterday Once More - The Carpenters)

The song of the day is “Yesterday Once More” by Carpenters. This song came out in 1973.

I guess most people would know the first lines of this song “When I was young I'd listen to the radio, waitin' for my favourite songs”. Not sure how deeply people feel about this line when the song first came out (as I wasn’t born yet), but I can feel it deeply nowadays. I mean, many of us would probably download songs from the internet as it is quick and easy. There is no longer the need to wait for a song to be played by a radio host or the need to wait for the CD to come out. Playing a song that we want is just simply a few clicks away. I think it is the ease of this make us less likely to enjoy a song, and it is also this ease that make us forget the time and effort musician put in for the layout and the order of the songs in an album. I guess I am one of the odd one these day that still buy albums from a shop. I have to say mp3 really make it easy to carry many songs with us, but to really get a taste of the songs, CD is still the unbeatable way because you are getting a complete package that are custom made for the theme. By listening to the whole album, it also widens our music sense. Enough nonsense from me :p hope you will enjoy the song for today.

Yesterday Once More – The Carpenters