Category Archives: Moonlake’s Lyrics

Another inspiring Cantonese song lyric for today. The actual song is called A Straight path and A Meandering Path. It is the theme song for a Hong Kong TV drama called Rainbow at Night: How can one compete with anyone if no sweats are ever shed? I’ve never had the extravagant hope      that the angelsContinue reading “Moonlake’s Lyrics (4)”

A little change of pace for today’s lyrics post. Instead of liking it for delving into life philosophies and themes, this one drew me because of it told a tale, a somewhat wistful tale of love and reincarnation. It’s also a relatively new song, in Mandarin and its title is “the Love of a ThousandContinue reading “Moonlake’s Lyrics (3)”

Another making-up-for-word-count post. This one is a little morose but I love it because it contains one-liners that touches on the human truism about choice and again, the theme of gain and loss. It’s another Chinese old song (truth be told, the lyrics of old songs appeal to me more. 90% of new songs areContinue reading “Moonlake’s Lyrics (2)”

I have quite a fetish for good song lyrics, so much so that I sometimes am taken with a song not because of the tune but purely because of the lyrics. For that matter, I actually prefer instrumentals to a song with meaningless/bad lyrics. So I am starting a new series of posts titled Moonlake’sContinue reading “Moonlake’s Lyrics (1)”