愚人節快樂 – Bilingual Lyrics Chinese/English

• By: 盧廣仲

Lyrics & Translation

This poignant song beautifully captures the bittersweet essence of unrequited love, using the unique context of April Fool's Day to explore honest emotions. Learning Mandarin through this song offers insights into poetic expressions of love and sorrow, and the cultural nuance of using humor to convey deeper feelings, making it a special piece for language learners.

[English]

Just like this, accompanying you, walking along

How many years have passed?

It's as if time isn't afraid of being wasted

Beautiful moments frozen in time

Only on this day do I speak the truth

Using the guise of a joke

Taking on the role of a friend, loving someone

Wanting to say I love you, wanting to hold you

Wanting you to walk into my life

Imagining how wonderful the future could be

Turns out, it's only me

I like you, I love you the most

I'm just kidding, please don't mind

Happy April Fool's Day, happily heartbroken

Who can tell me why I'm still stuck here?

...

I've already written a hundred songs like this

Devoted love songs

Thank you for giving me inspiration

Giving it so deeply

If there's any regret

Perhaps I'm not qualified enough

Writing about you, writing about me, but not able to write "us"

Wanting to say I love you, wanting to hold you

Wanting you to walk into my life

Imagining how wonderful the future could be

Turns out, it's only me

I like you, I love you the most

I'm just kidding, please don't mind

Happy April Fool's Day, happily heartbroken

Who can tell me why I'm still stuck here, yeah

...

Unable to love you, unable to hold you

Unable to let you hear my heart

Unable to restrain myself from repeatedly recalling those

Perhaps meaningless things

I like you, I love you the most

In the end, I didn't reach the ending

Happy April Fool's Day, let's stop here

The unspoken blessings, just consider it as me owing you

The fool isn't happy, but it's beyond my control

I can't bear to leave, what miracle am I still waiting for?

...

[Chinese]

就這樣陪你走著走著

又是幾年過了呢?

彷彿時間不怕蹉跎

美好的停格

只有這天說著真話

用著玩笑的身分

霸佔朋友的姿態愛著一個人

想說愛你 想要抱你

想你走進我的生活裡

想未來一切可能多美好

原來只是我而已

我喜歡你 最愛是你

我開玩笑的請別介意

愚人節快樂 快樂地椎心

誰能告訴我為何我還停在原地

我已經這樣寫一百首

死心塌地的情歌

感謝是你給我靈感

給得那麼深刻

如果還有什麼遺憾

可能還不夠資格

寫你寫我卻沒能寫成個我們

想說愛你 想要抱你

想你走進我的生活裡

想未來一切可能多美好

原來只是我而已

我喜歡你 最愛是你

我開玩笑的請別介意

愚人節快樂 快樂地椎心

誰能告訴我為何我還停在原地 yeah

無法愛你 無法抱你

無法讓你聽見我的心

無法克制重複想起那些

失去意義的或許

我喜歡你 最愛是你

我最後也沒走到結局

愚人節快樂 就停在這裡

說不出口的祝福就當我欠你

愚人不快樂 但身不由己

捨不得走的我還在等什麼奇蹟

Key Grammar Structures

• 就這樣陪你走著走著

  ➔ Progressive aspect

  ➔ The phrase uses the progressive aspect to describe an ongoing action, 'walking with you', emphasizing the continuous nature of the activity.

• 又是幾年過了呢?

  ➔ Rhetorical question

  ➔ This is a rhetorical question used to express reflection or surprise, 'How many years have passed again?', without expecting a direct answer.

• 彷彿時間不怕蹉跎

  ➔ Simile

  ➔ The simile 'As if time is not afraid of being wasted' compares time to something fearless, emphasizing its relentless passage.

• 用著玩笑的身分

  ➔ Adnominal modification

  ➔ The phrase 'using the identity of a joke' uses adnominal modification to describe the manner in which the identity is employed.

• 想說愛你 想要抱你

  ➔ Coordinate conjunction

  ➔ The coordinate conjunction 'want to tell you I love you, want to hug you' connects two related ideas, expressing multiple desires.

• 原來只是我而已

  ➔ Emphasis particle

  ➔ The emphasis particle 'only' in 'it turns out it was only me' highlights the exclusivity of the speaker's feelings.

• 我開玩笑的請別介意

  ➔ Hortative mood

  ➔ The hortative mood in 'I'm joking, please don't mind' is used to politely ask the listener not to take the statement seriously.

• 誰能告訴我為何我還停在原地

  ➔ Indirect question

  ➔ The indirect question 'Who can tell me why I'm still standing still?' is used to express confusion or seek an explanation without directly asking.

• 無法愛你 無法抱你

  ➔ Negation

  ➔ The negation 'cannot love you, cannot hug you' emphasizes the inability to perform the actions, highlighting the emotional barrier.

• 說不出口的祝福就當我欠你

  ➔ Conditional clause

  ➔ The conditional clause 'the blessing I can't say, consider it as my debt to you' expresses a condition where the speaker owes something due to unspoken words.