空城 - MV 2/10

[myco7ify]

This song is very amazing x3 <3

Faye Wong is my all time favorite singer

[sinsing46]

冷冷的，好像tori amos歌曲的feel~~

[Spiderwick1989]

i always loved chinese music!!!

[wkchan27]

沒有靈魂的愛情，我寧可不愛。

[s27945]

Miss H@2010

[clararalam]

Let alone the lyrics, this piece of music itself is already an amazment.

[lynn890121]

简介错了 陈晓娟是作曲 kwan是作词...囧..

[chelle111111]

For most singers, it's lucky to have catchy song. For Faye Wong, almost every piece is catchy...

[augustinesocrates]

Hopefully this translation can better capture the poetry of this song

[augustinesocrates]

Living on the same planet (with you)

Ive learned to use my vision to fall in love

Love is a mirror

I want to know who dwells within

When I seek for you there, I find my nemesis

It takes the effort of shedding a tear to penetrate your tactics

[augustinesocrates]

I wonder who invented the drawer

To lock up even a human heart inside so he can possess it?

I thought love was a ladder that goes to heaven

But following it I only find a glass slipper

The vicissitudes of being in love

A broken heart is the only pre-given thing

[nunuxce]

翻译好好玩儿。

空城是比喻爱的性质，怎么翻成了"love of an empty city?" 牺牲古文意思是有屠宰牲畜的意义，可为什么要在这儿解释成英文？­真逗。

[chiucmi]

Very beautiful arrangement, esp the interlude.

[99346605]

why is faye wong so beautiful???!!

[everlane12]

omg i agree

[allanyip]

Good Song!

[rwxing]

I think you may have got the lyricist and the composer the other way around. Kwan wrote the lyrics.

[Zhaojiangjun]

I don't want the love of an empty city, please give me yourself in your innocence,

I dont want love to be simply a meaningless animal slaughtered for sacrifice

I dont want the love of an empty city, a dab to foil the effects of the "liu xing" ( a weapon like a flail)

In the years a whole nation can only see the outline of your face.

[eviltangents]

1. Please give me your innocence...not give yourself to me.

2. I don't want my love to be a pointless sacrifice...no animals referenced.

3. The "liu xing" reference is about shooting stars, not the flail like weapon "Morning Star".

4. In an aging, decaying kingdom, I seek only your countenance...nothing about a "nation".

[WeiFangX]

Good song !!

[Zhaojiangjun]

Its called Kong Cheng

It means the Empty City, its from San Shi Liu Ji ( 36 Strategies), meaning to Empty the City to defeat the enemy. Its my favorite song too, it has so many meaning, I will post translation later if you want it!

[PhukIT1865]

I would love to see a translation. Thank God for Wong Kar Wai because without watching 2046 I didn't even know there existed all this beautiful music from an incredible human being Faye Wong.

[Zhaojiangjun]

We live in one celestial body, though society uses its eyes to discern affection,

love is a mirror, but who lives there?

I seek you, and find my natural enemy,

In my one teardrop the heavens bluntly show their power,

Who invented the drawer whereupon two hearts are linked together and cherished?

Thinking love is only marked to go in the heaven's direction,

As I only picked up the pieces of the blossoming glass slippers,

a broken heart is one affirmation of God,

[Zhaojiangjun]

This is very loose translation. What she is saying is really beautiful in Chinese, because the words allude to many things that people wouldn't understand unless they study Chinese. Please enjoy. I love 2046 very much! Enjoy!

[PhukIT1865]

Chinese poetry has got to be the best. Like movies from books mostly the book is better. Something is lost in the translation but the feeling or intent is felt.

Thanks for sharing

[jjmshuang]

Agree. This beautiful Chinese lyric should never get translate to another language, simply because no other language can lift up the spirit of this song. Faye's voice the perfect match for this lyric.

[opeth111]

this is the best song by faye I've heard yet what is the name of it?

[americanwhitefairy]

empty city