雞蛋愛石頭 – Bilingual Lyrics Chinese/English

• By: 吳雨霏

Lyrics & Translation

Discover the beauty of Cantopop through Kary Ng's emotive ballad, "雞蛋愛石頭." This song offers a great opportunity to learn expressive and poetic Cantonese vocabulary related to love and heartache. Its powerful metaphor of an egg loving a stone provides a unique and memorable way to understand the nuances of expressing deep, and sometimes painful, emotions in the Cantonese language.

[English]

I try to break into your heart but can't make you happy, but my belief is crushed first

My heart insists on crashing into this pile of coal

Anxious for the moment I see you, a thousand nights, I groom myself tenfold to be praised by you

In your embrace, my heart is still cold

The egg's surface is as strong as steel, the foundation has long been broken, I'm already disheartened

Helplessly, your subconscious never moves, like Mount Tai

Dragging on and on, my patience is gradually burning out

I've exhausted my personality, respecting you too much

Causing the relationship to freeze, asking me how to break the ice

Spending my youth still hasn't grown an evergreen

After all, I find a little love in the rock, even if the egg breaks, I'm having fun

Confidence seems like a pile of sand washed away, inside, reason can't distinguish fast from slow

Hollowing out all dignity, hoping you'll glance at me

Moving the rocks piece by piece, unable to move, sighing, using a crane but the stone is so hard

Melting you is a habit of many years

In the middle of being touched and stubborn, the eggshell is too strong, it's inevitable to pull apart and break

Helplessly, you are cleaved open, a snowy mountain exists within your soul

Dragging on and on, my patience is gradually burning out

I've exhausted my personality, respecting you too much

Causing the relationship to freeze, asking me how to break the ice

Spending my youth still hasn't grown an evergreen

After all, I find a little love in the rock, even if the egg breaks, I'm having fun

Can it end? (Fate is gradually hardening, knowing it's futile, hard to let go)

Can you soften? (Loneliness is especially scary)

Can you let go? (Sand dunes won't grow flowers)

Dragging on and on, my patience is gradually burning out

Could it be I'm too competitive, making you even more capricious

Offering the crystallization of life, but you look down on it all

Spending my youth still hasn't grown an evergreen

After all, I find a little love in the rock, even if the egg breaks, I'm having fun

Crashing into your heart, body and mind are exhausted, let me be forever reduced to ashes with the meteorite

Infatuated with you is like a catastrophe

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[Chinese]

鑿破你的心搞不開心眼 但我信仰率先給壓爛

我的心也堅持撞向這一堆炭

為見你一刻焦急一千晚 為你讚美十倍地悉心裝扮

懷抱裡然而心仍是冷

表面強如鋼的雞蛋 底蘊一早破碎我都心淡

無奈你下意識從來未移動似座泰山

拖拖拉拉原來漸已經燒光我耐性

掏盡了我個性 對你太過尊敬

令到關係結冰 問我怎樣破冰

花光青春仍然未種出一棵萬年青

畢竟我岩石裡尋覓到半點愛雞蛋縱然撞破也盡興

自信似堆沙一一的沖散 內裡理智分不出快慢

挖空一切尊嚴願你會貪一眼

逐塊去搬開搬不開嗟嘆 用上吊臂但鐵石多麼堅硬

溶化你成為多年習慣

感動和頑固的中間 蛋殼多鞏固難免拉鋸爛

無奈你被劈開靈魂內存在這大雪山

拖拖拉拉原來漸已經燒光我耐性

掏盡了我個性 對你太過尊敬

令到關係結冰 問我怎樣破冰

花光青春仍然未種出一棵萬年青

畢竟我岩石裡尋覓到半點愛雞蛋縱然撞破也盡興

能了結嗎？(命運亦漸漸硬化 雖知徒勞難放下)

你能軟化嗎？(寂寞特別地可怕)

放得開嗎？(沙丘那會種出花)

拖拖拉拉原來漸已經燒光我耐性

難道我太好勝 叫你加倍任性

奉上生命結晶 但你一一看輕

花光青春仍然未種出一棵萬年青

畢竟我岩石裡尋覓到半點愛雞蛋縱然撞破也盡興

撞向你的心身心都枯竭 讓我永遠共殞石灰飛煙滅

迷上你如同一場浩劫

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
心 (xīn) /ɕin/ A1	noun - heart; mind
雞蛋 (jīdàn) /t͡ɕítân/ A1	noun - egg
石頭 (shítou) /ʂɻ̩̌tou̯/ A1	noun - stone; rock
冷 (lěng) /ləŋ/ A1	adjective - cold
愛 (ài) /ài/ A1	verb - to love noun - love
撞 (zhuàng) /ʈ͡ʂwâŋ/ A2	verb - to collide; to bump into
硬 (yìng) /îŋ/ A2	adjective - hard; stiff
挖 (wā) /wa/ B1	verb - to dig; to excavate
力量 (lìliàng) /lîliâŋ/ B1	noun - strength, power
青春 (qīngchūn) /t͡ɕʰiŋt͡ʂʰwən/ B1	noun - youth
懷抱 (huáibào) /xwǎi pâʊ/ B2	noun - bosom, embrace; aspirations, dreams
堅硬 (jiānyìng) /t͡ɕjɛn îŋ/ B2	adjective - hard, solid, firm
溶化 (rónghuà) /ɻʊ̌ŋxwâ/ B2	verb - to melt; to dissolve
靈魂 (línghún) /líŋxǔn/ B2	noun - soul, spirit
結晶 (jiéjīng) /t͡ɕjět͡ɕiŋ/ C1	noun - crystal; crystallization; fruit (of labor)

Key Grammar Structures

• 但我信仰率先給壓爛

  ➔ Use of conjunction '但' (but) to contrast ideas.

  ➔ The word '但' introduces a contrasting statement.

• 懷抱裡然而心仍是冷

  ➔ Use of '然而' (however) to indicate a contradiction.

  ➔ The word '然而' introduces a statement that contrasts with the previous one.

• 問我怎樣破冰

  ➔ Interrogative structure to ask a question.

  ➔ The phrase '問我' indicates that someone is asking the speaker.

• 花光青春仍然未種出一棵萬年青

  ➔ Use of '仍然' (still) to indicate continuity.

  ➔ The word '仍然' emphasizes that despite efforts, the outcome has not changed.

• 能了結嗎？

  ➔ Use of modal verb '能' (can) to express ability or possibility.

  ➔ The phrase '能了結嗎？' asks if something can be resolved.

• 撞向你的心身心都枯竭

  ➔ Use of '都' (both) to indicate inclusivity.

  ➔ The word '都' emphasizes that both the heart and mind are exhausted.