Thời không sai lệch – Bilingual Lyrics Vietnamese/English

• By: Ngải Thân (艾辰)

Lyrics & Translation

Explore the poignant beauty of Chinese balladry with Ngải Thần's 'Thời không sai lệch.' Delve into themes of longing and lost love while learning evocative Mandarin phrases that have captivated millions .

[English]

A movie that couldn't even fill half a row,

Until the lights suddenly came on when the show ended.

The credits froze on "Produced and Distributed by [Name]".

I watched them leave in a hurry,

Like a student repeating a grade, overestimating my strength,

Unable to fulfill the mission of achieving success.

Fate isn't decided by a game of rock-paper-scissors,

So capriciously.

I've felt the evening breeze you once felt,

Does that count as us embracing?

But like waking from a dream, with empty hands,

My heart is also empty.

I've felt the evening breeze you once felt,

Have we seen the same scenery?

Like a disrupted time difference, left in a misaligned time-space,

Ultimately, it's all empty, empty.

Countless stars witnessing wishes,

If they don't come true, who will comfort my bad mood?

The traffic lights at the crossroads flash endlessly,

Someone is clearly heavy-hearted.

Three words I can only say to myself,

Tilting my head up, not letting tears fall.

Where is there a destiny that can turn things around?

I don't want to hear it.

I've felt the evening breeze you once felt,

Does that count as us embracing?

But like waking from a dream, with empty hands,

My heart is also empty.

I've felt the evening breeze you once felt,

Have we seen the same scenery?

Like a disrupted time difference, left in a misaligned time-space,

Ultimately, it's all empty, empty.

I've felt the evening breeze you once felt,

The air is filled with heartache.

But in the end, in this misaligned time-space, we

Ultimately became nothing.

I've felt the evening breeze you once felt,

The air is filled with heartache.

But in the end, in this misaligned time-space, we

Ultimately became nothing, nothing.

[Vietnamese]

填不满半排观众的电影

直到散场时突然亮起灯

字幕定格在某某出品和发行

我目送他们行色匆匆

像个自不量力的复读生

完不成金榜题名的使命

命不是猜剪刀石头布的决定

那么任性

我吹过你吹过的晚风

那我们算不算相拥

可如梦初醒般的两手空空

心也空

我吹过你吹过的晚风

是否看过同样风景

像扰乱时差留在错位时空

终是空是空

数不完见证许愿的繁星

没灵验谁来安慰坏心情

十字路口闪烁不停的信号灯

有个人显然心事重重

三个字只能说给自己听

仰着头不要让眼泪失控

哪里有可以峰回路转的宿命

我不想听

我吹过你吹过的晚风

那我们算不算相拥

可如梦初醒般的两手空空

心也空

我吹过你吹过的晚风

是否看过同样风景

像扰乱时差留在错位时空

终是空是空

我吹过你吹过的晚风

空气里弥漫着心痛

可我们最后在这错位时空

终成空

我吹过你吹过的晚风

空气里弥漫着心痛

可我们最后在这错位时空

终成空成空

Key Grammar Structures

• 直到散场时突然亮起灯

  ➔ until (something) suddenly happens

  ➔ until

• 字幕定格在某某出品和发行

  ➔ subtitles freeze on (something)

  ➔ freeze

• 像扰乱时差留在错位时空

  ➔ like (something) disrupting time zones left in a wrong time space

  ➔ disrupting

• 数不完见证许愿的繁星

  ➔ countless (something) that bear witness to wishes

  ➔ countless

• 我不想听

  ➔ I don't want to listen

  ➔ don't want to