{"id":7852,"date":"2019-10-05T23:31:44","date_gmt":"2019-10-05T23:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-reading\/song-lyrics-beijing-beijing-by-wang-feng\/"},"modified":"2019-10-05T23:31:44","modified_gmt":"2019-10-05T23:31:44","slug":"song-lyrics-beijing-beijing-by-wang-feng","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/song-lyrics-beijing-beijing-by-wang-feng\/","title":{"rendered":"Song Lyrics: Beijing Beijing by Wang feng"},"content":{"rendered":"
You know you need a KTV song! Beijing, Beijing is a slow ballad sung by Chinese artist \u6c6a\u5cf0 w\u0101ng f\u0113ng and was in the Baidu Top 100 top 10 for a bit this year. Now it looks like it’s fallen between the 30th and 40th place on various music charts, but it’s still pretty popular, particularly in, you know, Beijing. If you can find it in yourself to embrace the painful 80′s growly I-mean-it man voice and the “Streets of Philadelphia” emo-dad thing, you may find that the song is a good karaoke song if you’re just starting out because it’s repetitive, it’s not abstract, it’s sung slowly enough to sing along and it’s so emotio<\/em>nally over-fraught that it’s fun.<\/p>\n

I recommend you read and translate the lyrics before you listen to the song, so you’ve got an idea of what you’re hearing.
A few translation notes: it’s not always clear exactly how to translate song lyrics. Example: \u5bfb\u627e\u7740\u8ffd\u9010\u7740\u5944\u5944\u4e00\u606f\u7684\u788e\u68a6 is not an easy lyric to translate. Or rather, it’s super easy to get the gist of the meaning (searching, chasing, dying, broken dreams… you get the idea), but put an “of” in the wrong place and the meaning changes to something slightly different. I’ve done my best, feel free to re-write or re-interpret those in a different way.
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\u5e73\u9759 – píng jìng – Tranquil
\u8f70\u9e23 – h\u014dng míng – Rumble
\u70db\u9aa8 – zhú g\u01d4 – wick (of a candle)
\u54ed\u6ce3 – k\u016b qì – Weep
\u7948\u7977 – qí d\u01ceo – Pray
\u8ff7\u60d8 – mí w\u01ceng – Pray
\u9713\u8679\u706f – ní hóng d\u0113ng – Neon lights
\u6323\u624e – zh\u0113ng zhá – Struggle
\u5944\u5944\u4e00\u606f – y\u01cen y\u01cen y\u012b x\u012b – Last gasp
\u7737\u604b – juàn liàn – To long for
\u5f53\u6211\u8d70\u5728\u8fd9\u91cc\u7684\u6bcf\u4e00\u6761\u8857\u9053
\u6211\u7684\u5fc3\u4f3c\u4e4e\u4ece\u6765\u90fd\u4e0d\u80fd\u5e73\u9759 \u3000\u3000
\u9664\u4e86\u53d1\u52a8\u673a\u7684\u8f70\u9e23\u548c\u7535\u5668\u4e4b\u97f3 \u3000\u3000
\u6211\u4f3c\u4e4e\u542c\u5230\u4e86\u4ed6\u70db\u9aa8\u822c\u7684\u5fc3\u8df3 \u3000\u3000
\u6211\u5728\u8fd9\u91cc\u6b22\u7b11 \u3000\u3000
\u6211\u5728\u8fd9\u91cc\u54ed\u6ce3 \u3000\u3000
\u6211\u5728\u8fd9\u91cc\u6d3b\u7740 \u3000\u3000
\u4e5f\u5728\u8fd9\u6b7b\u53bb \u3000\u3000
\u6211\u5728\u8fd9\u91cc\u7948\u7977 \u3000\u3000
\u6211\u5728\u8fd9\u91cc\u8ff7\u60d8 \u3000\u3000
\u6211\u5728\u8fd9\u91cc\u5bfb\u627e \u3000\u3000
\u4e5f\u5728\u8fd9\u513f\u5931\u53bb \u3000\u3000
\u5317\u4eac \u5317\u4eac \u3000\u3000
\u5496\u5561\u9986\u4e0e\u5e7f\u573a\u6709\u4e09\u4e2a\u8857\u533a \u3000\u3000
\u5c31\u50cf\u9713\u8679\u706f\u5230\u6708\u4eae\u7684\u8ddd\u79bb \u3000\u3000
\u4eba\u4eec\u5728\u6323\u624e\u4e2d\u76f8\u4e92\u544a\u6170\u548c\u62e5\u62b1 \u3000\u3000
\u5bfb\u627e\u7740\u8ffd\u9010\u7740\u5944\u5944\u4e00\u606f\u7684\u788e\u68a6 \u3000\u3000
\u6211\u4eec\u5728\u8fd9\u6b22\u7b11 \u3000\u3000
\u6211\u4eec\u5728\u8fd9\u54ed\u6ce3 \u3000\u3000
\u6211\u4eec\u5728\u8fd9\u6d3b\u7740 \u3000\u3000
\u4e5f\u5728\u8fd9\u6b7b\u53bb \u3000\u3000
\u6211\u4eec\u5728\u8fd9\u7948\u7977 \u3000\u3000
\u6211\u4eec\u5728\u8fd9\u8ff7\u60d8 \u3000\u3000
\u6211\u4eec\u5728\u8fd9\u5bfb\u627e \u3000\u3000
\u4e5f\u5728\u8fd9\u513f\u5931\u53bb \u3000\u3000
\u5317\u4eac \u5317\u4eac \u3000<\/p>\n

\u5982\u679c\u6709\u4e00\u5929\u6211\u4e0d\u5f97\u4e0d\u79bb\u53bb \u3000\u3000
\u6211\u5e0c\u671b\u4eba\u4eec\u628a\u6211\u57cb\u5728\u8fd9\u91cc \u3000\u3000
\u5728\u8fd9\u513f\u6211\u80fd\u611f\u89c9\u5230\u6211\u7684\u5b58\u5728 \u3000\u3000
\u5728\u8fd9\u513f\u6709\u592a\u591a\u8ba9\u6211\u7737\u604b\u7684\u4e1c\u897f \u3000\u3000
\u6211\u5728\u8fd9\u91cc\u6b22\u7b11 \u3000\u3000
\u6211\u5728\u8fd9\u91cc\u54ed\u6ce3 \u3000\u3000
\u6211\u5728\u8fd9\u91cc\u6d3b\u7740 \u3000\u3000
\u4e5f\u5728\u8fd9\u513f\u6b7b\u53bb \u3000\u3000
\u6211\u5728\u8fd9\u91cc\u7948\u7977 \u3000\u3000
\u6211\u5728\u8fd9\u91cc\u8ff7\u60d8 \u3000\u3000
\u6211\u5728\u8fd9\u91cc\u5bfb\u627e \u3000\u3000
\u4e5f\u5728\u8fd9\u513f\u5931\u53bb \u3000\u3000
\u5317\u4eac \u5317\u4eac
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When I walk the streets here
It seems like my heart can never be serene
Beyond the rumble of engines and sounds of electronics
I seem to hear its candlewick heartbeat
This is wher I laugh happily
This is wher I weep
This is wher I live
And this is wher I’ll die
This is wher I pray
This is wher I’m confused
This is wher I search
And also wher I lose
Beijing, Beijing \u3000\u3000
The three blocks between the coffee shop and the plaza
Seem like the distance between the neon lights and the moon \u3000\u3000
People comfort and embrace each other as they struggle together
Searching for, chasing after, the last gasp of broken dreams
This is wher we laugh happily
This is wher we cry bitterly
This is wher we live
And this is wher we’ll die
This is wher we pray
This is wher we’re confused
This is wher we search
And also wher we lose
Beijing, Beijing \u3000\u3000\u3000<\/p>\n

If someday I have no choice but to leave
I hope people bury me here
Here I can sense my existence
Here there are too many things I yearn for
This is wher I laugh happily
This is wher I cry bitterly
This is wher I live
And this is wher I die
This is wher I pray
This is wher I’m confused
This is wher I search
And also wher I lose
Beijing, Beijing \u3000\u3000
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