只为见到你

只为见到你
Just to See You

中文｜白鹤清泉 (Baihe Qingquan)

英译｜周柯楠 (Zhou Kenan)

光阴等白了头

却醉了一帘幽梦

Time keeps waiting till the hair turns grey

But it gets drunk with a curtain of dream

说好在开满莲花的地方再约

斜阳吟着临江仙憔悴不觉

We agree to make another appointment in a place full of lotus flowers

The setting sun hums the tune of Linjiangxian, pining away unconsciously

三寸月光青灯古寺

梵音千里婆娑

By the lamp in the moonlit old temple

The sound of chanting sutras whirls far away

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庄周梦一回回落在枕边

蝴蝶的翅膀上

有你羞涩的倩影

Zhuangzhou's dreams fall onto the pillow

On the wings of the butterfly

There’s your shy and elegant figure

说好的诗心不老青春不散

在发际师的剪声里

在你来的方向

我不断寻找自我

We agree that the heart of poetry never age and youth never ends

In the sound of the hairdresser's scissors

In the direction you come

I keep looking for myself

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说好的今生一起走

为了生活撕碎生活

在泪光里奔波

We agree to spend this life together

We tear up life in order to live

Running around in tears

来世还有你灿烂的痕迹吗

我在楚歌台上叩问苍天

Are there any brilliant traces of you in the afterlife

I ask the sky on the Chuge platform

来世你可否依旧

还是我的山河

Can you ,in the afterlife

Still be my territory

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若能向天再借五百年

来世甘愿变牛变马变骆驼

Could I borrow another 500 years from heaven

I would become a cow, a horse or a camel in the afterlife

重整河山归来

江南依旧少年

I will reorganize the rivers and mountains

And come back to the south of the River as a youth

我的胸前

是你温馨的归途

细看风摇着草

草结着籽儿

My chest is your way home

Pleasant and sweet

Taking a closer look at the wind shaking the grass

The grass bears seeds