I've always considered myself a music lover. It doesn't mean I have good taste in music. One friend of mine once called me a 'Top40 girl'. I admit it shamelessly. I listen to basically all type of music. I am always attracted by the lyric of a song first. Some of you might call me cynical. I believe many cynical people were once very idealistic and romantic. What can possible touch a romantic person deeply as those love songs?!
"Twelfth of Never" by Johnny Mathis
Chinese say when it comes to love song, older the better. This is such an old song. Like old fashion love songs, old fashion love is rare as dinosaurs nowadays. 'Till death do us apart' has been replaced by 'Till I-don't-love-you-anymore do us apart'. Old love songs are more like poems. Opposite to some of the modern love songs, there is no guts spilling all over the floor, no anger, no fear or tears. Just soft, tender, mendering feeling called love lingers on till the end of time. Life is complicated enough. Love doesn't have to be.
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You ask how long I'll love you
I'll tell you true
Until the twelfth of never
I'll still be loving you
Until the twelfth of never
And that's a long long time ...
"I Can't Stop Loving You" by Ray Charles
Have you seen the Japanese animation movie "Metropolis"? At the very end of the movie, with the entire metro city being destroyed around him, the boy finally had to let go the hand of the robot girl. Backgrounded with all the huge sound of explosions and crashing he watched her falling, falling away in a slow motion. Suddenly this song came up. I stopped breathing for a second and then the tears rushed out. I still cannot think of a better song for that scene. There are so many movies and songs about memories. In Harrison Ford's old movie 'Bladerunner', after the robots were fed with fake memories of home, family and childhood they started to believe they were real people. What we do at this moment will become the memory of the next moment. Sometimes I feel memories is all we have. Without it we are just lost. The meaning of life that we have been looking for so hard and so long might not live in the existence of heaven or hell or afterlife. It could be just in these little pieces of memories that made us laugh and cry, that's made us who we are, that is yesterday, today and tomorrow, that shine like diamonds forever and ever. (By the way, 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' is one of my favorite movies. Check it out. It has something to do with memory too :P).
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Those happy hours that we once knew
Tho' long ago, they still make me blue
They say that time heals a broken heart
But time has stood still since we've been apart
I can't stop loving you
I've made up my mind
To live in memories of the lonesome times
I can't stop wanting you
It's useless to say
So I'll just live my life in dreams of yesterday
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"Wonderful Tonight" by Eric Clapton
Why do all the fairytales end with 'lived happily ever after"? Because after the dream wedding life goes on. It will be cooking, cleaning, bills paying, money saving, babies screaming, fighting and nerve stepping, sagging and balding, sickness and dying. Love has to survive all these day in and day out until death do so apart. As long as you keep your spirit high and expectation low it actually not as bad as it sounds like. Someday when you look back you would think it is not that bad after all. Just keep it real.
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It's time to go home now and I've got an aching head
So I give her the car keys and she helps me to bed.
And then I tell her, as I turn out the light,
I say, "My darling, you were wonderful tonight.
Oh my darling, you were wonderful tonight."
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more to come...
花枝春满,天心月圆
- It's all about me :P
- I am lazy, only manage to jog for 2 days. I am a straightforward person, therefore offending someone becomes part of every day life. I love to throw my temper around, not knowing how to control them. I am an impatient person, especially to things that do not interest me. I am confident yet feel inferior, very contradicting. I'm not motivated,always thinking of holidays. I am not an obedient person, even my mom can't change this fact. Thanks to all who love me. Hope that I will reach my definition of perfection one day and you'll still be proud of me.
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1 comment:
Hi, Vivi...
It's hard to believe that no one has left you any comments. I've been reading some of your entries and find you not only a thoughtful person, but one whose thoughts (and way of thinking) I can easily relate to. Nothing at all wrong with your English, it has a lot of fluidity and feeling.
You'll wonder, of course, how I came to be reading you. I was just tapping into various blog sites, just to see what was there, but I didn't go more deeply into any until I got to yours. Why did I even hit on it? Well, there are reasons that I'd take a look at someone named Vivi. I'll tell you if you're curious.
Anyway, I'm responding to this one on popular songs because that's a topic of particular interest to me. I'm at work on the story of the early part of my life, when I most connected with popular song. But it would be a time of 'ancient history' to you, I'm sure. My best guess is that I'm about three times as old as you.
Again, you might think it odd that I should even want to get in touch, that being so. Well, I've always had young friends, and I consider it a special gift to find one who isn't an airhead -- and you certainly aren't! Besides which, I'm in Seattle, so we are practically neighbors.
If you'd like to do some penpal exchange, my email address is: irvthom1@comcast.net
Or if you'd like to read a little more of what I'm all about, you can check my web site (as noted). Otherwise –- and in any case –– have a good year.
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