Towers Lost in Mist

[Intro]

[Verse 1]

This inn where I am staying

Standing all alone, locking in spring's chill and loneliness

There is nothing outside the window

Only a vast white expanse of mist remains

The towers and terraces have vanished from sight

Even the ferry crossing is hard to make out

[Pre-Chorus]

The legend of Peach Blossom Spring, I have heard a thousand times

I strain my eyes but still cannot find the entrance

[Chorus]

Towers and terraces lie abandoned deep in the mist

Moonlight obscures the ferry crossing

I gaze in vain for the Peach Blossom Spring, finding no path

The lonely inn cannot shut out the pain of spring’s chill

Amid the cuckoo's cries, the setting sun fades into dusk

Each cry draws blood, yet still it will not stop

[Verse 2]

A friend sends plum blossoms from afar

Letters bring heartfelt words along the waterways

These signals of warmth

The hatred piling ever higher cannot be counted

When can it all be repaid

These debts of kindness and these ways I have let others down

[Pre-Chorus]

The Chen River once wound around Mount Chen

How content it would be to stay peacefully in its place

[Chorus]

Towers and terraces lie abandoned deep in the mist

Moonlight obscures the ferry crossing

I gaze in vain for the Peach Blossom Spring, finding no path

The lonely inn cannot shut out the pain of spring’s chill

Amid the cuckoo's cries, the setting sun fades into dusk

Each cry draws blood, yet still it will not stop

[Instrumental]

[Verse 3]

Yet it insists on flowing downstream

A whole river rushes straight toward Xiaoxiang

Even water cannot hold on to itself

How much less can someone drifting helplessly like me

Mountains cannot hold back the river

Who, then, could make me stay

[Bridge]

O Chen River tell me

For whom are you hurrying so

The river does not answer me

Leaving me only, a river blurred by mist and rain

None of us can be held here

The mountains and waters, and this journey too

Since fate has sent me into exile

I will learn from the river how to concede

[Verse 4]

The setting sun sinks another inch

The cuckoo begins repeating its call again

With every call it urges me home

Home lies far beyond a thousand mountains and valleys

I write the letter then tear it up again

Letters torn up and rewritten, rewritten and torn up again

[Final Chorus]

Towers and terraces lie abandoned deep in the mist

Moonlight obscures the ferry crossing

I gaze in vain for the Peach Blossom Spring, finding no path

The lonely inn cannot shut out the pain of spring’s chill

Amid the cuckoo's cries, the setting sun fades into dusk

Each cry draws blood, yet still it will not stop

[Outro]

The Chen River still flows downstream

The Chen Mountains bow their heads, the river does not look back