(杭州市城市宣传主题音乐•系列作品)
作词: 东山居士&泽希
混音:东山居士
Mist creeps up the hills through Longjing tea rows
The tea maker’s not here the stove still dozes
Frost froze a half-line on the leaf’s fine edge
The wind comes and blows it away gentle and low
Guqin strings hang between the third and fourth mark
The listener closes his eyes finds his own heart
He hears the water flow hears himself by the lake that day
Thinking nothing at all
sitting still through the whole afternoon’s haze
The lake never waits
It just is always stays
Ask the mountain it’s mute where the clouds arise
Ask the water it’s quiet ‘fore the moon dips low in the skies
Hangzhou gifts me a misty soft embrace
I give back half a day of peaceful quiet grace
Zhijiang Culture Center flute winds through the hall
A Yunnan craftsman breathes valley echoes in bamboo tall
He says West Lake’s waves and his Lancang River’s tide
Both swell to the banks when the rainy seasons ride
Ask the mountain it’s mute where the clouds arise
Ask the water it’s quiet ‘fore the moon dips low in the skies
Hangzhou gifts me a misty soft embrace
I give back half a day of peaceful quiet grace
A yogi from India teaches breath by West Lake’s shore
One breath out—the Qiantang tide roars;
One breath in—Longjing mist pours
Mountains and rivers belong to no one you see
They just let us breathe slowly gently
Ask the mountain it’s mute where the heart finds peace
Ask the water it’s quiet where your path won’t cease
Hangzhou has nothing else but gives this lake’s slow ease
When you arrive the mist starts to leave soft and lease