爱人错过 – Bilingual Lyrics Vietnamese/English

• By: 时代少年团 (Teens in Times)

Lyrics & Translation

[English]

I must have told you I loved you centuries ago

But you forgot, and I didn’t remember either

I must have told you I loved you centuries ago

But you forgot, and I didn’t remember either

Passed by, walked by, but never met

Looked back, turned around, still missed

You and I never truly felt it

Collided at the street corner, collided at the street corner

Your mom never told you

If you bump into someone, you have to say sorry

Today was supposed to be fine

Lovers just missed their chance

Lovers just missed their chance

I must have

Told you I loved you centuries ago

But you forgot, and I didn’t remember either

Passed by, walked by, but never met

Looked back, turned around, still missed

You and I never truly felt it

Collided at the street corner, collided at the street corner

Your mom never told you

If you bump into someone, you have to say sorry

Today was supposed to be fine

Lovers just missed their chance

Lovers just missed their chance

Passed by, walked by, but never met

Looked back, turned around, still missed

You and I never truly felt it

Collided at the street corner, collided at the street corner

Your mom never told you

If you bump into someone, you have to say sorry

Today was supposed to be fine

Lovers just missed their chance

Lovers just missed their chance

[Vietnamese]

我肯定在几百年前就说过爱你

只是你忘了 我也没记起

我肯定在几百年前就说过爱你

只是你忘了 我也没记起

走过 路过 没遇过

回头 转头 还是错

你我不曾感受过

相撞在街口 相撞在街口

你妈没有告诉你

撞到人要说对不起

本来今天好好的

爱人就错过

爱人就错过

我肯定

在几百年前就说过爱你

只是你忘了 我也没记起

走过 路过 没遇过

回头 转头 还是错

你我不曾感受过

相撞在街口 相撞在街口

你妈没有告诉你

撞到人要说对不起

本来今天好好的

爱人就错过

爱人就错过

走过 路过 没遇过

回头 转头 还是错

你我不曾感受过

相撞在街口 相撞在街口

你妈没有告诉你

撞到人要说对不起

本来今天好好的

爱人就错过

爱人就错过

Key Grammar Structures

• 我肯定在几百年前就说过爱你

  ➔ Past experiential marker 过 with the adverbial 就 indicating ‘already’

  ➔ The word "说过" shows that the speaker has already said something in the past; "就" stresses the early time "几百年前".

• 只是你忘了 我也没记起

  ➔ Contrastive conjunction 只是 + also‑negative structure 也 + 没...

  ➔ "只是" introduces a contrast; "也没" means ‘also didn’t’, emphasizing that both actions are missing.

• 走过 路过 没遇过

  ➔ Experience complement 过 attached to verbs to indicate ‘have/has … before’

  ➔ "走过", "路过", "遇过" each contain the particle "过" which marks a past experience or completed action.

• 回头 转头 还是错

  ➔ Adverbial phrase + 还是 to express ‘still/once again’ in a contrasting sense

  ➔ "还是" after "回头" and "转头" stresses that even after turning back or around, the result is still ‘wrong’.

• 你我不曾感受过

  ➔ Negative adverbial 不曾 + experiential 过 to mean ‘never have (experienced)’

  ➔ "不曾" negates the experience, and "感受过" with "过" shows that the feeling has never been felt.

• 你妈没有告诉你 撞到人要说对不起

  ➔ Negative verb phrase 没有 + infinitive purpose clause 要 + verb to express a required action

  ➔ "没有" negates the action of informing; "要说" introduces the necessity ‘must say’.

• 本来今天好好的

  ➔ Adverb 本来 + descriptive clause to express ‘originally’ or ‘supposed to be’

  ➔ "本来" signals that the situation was expected to be fine – “today should have been fine”.

• 爱人就错过

  ➔ Resultative particle 就 indicating a swift conclusion (‘just missed’) after a noun phrase

  ➔ "就" follows the noun "爱人" to convey that the lover was immediately missed – “just missed”.