Another set of lyrics touching on the archaic Chinese feel, theme song for a popular HK series around 5 years ago. To be honest, I didn’t like it that much while I was watching the series but started liking it when I heard it sung not by the original singer but by the male protagonist of the series instead. It really brought out the archaic feel of the lyrics. The lyrics themselves are not particularly meaningful or beautiful per se and it sometimes straddle the lines between archaic and modern but well,
The title of the song is called “Red Butterfly” and its lyrics is as follows:
Love will not be diluted by a cold wash of rain will not diffuse no matter how the fierce wind blows
Even In between sad clouds and the moon still not lonely
Your eyes that are capable of *destroying cities are more brilliant than flowers and grasses
Yet your eyebrows and glazed eyes show absentmindedness and one filament of lament
*Flowing water clearly shows us through even paved with wind and snow the road on the way will be bright
A dark grey sky love gets admiration
What love in the love is considered pure you willingly become a red butterfly fluttering its wings
Tasted setbacks enough having a bleeding wound is still not enough to whittle away or destroy it
What love in the love is considered pure exerting the utmost effort even if facing despair
Stay till the last together not afraid of experiencing adversity
Drinking merrily along the shores of a beautiful river playing a tune that carries across thousand miles
The sunset carrying a clear wind already faintly materialises
Your beauty is more beautiful that of clusters of different flowers but my heart can only wish for it
(The sight of) Red butterfly flying across the sky is very beautiful I will remember it for life
Repeat *
What love in the love is considered pure you willingly become a red butterfly fluttering its wings
Tasted setbacks enough having a bleeding wound is still not enough to whittle away or destroy it
What love in the love is considered pure exerting the utmost effort even if facing despair
Stay till the last together not afraid of experiencing adversity
*destroying cities= a phrase referring to great beauties, coming about because of known ‘historical’ incidence of a beauty contributing to the fall of kingdoms
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