我看到很多人 他們也正在看著我 | I see many people, and they're looking at me right now too |
我看到很多人 他們好像心事重重 | I see many people, it looks like they've got heavy things on their minds |
我看到很多人 為秘密找一個樹洞 | I see many people, searching a hole in a tree for a secret |
我看到很多人 喔喔 | I see many people, oh |
我看到很多人 | I see many people |
我看到很多人 他們也正在看著我 | I see many people, and they're looking at me right now too |
我看到很多人 他說他傷口在發膿 | I see many people, one says his wound is leaking pus1 |
我看到很多人 還說那沒有人能懂 | I see many people, and he says that no one can understand |
我看到很多人 喔喔 | I see many people, oh |
我看到很多人 | I see many people |
沒有別的輪廓 全世界只有我 | there aren't any other silhouettes, in the whole world there's only me |
你想要說什麼 請不要說出口 | what do you want to say? please don't say anything |
彷彿自我嘲諷 才能繼續生活 | it's like I can only continue living by mocking myself |
狠狠擁抱心痛 妝點自私面孔 | holding fast to heartache, and putting make-up on my selfish face |
我是你 是你 是你 的夢 | I am you, am you, am your dream2 |
我是你 是你 是你 的 | I am you, am you, am yours |
我是你 是你 是你 的夢 | I am you, am you, am your dream |
我是你 是你 是你 的 | I am you, am you, am yours |
沒有別的輪廓 全世界只有我 | there aren't any other silhouettes, in the whole world there's only me |
你想要說什麼 請不要說出口 | what do you want to say? please don't say anything |
彷彿自我嘲諷 才能繼續生活 | it's like I can only continue living by mocking myself |
狠狠擁抱心痛 | holding fast to heartache |
歌如果寫一首 是不是就停留 | if I write a song, will it stop by? |
停留在這時候 不能偷偷跑走 | it's stopping by now, and one can't sneak off and run away |
彷彿自我嘲諷 才能繼續生活 | it's like I can only continue living by mocking myself |
狠狠擁抱心痛 妝點自私面孔 | holding fast to heartache, and making-up my selfish face |
我是你 是你 是你 的夢 | I am you, am you, am your dream |
我是你 是你 是你 的 | I am you, am you, am yours |
我是你 是你 是你 的夢 | I am you, am you, am your dream |
我是你 是你 是你 的 | I am you, am you, am yours |
你是我 是我 是我 的夢 | you are me, are me, are my dream |
你是我 是我 是我 的 | you are me, are me, are mine |
你是我 是我 是我 的夢 | you are me, are me, are my dream |
你是我 是我 是我 的 | you are me, are me, are mine |
Like I said, it works the other way around too... I've inadvertently made people grossed out by taking out a tissue and blowing my nose while eating with people. It's really hard for me to remember not to do. To me as an American, blowing one's nose discreetly into a tissue is good hygiene. In Taiwan, you might make someone lose their appetite!
2. Knowledge of two grammatical aspects of Chinese will enhance your appreciation of the chorus. The first is that Chinese uses a relationship marker de. While not entirely describing all its uses, you can think of it like the English possessive marker "'s". The second thing is that Chinese has no conjugation at all. To compare, in English it's "I am, you are, he is, etc; I am, is me, he is, is him, etc; I, my, mine, you, your, yours, etc." In Chinese, to give an idea of how it is when a language has no conjugation, it's "I is, you is, he is, they is; I is, is I, he is, is he, etc; I, I/'s, I/'s, you, you/'s, you/'s, etc."
So in this section, one might translate it character by character as "I/is/you, is/you, /is/you/'s/dream, I/is/you, is/you, is/you/'s."
So you can see that there isn't the same changing pronoun and verb forms as the English translation requires. If you invert the order of "I am you" in English, you get "you are me", in which only the word "you" is used in both sentences. But to invert it in Chinese, it's just taking "wo shi ni" and flipping it to "ni shi wo". Same exact three syllables in a different order.
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