5.18.2007

妹妹

《妹妹》－ 光良

词：娃娃
曲：林宥佐

你笑说风好大
没说两句话
泪就像雨落下
好好哭一哭有没有带走
眼里那颗沙
看着你在挣扎
还是爱着他
说什么话都多余啊
爱情像个长假
再美的回忆
结束了还是要回家
不管是苦涩还是甜蜜
忘了他他是个傻瓜
他不值得你
还为他流泪牵挂
有太多好男人是你的选择啊
想再看到你笑的灿烂如花
忘了他我的妹妹啊
虽然他也是
我最喜欢的朋友啊
我打算从此再也不见也不理会他
我们把他忘了吧

你说你不怪他
你还是会想他
对爱你已不再有想法
成长的痛苦
原来有那么多的代价

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i still remember the first time i heard this song,
i liked it instantly.
i guess it represented a deep longing in me,
seeded a long time ago, a desire which grows and burns,
a yearning so great yet never fulfilled.

the story, heart wrenching yet heart warming.
a bond so close that you could almost feel the pain of the other,
and that alone forces you to just jump right in,
spread your wings, and wrap them around her.
to protect, to comfort, to stand by her, and to stand up for her,
regardless...all simply because you feel her pain.
(just one such individual would suffice...)

i'm not sure how many of us actually have such an experience,
but it sure must feel safe and warm when you do come across it.
i wonder how often do we actually stand up for one another?
or do we just simply stand by?

i recall some time ago someone was ranting about how
ashamed he was of others, simply because they
failed to stand up for someone in need of help.
so many people witnessed the commotion but
everyone just stood by and watched a stranger get hurt.
i wasn't surprised at all;
it was simply a bystander's effect, diffusion of responsibility.
besides, come on, if we can even stand by and
watch our own friends and loved ones (so we think and proclaim)
get hurt and not say a thing nor do anything about it,
and just pretend everything's gonna be alright in due time,
and carry on with our fine and dandy lives,
what more can we say about a complete stranger?
if we fail to even protect the ones we say we care about,
or am supposed to care about, seriously,
how likely is it then that we will risk ourselves for a complete stranger?
that we confront the other regardless of our own safety?

no, we just want to play it nice,
be the nice one who's understanding to all...
we do not realize what this haste can cost us,
cost others...
often, we just take the easy way out,
coz it's always easier to look the other way.
we're like infants;
thinking if something's not in sight,
it therefore doesn't exists.
we just did things the easier way;
looking away...

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i don't want to look away anymore...
...
i wish you wouldn't too...
...
when we look away,
think about who we are turning our backs to...

Posted by jing at 5/18/2007 10:23:00 AM

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