A friend recently introduced me to an old but beautiful Mongolian folk song. I don’t speak Mongolian, so she sent me the Cantonese cover for it. It’s called 喜欢你 Loving You. The Chinese dialect of Cantonese is my first language. So this version in my mother tongue made it extra special for me. I took the liberty of translating it to English so that all my readers could enjoy it too. I hope you like it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-1yBDS_C04&index=1&list=PLAPgzKx8ortJsNUwYAkwIozou1qoDPXKc
(As an added incentive to click and watch that video, the singer，G.E.M.，is very cute.)
喜欢你
Loving You
细雨带风湿透黄昏的街道
While the evening drizzle is busy dancing with the wind on the streets
抹去雨水双眼无故地仰望
I wipe off the rain, only to see the vast vainness above my feet
望向孤单的晚灯是那伤感的记忆
Yes, that lonely light — my memory, my misery
再次泛起心里无数的思念
It brings back lots of history
以往片刻欢笑仍挂在脸上
I see your winsome face, like distant art
愿你此刻可会知是我衷心的说声
Now my love, do you see the truth in my heart?
喜欢你那双眼动人笑声更迷人
I love you, your alluring eyes, your radiant smiles
愿再可轻抚你那可爱面容
Can I touch your pretty face again?
挽手说梦话像昨天你共我
Can we talk dreams, you and I, hand in hand, like happy old clams?
满带理想的我曾经多冲动
Emotional like a true man, stubborn like an arctic stone
屡怨与她相爱难有自由
I wanted to love you and at the same time be left alone
愿你此刻可会知是我衷心的说声
I was wrong, my love
Do you now see the truth in my heart?
喜欢你那双眼动人笑声更迷人
I love you, your alluring eyes, your radiant smiles
愿再可轻抚你那可爱面容
Can I touch your pretty face again?
挽手说梦话像昨天你共我
Can we talk dreams, you and I, hand in hand, like happy old clams?
每晚夜里自我独行随处荡多冰冷
I wander around in the shivering cold night, following you in my mind’s eye
已往为了自我挣扎
I wanted to make it on my own, to become somebody
从不知她的痛苦
I didn’t care about your feelings, your pains, and I devolved into a noddy
喜欢你那双眼动人笑声更迷人
I love you, your alluring eyes, your radiant smiles
愿再可轻抚你那可爱面容
Can I touch your pretty face again?
挽手说梦话像昨天你共我
Can we talk dreams, you and I, hand in hand
Like a pair of ocean clams*?
Loving you, loving you….
* Clams were not part of the original lyrics. I put them in for idiomatic fun for the Englophones.
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