鏡中鏡 – Bilingual Lyrics Chinese/English

• By: 姜濤

Lyrics & Translation

[Chinese]

[English]

不呼吸

No breathing

多想消失

Want to disappear

囤積的冤屈

Accumulated grievances

誰攀高一級

Who climbs to a higher level

再高一級

One more step higher

天天都追迫我 終於沾濕

Chasing me every day, finally soaking me wet

汗毛

Hairs standing up

畀畀心 畀畀心

Give myself some heart, give some kindness

永不變的標誌

A symbol that never changes

姜B 姜B

Ginger B, Ginger B

不想被稱得意

Don't want to be called proud

K-pop Canto-pop

K-pop and Cantonese pop songs

這比較怎可以

How can this be acceptable

不偏 不倚

Fair and unbiased

(走音)

(Off-key)

幾多Like數先算應得

How many likes make it deserved

幾多恥笑迫我屈膝

How much mockery forces me to kneel

幾多生死使我哭泣

How much life and death make me cry

幾多苦笑遮我抑鬱

How many bitter smiles hide my depression

便一伙共舞

Dancing together

盡做 大路

All walking the wide road

便生火獨舞

Living alone, lighting a fire, dancing solo

逐步 每步

Step by step

以 一首歌曲 數百個字

With a song, with hundreds of words

賜我力量用力訴

Giving me strength to shout out loud

成名和寂寞盡力訴

Pouring out all my strength to tell fame and loneliness

留言和辯論落力訴

Leaving comments and debating passionately

(反攻)

(Counterattack)

台前和幕後合力訴

On stage and behind the scenes, working together to tell our story

(反擊)

(Fight back)

掃到那落葉落盡尚在掃

Still sweeping even after the leaves fall

繼續掃

Keep sweeping

要命數

Number of lives

潔白到

So pure, like

來生

In the next life

無業報

Karma for idleness

看鏡裡似有線報

Seeing signs in the mirror

(識穿)

(Piercing through)

再對抗依然徒勞

Fighting again, still hopeless

(兜圈)

(Circle around)

我看到心靈藏藍圖

I see the blueprint hidden in my soul

(拼圖)

(Puzzle)

緊急出口已看到

The emergency exit is in sight

如何難逃 如何難逃

How hard to escape, how hard to escape

再上社交平台疲勞

Once again exhausted by social media

如何能逃 如何能逃

How can I escape, how can I escape

才回望十歲舊時肥仔

Looking back to my childhood as a chubby ten-year-old

方知

Only then do I realize

我要折返童年時

I want to go back to my childhood days

追尋何時 欺凌何時

Searching for the moment I was bullied

才尋回一條門匙

Finding the key again

解開傷口 細意探視

Uncovering wounds, caring carefully

領我頓悟 用力吐

Leading me to realization, shouting it out

懷疑和懦弱 盡力吐

Doubts and cowardice, pouring out with all my strength

靈魂和內臟 落力吐

Soul and guts, forcing it all out

(分解)

(Dismantle)

童年和現在 合力吐

Childhood and now, working together to spit it out

(匯聚)

(Converge)

吐到那幻象幻滅 尚在吐

Spitting until illusions fade away, still吐

繼續吐

Keep vomiting

變瀑布

Turning into a waterfall

浸沒到

Flooding everything

才知

Only then realize

根本我是濤

That I am actually the tide

誰

Who

獨對鏡中空虛

Lonely facing the hollow mirror

誰

Who

迷惑鏡映作祟

Confusing mirror images causing trouble

一鏡在前的恐懼

The mirror ahead brings fear

一鏡後遺的眼淚

Lingering tears

雙鏡對疊 無限敵對

Double mirrors stacked, endless conflict

也是我自己

It's also myself

Key Grammar Structures

• 再高一級

  ➔ 再 + verb/noun phrase (indicating 'again' or 'further')

  ➔ The particle "再" is used to indicate doing something again or further extending an action.

• 盡做 大路

  ➔ Verb + 盡 + noun (meaning 'to do something thoroughly/fully')

  ➔ The pattern "Verb + 盡 + noun" emphasizes completing an action thoroughly or to the fullest.

• 用力訴

  ➔ 用 + noun + + verb (meaning 'to use ... to do something')

  ➔ The pattern "用 + noun + + verb" indicates employing a tool or means to accomplish an action.

• 如何能逃 如何難逃

  ➔ 如何 + verb (question phrase meaning "how can")

  ➔ The phrase "如何 + verb" introduces a question about the possibility or method of doing something.

• 一鏡在前的恐懼

  ➔ Prepositional phrase + 的 + noun (possessive or descriptive marker)

  ➔ The structure "[prepositional phrase] + 的 + noun" connects a descriptive or possessive phrase with a noun.