江海不渡你 – Bilingual Lyrics Chinese/English

• By: 徐友根

Lyrics & Translation

Dive into "江海不渡你" (Jiang Hai Bu Du Ni), a deeply melancholic Chinese ballad that masterfully blends ancient-style poetics with modern sentiment. This song offers a rich opportunity to explore emotional vocabulary and classic Chinese imagery, making it special for its poignant narrative of enduring love against all odds, and its captivating melodies that resonate with the heart's deepest sorrows and strongest resolves. Listen closely to the lyrical storytelling to grasp the beauty and depth of the Chinese language through its evocative phrases.

[English]

I speak of my hell

The deity you believe in

The god’s madness, arrogantly wild

This temper, yet with a smile

No one saves me

No one advises me

The river and sea won’t ferry you

I will ferry

I will ferry

Humming in my dream

The folk song she once loved most

Our sorrow has nowhere to escape

That arch bridge outside the city, covered by blooming flowers

Your journey will be strange

Meeting in a drunken haze

Can’t compare to today’s light drizzle

Standing water buries you, unchanged in the slightest

The black bird

It glides over the river’s tides

I’ve ferried you through the torment

This longing burns fiercely

Smoke and rain, a heart’s secret

I place autumn in the colors of clouds and water

See this long scarf now torn

A song of the world’s emotions

No need to pass it on

Sunset and moon, not much sentiment

Old wine, I drink alone again

Plum blossoms fall on her shoulders

Asking, what’s the reason for this?

The distant-hearted still in sorrow

Hidden in the tenderness of love

This qin, plum blossoms, drooping willows

Do you feel the deity’s betrayal?

Lost in love’s mist, no one to ferry

The river and sea won’t ferry

I will ferry

Fate won’t ferry you

Heaven and earth won’t ferry you

The river and sea won’t ferry you

I will ferry

Humming in my dream

The folk song she once loved most

Our sorrow has nowhere to escape

That arch bridge outside the city, covered by blooming flowers

Your journey will be strange

Meeting in a drunken haze

Can’t compare to today’s light drizzle

Standing water buries you, unchanged in the slightest

The black bird

It glides over the river’s tides

I’ve ferried you through the torment

[Chinese]

我说我的地狱

你信的神明

神狂性自傲

这有脾气爱笑

没人救我

没人劝我

江海不渡你

我渡

我渡

在梦中哼着

她曾经最爱的歌谣

我们的悲伤无处可逃

那被花开覆盖着城外那座拱桥

你的路途会蹊跷

相逢一醉

抵不过今日细雨毛毛

积水埋没你不同丝毫

黑色的飞鸟

它掠过了江海潮潮

我为你渡过了煎熬

这长相思在燃灼

烟雨青带心事

我把秋在云水色

看这长巾已破

一曲苍生的情歌

没有要传去说

晚霞月情不多

老酒再一人喝

梅花落在她肩头

问这是何缘由

情远的人还在愁

藏在情的温柔

这琴梅花垂柳树

可觉神明己负

情迷雾却无人渡

江海不渡

我来渡

命运不渡你

天地不渡你

江海不渡你

我渡

在梦中哼着

她曾经最爱的歌谣

我们的悲伤无处可逃

那被花开覆盖着城外那座拱桥

你的路途会蹊跷

相逢一醉

抵不过今日细雨毛毛

积水埋没你不同丝毫

黑色的飞鸟

它掠过了江海潮潮

我为你渡过了煎熬

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
地狱 /dì yù/ B2	noun - hell
神明 /shén míng/ C1	noun - deity, god, divine being
狂性 /kuáng xìng/ C2	noun - mania, madness, wild nature
自傲 /zì ào/ B2	adjective - arrogant, proud
脾气 /pí qì/ B1	noun - temper, disposition
救 /jiù/ A2	verb - to save, to rescue
劝 /quàn/ B1	verb - to advise, to persuade
江海 /jiāng hǎi/ C1	noun - rivers and seas, metaphor for vastness or distance
渡 /dù/ B2	verb - to cross (a river, sea), to ferry noun - ferry, crossing place
梦 /mèng/ A2	noun - dream
歌谣 /gē yáo/ B2	noun - ballad, folk song
悲伤 /bēi shāng/ B1	noun / adjective - sadness; sad
花开 /huā kāi/ B1	verb - flowers bloom
拱桥 /gǒng qiáo/ C1	noun - arch bridge
路途 /lù tú/ B2	noun - journey, route
蹊跷 /qī qiāo/ C2	adjective - strange, suspicious, unusual
相逢 /xiāng féng/ B2	verb - to meet by chance, to encounter
煎熬 /jiān áo/ C1	noun / verb - torment, torture; to endure suffering

Key Grammar Structures

• 我说我的地狱

  ➔ I say my hell

  ➔ I say

• 你信的神明

  ➔ You believe in the god

  ➔ You believe

• 神狂性自傲

  ➔ God's madness of self-pride

  ➔ God's madness

• 这有脾气爱笑

  ➔ This has a temper that loves to smile

  ➔ This has

• 没人救我

  ➔ No one can save me

  ➔ No one

• 没人劝我

  ➔ No one can advise me

  ➔ No one

• 江海不渡你

  ➔ The river and sea will not take you

  ➔ The river and sea

• 我渡

  ➔ I will take you

  ➔ I will

• 在梦中哼着

  ➔ humming in my dream

  ➔ Humming

• 她曾经最爱的歌谣

  ➔ The song she once loved

  ➔ She once loved