懷疑人生 – Bilingual Lyrics Chinese/English

• By: MC 張天賦

Lyrics & Translation

[Chinese]

[English]

我問我不夠你現實算不算頹廢

I ask myself if not being realistic makes me kind of useless

我問我想法太浪漫　會否吃虧

I wonder if my romantic ideas will cause me to lose out

我問我可有去學習　勤勞螞蟻

I ask if I’ve been studying hard, working like an ant

問到就快虛耗了一世

Asking questions almost drains my whole life away

但我沒法攀上美滿階梯

But I can’t seem to climb the ladder of happiness

要習慣被金剛圈牢牢控制

Must get used to being tightly controlled by the strong

訓練到沒有思考適應這時勢

Trained to stop thinking and just adapt to the times

努力交學費　無奈也被淘汰

Paying tuition, yet helplessly falling behind

教我怎麼上樓梯

Teach me how to climb the stairs

成功的方法怎複製

How can success be duplicated

懷疑青春一早瓦解　懷疑青春似個病態

Doubting that youth was shattered long ago, doubting youth as a sickness

存在世上　人不過是個買賣

In this world, people are just transactions

懷疑出生都心有鬼　懷疑出生我已腐壞

Doubting even my birth, thinking I’ve already decayed

不停　不快

Constantly feeling unwell, feeling slow

頭亦已撞破便要學會乖

My head’s already cracked, I need to learn to be good

放低小我會似羊群愉快

Lowering the ego might make me like a happy herd

遙望往日美麗宇宙要被活埋

Looking back at the beautiful universe that will be buried alive

誰都不可破戒

No one can break the rules

我被按下急速衰老時間掣

I’m pushed to grow old faster, clock ticking away

怕就怕面對初生的我會慚愧

Afraid that facing my newborn self will bring shame

要被迫實際　尋夢過份昂貴

Being forced to be practical, chasing dreams is too expensive

笑我思想太無稽

Laughing at my thoughts as being absurd

人生只可以給消費

Life can only give and take

懷疑青春一早瓦解　懷疑青春似個病態

Doubting that youth was shattered long ago, doubting youth as a sickness

存在世上　人不過是個買賣

In this world, people are just transactions

懷疑出生都心有鬼　懷疑出生我已腐壞

Doubting even my birth, thinking I’ve already decayed

不停　不快

Constantly feeling unwell, feeling slow

頭亦已撞破便要學會乖

My head’s already cracked, I need to learn to be good

放低小我會似羊群愉快

Lowering the ego might make me like a happy herd

遙望往日美麗宇宙要被活埋

Looking back at the beautiful universe that will be buried alive

誰都不可破戒

No one can break the rules

懷疑很多都不理解　何時青春背上十誡

Many doubts come from misunderstandings, when did youth start breaking the commandments

還被嚇壞　逃出去代價太大

Still scared, fleeing costs too much

常人只得一種註解　還垂死掙扎太自大

Ordinary people can only interpret one way — still struggling too arrogantly

齒輪　一塊

Gear, as one

明白我沒價值去被了解

Realizing I have no worth to be truly understood

要私奔到最遠無人地帶

Desperate to run away to the most remote place

逃避要合作地轉動偉大巨輪

Avoidance requires cooperation to turn the great wheel

平躺於新世界

Lying flat in this new world

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
懷疑 /huái yí/ B2	verb - to doubt
人生 /rén shēng/ B1	noun - life
青春 /qīng chūn/ B2	noun - youth
成功 /chéng gōng/ B1	noun - success
控制 /kòng zhì/ B2	verb - to control
學習 /xué xí/ A2	verb - to learn
努力 /nǔ lì/ B1	verb - to strive
存在 /cún zài/ B1	verb - to exist
美滿 /měi mǎn/ B2	adjective - perfect, fulfilling
病態 /bìng tài/ C1	noun - pathology, abnormal condition
腐壞 /fǔ huài/ C1	verb - to decay, to rot
逃避 /táo bì/ B2	verb - to escape, to evade
代價 /dài jià/ B2	noun - cost, price
註解 /zhù jiě/ C1	noun - annotation, explanation
合作 /hé zuò/ B1	verb - to cooperate
新世界 /xīn shì jiè/ B2	noun - new world

Key Grammar Structures

• 我問我不夠你現實算不算頹廢

  ➔ Using the double negation with '不夠' and '不算' to express a negative question.

  ➔ '不夠' means 'not enough' and '不算' means 'not considered.' Their combination in a question emphasizes doubt about adequacy or correctness.

• 我問我想法太浪漫　會否吃虧

  ➔ Using the modal '會否' to express potential or possibility in a question.

  ➔ '會否' functions as a question particle indicating uncertainty about whether something will happen or not.

• 我可有去學習　勤勞螞蟻

  ➔ Using '有' in a question to inquire about possession or occurrence, with the modal '可' to express possibility.

  ➔ '有' in a question functions to ask whether something exists or has occurred, combined with '可' which indicates possibility or permission.

• 訓練到沒有思考適應這時勢

  ➔ Using the verb '訓練到' + negative '沒有' to indicate a result achieved through training, leading to a state of lacking thought or adaptability.

  ➔ '訓練到' expresses the extent or result of training, and when combined with '沒有', it indicates that after training, one lacks or has lost certain qualities like thoughtfulness or adaptability.

• 誰都不可破戒

  ➔ Using '誰都不可' to express that nobody should or can do something, emphasizing prohibition or impossibility.

  ➔ '誰都不可' literally means 'no one is allowed' or 'nobody can', used to emphasize the prohibition of a certain action or rule.

• 平躺於新世界

  ➔ Using '於' as a formal or literary preposition indicating location or place in a poetic context.

  ➔ '於' functions as a literary or formal preposition meaning 'at' or 'in' the context of poetic language.