春天的吶喊 Spring’s Scream
曲:怪獸 詞:阿信
Music by Monster, Lyrics by Ashin
| Don’t challenge me to a contest, don’t keep looking
at my report
card, don’t keep being so helpless, don’t keep tolerating, don’t keep hurting my liver Daily ham and eggs, daily pork chop, drumsticks and rice, I need to reform, I need an accident, I need this feeling to stay When sunshine feels cold, mood like a gypsy (1), no one can stop me from breaking free from the ordinary The steering wheel pointed south, never turning (2) until I see the beach, see the ocean, see the future Elatedly scream, morosely scream; throw off pressure, overthrow depression Elatedly scream, energetically scream, scream until sweat runs down, scream until there are no more regrets, how many times in one lifetime can you challenge the world Don’t want to be a role model, don’t want to be well-behaved, I just want to shake, I just want to spin, I just want to stand until my legs grow weak Let winter be defeated, let spring rush onto the stage, let my hot blood turn red, let the sky turn blue, let me destroy boredom Seeing an antelope graze in the grass (3), I’ve fallen in love with nature, too late to wait for my tears to dry, too late to apply sunscreen I only fear this romance was too long in coming, fear the pain is coming too quickly, now let me see the beach, see the ocean, see the future Elatedly scream, morosely scream; throw off pressure, overthrow depression Elatedly scream, energetically scream, scream until sweat runs down, scream until there are no more regrets, how many times in one lifetime can you challenge the world How many times in one lifetime can you finally be free of meddling How many times in one lifetime can you challenge the world |
不要叫我比賽 不要再看我成績單 不要再無奈 不要再忍耐 不要再讓我傷肝 天天都火腿蛋 天天都排骨雞腿飯 我需要扭轉 我需要意外 我需要感覺存在 當陽光很冷淡 心情很吉普賽 沒人能擋住我 跟平凡掰掰 方向盤指向南 一路都不轉彎 除非我看到沙灘 看到大海 看到未來 爽要吶喊 不爽更要喊 壓力要甩 憂鬱要推翻 爽要吶喊 用力的吶喊 喊到流汗 喊到沒遺憾 一生能有幾次 跟世界宣戰 不想再當模範 不想要再當乖乖牌 我只要搖擺 我只想旋轉 我只想閡到腿軟 讓冬天被打敗 讓春天衝上了舞台 讓熱血變紅 讓天空變藍 讓我把無聊炸開 看羚羊草枝擺 我愛上大自然 來不及等淚乾 來不及防曬 浪漫只怕太慢 痛快只怕太快 快讓我看到沙灘 看到大海 看到未來 爽要吶喊 不爽更要喊 壓力要甩 憂鬱要推翻 爽要吶喊 用力的吶喊 喊到流汗 喊到沒遺憾 一生能有幾次 跟世界宣戰 一生能有幾次 終於沒人管 一生能有幾次 跟世界宣戰 |
Language: Mandarin
Copyright 2008 by B'in Music/Rock Records
Translated by Merry
Notes: First of all, thanks to Cat for helping to decode the not-so-hidden messages (to Taiwanese speakers, anyway). Now, let’s do the innocuous notes first. “Spring Scream” is an annual music festival in Taiwan, held in Kenting, the beach town at the far south of the island. So all the references to south, the beach, and going wild can be taken in the context of that event. This song is also an advertising song for Kobron clothing.
As for the rest of it…. hahahaha… ha. Ashin plays with words quite a lot here. Taken at face value, the imagery is bizarre and random but quite clean; peel back a layer and, well, you can’t help but wonder if this song is the reason the album still hasn’t made its way to the mainland. Notes:
(1) The “gypsy” in “mood like a gypsy” is a homonym for “lump of shit” in Taiwanese – so really, you can read the line as “my mood is really shitty” (tsk, tsk, Ashin)
(2) Okay, more fun with Taiwanese swear words: there’s a curse that sounds like “head north (靠北)” that implies you “cry for your father (哭爸)” – i.e. cry for his death. Yeah, it’s mean, I know. But here Ashin talks about heading south and not turning – so he will not turn or risk heading north.
(3) “Seeing an antelope graze in the grass…” yeah, this is probably not actually about antelope. Shocking. The Chinese, “看羚羊草枝擺” is another set of homonyms from Taiwanese, basically saying. “f*ck your mother’s ****.” More or less, anyway. (I’ll never see antelope the same way again.) This line contains another, far more innocent meaning – Ashin is famously adverse to nature (it not being air-conditioned), so you can interpret that “I’ve fallen in love with nature” based on antelope or the alternate reading and decide for yourself what he’s saying here.