苦瓜

• Par: 陳奕迅
• Album: Stranger under my skin

Paroles:

[中文]

[English]

共你乾杯再舉箸 突然間相看莞爾 盤中透著那味兒

Cheers with you, raising our chopsticks suddenly we exchange a smiling glance, there's that flavor in the dish

大概今生有些事 是提早都不可以 明白其妙處

Perhaps in this life, some things are just not meant to be understood early on—trying to grasp their wonder

就像你當日痛心她回絕一番美意

Like the day you were heartbroken when she refused your kind offer

怎發現你從情劫亦能學懂開解與寬恕

How did you learn to forgive and find peace even after love's trials?

也像我很糾結的公事 此際回頭看 原來並沒有事

Just like my complicated work—looking back now, I realize it was all just a matter of nothing

真想不到當初我們也討厭吃苦瓜

I never expected we also hated bitter gourd back then

今天竟吃得出那睿智愈來愈記掛

Today, I can taste the wisdom growing, now I keep thinking about it

開始時捱一些苦 栽種絕處的花

Starting with some苦, planting flowers in impossible places

幸得艱辛的引路甜蜜不致太寡

Thanks to hardships guiding us, sweetness isn’t so scarce

青春的快餐只要求快不理哪一家

Youth’s fast food only cares about quickness, not which place it's from

哪有玩味的空檔來欣賞細緻淡雅

There’s no time for playful delicacy and elegance

到大悟大徹將虎嚥的昇華 等消化學沏茶

Until enlightenment turns the beast into a sublime, sipping tea after digestion

至共你覺得苦也不太差

Then you feel that苦 isn’t so bad after all

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下半生竟再開學 入迷的終於醒覺 移走最後的死角

In the second half of life, going back to school, finally awakening from obsession, clearing the last blind spots

用痛苦烘托歡樂 讓餘甘彰顯險惡 如藝壇傑作

Using pain to highlight joy, letting the aftertaste reveal the evil—like a masterpiece in art

就像我一直聽香夭從未沾濕眼角

Just like I’ve always listened to fragrance without ever tearing up

仔細地看神壇裡木紋什麼精巧也不覺

Carefully observing the woodgrain in the altar—nothing seems too intricate

卻在某蕭瑟晚秋深夜 忽爾明瞭了 而黃葉便碎落

But on a bleak late autumn night, suddenly I understand, and yellow leaves fall apart

真想不到當初我們也討厭吃苦瓜

I never expected we also hated苦瓜 back then

今天竟吃得出那睿智愈來愈記掛

Today, I taste the wisdom, growing more earnest in thought

開始時捱一些苦 栽種絕處的花

Starting with some苦, planting flowers in impossible places

幸得艱辛的引路甜蜜不致太寡

Thanks to hardships guiding us, sweetness isn’t so scarce

青春的快餐只要求快不理哪一家

Youth’s fast food only cares about quickness, not which place it's from

哪有玩味的空檔來欣賞細緻淡雅

There’s no time for playful delicacy and elegance

到大悟大徹將虎嚥的昇華 等消化學沏茶

Until enlightenment turns the beast into a sublime, sipping tea after digestion

至共你覺得苦也不太差

Then you feel that苦 isn’t so bad after all

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做人沒有苦澀可以嗎

Can life be without苦, without bitterness?

真想不到當初我們也討厭吃苦瓜

I never expected we also hated苦瓜 back then

當睇清世間所有定理又何用再怕

Once you see clearly the truths of the world, what’s there to fear?

珍惜淡定的心境 苦過後更加清

Cherish a calm mind—after苦, clarity comes even more

萬般過去亦無味但有領會留下

All the past is tasteless, but lessons remain

今天先記得聽過人說這叫半生瓜

Today I remember hearing someone say this is ‘half-gourd’

那意味著它的美年輕不會洞察嗎

Which means its beauty in youth can’t be fully understood?

到大悟大徹將一切都昇華 這一秒坐擁晚霞

Until enlightenment elevates everything, basking in the sunset’s glow in this moment

我共你覺得苦也不太差

I and you still feel that苦 isn’t so bad

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