VaVa – Life’s A Struggle [Mandarin to English translation]

Information

Artist: VaVa (Mao Yanqi)
Original: 宋岳庭 (Song “Shawn” Yueting)
Copyright: AINOKO Entertainment Co., Ltd.
Licensing: Warner Music Group

Music video with English Subtitles

Standard Chinese lyrics:

1995 年我来到这个世界
在此我想给我的母亲最真诚的致谢
为了把我养大放弃了她的事业
可是我却让她痛苦在每个日夜

外婆她告诉我我的父亲早已死去
当时的情景我还记得房间一片死寂
此情此景我已经不想再去回忆
还有我那些素未蒙面哥哥姐姐弟弟

Back to school 我不 听话
让老师同学害怕
他们互相说悄悄话
我把罪恶都犯下
这画面一霎那乍现
像一只大雁
我怕见到曾犯下错的那面

把戾气带进学校
逃学我找到诀窍
警察把我找到妈妈哭着说我还年少
那时我觉得所有人都跟我作对
我在我自己的世界尽情的落坠

离家出走的我那时还是未满15
我打架跷课成为了全家人的耻辱
我讨厌约束 讨厌被禁锢
用最极端的方法
让伤害过我的人记住

你是否有时觉得 命运它对你不公
但有时又会学着 在沉重里找轻松
我仰望星空 把过去冰封
我发誓绝不会
像他们一样过得那么平庸

Life’s a struggle
日子还要过
品尝喜怒哀乐之后有是数不清的 troubles
Everyday 有多少问题要去面对
有多少夜 痛苦烦恼着你无法入睡

Life’s a struggle
日子还要过
品尝喜怒哀乐之后有是数不清的 troubles
Everyday 有多少问题要去面对
有多少夜 痛苦烦恼着你无法入睡

谁都一样 会生老病死
真相被遗忘 被藏进信纸
树叶在流浪 风还没静止
你我都一样想永远名留青史
从小我就知道脚要踩地天在头顶
佛在上方俯瞰众生就像蝼蚁

不用害怕 黑暗战胜不了光
你保持真实就会得到爱的表彰
我想要什么
我会通过努力独立去争
不是像个孩子在我身后狂喷
想要梦想的路永远亮着绿灯
就算是跪着也要朝着目标狂奔

我才不管你有什么看法
当我需要精神救赎你又在哪
太多必要交际 在不停交替着
提醒我这虚伪面具下的脸都太假

梦中小路我不会停下脚步
都想成功可成功毕竟占少数
我慢慢从横冲 直撞到变牢固
我在肮脏的泥泞里面找宝物

没经历苦难怎么叫做生活
每一次分叉口我都仔细斟酌
现在我站在这里 太阳它照常升起
不管遇到什么笑着面对才是真理

Life’s a struggle
日子还要过
品尝喜怒哀乐之后有是数不清的 troubles
Everyday 有多少问题要去面对
有多少夜 痛苦烦恼着你无法入睡

Life’s a struggle
日子还要过
品尝喜怒哀乐之后有是数不清的 troubles
Everyday 有多少问题要去面对
有多少夜 痛苦烦恼着你无法入睡

English translation:

I came into this world in 1995.
I would like to thank my mother most sincerely.
She gave up her career to raise me,
But I made her suffer every day and night.

My grandmother, she told me my father was dead.
I still remember the (dead) silence in the room.
This situation and feeling, I don’t want to remember it anymore.
Nor my brothers and sister, whom I’ve never met.

Back to school, I’m not obedient, scaring the teachers and classmates.
They whispered to each other about all the sins I’ve commited.
This scene suddenly came to my mind, so unexpectedly.
I’m afraid recall the time that I made the mistake.

Bringing hostility into school, I got good at being truant.
When the police found me, my mother cried and said that I was still young.
At that time I felt everyone was against me.
I was in my own world of despair.

I wasn’t even 15 when I ran away from home.
I fought and skipped classes, I became a disgrace to the whole family.
I hate being controlled, I hate to be secluded.
I used the most extreme ways to make the people that hurt me remember me.
Do you ever feel that life is being unfair to you?
Sometimes I learn to find the calm amidst the storm.
I look up to the sky and freeze my past.
I swear I will never be as mediocre as them.

Life’s a struggle, but you always have to go on.
You’ve tried everything, but still have countless troubles.
How many problems should you have to face everyday?
How many nights will you stay awake afraid and in pain?

Life’s a struggle, but you always have to go on.
You’ve tried everything, but still have countless troubles.
How many problems should you have to face everyday?
How many nights will you stay awake afraid and in pain?

Everyone’s the same, from being born to old, from illness to death
The truth is forgotten, hidden in the letterhead.
Leaves drifting about, the wind hasn’t calmed down.
You and I both want to be remembered forever
Since I was a child, I have known that my feet must step on the ground and my head reach for the sky.
The Buddha looks down on all beings from above, as if we are ants.
Don’t be afraid, the darkness cannot defeat the light
You will be rewarded with love if you stay true to yourself.
I’ll fight and work hard for what I want.
Not like a child, spitting behind my back.
There’s a light at the end of the road.
Even on my knees, I will run towards my goal.
I don’t care what you think about it.
When I need spiritual salvation, where were you?
All the socialising reminded me of the fakeness behind the masks.
I won’t stop on the path to my dreams.
I want to succeed, even though success is limited to a few.
I slowly went from rampage to firmness
I look for treasures beneath the dirty mud
What is life without suffering?
I carefully consider every fork in the road.
Now I’m standing here, and the sun rises as usual.
No matter what happens, face it with a smile, that’s the real truth.

Life’s a struggle, but you always have to go on.
You’ve tried everything, but still have countless troubles.
How many problems should you have to face everyday?
How many nights will you stay awake afraid and in pain?

Life’s a struggle, but you always have to go on.
You’ve tried everything, but still have countless troubles.
How many problems should you have to face everyday?
How many nights will you stay awake afraid and in pain?

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