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Flowing East in Silence
Ku Wuji · AI Music · 3 reads
Inspired by Liu Yong's “Eight Beats of Ganzhou.” “潇潇暮雨洒江天，一番洗清秋；霜风凄紧，关河冷落，残照当楼。红衰翠减物华休，唯有长江水无语东流。” (Rustling evening rain falls over river and sky, washing autumn clear; the frosty wind blows bleak and sharp, passes and rivers lie desolate, and the last sunlight falls upon the tower. Reds fade, greens diminish and nature's splendor wanes; only the Yangtze flows silently east.) “不忍登高临远，望故乡渺邈，归思难收；想佳人妆楼颙望，误几回天际识归舟，争知我倚栏凝愁。” (I cannot bear to climb high and gaze into the distance, toward my faraway homeland, my longing to return impossible to contain; I picture my beloved gazing expectantly from her chamber, how often mistaking a distant boat for mine—how could she know I lean against the railing, steeped in sorrow?) Male and female voices sing the same lyrics.
An evening rain washes autumn clear
Red flowers have thinned, green leaves have thinned too
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[Intro]
[Verse 1]
Heavy rain began to fall at dusk
Rain falls thick as sorrow
It washes autumn clean
Wash away the dust and summer heat together
The person standing upstairs
Their heart grows chilly too
[Pre-Chorus]
Gust after gust the frosty wind grows fiercer
The frontier rivers are so desolate that no boats pass
[Chorus]
An evening rain washes autumn clear
Red flowers have thinned, green leaves have thinned too
The frosty wind blows harder, chilling ever deeper
The last light rests coldly on the tower
The Yangtze says nothing, only flows east
Thoughts of home are as hard to hold back as water
[Verse 2]
It is not that I no longer miss home
It is that I dare not lean on this railing too long
Once my longing for home is let loose
Then no longer can I
My homeland is too far away to enter my sight
Beyond the mist, beyond countless ferry crossings
[Pre-Chorus]
Ask the places I have traveled through these years
Which stop is worth my staying
[Chorus]
An evening rain washes autumn clear
Red flowers have thinned, green leaves have thinned too
The frosty wind blows harder, chilling ever deeper
The last light rests coldly on the tower
The Yangtze says nothing, only flows east
Thoughts of home are as hard to hold back as water
[Instrumental]
[Verse 3]
I imagine her now in her boudoir
Counting the days, waiting for the hour
Whenever I see a boat approaching from the horizon
Taking them all for the boat I am aboard
With every sail that approaches from the horizon
She always has to rise on tiptoe for a look
[Bridge]
But how could she know
I too lean against a railing, congealed into sorrow
The same feelings in two distant places
With river waters and sandbars between us
She waits for me and I wait for the day I can return
Longing tugs at us in turn, at either end
If she too is leaning on a railing now
Could the wind, tell you for me not to worry
[Verse 4]
The evening rain stops, then falls again
Time sways and drifts along
I have asked myself many times
There must be a reason for this bitter lingering
However much I think, there is only her
Is the only tenderness left in my heart
[Final Chorus]
An evening rain washes autumn clear
Red flowers have thinned, green leaves have thinned too
The frosty wind blows harder, chilling ever deeper
The last light rests coldly on the tower
The Yangtze says nothing, only flows east
Thoughts of home are as hard to hold back as water
[Outro]
The last light climbs the railing again
The evening rain still rustles on, refusing to cease
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Flowing East in Silence
Ku Wuji · AI Music
Rendition 1 · Female vocal
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