1988

大地 The Great Earth

Beyond

Back with his father after years in a far-off place, a son finds he has no words, while the land itself stays unchanged and divided. Read as an allegory of Chinese families split across the Taiwan Strait, it was a 1988 Jade Solid Gold Top 10 song.

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joi在na那se些chong蒼cheui翠dik的lou路seung上On those lush green roads,

lik歷pin遍liu了do多siu少chong創seung傷how many wounds have been suffered.

joi在na那jeung張chong蒼lou老dik的min面seung上On that old, weathered face,

yik亦gei記joi載liu了fung風seung霜the wind and frost are written too.

chau秋fung風chau秋yu雨dik的dou度yat日Getting through the days in autumn wind and autumn rain:

si是ching青cheun春siu少nin年si時that was my youth.

bik迫bat不dak得yi已dik的wa話bit別A farewell we had no choice in,

mut沒syut說joi再gin見with no goodbye said.

wui回mong望jok昨yat日joi在yi異heung鄉na那mun門chin前Looking back on yesterday, at that doorway in a far-off land,

hei唏heui噓dik的gam感koi慨yat一nin年nin年sighing with regret year after year.

daan但yat日lok落yat日cheut出wing永mut沒bin變chin遷But sunset and sunrise never change.

je這hak刻joi在mong望jeuk著fu父chan親siu笑yung容si時Now, as I look at my father's smile,

ging竟bat不ji知bat不gok覺dik的mou無yin言I find myself, without knowing it, lost for words,

yeung讓yat日lok落mou暮sik色sam滲mun滿leui淚ngaan眼and let the dusk of sunset fill my tearful eyes.

joi在na那se些hoi開fong放dik的lou路seung上On those open roads,

daap踏seui碎gwo過do多siu少lei理seung想how many ideals have been trampled to pieces.

joi在na那jeung張gou高gwa掛dik的min面seung上On that face hung up high,

bei被yan引jing證liu了gei幾do多how much has it been made to prove?

chin千chau秋bat不bin變dik的yat日yut月The sun and moon, unchanged for a thousand autumns,

joi在seung相sik識leui裡gung共chyun存go on sharing the same sky, long familiar to all.

gu姑sik息fan分got割dik的daai大dei地The great land, its division let stand,

waak劃liu了gaai界sin線has had a border drawn across it.

wui回mong望jok昨yat日joi在yi異heung鄉na那mun門chin前Looking back on yesterday, at that doorway in a far-off land,

hei唏heui噓dik的gam感koi慨yat一nin年nin年sighing with regret year after year.

daan但yat日lok落yat日cheut出wing永mut沒bin變chin遷But sunset and sunrise never change.

je這hak刻joi在mong望jeuk著fu父chan親siu笑yung容si時Now, as I look at my father's smile,

ging竟bat不ji知bat不gok覺dik的mou無yin言I find myself, without knowing it, lost for words,

yeung讓yat日lok落mou暮sik色sam滲mun滿leui淚ngaan眼and let the dusk of sunset fill my tearful eyes.

wui回mong望jok昨yat日joi在yi異heung鄉na那mun門chin前Looking back on yesterday, at that doorway in a far-off land,

hei唏heui噓dik的gam感koi慨yat一nin年nin年sighing with regret year after year.

daan但yat日lok落yat日cheut出wing永mut沒bin變chin遷But sunset and sunrise never change.

je這hak刻joi在mong望jeuk著fu父chan親siu笑yung容si時Now, as I look at my father's smile,

ging竟bat不ji知bat不gok覺dik的mou無yin言I find myself, without knowing it, lost for words,

yeung讓yat日lok落mou暮sik色sam滲mun滿leui淚ngaan眼and let the dusk of sunset fill my tearful eyes.

wui回mong望jok昨yat日joi在yi異heung鄉na那mun門chin前Looking back on yesterday, at that doorway in a far-off land,

hei唏heui噓dik的gam感koi慨yat一nin年nin年sighing with regret year after year.

daan但yat日lok落yat日cheut出wing永mut沒bin變chin遷But sunset and sunrise never change.

je這hak刻joi在mong望jeuk著fu父chan親siu笑yung容si時Now, as I look at my father's smile,

ging竟bat不ji知bat不gok覺dik的mou無yin言I find myself, without knowing it, lost for words,

yeung讓yat日lok落mou暮sik色sam滲mun滿leui淚ngaan眼and let the dusk of sunset fill my tearful eyes.

Timed to Beyond · 秘密警察 (1988) · 4:21. Another version? Tap the line being sung whenever it drifts.

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