Lan Ling Wang Song Translation – 命運 – Ming Yun – Destiny

This is one of the songs in LLW, sung by Ji Jia (家家) called Destiny

So translating this song was really tough. It sounds so beautiful but the lyrics are a bit of a mess and a bit trite. And for some reason, there’s an ant in the lyrics (I tried to make sense of it by adding what I think it intended to mean in brackets by the original words). It’s not really very good as song lyrics go, to be completely honest and I had to interpret some of the words. For example, the lyrics were “I don’t need to live, I don’t want to wake up” which just made it dark, as “if I don’t have you then I shouldn’t be alive” dark. As for the lyrics about ants, I gave up because it was just so bad it was hilarious. Trying to make it make sense was like trying to read russian backwards, it’s already pretty hard reading it forward. But the song composition is really beautiful, the melody is fantastic with a rich bouquet of haunting violin accompaniment and cello solos. Here is the translation of the words:

If the eyes were covered, then can the pain go away as well?
Can you take the mask off, and still be cruel?
If I hadn’t met you, then I wouldn’t have believed
That in life there is the will, the will to keep on loving

Love can let us know each other and our wishes, since we are each others’ lives
And confirm that heaven has a destiny for each of us

Love can allow us to know each others hearts, and touch each others soul
But it can’t not fight against our fate written in the falling stars

I belong to you, to your destiny
I no longer belong to my destiny
I don’t want a life (without you) I don’t want to wake up
I want to hold on to you silently in my dreams

Love has written my history
It can not predict my destiny
The life you’ve given me, in the next life, my life will still be yours

(Cello and drums)

If I can follow you always like a shadow
I would never want to walk alone
If I can become an ant (by you)
I would willingly become that nothing

My life is fated to be yours
It is clear that I can not let you go
Life is a riddle
Because of you it has meaning

Since the beginning, my everything has been for you. My heart has always be loyal to you
I can not be without you
Even if everything changes, even if I can’t save myself
No matter if it is doomed, no matter how many years pass

I belong to you, to your destiny
I no longer control my own destiny
I don’t want a life (without you), I don’t want to wake up
I want to hold on to you silently in my dreams

Love has written my history
It can not predict my destiny
The life you’ve given me, in the next life, my life will still be yours

(Vocals)

I belong to you, to your destiny
I no longer control my own destiny
I don’t want a life (without you), I can not leave you
Even in a storm I can move with peace in my heart

Love has written my history
It can not predict my destiny
The life you’ve given me, will belong to heaven and earth, and to you
Belong to you

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