“Diễm xưa” is one of the most famous songs by Trịnh Cộng Sơn. For many Vietnamese, it is the mother of all love songs, bring us the exquisite misery of being in love. The original title “Diễm xưa” can be understood by different ways: “Bygone Diễm” (with “Diễm” is a Vietnamese name for girls, some articles said the girl named “Diễm” is Trịnh Công Sơn’s love-interesting), “Old Charm” (“diễm” means “beautiful” / “charm”), “Old Flame” (some people thinks “diễm” meaning is “flame”). The song also has a Japanese version, “Utsukushii Mukashi”, sung by Yoshimi Tendo (this song is the main theme song of NHK drama “Saigon, came from his wife and daughter” – 1978, and also incorporated into the Vietnamese culture courses of Kwansei Gakuin University).
I think Trịnh Công Sơn’s lyrics are really difficult to translate from Vietnamese to English. They usually have many symbolism and metaphors that only the writer himself can truly understand. The lyrics are so beautiful in Vietnamese, not just the meaning, but also the way they sound, the way Trịnh Công Sơn arranges the words.
Diễm Xưa – Trịnh Công Sơn
Khánh Ly’s 1967 version
Saxophone version
Lee Kirby’s acoustic version
Lyrics meaning (translated by Gigi)
The rain still falls on the ancient temple
Your slender long arms, your pale eyes
Autumn leaves fall, the sound of soft footsteps
My eyes look to the distance, straining to see
The rain still falls on the piles of small leaves
In the afternoon I sit and gaze at the passing rain
Leaves silently fall upon your footsteps
Coldness suddenly invades my soul, leaving me shivering
The evening rain still falls, so why don’t you come?
Memories in the midst of a buried pain
How can we have each other, marks of pain appear
I beg you to return soon
The rain still falls, life’s like a boisterous sea
How do you remember the traces the migrating birds left behind?
Please let the rain pass over this vast region
So the wanderer can forget he’s wandering
The rain still falls, life’s like a boisterous sea
How do you know that a gravestone feels no pain?
Please let the rain pass over this vast region
Even the stones will need each other for the days to come.
Somewhere only we know
Artist: Lifehouse (Cover) | Shared by dear Vitamin P on his FB
I walked across an empty land
I knew the pathway like the back of my hand
I felt the earth beneath my feet
Sat by the river and it made me complete
Oh simple thing, where have you gone?
I’m getting old and I need something to rely on
So tell me when you’re gonna let me in
I’m getting tired and I need somewhere to begin
I came across a fallen tree
I felt the branches of it looking at me
Is this the place we used to love?
Is this the place that I’ve been dreaming of?
Oh simple thing, where have you gone?
I’m getting old and I need something to rely on
So tell me when you’re gonna let me in
I’m getting tired and I need somewhere to begin
And if you have a minute, why don’t we go
Talk about it somewhere only we know?
This could be the end of everything
So why don’t we go somewhere only we know?
Somewhere only we know
Oh simple thing, where have you gone?
I’m getting old and I need something to rely on
So tell me when you’re gonna let me in
I’m getting tired and I need somewhere to begin
And if you have a minute, why don’t we go
Talk about it somewhere only we know?
This could be the end of everything
So why don’t we go? So why don’t we go?
Oh, this could be the end of everything
So why don’t we go somewhere only we know?
Somewhere only we know
Somewhere only we know
Close your eyes
Artist: Witwisit Hirananyawongkul (Pchy) | Movie: “Dream” | MV edited by mol
Lyric meaning:
“Close your eyes… my dear,
Hope you can sleep comfortably at this moment,
Softly sing you a love song and let you sleep calmly,
Before the sun rises……
Close your eyes… my dear,
Nothing for you to worry,
The burden that youre carrying,
Lets go through it like a dream…
If you know how important you are,
If you know how much someone loves you?
If you know he is willing to do anything for you,
All for the sake of making you happy…
You… probably need not to worry,
Need not to bother about that trifling matter,
Probably need not to feel upset,
Just find someone to ease your pain,
There is someone who is willing,
To go through the troubles with you,
Just want you to know…
Close your eyes… my dear,
Just walk through the long path,
Just hold my hand and trust me,
I’ll give you all my love…”
“Run” by Snow Patrol | “The love of Siam” by Chookiat Sakveerakul | MV edited by mol
Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tcPJ1r3yjM
I’ll sing it one last time for you
Then we really have to go
You’ve been the only thing that’s right
In all I’ve done
And I can barely look at you
But every single time I do
I know we’ll make it anywhere
Away from here
Light up, light up
As if you have a choice
Even if you cannot hear my voice
I’ll be right beside you dear
Louder, louder
And we’ll run for our lives
I can hardly speak I understand
Why you can’t raise your voice to say
To think I might not see those eyes
Makes it so hard not to cry
And as we say our long goodbye
I nearly do
Light up, light up
As if you have a choice
Even if you cannot hear my voice
I’ll be right beside you dear
Louder, louder
And we’ll run for our lives
I can hardly speak I understand
Why you can’t raise your voice to say
Slower, slower
We don’t have time for that
All I want is to find an easier way
To get out of our little heads
Have heart my dear
We’re bound to be afraid
Even if it’s just for a few days
Making up for all this mess
Light up, light up
As if you have a choice
Even if you cannot hear my voice
I’ll be right beside you dear
Vu Lan có thể nghe nhạc rock, Sunflowers – Everclear
2. Hôm nay cũng là sinh nhật Doraemon 
Sau Vinh Ca, đây là Xử Nữ dễ thương nhất trên đời :”))
Trường Pchy tổ chức hoạt động văn hóa giao lưu gì đó, sinh viên làm MV quảng cáo, sinh viên gương mẫu nên em cũng tham gia ^^ Thấy nội dung MV dễ thương, lại phù hợp với nội dung bài hát yêu thích gần đây nên lấy về edit lại :”) Tên bài hát là “Sweet Disposition”, soundtrack của “500 days of Summer” (4/9 này công chiếu ở VN, phim của Joey – người vừa đóng vai Corba Commander trong G.I. Joe), MV gốc ở đây: “Match” MV
Sweet Disposition
The Temper Trap | Original “Match” MV by Thammasat Uni Students
sweet disposition
never too soon
oh reckless abandon
like no one’s
watching you
a moment, a love
a dream, a laugh
a kiss, a cry
our rights, our wrongs
a moment, a love
a dream, a laugh
a moment, a love
a dream, a laugh
chorus
just stay there
cause i’ll be comin over
and while our bloods still young
it’s so young
it runs
and we won’t stop til it’s over
won’t stop to surrender
songs of desperation
I played them for you
a moment, a love
a dream, a laugh
a kiss, a cry
our rights, our wrongs
a moment, a love
a dream, a laugh
a moment, a love
a dream, a laugh
chorus
just stay there
cause i’ll be comin over
and while our bloods still young
it’s so young
it runs
and we won’t stop til it’s over
won’t stop to surrender
a moment, a love
a dream, a laugh
a kiss, a cry
our rights, our wrongs (won’t stop til it’s over)
a moment, a love
a dream, a laugh
a kiss, a cry
our rights, our wrongs(won’t stop til it’s over)
a moment, a love
a dream, a laugh
a kiss, a cry
our rights, our wrongs (won’t stop til it’s over)
a moment, a love
a dream, a laugh
a moment, a love
a moment, a love (won’t stop to surrender)
Thứ bảy đó từ Nha Trang vào (đám cưới chị, chuyện ba má gặp lại như phim, chưa biết kể thế nào), không ngần ngại xóa hết nhưng lời than vãn. Trên cái gác lửng thiếu ánh sáng đó (giờ đã là chỗ ở cũ), lòng cứ thấy nhẹ nhàng. Sau này thế nào cũng không rõ, chỉ mong không có chuyện gì khiến bản thân phải hối hận, muốn giữ tâm trạng lạc quan như thế này, nhè nhẹ man mát như mưa hôm nay. Chỗ ở mới đầu ngõ có quán kem, có thể là một dấu hiệu tốt 
Kể chuyện fangirl một em trai mới đây (thật sự chưa bao giờ mình ngần ngại bày tỏ tình cảm với thần-tượng vốn là người xa lạ), không phải vì bộ phim em đóng (phim này chỉ thật sự thích sau khi đã yêu thích em), có một chút vì khi em cười thì cả khuôn mặt đều cười theo – ai nhìn cũng thấy dễ chịu. Giọng hát em không hàn lâm không xuất sắc – chỉ nghe dễ thương và dễ chịu, thanh nhẹ gần như giọng nữ. Nhưng chắc chắn có một bài hát của em mà sẽ phải nhớ hoài ^^
Other translation:
The our old beautiful day.
May be ending up that way
It’s because we only use that time make each other… sad.
In actually that sweet day have already pass.
But we still hope that remain diluted love will be the same as before.
(*repeat) We hope too much.
Until it turn to understanding that “Time will change sth used to be”
Not except only “The love” that attach to each other and pity.
Until one day it changes us to became someone we don’t know.
Sometime we just only dummy. Sometime we just only lonely guy.
Sometime we might want only “both of us” that have already lost.
Sometime we’re just only simply guy that don’t understand
In meaning of love that profound and very great
More than can occupy.
We ever thought that both of us understand “the love”
And try to act that we ever knew “the trust”
Although we have ever promissed that won’t occupy…
We just handle with care.
But the love make everything not easy.
Sometime we just only dummy. Sometime we just only lonely guy.
Sometime we might want only “We” that have already lost.
Sometime we’re just only simply guy that don’t understand..
In meaning of love that profound and very great
More than can occupy.
We ever thought that both of us understand “the love”
And try to act that we ever knew “the trust”
Although we have ever promissed that won’t occupy…
We just handle with care.
But the love make everything not easy.
Then… Does it will pass?
Then… When we can forgot it?
Then… Who can hold this broken heart?
Love… is the source of happyness.
But love.. also recall it back.
Don’t know.. Anyone plz tell me just one time what is love.
.
What is it….
Anyone…please tell…
i’m yours
Jason Mraz | Album “We Sing. We Dance. We Steal Things”
I tried to be chill but your so hot that I melted
I fell right through the cracks, now I’m tryin to get back
before the cool done run out I’ll be givin it my best test
and nothin’s gonna stop me but divine intervention
I reckon it’s again my turn to win some or learn some
But I won’t hesitate no more,
no more, it cannot wait
I’m yours
Well open up your mind and see like me
open up your plans and damn you’re free
look into your heart and you’ll find love love love love
listen to the music at the moment people dance and sing with me
Were just 1 big family
And it’s our godforsaken right to be loved loved loved loved loved
So, i won’t hesitate no more,
no more, it cannot wait i’m sure
there’s no need to complicate our time is short
this is our fate
I’m yours
Scooch on over closer, dear
And I will nibble your ear
I’ve been spendin’ way too long checkin’ my tongue in the mirror
and bendin’ over backwards just to try to see it clearer
But my breath fogged up the glass
and so I drew a new face and I laughed
I guess what I’d be sayin’ is there ain’t no better reason
to rid yourself of vanities and just go with the seasons
it’s what we aim to do
our name is our virtue
But I won’t hesitate no more,
no more it cannot wait
I’m yours
well open up your mind and see like me
open up your plans and damn you’re free
look into your heart and you’ll find love love love love
listen to the music of the moment come and dance with me
ah, la one big family
it’s your god forsaken right to be loved, loved, loved, loved
open up your mind and see like me
open up your plans and damn you’re free
look into your heart and you’ll find love love love love
listen to the music of the moment come and dance with me
ah, la happy family
it’s our god forsaken right to be loved loved loved loved
it’s our god forsaken right to be loved loved loved loved
listen to the music of the moment come and dance with me
ah, la peaceful melodies
it’s you god forsaken right to be loved loved loved loved
Photo: DNKA | PS Editing: mol
Muốn xem lại “Eye of the Beholder” (1999) ‘___’
Cảm ơn bạn T đã gởi hình ‘ ‘
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From “Happy Together Soundtrack”
Sung by Frank Zappa
I have been in you, baby
And you
Have been in me
And we
Have be
So intimately
Entwined
And it sure was fine
I have been in you, baby
And you
Have been in me
And so you see
We
Have be so together
I thought that we would never
Return from forever
Return from forever
Return from forever…
You
Have been in me
And understandably
I have been in ‘n’ outa you
An’ everywhere
You want me to
Yes, you know it’s true
And while
I was inside
I mighta been
Undignified
And that is maybe
Why you cried
I don’t know
Maybe so,
But what’s the difference now?
I have been in you, baby
You have been in me
Aw’ little girl, there ain’t no time
To wash yer stinky hand
Go ‘head ‘n’ roll over
I’m goin’ in you again
In you again
In you again
In you again…
I’m goin’ in you again-ahhh
In you again, ah!
In you again – ahhh
In you again, ah!
In you again – ahhh
In you again, ah!
In you again – ahhh
In you again, ah!
I’m going in you again, baby
‘N’ can go in me too,
That’s true
I’m goin’ in you again, baby
‘N’ later when we get through
I’m goin’ in you again – ahh
In you again, ah!
In you again – ahhh
In you again, ah!
In you again – ahhh
In you again, ah!
In you again – ahhh