Coming Deliberately with Early Spring

[Intro]

[Verse 1]

The month of blossoms has not yet arrived

All the other flowers were still wandering in dreams

Only it counted the days

Deciding to set the seasons in motion ahead of time

And so, before the frost has thawed

It has already lifted spring onto the stage

[Pre-Chorus]

When the frost falls

It plants itself into the frost

[Chorus]

The plum blossom stirs the seasons most of all

Bearing frost, it blooms right beside the road

Branches stretch across the area around Queyue Pavilion

Blossoms ring Lingfeng Terrace in white

It knew all along how quickly it would fade

It deliberately arrives at the very start of spring

[Verse 2]

It snowed all night

Blossoms nestle against snow as though each depends on the other

They all say its nature is too impatient

It says the cold has splendors of its own

Blooming early, with no one to compete

Blooming in peace and blooming freely

[Pre-Chorus]

At dawn its petals fall into Changmen Palace

Sharing the sorrow of one who has fallen from favor

[Chorus]

The plum blossom stirs the seasons most of all

Bearing frost, it blooms right beside the road

Branches stretch across the area around Queyue Pavilion

Blossoms ring Lingfeng Terrace in white

It knew all along how quickly it would fade

It deliberately arrives at the very start of spring

[Instrumental]

[Verse 3]

At dusk it drifts into the wine cup

Making the moonlit drinking all the more spirited

The same falling flowers

Within palace walls they are tears, in a wine cup they are hospitality

Flowers never choose where they go

It all depends on the heart of the one admiring the flowers

[Bridge]

It has long known its flowering would be brief

Yet it presses on into wind and frost

Some sigh over its bitter fate

I think it knows its own mind that is no surprise

Rather than wait for spring to crowd everything together

Better to stand alone and become an age unto myself

Blooming early and falling early too

It has every right to take on the task of heralding spring

[Verse 4]

More and more people come to see the blossoms

As though receiving spring’s earliest favor

Only when its blossoms fall

Only then do the other flowers dare peek out

It yields the whole road

Even turned to mud, it gives its fragrance freely

[Final Chorus]

The plum blossom stirs the seasons most of all

Bearing frost, it blooms right beside the road

Branches stretch across the area around Queyue Pavilion

Blossoms ring Lingfeng Terrace in white

It knew all along how quickly it would fade

It deliberately arrives at the very start of spring

[Outro]

The plum blossoms in Tu Garden have faded

Next year it will be the one to startle the season again, no need to guess