Translation of the song 風靈物語 artist Jer Lau

空

The void

千絲　百結　十念　突然　掏空　

A thousand threads, a hundred fetters, ten memories, all give way to the void

千章　百節　十字　沒能力　素描這　幻相　

A thousand chapters, a hundred stanzas, ten words, yet I could not describe this illusion

時間　空間　已空

As time and space become one with the void

風

The wind

思想　意志　慾望　默言　吹送　

Silently delivering my thoughts, my will, my desires

聲音　色彩　結構　下意識　依循　靈風　

The sounds, colours and structures subconsciously trail after the spirited wind

飄渺　聚散　半空

Drifting, gathering and dispersing in mid-air

然後　淚光　一滅　

Then the shimmery tears dissipate

我靈魂　忽爾　醒覺出　笑容　

And my soul suddenly awakens with a smile

恍似　穿過　一個夢　

As if travelling through a dream

夢破醒　也是夢　

I emerge from one dream into another

然後　夜空　熄滅　

Then the night sky fades

看繁星　一點　一點　殞落簷篷　

I look to the stars, as they plummet one by one towards the canopy

細聽　風鈴內　

I listen closely to the wind chimes

響徹　記憶　未朦

Resounding within are memories unblurred

空

Space

千絲　百結　十念　換回　時空　

A thousand threads, a hundred fetters, ten memories, all exchanged for that time and space

千章　百節　十字　用餘力　記錄那　

A thousand chapters, a hundred stanzas, ten words; I muster up my remaining strength to record

深淵內　我心被　抱擁

The moment my heart was embraced in the abyss

隨風

Gone with the wind

思想　意志　慾望　殘留　心痛　

A heartache lingers on in my thoughts, my will, my desires

聲音　色彩　結構　下意識　追尋　時鐘　

The sounds, colours and structures subconsciously track down the clock

捲進　下個夢

And become drawn into the next dream

然後　淚光　一滅　

Then the shimmery tears dissipate

我靈魂　忽爾　醒覺出　笑容　

And my soul suddenly awakens with a smile

恍似　穿過　一個夢

As if travelling through a dream

夢破醒　也是夢

I emerge from one dream into another

然後　夜空　熄滅　

Then the night sky fades

看繁星　一點　一點　變幻無窮　

I look to the stars, as each of them transform without end

像愛　但也　像痛　

’Tis like love, but also pain

掠過　茫茫　宇宙　

I race through the boundless universe

置身　虛空　總撲　一空

Ending up in the void at last with nothing in grasp

生生　世世　終於那　海闊　天空　

Countless lives have met their fate under the same sky

天崩　地裂　漆黑內　默禱　觀照　仰首　迴光　

In the dark I see myself praying, observing, looking up towards the final moments as the world falls apart

未竟　之志　陪我　告終

My unfulfilled ambitions lay me to rest

如被　大海　淹滅　

As if consumed by the sea

我靈魂　忽爾　掙扎出　笑容　

My soul suddenly struggles with a smile

一個　穿過　一個夢　

Travelling alone through a dream

夢破醒　也都是　場夢　

I rouse from it, only to find myself in another dream

然後　望穿　生滅　

And so I see through life and death

每陣風　給我　溫暖　還是凍　

Shall each gust of wind offer me warmth, or coldness?

讓知覺　似痛　也沒痛　

Let my senses feel both pain and the lack of it

細聽　風鈴內　

And listen closely to the wind chimes

失散　轉生　重逢

One may hear within the sounds of separation, reincarnation and reunion