Because Ms. Wang (Wang Fei 王菲 , aka Faye Wong) writes (and she does indeed usually write her own stuff) in Chinese (usually Mandarin), it may be relateively inacessible to the casual Western listener. Because I happen to know Mandarin pretty well, I thought it might be helpful if I translated some of her songs into English. Please forgive my translations in any case (they're far from perfect), and please note that I have in many cases taken poetic liberty to preserve the meaning where the actual words would defeat the purpose in English, although I have tried to maintain the general word order for anyone who might want to try to guess at what the specific Chinese words mean.
So far, there are two songs on this page: Fenlie 分裂 "Broken apart" and Saoxing 掃興 "Ruining the Mood".
When you're done here, you may want to go back to my music page or my main page.
Fenlie 分裂, "Broken Apart"
Broken apartBroken apart
On one side looking naive and innocent
On the other seeing all as broken
Broken apart
Broken apart
On one side exhausted in strength from love
On the other I don't give a shit
It's all because I
held you
Drop by drop, drip by drip
Left in my hands
It's all because you
held me
There's no space
For me to breathe
Broken apart
Broken apart
On the one side strongly facing it all
On the other needing to act wildly
Broken apart
Broken apart
Protecting one person's world
Flowing two people's blood
It's all that
embrace's fault
One-half cold
One-half hot
It's all that
embrace's fault
One-half heaven
One-half earth
(My thinking cells
Don't stop breaking up...
Breaking up
Breaking up...)
It's all that
embrace's fault
One-half me
One-half you
(My thinking cells
Don't stop breaking up...
Breaking up
Breaking up...)
It's all that
embrace's fault
One-half man
One-half woman
It's all that
embrace's fault
One-half red
One-half green
It's all that
embrace's fault
If it hadn't been
Yell to heaven and clasp at the earth
(My thinking cells
Don't stop breaking up...
Breaking up
Breaking up...)
It's all that
embrace's fault
Disturbing heaven and moving the earth
It's nothing to talk about
(My thinking cells
Don't stop breaking up...
Breaking up
Breaking up...)
A pair of eyes looking at your face's kindness
A spirit flies with you to another world
But the body's like a butterfly with broken wings
Looking at you I become empty-eyed
When I can't see you
Facing myself I still feel cowardly
Broken apart
Broken apart
Sometimes strongly facing it all
Sometimes needing to act wildly
Broken apart
Broken apart
Protecting one person's world
Flowing two people's blood
Broken apart
Broken apart
On one side looking naive and innocent
On the other seeing all as broken
Broken apart
Broken apart
On one side exhausted in strength from love
Saoxing 掃興, "Ruining the Mood."
Piling upPiling up
The poker cards
You, with a single raise
Make me fold
Drunk down
Drunk down
The Coke
You, with a single head-turn
Make me cry
Faking
Faking
The happy life
You, with a single glance
Make me unable to pretend
Forgotten
Forgotten
The loneliness
You, with a single question
Make me remember it all
Ay
It's always
As easy as blowing off dust
You
Take me
From that
Dream world
And drag me out
It's always
A simple matter
You
Call me
From that
Deep cloudy place
And make me fall
Refrain 2
Carefully and cautiously
Bearing it
You
As soon as you lose concentration
Make me die
So hard
To feel happy
You
With a single sentence
Make me bad again
For a life and a world
Waiting
You
In a second
Make me wake up
Freely and carelessly
Spacing out
You
A pan of cold water
Throw at me