再也不能这样活 Can’t Live This Way Anymore – Liu Huan

A mountain is in the East, a river is in the West. A cart is in the front, a rut is at the back. The mountain and the river, whichever of them existed first? Whichever rut does your old cart take? Spring, summer, autumn and winter, (the four seasons) flew away, you hurried on, trying to catch up the cart. So you did not enjoy the splendid scenery on the way, and still grind your corn with the same stone when you were back home.

As soon as you shut your eyes you fall asleep, when you open your mouth you only drink. You walk up the mountain in bewilderment, you cross the river in confusion. You cannot live this way any more, you cannot spend (your time) that way any more. Life requires deep thoughts, you have to think before you leap. Life is like climbing high mountains, life is like crossing big rivers. Every step leaves a deep track, every track could be a song.

These are the lyrics of a feature song from a 1980s’ TV Series called “A Fence, A Woman and A Dog” which selected a background of a countryside story while the whole China from cities to the countryside were experiencing big social changes. People started to rethink about the way of their life. Several simple-looked questions raised in succession invoke deep thinking, with the powerful music and powerful voice of China’s No.#1 Singer at that time, this song immediately spread to the whole China. Listen to it, it still invokes at our time now…
Original Lyrics in Chinese
不能这样活 Bù Néng Zhèyàng Huó   作词:张藜   作曲:徐沛东

东边有山,西边有河,前面有车,后面有辙。究竟是先有山,还是先有河,究竟你这挂老车走的是哪道辙?春夏秋冬,忙忙活活,急急匆匆,赶道搭车。一路上的好景色,没仔细琢磨,回到家里还照样推碾子拉磨。

闭上眼睛就睡,张开嘴巴就喝,迷迷登登上山,稀里糊涂过河。再也不能这样活,再也不能那样过,生活就得前思后想,想好了你再做。生活就像爬大山,生活就像趟大河,一步一个深深的脚窝,一个脚窝一支歌。

* mímidēngdēng: puzzled, confused
* xīlihútu: bewildered; confused
* zhé (chēzhé): wheel rut on the ground
* jiǎowō: footprint; foot trace
* tuīniǎnzi, lāmò: to pull rollers

 

This song could be taught at a higher elementary level
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