youtube recommended this song to me last night and I’ve had it on loop ever since. I didn’t watch ever night and I don’t know the context of this song, but it’s so ethereal and otherworldly and just really. so. beautiful.
永夜 - 谭维维 《将夜》 Eternal Night - Tan Weiwei / Sitar Tan (Ever Night)
无需对白 夜幕已掀开 without need for conversation, the curtain of the night has already been lifted open
无关成败 不惧 看见未来 regardless of success or failure, I fearlessly see the future
所行无碍 without hindrance
桃花盛开 the peach blossoms bloom
在光明之外 氤氲淡彩 beyond the light, faintly coloured is the dense mist
等待 故人归来 I wait for my old friend1 to return
梦回边塞 in my dreams, I return to the frontier
快看 红尘归来 come quickly and look at the mortal world2 returning
快看 苍穹绽开 come quickly and look at the heavenly vault blooming
快看 万物为伴 come quickly and look at thousands of creatures as companions
快看 come quickly and look
Chorus (x3):
我看见了云海 如晦如梦幻 I see the sea of clouds, like obscurity, like a dream
我唤来了星繁 似灭似绚烂 I call forth the vast sky of stars, like extinction, like brilliance
我翻过了绿洲 无边且无岸 I climb over the oasis, without boundaries and without shores
我亲吻了河川 春去春又来 I kiss the rivers, spring goes and comes back again
1 故人 (gù rén) can also refer to someone who is deceased
2 红尘 (hóng chén) literally means “red dust” but is commonly used to refer to human society or the mortal world
