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White Feathers of the Yan Mountains
Ku Wuji · AI Music · 3 reads
Inspired by Li Bai's Song of the North Wind. In the twelfth lunar month, when the Torch Dragon does not reach the northern lands, the north wind roars and snowflakes over the Yan Mountains are as large as mats. A wife in Youzhou, longing for her husband, stops singing and laughing, leans at the door and searches every retreating figure again and again. What finally arrives is news of his death on the frontier. Unable to bear looking again at his white-feathered arrows, covered in cobwebs and dust, she burns them to ashes. Even the Yellow River could be stopped with handfuls of earth, but the anguish of the north wind, rain and snow cannot be cut away. Male and female voices sing the same lyrics.
Snowflakes as large as mats, each one falling on Xuanyuan Terrace
The north wind comes roaring down from the sky
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Li Bai ·《Song of the North Wind》
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[Intro]
[Verse 1]
Zhulong, the Torch Dragon, sleeps at the Gate of Cold
Only when it opens its eyes does the sky grow light
But even Zhulong cannot be bothered to look here
Only the north wind remains outside the door
Youzhou city in the twelfth month
Snow buries every roof
[Pre-Chorus]
I stop singing and stop smiling too
My brows knot into a sorrow that will not dissolve
[Chorus]
Snowflakes as large as mats, each one falling on Xuanyuan Terrace
The north wind comes roaring down from the sky
Daylight refuses to reach this place
The white-feathered arrow is covered in dust
The arrow still hangs on the wall, but its owner is gone
This grief is harder to cut away than wind and snow
[Verse 2]
Others urge me not to keep leaning in the doorway
I keep guessing at every figure walking away
That year, sword in hand, he saved the frontier
How gallant he was, cloaked against the wind and striding through snow
Leave this quiver behind
The tiger-patterned gold ornaments still shine
[Pre-Chorus]
In a corner no one has touched
Layer upon layer of cobwebs seals the quiver shut
[Chorus]
Snowflakes as large as mats, each one falling on Xuanyuan Terrace
The north wind comes roaring down from the sky
Daylight refuses to reach this place
The white-feathered arrow is covered in dust
The arrow still hangs on the wall, but its owner is gone
This grief is harder to cut away than wind and snow
[Instrumental]
[Verse 3]
The messenger arrives at the door
A name becomes a calamity
I dare not look at that arrow again
That person will never return
What should I do with it
Light a fire to send it on its way
[Bridge]
In the firelight he turns back and smiles
Still the same bright spirit as when you left
Burn through this pair of white-feathered arrows
A part of my heart falls empty too
黄河捧土尚可塞 — Even the Yellow River could be blocked with handfuls of earth
Grief is harder to command than the waters of the Yellow River
The snow will fall again next year
My winter will never change again
[Verse 4]
From now on, I will no longer lean against that door
Snow covers the footprints once again
The things left in the room
Memories as plentiful as a sea
Others endure winter after winter
My calendar has stopped on a stretch of blankness
[Final Chorus]
Snowflakes as large as mats, each one falling on Xuanyuan Terrace
The north wind comes roaring down from the sky
Daylight refuses to reach this place
The white-feathered arrow is covered in dust
The arrow still hangs on the wall, but its owner is gone
This grief is harder to cut away than wind and snow
[Outro]
Snow is still falling over the Yan Mountains
Flake after flake still falls on Xuanyuan Terrace
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White Feathers of the Yan Mountains
Ku Wuji · AI Music
Rendition 1 · Female vocal
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