Blue Scar
Two songs on water-related environmental crisis. Lyrics, composition and production by Morning Close, May 2023.
Withering Land
- 我从没有料到 月亮与硬币之间
- I never thought, between the moon and the sixpence
- 竟然是我们的故乡先死去
- It is our hometown that first died
- 我从没有料到 黎明与夕阳之间
- I never thought, between dawn and dusk
- 竟然是海水更快的升起
- It is our ocean that first ascend
- 那不断下落的天幕下
- Under the ever-falling sky
- 只有潮水抚摸陆地
- Only the tide, grazing the land
- 八千年的记忆揉进了长河
- Eight-thousand-year past is kneaded into a river
- 那不断变迁的天幕下
- That ever-changing, under the sky
- 那永恒的灿烂只闪烁一眼
- That eternal glittering, one blinking eye
- 那康复的希望是一种特权
- The salvaged hope, is an entitlement
- 它存在于我们夸夸其谈的唇间
- Only existing on the chattering lips
- 那破灭的承诺是一种冷漠
- The broken promise, is an indifference
- 十年之后 只有水声拍打土地
- Decades later, only waves hitting the land
- 那不断下落的天幕下
- Under the ever-falling sky
- 只有潮水抚摸陆地
- Only the tide, grazing the land
- 八千年的记忆揉进了长河
- Eight-thousand-year past is kneaded into a river
- 那不断变迁的天幕下
- That ever-changing, under the sky
- 那永恒的灿烂只闪烁一眼
- That eternal glittering, one blinking eye
Thirst in the Waves
- 我们的生命流逝 却不再感受
- Our fleeting life, feeling no longer.
- 选择了屏蔽感(双目轻盈)嘴唇不再饥渴
- Masking shield was chosen (gracefully airy eyes); lips that thirst no more
- 只想饮血
- Only craving blood
- 看月相 有一丝猖狂 它再也没有回来
- Moongazing, it's blatantly immodest. It never came back
- 它再也没有回来
- It never came back
- 向天际涌去 沙如水覆盖了泉眼
- Flocked to the horizon; sand as water, shrouded the mouth of spring
Lyrics by Yuxin Chen. English translation by Barry Wang.