Lyrics of ” A Little Fall of Rain”

This is another of my favourite piece in the musical Les Miserables. In this part, Eponine, the person who risked her life helping Marius deliver a letter to Cossette returns back to the Barricade. She was shot on the way back.. and this was the sin where she was suppose to die

For those who are wondering, why all Lyrics.. I have to admit.. I am writing this secretly as I am bored dealing with my many tender document.

Title: A Little Fall Of Rain

Eponine
Don’t you fret, M’sieur Marius
I don’t feel any pain
A little fall of rain
Can hardly hurt me now
You’re here, that’s all I need to know
And you will keep me safe
And you will keep me close
And rain will make the flowers grow.

Marius
But you will live, ‘Ponine – dear God above…
If I could close your wounds with words of love…

Eponine
Just hold me now, and let it be.
Shelter me, comfort me…

Marius
You would live
A hundred years
If I could show you how
I won’t desert you now…

Eponine
The rain can’t hurt me now
This rain will wash away what’s past
And you will keep me safe
And you will keep me close
I’ll sleep in your embrace at last
The rain that brings you here
Is Heaven-blessed!
The skies begin to clear
And I’m at rest
A breath away from where you are
I’ve come home from so far

[Together, at the same time]

[Eponine]                                    [Marius]
So don’t you fret, M’sieur Marius       Hush-a-bye, dear Eponine
I don’t feel any pain                       You won’t feel any pain
A little fall of rain                           A little fall of rain
Can hardly hurt me now                  Can hardly hurt you now
I’m here
That’s all I need to know
And you will keep me safe               I will stay with you
And you will keep me close              Till you are sleeping
And rain
And rain
Will make the flowers…                   Will make the flowers…
[Dies]                                          Grow.
[She Died, Marius Kisses her, then lay her on the ground]

Lets enjoy this piece together

 

Lyrics of “一对对” AKA “虫儿飞”

This is a song that is a good 10 year ago. When I was in the polytechnic days. It was from a movie called Stormriders.. Actually its one of those comic books turn movie type of show.. That was the love theme of the song.

In Singapore, I did not hear the Cantonese version, but lately I was singing this suddenly.  I dedicated this song to my friend called XiaoXue. I hope that she will always be happy, and would not have any more nightmares..

When I  read the words in Cantonese, I think its much sweeter… so I decided to translate the both of them to English.. If there are any Cantonese pinyin people, do help me with it as currently I am using the Mandarin pinyin for the Cantonese version

Title “一对对” (In Cantonese)
Arr: Ekin Cheng

月亮亮众星伴随 yuè liang liàng zhòng xīng bàn suí
快看看满天星泪 kuài kàn kan mǎn tiān xīng lèi
日一对 rì yī du,
夜一对 yè yī duì
萤火一对对 yíng huǒ yī duì duì

夜静静众生伴随 yè jìng jìng zhòng shēng bàn suí
雨细细有风相聚 yǔ xìxì yǒu fēng xiāng jù
来一对 lái yī duì,
回亦一对 huí yì yī duì
落花一对对 luò huā yī duì duì

问萤火 wèn yíng huǒ
照耀谁 zhào yào shéi
不怕累怕孤独谁 bù pà lèi pà gū dú shéi
扑翼飞去 pū yì fēi qù
在长空里 zài cháng kōng lǐ
有什么不对 yǒu shén me bù duì
雪地冰天也一对 xuě dì bīng tiān yě yī duì

Translation
The bright moon accompanied with its multitude of stars
Lets come quickly see the stars tearing
A pair by day
A pair by night
Liken to the pairing of the fireflies

The night was quiet, while all creatures had their companions
In this fine rain accompanied by the wind
Coming as a pair
Revolving as a pair
The fallen flowers are also falling as a pair

Asking the firefly whom is it illuminating
unafraid of fatigue, yet afraid of loneliness
Flapping its wings in flight
within this vast space

But Whats wrong with that?
Even this snow-covered land is accompanied by the freezing skies

Title “虫儿飞” (In Mandrian)
by:郑信涛

黑黑的天空低垂 hēi hēi de tiān kōng dī chuí
亮亮的繁星相随 liàng liàng de fán xīng xiāng suí
虫儿飞虫儿飞 chóng ér fēi chóng ér fēi
你在思念谁 nǐ zài sī niàn shéi

天上的星星流泪 tiān shàng de xīng xing liú lèi
地上的玫瑰枯萎 dì shang de méi guī kū wěi
冷风吹冷风吹 lěng fēng chuī lěng fēng chuī
只要有你陪 zhǐ yào yǒu nǐ péi

虫儿飞花儿睡 chóng ér fēi huā’ ér shuì
一双又一对才美 yī shuāng yòu yī duì cái měi
不怕天黑只怕心碎 bùpà tiān hēi zhǐ pà xīn suì
不管累不累 bù guǎn lèi bù lèi
也不管东南西北 yě bù guǎn dōng nán xī běi

Translation
As the darken sky hangs low
Accompanied by the lights from a star studded sky
Flying fireflies oh flying fireflies
Who are you longing for?

The stars in the skies are crying
and the roses on the ground are withering
The cold wind blows, its blowing cold
As long as I am with you

The flying fireflies, and the sleeping flowers
Needed to be in pairs to be beautiful
unafraid of the dark skies, but afraid of being broken hearted
Paying no heed to tiredness, ignoring everything around us.

Cantonese Version

Mandarin Version

 

Lyrics of “All I ask of you”

Just heard this tune from the Phantom Of The Opera, it was sung at the scene where Christine took Raoul and tried to tell him about the Phantom, Raoul looks around and sees no one, this is where he promise to love and protect Christine always

I just think its has nice lyrics, so I decided to post it

Title: All I ask of you
Lyrics: Andrew Lloyd Webber

(RAOUL)
No more talk
of darkness,
Forget these
wide-eyed fears.
I’m here,
nothing can harm you -
my words will
warm and calm you.

Let me be
your freedom,
let daylight
dry -your tears.
I’m here,
with you, beside you,
to guard you
and to guide you . . .

(CHRISTINE)
Say you love me
every
waking moment,
turn my head
with talk of summertime . . .

Say you need me
with you,
now and always . . .
promise me that all
you say is true -
that’s all I ask
of you . . .

RAOUL
Let me be
your shelter,
let me
be your light.
You’re safe:
No-one will find you
your fears are
far behind you . . .

(CHRISTINE)
All I want
is freedom,
a world with
no more night . . .
and you
always beside me
to hold me
and to hide me . . .

(RAOUL)
Then say you’ll share with
me one
love, one lifetime . . .
Iet me lead you
from your solitude . . .

Say you need me
with you
here, beside you . . .
anywhere you go,
let me go too -
Christine,
that’s all I ask
of you . . .

(CHRISTINE)
Say you’ll share with
me one
love, one lifetime . . .
say the word
and I will follow you . . .

(BOTH)
Share each day with
me, each
night, each morning . . .

(CHRISTINE)
Say you love me . . .

(RAOUL)
You know I do . . .

(BOTH)
Love me -
that’s all I ask
of you . . .

(They kiss)

Anywhere you go
let me go too . . .
Love me -
that’s all I ask
of you .

 

Lyrics of “Desparado

I was talking to a friend about… the reason why i feel I would most likely be
alone all the days of my life…

Hmm one of my friends commented that maybe because i have no requirements,
which means almost everyone qualify, and in the end I would have no idea which
I really like…

Or…. sometimes I think I am so afriad of hurting others and being hurt… so for a while.. I almost branded myself as “A Desperado” ..and this songs pop up in my mind when I was thinking abt it.

This is a song by Eagles, but personally I also like Emi Fujitas version…. maybe I think
if a lady were to sing that to me I will be so surprised…

Anyway I will be posting both versions, 1 by Eagles, and the other by Emi Fujita

Title: Desperado
Artist: Eagles

Desperado, why don’t you come to your senses?
You been out ridin’ fences for so long now
Oh, you’re a hard one
I know that you got your reasons
These things that are pleasin’ you
Can hurt you somehow
Don’ you draw the queen of diamonds, boy
She’ll beat you if she’s able
You know the queen of heats is always your best bet

Now it seems to me, some fine things
Have been laid upon your table
But you only want the ones that you can’t get

Desperado, oh, you ain’t gettin’ no youger
Your pain and your hunger, they’re drivin’ you home
And freedom, oh freedom well, that’s just some people talkin’
Your prison is walking through this world all alone

Don’t your feet get cold in the winter time?
The sky won’t snow and the sun won’t shine
It’s hard to tell the night time from the day
You’re loosin’ all your highs and lows
Ain’t it funny how the feeling goes away?

Desperado, why don’t you come to your senses?
Come down from your fences, open the gate
It may be rainin’, but there’s a rainbow above you
You better let somebody love you, before it’s too late

 

 

Lyrics of Amazing Grace

Lately, while I am staying in this foreign land, I suddenly got myself bombarded with many issues of life, and practical things that never come to my mind that I must worry about it at all…

Then I started to go before God and pleaded with him… saying.. I decided to leave my home and my country, because I felt that God has a special reason for me to leave… Suddenly I find myself trapped in all sorts of funny logistics problem, and I also find myself unable to fullfill what God wanted me to do..

I never said that it was God’s fault, but I am concern if I am not treading on the right path that God intended me to follow… So in my prayers, I asked God.. “O Lord, please show me the way to go, if the path I have taken isnt what you want me to, please let me know… as I am so afriad that I will end up losing both my oringinal purpose, and not fulfilling your will… Please just give me an indication of your will…. please Lord”

That morning, before I left for work, I was singing hymns to myself .. and I just suddenly flip to Hymn 96, which is amazing grace… Usually I would sing that in Chinese, but I just started to use my english hymn book that morning…. and Gods answer seems to be there… It was written on the 3rd and 4th stanza of the hymn… God is telling me

God has protected me through many dangers, toils and snares.. and this grace that brought me safe thus far… it will bring me safely home too… (As I was singing that, I recalled the many things that happened in my life, and how God had protected me, although I have lost my faith and stopped praying to him)

God has promised good to me, and in his word I must secure my hope… He will be my shield and portion … as long as life endures..

Suddenly, as I was singing that, I started to tear slightly, and I thank God for his indication…

Hence, I would like to share this hymn with all of you… This is written by John Newton… Intiailly he wasnt close to God, his youth is filled with religious confusion and a lack of moral self control and discipline. He joined the royal navy and he became a slave trader.. On his slave voyage, once there was a storm, and moments after he left the deck, the crewman who took over him was swept overboard. He started to realise his helplessness, and only the grace of God can save him. That was the begining of his journey of faith. He wrote this hymn base on 1 Chron 17:16-17 in the prayer of King David… This hymns is also remembered by both fractions in the American Civil war.

Amazing Grace

Amazing grace! How sweet the sound
That saved a wretch like me!
I once was lost, but now am found;
Was blind, but now I see.

‘Twas grace that taught my heart to fear,
And grace my fears relieved;
How precious did that grace appear
The hour I first believed!

Through many dangers, toils and snares,
I have already come;
‘Tis grace hath brought me safe thus far,
And grace will lead me home.

The Lord has promised good to me,
His Word my hope secures;
He will my Shield and Portion be,
As long as life endures.

Yea, when this flesh and heart shall fail,
And mortal life shall cease,
I shall possess, within the veil,
A life of joy and peace.

When we’ve been there ten thousand years,
Bright shining as the sun,
We’ve no less days to sing God’s praise
Than when we’d first begun.

I found an interesting tune of this in youtube. This is sang in the Cherokee language
Lets hear it together

 

Lyrics of “Like a Surgeon

I just come across Weird Al Yankovich’s parody of Madonna’s song “Like a virgin”
Actually I suddenly feel like singing this to all my dear bros and sis in the medical profession.. Those who are interns now or up and aspiring interns.

Title: Like a Surgeon
Artist: Weird Al Yankovich

I finally made it through med school
Somehow I made it through
I’m just an intern
I still make a mistake or two

I was last in my class
Barely passed at the institute
Now I’m trying to avoid, yeah I’m trying to avoid
A malpractice suit

Hey, like a surgeon
Cuttin’ for the very first time
Like a surgeon
Organ transplants are my line

Better give me all your gauze nurse
This patient’s fading fast
Complications have set in
Don’t know how long he’ll last

Let me see, that I.V.
Here we go – time to operate
I’ll pull his insides out, pull his insides out
And see what he ate

Like a surgeon, hey
Cuttin’ for the very first time
Like a surgeon
Here’s a waiver for you to sign

Woe, woe, woe
Woe, woe, woe
Woe, woe, woe

It’s a fact – I’m a quack
The disgrace of the A.M.A.
‘Cause my patients die, yah my patients die
Before they can pay

Like a surgeon, hey
Cuttin’ for the very first time
Like a surgeon
Got your kidneys on my mind

Like a surgeon, ooh-hoo like a surgeon
When I reach inside
With my scalpel, and my forceps, and retractors
Oh ho, oh ho

Ooh baby, yeah
I can hear your heartbeat
For the very last time

 

Lyrics of “We didn’t start the fire”

Hmm I just stumble across this song lately. I find that its really

a interesting way to present all the world events at our short

Actually i was thinking of alot of application of the song and I can think of the followin

1. You can sing this when you are arrowed to do “firefighting” when the thing has nothing to do with you

2. Indonesia can sing this to the other ASEAN countries when the haze starts

3. But you can learn alot of history singing this.. hahaha

Lets enjoy the song

“We Didn’t Start The Fire” by Billy Joel

Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray
South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio

Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, television
North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe

Rosenbergs, H-Bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom
Brando, “The King and I”, and “The Catcher in the Rye”
Eisenhower, vaccine, England’s got a new queen
Marciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye

CHORUS
We didn’t start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world’s been turning
We didn’t start the fire
No we didn’t light it
But we tried to fight it

Josef Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev
Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc

Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, dacron
Dien Bien Phu and “Rock Around the Clock”
Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn’s got a winning team
Davy Crockett, “Peter Pan”, Elvis Presley, Disneyland

Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Khrushchev
Princess Grace, “Peyton Place”, trouble in the Suez

CHORUS

Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac
Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, “Bridge on the River Kwai”
Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California baseball
Starkweather, homicide, children of thalidomide

Buddy Holly, “Ben-Hur”, space monkey, Mafia
hula hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no go
U2, Syngman Rhee, payola and Kennedy
Chubby Checker, “Psycho”, Belgians in the Congo

CHORUS

Hemingway, Eichmann, “Stranger in a Strange Land”
Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs Invasion
“Lawrence of Arabia”, British Beatlemania
Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson

Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British politician sex
JFK, blown away, what else do I have to say

CHORUS

Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon, back again
Moonshot, Woodstock, Watergate, punk rock

Begin, Reagan, Palestine, terror on the airline
Ayatollolah’s in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan
“Wheel of Fortune” , Sally Ride, heavy metal, suicide
Foreign debts, homeless vets, AIDS, Crack, Bernie Goetz
Hypodermics on the shore, China’s under martial law
Rock and Roller Cola Wars, I can’t take it anymore

CHORUS

We didn’t start the fire
But when we are gone
Will it still burn on, and on, and on, and on…

Chorus (Repeat to end)

 

Lyrics of “Open Our Eyes”

Actually, this is another hymn I learnt in during the Theological course…

Alot of times, when I feel God is silent to me, or at the stillness of the night, I tend
to feel like singing this… I think it is very reflective, and I just wish like sharing this

Open Our Eyes

Open our eyes, Lord,
We want to see Jesus,
To reach out and touch Him,
And say that we love Him.

Open our ears, Lord,
And help us to listen,
Open our eyes, Lord,
We want to see Jesus.

Open our eyes, Lord,
We want to see Jesus,
To reach out and touch Him,
And say that we love Him.

Open our ears, Lord,
And help us to listen,
Open our eyes, Lord,
We want to see Jesus.

Open our eyes, Lord,
We want to see Jesus,
To reach out and touch Him,
And say that we love Him.

Open our ears, Lord,
And help us to listen,
Open our eyes, Lord,
We want to see Jesus.

Open our eyes, Lord,
We want to see Jesus.

 

Lyrics of “Nowhere Man”

Was listerning to a old sermon spoken somewhere during the new year. The preacher was quoting this song…

Somehow i was wondering, as I am desparately chasing after the prize. We plan alot, and sometimes too much…. and i suddenly feel like a “Nowhere man”. Some times, I feel we should all stop and ask the following question , “Why are we busy?”, “Is there a purpose behind all the things we are planning and working for?, “For whom are we busy for?

This reminded me of what Moses prayed in Psalm 90
The days of our lives are seventy years;
And if by reason of strength they are eighty years,
Yet their boast is only labor and sorrow;
For it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
Who knows the power of Your anger?
For as the fear of You, so is Your wrath.
So teach us to number our days,
That we may gain a heart of wisdom. (Ps 90: 10-12)

Let us not be a “nowhere man” and think about the purpose of our lives once again.

Nonetheless, let us enjoy this song
Title: Nowhere Man
Artist: Beatles

He’s a real nowhere Man,
Sitting in his Nowhere Land,
Making all his nowhere plans
for nobody.

Doesn’t have a point of view,
Knows not where he’s going to,
Isn’t he a bit like you and me?
Nowhere Man, please listen,
You don’t know what you’re missin’,
Nowhere Man, the world is at your command.

(lead guitar)

He’s as blind as he can be,
Just sees what he wants to see,
Nowhere Man can you see me at all?

Nowhere Man, don’t worry,
Take your time, don’t hurry,
Leave it all ’till somebody else
lends you a hand.

Doesn’t have a point of view,
Knows not where he’s going to,
Isn’t he a bit like you and me?

Nowhere man please listen,
you don’t know what your missin’
Nowhere Man, the world is at your command

He’s a real Nowhere Man,
Sitting in his Nowhere Land,
Making all his nowhere plans
for nobody.
Making all his nowhere plans
for nobody.
Making all his nowhere plans
for nobody.

 

Lyrics of Music of The night

Just a song that suddenly comes to my mind. Its a very different protrayal of the Phantom in the Musical “The Phantom Of The Opera”

The Music Of The Night
Song Version By: Michael Crawford

Night time, Sharpens, Heightens each sensation,
Darkness, wakes and stirs imagination,
Silently the senses, abandon their defenses,
Helpless to resist, the notes I write,
For I compose the music of the night

Slowly, Gentley, Night unferrs it’s splendor,
Grasp it, Sense it, Tremulous and tender,

Hearing is believing,
Music is deceiving,
Hard as lightening, soft, as candle light,
Dare you trust the music of the night

Close your eyes,
For your eyes will only tell the truth,
And the truth isn’t what you want to see,
In the dark it is easy to pretend,
But the truth is what it ought to be

Softly, Deftly,
Music shall caress you,
Hear it, feel it,
Secretly posess you

Open up your mind,
Let your fantacies unwind,
In this darkness which you know you can not fight,
The darkness of the music of the night

Close your eyes start a journey through a strange new world,
Leave all thoughts of the world you knew before,
Close your eyes and let music set you free,
Only then can you belong to me

Floating, falling, sweet intoxication,
Touch me, trust me, savor each sensation,
Let the dream begin,
Let your darker side give in,
To the power of the music that I write,
The power of the music of the night

You alone can make my song take flight,
Help me make the music of the night