Half Hour Look Back(叙事抒情版・V4.0)
作词:泽希(Zesen)&东山居士(Easthill Hermit)
混音:东山居士(Easthill Hermit)
(天津市城市宣传主题音乐系列)
Breezes wandered cross the grassland years ago
A newborn babe three days old found warmth and home
Her adoptive father passed while she was young
Her mother remarried life had just begun
Her stepfather loved her as his very own
Shielded her childhood made her heart feel known
When marriage came she made a gentle choice
To stay and guard her family voice her loyal voice
To walk beside them through the dusk and dawn
A patched-up family’s light was newly drawn
A bitter winter warmed by old coal fire
Silent gas harmed her parents’tired frame
Her stepfather bore permanent affliction
No longer could he walk or care for his own life
A half-hour glance back a lifetime’s faithful guard
The clock strikes three times she hurries homeward hard
Warm porridge waits upon the kitchen stove
Clean sheets are laid with tender care bestowed
A soft call echoes: I am home
These simple words have warmed half her lifetime’s road
After her stepfather left the mortal world
Her mother’s hearing slowly faded pearl by pearl
She leans close by her voice warm and clear
Letting her mother feel love always near
Her own child grew and settled far away
Calls arrive on the fifteenth without delay
The child asks gently: what do you need today
She smiles and answers: nothing’s lacking come what may
Silence falls softly across the distant line
The old tree by the gate they planted side by side
He’s gone yet its branches still abide
Each autumn brings fallen fruits across the ground
She picks them one by one with fond memories bound
Too cherished to taste too precious to lay down
A half-hour glance back a lifetime’s faithful guard
The clock strikes three times she hurries homeward hard
Warm porridge waits upon the kitchen stove
Clean sheets are laid with tender care bestowed
A soft call echoes: I am home
These simple words have warmed half her lifetime’s road
Her child takes leave to take her far away
To chase a break from ordinary day
Yet far from home her heart still lingers here
Tied to the house she holds so dear
She says she only does what’s right and true
To care for elders see their days through
To guard her family steady and upright
This is the duty of a loving life
A half-hour glance back a lifetime’s faithful guard
The clock strikes three times she hurries homeward hard
Warm porridge waits upon the kitchen stove
Clean sheets are laid with tender care bestowed
A soft call echoes: I am home
These simple words have warmed half her lifetime’s road
These simple words have warmed half her lifetime’s road
I am home