Song collection: 5. 转身的时候 - Megan Lai (OST of 'Silence')

OST of Taiwanese Drama, "Silence".

Vic Zhou looks really good here, IMHO.


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Lyrics
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When I see you happy and cheerful
my heart feels like the clouds,
floating and leaping very softly
Walking forward following your footsteps,
never letting you notice from a distance

when you are crying, hearing your tears,
my hands are like the clear gentle breeze,
slowly wiping away your tears
You don’t have to pay attention to my existence

Why.. I only want to be close to you,
I am content simply by your side
far or near is fine with me

Everytime, when you turn around
My tears fall
But I remind myself
Only let you see me smile

Everytime when you turn around
My heart aches
I can only watch you in silence
disappearing from my view

I.. Who hold on to you tightly, not wanting to let you go
Has finally understand, I must let you be free
Very tightly, I embrace you for a minute
treating it as a step towards bidding you farewell

Why.. I only want to be close to you
I am content simply by your side
far or near is fine with me

Everytime, when you turn around
My tears fall
But I remind myself
Only let you see me smile

Everytime when you turn around
My heart aches
I can only watch you in silence
disappearing from my view

When has it started
For me to forget about my own sadness
Why when I should be obviously crying, do I feel blissful
to watch the sight of your back walking away

Everytime, when you turn around
My tears fall
But I remind myself
Only let you see me smile

Everytime when you turn around
My heart aches
I can only watch you in silence
disappearing from my view

I have to let you go...

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Note: Pinyin to be added soon...

Book of Life: Chapter 3 - Perfect Love

Quoted from "Just Good Friends"-Joyce Huggett

"One of the reasons why we suffer from a lack of love is that we pin all our hopes and expectations of intimacy on ONE person. We expect that one person to satisfy all our needs; intellectual, recreational, spiritual and social.

Thus, we fail to realize that such an all-sufficient being does not exist. They must be met through several persons."

(Note: This sentence does not mean that I’m promoting polygamy...)

"By burdening one friend with such high hopes and expectations we are strangling the relationship, pushing it closer to the edge."

Book of Life: Chapter 2 - Fear of singleness

The fear of singleness…

One of the fears that frustrate many of our age, the youths, is the fear of being unable to find that certain, special someone. The love that we seek from an ‘other’ is different to the love that our parents/ caretakers give to us. It is a feeling of wanting and being wanted, to protect and be protected, an urge to give and receive, to touch and feel. Sometimes we ask ourselves…why is the waiting process so …long. Would it be worth the wait? Why do we long for an invisible half? There’s nothing wrong with being independent…but still… why does that lonely feeling tingle us in times of insecurity?

Are we so afraid of being alone?

This fear can hold us in a vice-like grip at the same time as we are learning, through a variety of maturing friendships, what it means to disclose the hidden self, to give, to be open. This makes the apprenticeship of intimacy doubly hard.
It is rather noticeable how some of us seek to escape from the closeness we crave rather than take the risk of relating to others.

-Edited from 'Just Good Friends?'-

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Comments:
The ability to remain single is the ability to be independent.

Until you've learned to take care of yourself, can you then take care of another.

There is no right or wrong, only different perspectives in this matter.

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Book of Life: Chapter 1 - Friendship

What is the purpose of friendship?

"A friend is a person who is for you always…he wants nothing from you except that you be yourself. He is the one being with whom you can feel safe. With him you can utter your heart, its badness and its goodness. Like the shade of a great tree in the noonday heat is a friend…he is the Antidote to Despair, the Elixir of Hope, the Tonic for Depression."

-Just Good Friends-

Here’s a nice poem also derived from the book “Just Good Friends?”…

Will you be my friend?

There are so many reasons why you never should

I’m sometimes sullen, often shy, acutely sensitive

My fear erupts as anger. I find it hard to give

I talk about myself when I’m afraid

And often spend a day without anything to say

But I will make you laugh

And love you quite a bit

And hold you when you’re sad

Will you be my friend?

A friend

Who far beyond the feebleness of any vow or tie

Will touch the secret place

Where I am really I…

And if at times, I show my trembling side

The anxious, fearful part I hide

I wonder

Will you be my friend?

-James Kavanaugh-

Selected Poems: 1. Child of Days

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Monday's child is fair of face,

Tuesday's child is full of grace,

Wednesday's child is full of woe,

Thursday's child has far to go,

Friday's child is loving and giving,

Saturday's child works hard for his living,

And the child that is born on the Sabbath day
Is bonny and blithe, and good and gay.

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