凉凉 – Bilingual Lyrics Chinese/English

• By: 張碧晨,楊宗緯
• Album: Three Lives, Three Worlds, Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms (三生三世十里桃花) OST

Lyrics & Translation

Learning Mandarin through "Liáng Liáng" offers a direct window into the emotive and poetic language used in popular Chinese media, particularly the fantasy/romance genre. The song’s beautiful duet structure and deep emotional connection to the award-winning drama "Eternal Love" make its intricate lyrics especially memorable and rewarding to decipher.

[English]

The night grows cooler as it deepens

Petals fall, turning into frost on the ground

You gaze from afar

Exhausting all the twilight’s glow

Without thinking, it’s hard to forget

The peach blossoms wither in the chill

How could you leave in the past life

This vast sea of longing

Pretending it doesn’t hurt, doesn’t sting, doesn’t force

It’s all an illusion

The cool night turns my thoughts into a river for you

Turning into spring soil to protect me

Gentle years brush my lover’s sleeves

Fragrance drifts into the water’s flow

The cool will of heaven shimmers in floral hues

Falling into the mortal world, wounding my heart

Life’s trials are easy, but love’s trials are hard to end

This worn heart still holds how much of past life’s hatred

How much

Of past life’s hatred

Once, my temples were touched by frost

Once, you brought light back to me

The long years stretch on

How can I waste this time

To wander

To trade for growth

The peach blossoms wither in the chill

This life grows warmer

One bloom has captured my heart

Enough for three lives, three worlds, shadows side by side

Across the water

The cool night turns my thoughts into a river for you

Turning into spring soil to protect me

Gentle years brush my lover’s sleeves

Fragrance drifts into the water’s flow

The cool will of heaven shimmers in floral hues

Falling into the mortal world, wounding my heart

Life’s trials are easy, but love’s trials are hard to end

This worn heart still holds how much of past life’s hatred

The cool of three lives, three worlds, like a dream

A moment’s wind dries the tears

If memories can’t recognize us again

Let our feelings fall into the dust

The cool of ten miles, when will spring flourish again

Seeing a lantern under the tree, a breeze lingers

Falling flowers have intent, flowing water is heartless

Don’t let grudges and love chill the purity of the flowers

I wish to be bound to this world

[Chinese]

入夜渐微凉

繁花落地成霜

你在远方眺望

耗尽所有暮光

不思量自难相忘

夭夭桃花凉

前世你怎舍下

这一海心茫茫

还故作不痛不痒不牵强

都是假象

凉凉夜色为你思念成河

化作春泥呵护着我

浅浅岁月拂满爱人袖

片片芳菲入水流

凉凉天意潋滟一身花色

落入凡尘伤情着我

生劫易渡情劫难了

折旧的心还有几分前生的恨

还有几分

前生的恨

也曾鬓微霜

也曾因你回光

悠悠岁月漫长

怎能浪费时光

去流浪

去换成长

夭夭桃花凉

今生愈渐滚烫

一朵已放心上

足够三生三世背影成双

在水一方

凉凉夜色为你思念成河

化作春泥呵护着我

浅浅岁月拂满爱人袖

片片芳菲入水流

凉凉天意潋滟一身花色

落入凡尘伤情着我

生劫易渡情劫难了

折旧的心还有几分前生的恨

凉凉三生三世恍然如梦

须臾的年风干泪痕

若是回忆不能再相认

就让情分落九尘

凉凉十里何时还会春盛

又见树下一盏风存

落花有意流水无情

别让恩怨爱恨凉透那花的纯

吾生愿牵尘

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
凉 /liáng/ B1	adjective - cool, cold
花 /huā/ A1	noun - flower
霜 /shuāng/ B1	noun - frost
夜色 /yè sè/ B2	noun - night scene, night view
思念 /sī niàn/ B2	verb - to miss, to long for
春泥 /chūn ní/ C1	noun - spring mud
岁月 /suì yuè/ B2	noun - years, time
爱人 /ài rén/ A2	noun - lover, sweetheart
芳菲 /fāng fēi/ C1	noun - fragrant flowers, sweet scent
天意 /tiān yì/ B2	noun - will of Heaven, fate
凡尘 /fán chén/ C1	noun - the mortal world, this world
伤情 /shāng qíng/ B2	verb - to be heartbroken, to be saddened
劫 /jié/ C1	noun - calamity, tribulation
恨 /hèn/ B2	noun - hatred, resentment
泪痕 /lèi hén/ C1	noun - tear stain

Key Grammar Structures

• 凉凉夜色为你思念成河

  ➔ Resultative Complement (V+O+成+Result)

  ➔ The phrase '思念成河' uses '成' to indicate the result of the action '思念' (longing) becoming a '河' (river).

• 三生三世怅然如梦

  ➔ Reduplication for emphasis (AABB pattern)

  ➔ The phrase '三生三世' uses reduplication to emphasize the concept of multiple lifetimes.

• 落花有意, 流水无情

  ➔ Contrastive parallelism (A对B)

  ➔ The phrase contrasts '落花有意' (falling flowers have intention) with '流水无情' (flowing water is heartless).

• 不思量, 自难相忘

  ➔ Negation with '不' and self-evident truth with '自'

  ➔ The phrase uses '不' to negate the action of thinking, and '自' to indicate an inherent difficulty in forgetting.

• 还有一丝前生的恨

  ➔ Measure word '丝' for abstract quantity

  ➔ The word '丝' is used to quantify the abstract concept of '恨' (hatred) in a subtle manner.