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this is one of my favorite songs to sing. i translated it quickly and it’s not the best quality, but it’s the meaning i derive from the song. i don’t do the song justice.

one must cry out when they sing this song. this song writhes in misery.

agh! the pain! the anguish! the beauty!



To Fade

by: Trinh Cong Son

Embrace the night heart
The moon has just returned
I remember the errant leg
So short-lived!
The spring of life, but already old,
One day to stand at the shore
Life is like the wind

I have no one
The road home is so long
Every night far from her
A bowl of peppery wine
One life I drink of
To let the world wait

I return to occupy each day
I see the sun shine
I see the rain fly
Many people return again
Return again to the bottom of the sky
To make clouds… drift…

Go home!
What does the bare road have?
Green hair for how many seasons
Many times when…
From the midnight garden, a step home
Whose feet are so light?
The soul so many years ago.

I return to occupy each day
I see the sun shine
I see the rain fly
Many people far away return again
Return again to the bottom of the sky
To make clouds… drift…