Castle in The Air – Bilingual Lyrics Chinese/English

• By: 林俊傑 JJ Lin
• Album: Happily Painfully After

Lyrics & Translation

[English]

翻譯： Annie Yang

I build a castle in the air

Living there alone

Floors gleaming with golden light

Monet hangs on the walls

People come and go daily

I wonder what truly remains

The memories we hold

Just ripples along our path

Day after day

I dance to keep the pain away

The world shifts unpredictably

I wait quietly with loneliness

Fragments on the walls

Collecting dreams from yesterday

Dust and ashes

Settle upon my soul

In my castle in the air

The fervor slowly fades

In my castle in the air

Another castle beyond the sky

Is that you?

I can't tell if you're ally

Or yesterday's foe

People come and go daily

I wonder what truly remains

Memories dissolve in rain

Forming ripples on the road

Day after day

I dance to keep the pain away

The world shifts unpredictably

I wait quietly with loneliness

Fragments on the walls

Collecting dreams from yesterday

Dust and ashes

Settle upon my soul

In my castle in the air

Feeling the fire in my heart grow cold

In my castle in the air

Day after day

I dance to keep the pain away

The world shifts unpredictably

I wait quietly with loneliness

Fragments on the walls

Collecting dreams from yesterday

Dust and ashes

Settle upon my soul

In my castle in the air

The fervor slowly fades

In my castle in the air

Fragments on the walls - collecting dreams from yesterday

Dust and ashes - watching over my soul

In my castle in the air

The fervor slowly fades

In my castle in the air

[Chinese]

翻譯： Annie Yang

我築著空中的幻城

一個人住著

地板閃耀著金光

牆上掛著莫內

人們每天來來去去

我想知道什麼能留下

我們擁有的回憶

只是這一路上的漣漪 

日復一日

我翩翩起舞驅逐苦痛

世界無常反覆

我靜待著孤獨

牆上的殘骸

收集了以前的夢想

塵與埃

落在我的靈魂上

在我的空中幻城

熱火漸冷

在我的空中幻城

天空彼岸的另一座城

是你嗎？

我不知你是盟友

還是從前的敵人 

人們每天來來去去

我想知道什麼能留下

記憶融進雨裡

落成路上的漣漪

日復一日

我翩翩起舞驅逐苦痛

世界無常反覆

我靜待著孤獨

牆上的殘骸

收集了以前的夢想

塵與埃

落在我的靈魂上

在我的空中幻城

感受著心中的熱火漸冷

在我的空中幻城

日復一日

我翩翩起舞驅逐苦痛

世界無常反覆

我靜待著孤獨

牆上的殘骸

收集了以前的夢想

塵與埃

落在我的靈魂上

在我的空中幻城

熱火漸冷

在我的空中幻城

牆上的殘骸 收集了以前的夢想

塵與埃 看照我的靈魂

在我的空中幻城

熱火漸冷

在我的空中幻城

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
築 /t͡sù/ B1	verb - to build, to construct
幻城 /huànchéng/ B2	noun - fantasy castle, illusory city
金光 /jīnguāng/ A2	noun - golden light
回憶 /huíyì/ B1	noun - memories, recollections
漣漪 /liányī/ B2	noun - ripples
翩翩 /piānpiān/ C1	adverb - gracefully, lightly
苦痛 /kǔtòng/ B2	noun - pain, suffering
孤獨 /gūdú/ B1	noun - loneliness, solitude
殘骸 /cánhái/ B2	noun - remains, ruins
夢想 /mèngxiǎng/ A2	noun - dream, aspiration
塵埃 /chén'āi/ B2	noun - dust, ashes
靈魂 /línghún/ B2	noun - soul, spirit
熱火 /rèhuǒ/ B1	noun - passion, fervor
漸冷 /jiànlěng/ B2	verb - to gradually cool down
彼岸 /bǐ'àn/ C1	noun - the other shore, distant land
盟友 /méngyǒu/ B2	noun - ally, friend
敵人 /dírén/ A2	noun - enemy
融進 /róngjìn/ B1	verb - to melt into, to blend into