Me

I still remember, when I was young, the ideas written on my homework notebook
Those naïve illusions, today where can they be found?
Leaving the internet café at three in the morning, I’ve conquered Lineage, Age of Empires, Half Life
In the virtual world, I’m a hero, then return to my pointless life in reality
oh my god,oh my god who am I ? My nickname is “the Michael Jordon of talk”
oh my god,oh my god who am I ? My motto is “I’m confused, therefore I am”

I’ve been happy, yeah yeah yeah, and I’ve lost before, woah woah woah
The butterfly flies free of the diving bell, but I stay stopped in my original place
You can’t stop time, yeah yeah yeah, there will always be regrets, woah woah woah
I don’t want my life to always be this way, to the end my life always this way, this kind of me

This kind of daring me, innocent me, complicated me, cold me, hot me
Boring me, lazy me, always doubting me
Speaking without listening, listening without doing, doing then not doing it well – that's me
Buy a dream, a 50 kuai dream, anticipate a one in five million kind of miracle taking place

From now on, what I want, what I like, that’s just what I’ll have
But my life can still work for, pursue, desire what?

Have you ever wanna be a spaceman?
Have you ever wanna be a president?
Or you're still a daydreaming maker?
Have you ever wanna be wanna be wanna be wanna be

I still remember, when I was young, the ideas written on my homework notebook
Those naïve illusions, today where can they be found?

Notes: The lines in bold are in English in the original song; they are left unchanged. The first time I tried to translate this, I got to the third line and gave up. Not being a fifteen-year-old Taiwanese boy, or a fan of online gaming at all, I failed to recognize "天堂世紀帝國直達戰慄時空" as a list of computer games, even with the "internet cafe" hint in the same line. Only after I googled the phrase and got mostly gaming magazines as results did I figure it out, and then set out finding the English titles. "The butterfly flies free of the diving bell" comes from a book by Jean-Dominique Bauby, who had a stroke and described the experience as having his body weighed down by a diving bell while his mind flew free like a butterfly. 50 kuai is about US $1.50.