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Pomposity
If someone asked me, I be willing to tell,
but no one came.
I've expected to know not with words to tell,
but got no loaded.
My mood is just like a bottle cover waiting for an open,
the mouth however is incubating mosses.1
In milling crowd more gentle to be, more ignored one will be;
he needs to make an accident on his own.
Like suddenly, lifting and to sing,
anyplace is concurrently like holding a 4-sides stage.2
Wearing the shiniest shirt and pretend to be very regretful;
if someone will take a picture, remember to shove your hands in the pocket.
You can regard me as "pomposity".
Exaggerating is only because I am fearful.
Wooden and stone-like words,
can they get noticed?
Actually I'm afraid of being forgotten,
so to magnify it to perform it.
Very unnerved and how can I be elegant?
Does this world still praise the silence?
Not explosive enough?
How might there be a topic and let me boast it?
To be a great entertainer.
That year when 18, at alma-mater's prom,
I stood still like a lackey.
At that time I kept my tears to swear that,
everybody's gonna have to see me.3
In the world there are too many ordinary and common roads,
which address do you live at?4
In the romance, in the work, have yielded to too much overlook,
the pride has fully received fallen.
Respects are able to treat the hunger in stomach.
If not ever acquired then you would know my reason why,
I had so many big actions, and made these mistakes,
to strive for people to see whether I count in morbidity.
You can regard me as "pomposity".
Exaggerating is only because I am fearful.
Wooden and stone-like words,
can they get noticed?
Actually I'm afraid of being forgotten,
so to magnify it to perform it.
Very unnerved and how can I be elegant?
Does this world still praise the silence?
Not explosive enough?
How might there be a topic and let me boast it?
To be a great entertainer.
Lucky dogs are not that much.
Assuming that you had never been then you would know my reason why,
I took dozens of pains, to be the peculiar one,
do normal people have such talkable things as me?
You can call me as "pomposity",
add some boos and It's fine.
If I am on the stage with dull atmosphere,
will my performance get your watch?
Is it hysterical enough?
Just water the flower with tears.
Only wish you be surprised.
Did I seem to have never existed before?
Lay more weights on it.
The blue veins even stand out too.
Please tell me to know, do I exist now?
Gaze at me, stop just looking at the ceiling.
I'm not your cup of tea, you can still drink it with abandon.
Don't forget that there's someone screaming for you.
- 1. incubating mosses (養青苔): a chinese slang, if someone has some drink (especially alcoholic) not yet drunk up in his cup or bottle, we say that he is "incubating (養)" (something). so "incubating mosses (養青苔)" may mean that the "alcohol" in the author's mouth was kind of stuck too long
- 2. "4-sides stage (四面台)": if a stage of a theater is in the center of the theater, and the audiences are around the stage's 4 sides, people will call it "四面台" (that means "4-sides stage", compared to "三面台 (3-sides stage)" ).
- 3. "必須": if two persons are fighting together, they describe a thing that will definitely happen by speaking "必", and here it conveyed the author's personal emotion about his experience.
- 4. "屋邨": houses, and villages, with a large scale, to indicate the author's dissatisfaction with his own small position
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these were more creative and honest, to keep the meaning as the original. actually this song's original meaning is very crazy, i didn't even know how to express that... i spent a lot of time, and these are what we got