Top songs in Cath's Playlist (1) ^^

Hi all, how are you? This time, I am going to share songs that I keep listening in my playlist! I am quite eclectic in songs choice, so you can find a different variety of songs here, mostly cos I love the melody, the groove, and the beautiful lyrics. Enjoy! You can right click and download the songs. Feel free to comment or tell me should any of these are not downloadable. ^^

1. Villagers - Becoming a Jackal 
2. Kim Tae Woo - Dropping rain (Korean)
3. Jay Chow - Ju Hua Tai (Chinese)
4. Chaba - Parade Ost Naruto (Japanese) 
5. Azure Ray - Sleep
6. DBSK - Mirotic (Korean) 
7. SHINee - Hello (Korean) 
8. T-Max - Fight the bad feeling (Korean) 
9. Stevie Ray Vaughn - Lenny (Guitar)
10. Remioromen - Konayuki (Japanese)  
11. Putri Ayu - Matahari (Indonesian)
12. Amanda Seyfried - Little house 
13. Homemade Kazoku - Nagareboshi shooting star (Japanese)
14. Hey Junoon Remix (Hindi) 
15. Lucky Ali - Tere Mere Saath Jo Hotahai (Hindi) 

Ju Hua Tai (Chrysanthemum Flower Bed)

I love this song, very touching and poetic. It's the soundtrack of a Chinese movie "Curse of The Golden Flower", one of the chinese movies I like so much.
So, here is the lyric and the translation of the song.

妳　的淚光　柔弱中帶傷
ni / de lei guang / rou ruo zhong dai shang
Your tears reflect pain in its tenderness

慘白的月彎彎　勾住過往
can bai de yue wan wan / gou zhu guo wang
The pale white crescent moon hooks onto the past

夜　太漫長　凝結成了霜
ye / tai man chang / ning jie cheng le shuang
The endless night freezing into frost

是誰在閣樓上　冰冷的絕望
shi shui zai ge lou shang / bing leng de jue wang
Who is in the loft, in icy cold despair


雨　輕輕彈　朱紅色的窗
yu / qing qing tan / zhu hong se de chuang
Rain gently bouncing off the vermillon window

我一生在紙上　被風吹亂
wo yi sheng zai zhi shang / bei feng chui luan
My entire life on paper, messed up by the wind

夢　在遠方　化成一縷香
meng / zai yuan fang / hua cheng yi lv xiang
Dreams become faint in a faraway place

隨風飄散　妳的模樣
sui feng piao san / ni de mo yang
The image of you, drifting in the wind

＊菊花殘　滿地傷　妳的笑容已泛黃
ju hua can / man di shang / ni de xiao rong yi fan huang
Crushed chrysanthemums reflect our pain. Your smile has faded

花落人斷腸　我心事靜靜躺
hua luo ren duan chang / wo xin shi jing jing tang
Hearts broken into million pieces like petals falling, I lay my troubles aside

北風亂　夜未央　妳的影子剪不斷
bei feng luan / ye wei yang / ni de ying zi jian bu duan
Northern winds gush and the night is still young. Unable to shake off your shadow

徒留我孤單　在湖面　成雙＊
tu liu wo gu dan / zai hu mian / cheng shuang
Leaving me alone with my reflection in the water


花　已向晚　飄落了燦爛
hua / yi xiang wan / piao luo le can lan
Flowers at dusk, fallen splendor

凋謝的世道上　命運不堪
diao xie de shi dao shang / ming yun bu kan
Withering social values, Unthinkable fate

愁　莫渡江　秋心拆兩半
chou / muo du jiang / qiu xin chai liang ban
Don’t cross the river. Worries tearing my heart into half

怕妳上不了岸　一輩子搖晃
pa ni shang bu liao an / yi bei zi yao huang
Afraid that you will be unable to get back ashore, floating for the rest of your life


誰　的江山　馬蹄聲狂亂
shui / de jiang shan / ma ti sheng guang luan
Whose territory is this? Hysterical galloping of horses

我一身的戎裝　呼嘯滄桑
wo yi shen de rong zhuang / hu xiao cang sang
Fully armoured, My life whizzed me by

天　微微亮　妳輕聲的嘆
tian / wei wei liang / ni qing sheng de tan
Coming dawn, you sigh softly

一夜惆悵　如此委婉
yi ye chou chang / ru ci wei wan
A melancholy night such tactful indirectness

REPEAT＊＊

À la claire fontaine ♥ (From The Painted Veil movie)

There's this song that I currently love so much, It's in The Painted Veil soundtrack. It was sung by Shang Wen-jie, the winner of last year's "Super Voice Girl" singing contest in China. She just graduated from the Shanghai-based Fudan University as a French major.

 Here is the song, you can download here, just right click and save as:
Download Ala claire Fontaine 

À la claire fontaine
At the Clear Fountain
Chanson enfantine   

(French)

À la claire fontaine,
M'en allant promener
J'ai trouvé l'eau si belle
Que je m'y suis baigné

Refrain :
Il y a longtemps que je t'aime
Jamais je ne t'oublierai

Sous les feuilles d'un chêne,
Je me suis fait sécher
Sur la plus haute branche,
Un rossignol chantait

Refrain :
Il y a longtemps que je t'aime
Jamais je ne t'oublierai

Chante rossignol, chante,
Toi qui as le c?ur gai
Tu as le c?ur à rire,
Moi je l'ai à pleurer

Refrain :
Il y a longtemps que je t'aime
Jamais je ne t'oublierai

J'ai perdu mon amie,
Sans l'avoir mérité
Pour un bouquet de roses,
Que je lui refusais

Refrain :
Il y a longtemps que je t'aime
Jamais je ne t'oublierai

Je voudrais que la rose,
Fût encore au rosier
Et que ma douce amie
Fût encore à m'aimer
(autre version:
Et que le rosier même
À la mer fût jeté.)

Refrain :
Il y a longtemps que je t'aime
Jamais je ne t'oublierai

(English)
At the clear fountain,
While I was strolling by,
I found the water so nice
That I went in to bathe.

Chorus
So long I've been loving you,
I will never forget you.

Under an oak tree,
I dried myself.
On the highest branch,
A nightingale was singing.

Chorus
So long I've been loving you,
I will never forget you.

Sing, nightingale, sing,
Your heart is so happy.

Your heart feels like laughing,
Mine feels like weeping.

Chorus
So long I've been loving you,
I will never forget you.

I lost my beloved,
Without deserving it,
For a bunch of roses,
That I denied her.

Chorus
So long I've been loving you,
I will never forget you.

I wanted the rose
To be still on the bush,
And my sweet beloved
To be still loving me.
(other version:
And even the rosebush
To be thrown in the sea.)

Chorus
So long I've been loving you,
I will never forget you.

Fa Ru Xue (music video)

This is one of my most favourite mandarin songs! Enjoy...



狼牙月 伊人憔悴
lang ya yue / yi ren qiao cui
A crescent moon, my loved one  is waned and sallow 
 
我举杯 饮尽了风雪
wo ju bei / yin jin le feng xue
I raise a cup and drank in the frost

是谁打翻前世柜
shi shui da fan qian shi gui
Who overturned the box of incarnations

惹尘埃是非
re chen ai shi fei
Evoking arguments

缘字诀 几番轮回
yuan zi jue / ji fan lun hui
A predestined formula of fate undergoes countless reincarnations

你锁眉 哭红颜唤不回
ni suo mei / ku hong yan huan bu hui
You frowned, crying  for love lost

纵然青史已经成灰
zong ran qing shi yi jing cheng hui
Even if the annals of history had already become dust

我爱不灭
wo ai bu mie
My love will not disappear

繁华如三千东流水
fan hua ru san qian dong liu shui
Grandeur is like three thousand waters flowing south

我只取一瓢爱了解
wo zhi qu yi piao ai liao jie
Yet I only choose a ladle of love to comprehend

只恋你化身的蝶
zhi lian ni hua shen de die
Only long for your butterfly incarnation

你发如雪 凄美了离别
ni fa ru xue / qi mei le li bie
Your hair is like snow, making our parting chillingly beautiful

我焚香感动了谁
wo fen xiang gan dong le shui
Who's moved by my (offerings of) incense?

邀明月让回忆皎洁
yao ming yue rang hui yi jiao jie
Inviting the full moon to highlight my memories

爱在月光下完美
ai zai yue guang xia wan mei
Love becomes pure beneath the moonlight

你发如雪 纷飞了眼泪
ni fa ru xue / fen fei le yan lei
Your hair is like snow, your tears are flying

我等待苍老了谁
wo deng dai cang lao le shui
Who had waned while I waited?

红尘醉 微醺的岁月
hong chen zui / wei xun de sui yue
In the era of mortal intoxication

我用无悔 刻永世爱你的碑
wo yong wu hui / ke yong shi ai ni de bei
I'll use my devotion to carve a tablet of love for you

(Rap)
你发如雪 凄美了离别
ni fa ru xue / qi mei le li bie
Your hair is like snow, making our parting chillingly beautiful

我焚香感动了谁
wo fen xiang gan dong le shui
Who is moved by my (offerings of) incense?

邀明月让回忆皎洁
yao ming yue rang hui yi jiao jie
Inviting the full moon to highlight my memories

爱在月光下完美
ai zai yue guang xia wan mei
Love becomes pure beneath the moonlight

你发如雪 纷飞了眼泪
ni fa ru xue / fen fei le yan lei
Your hair is like snow, your tears are flying

我等待苍老了谁
wo deng dai cang lao le shui
Who had waned while I waited?

红尘醉 微醺的岁月
hong chen zui / wei xun de sui yue
In the era of mortal intoxication

我用无悔 刻永世爱你的碑
wo yong wu hui / ke yong shi ai ni de bei
I'll use my devotion to carve a tablet of love for you

啦儿啦 ~
la er la ~
La er la~

铜镜映无邪 扎马尾
tong jing ying wu xie / zha mai wei
The bronzed mirror reflects a picture of innocence and pigtails

你若撒野 今生我把酒奉陪
ni ruo sa ye / jin sheng wo ba jiu feng pei
Since you (coyly) requested, I'll keep you company and drink with you in this life

Thinking of you... (Music video)

I am really into this song, I find it very sad, beautiful, and Katy's voice is great... Haunted by this song today... I keep repeating her song, and I cry too...

Comparisons are easily done
Once you've had a taste of perfection
Like an apple hanging from a tree
I picked the ripest one, I still got the seed

You said move on, where do I go?
I guess second best is all I will know

You're like an Indian summer in the middle of winter
Like a hard candy with a surprise center
How do I get better once I've had the best?
You said there's tons of fish in the water, so the waters I will test

He kissed my lips, I taste your mouth
He pulled me in, I was disgusted with myself

You're the best, and yes, I do regret
How I could let myself let you go
Now, now the lesson's learned
I touched it, I was burned
I think you should know!

'Cause when I'm with him I am thinking of you
Thinking of you, what you would do
If you were the one who was spending the night
I wish that I was looking into your eyes

Won't you walk through?
And bust in the door and take me away?
No more mistakes, i promise
'Cause in your eyes I'd like to stay..

Memorable songs :P

Sometimes the air just doesn’t provide enough energy. Sometimes mood swing gets the best of everything. Sometimes the lovey-dovey mode just decides to creep gracefully inside and paint everything pastel. Each of these songs tells the most poignant of stories, wrapping itself in the tender caress of delicately-carved melodies. Basically, they are, each of them a recommendation of its own, my trump cards at my poker games of emotion.Upon writing this note, I am listening to these songs in the still of the night   O, what a rapture.

1. Wishing you were somehow here again by Sarah Brightman

Some of the lines are:

"Wishing you were somehow here again
Wishing you were somehow near
Sometimes it seemed if I just dreamed
Somehow you would be here"

"Too many years fighting back tears
Why can't the past just die?"

"No more memories, no more silent tears
No more gazing across the wasted years
Help me say goodbye"

This song reminds me of the loved one I lost in life, it has this poignant memories, but this song is really a remarkable song, with the purest voice of Sarah Brightman, I am absolutely appalled.

2.Love Story by Taylor Swift

“Romeo, save me, I've been feeling so alone.
I keep waiting, for you but you never come.
Is this in my head, I don't know what to think-
He knelt to the ground and pulled out a ring and said...

Marry me Juliet, you'll never have to be alone.
I love you, and that's all I really know.
I talked to your dad -- go pick out a white dress
It's a love story, baby, just say... yes.”

Taylor Swift maybe really young but she definitely had made numerous timeless love songs. Critics call this song ‘a nice twist’ since this song doesn’t take a perspective of a young girl (as Swift’s song usually do) but rather of a time-enduring couple reminiscing the budding of their love. I personally believe that this is her best work so far. The story in the song is about a girl meeting her love for the first time, they fell in love along their dates. The father didn’t approve so they had sneak behind the bushes but eventually the father approved and they’re happy. How dreamy. The best part of the song is perhaps the quality of the words. Swift’s lyrics is very down-to-earth and her stories of “standing in the balcony in summer air”, “sneak out to the garden”, and “waiting for you in the outskirts of town” are personally relatable by the common people. She tells her feeling for each of the moments in the story rather effectively, using simple but concrete phrases like “this love is difficult but it’s real” and “baby, just say… yes”; and on top of that, she makes it interesting by making poetic references such as “Romeo and Juliet” and “I was a scarlet letter”. “Love Story” is one of the best love songs because of its lyrics is a perfect fit in the pocket: it is truly a story of love.

3. I dreamed a dream by Hayley Westenra/ Susan Boyle

"And still I dream he'll come to me
That we will live the years together
But there are dreams that cannot be
And there are storms we cannot weather

I had a dream my life would be
So different from this hell I'm living
So different now from what it seemed
Now life has killed the dream I dreamed."

I love this song, it's like a child's view of the world, but now she's grown up, but she still dreams of her lost love, who took away her childhood. The closing line really strikes me, though "Now life has killed the dream I dreamed."

4. I finally found someone by Bryan Adams and Barbara Streisand

"I finally found someone
That knocks me off my feet
I finally found the one
That makes me feel complete
It started over coffe
We strated out as friends
It's funny how from simple things
The best things begin

This time is different
And it's all because of you
It's better than it's ever been
'Cause we can talk it through
My favourite line was
"Can I call you sometime"
It's all you had to say
To take my breath away "


Of course, this song, one of the most memorable song that I ever had with someone I cared about so much, He who introduced this song to me was someone who was really really special.

5.  Learn to be lonely -Ost The Phantom of the Opera

It's a dark song with a very nice melody. It gives a pathetic feeling. But as it goes dark, the song itself is sweet and not that dark. Nice combination.

6. Part of your world - Jessica Simpson Ost Little Mermaid

I wanna be where the people are
I wanna see wannna see em dancing...

So sweet, my lovely Little Mermaid song, on how the Mermaid really wanna be human. When I listen to this song, It occurs to me that sometimes we really dream on something that seems impossible for us, and only can dream...It doesn't hurt to dream, anyway. Or does it?