#李佳薇

Jess Lee is nicknamed 铁肺女王 (iron lung queen), and this song perfectly demonstrates why. She hasn’t been in the industry as long as Tanya Chua and Stefanie Sun (the last two artists I’ve featured in this series), but I’ve found some real gems on her 4 albums. This song is her most popular and not too difficult in terms of vocabulary content. Probably the most difficult part of the song is that there are some long pauses between words that can make the lines hard to parse. The song is quite sad lyrically, but it stands out most as being dramatic and powerful. It’s not like your typical sad love song in that way. And the title is very fitting, because I really feel the torment and suffering from Jess Lee’s performance.

李佳薇 (Jess Lee) - 煎熬

早知道　你只是飞鸟
拥抱后　手中只剩下　羽毛
当初你又何必浪费
那么多咖啡和玫瑰　来打扰

飞鸟 fēiniǎo - bird
羽毛 yǔmáo - feather / plumage / plume

我想要　安静的思考
天平上　让爱恨不再　动摇
一想你就平衡不了
我关灯还是关不掉　这风暴

天平 tiānpíng - scales (to weigh things)
动摇 dòngyáo - to sway / to waver / to rock / to rattle / to destabilize / to pose a challenge to
风暴 fēngbào - storm / violent commotion / fig. crisis (e.g. revolution, uprising, financial crisis etc)

心一跳　爱就开始煎熬
每一分　每一秒
火在烧　烧成灰有多好
叫思念　不要吵
我相信我已经快要
快要把你忘掉
跟寂寞　再和好

和好 héhǎo - to become reconciled / on good terms with each other

得不到　也不要乞讨
怎么做　不需要别人　转告
在陷得太深的海底
我也只剩下我自己　能依靠

乞讨 qǐtǎo - to beg / to go begging
转告 zhuǎngào - to pass on / to communicate / to transmit
陷 xiàn - pitfall / trap / to get stuck / to sink / to cave in / to frame (false charge) / to capture (a city in battle) / to fall (to the enemy) / defect
海底 hǎidǐ - seabed / seafloor / bottom of the ocean

心一跳　爱就开始煎熬
每一分　每一秒
火在烧　烧成灰有多好
叫思念　不要吵
我相信我已经快要
快要把你忘掉
跟寂寞　再和好

我相信我已经快要
是真的我快要
快要可以微笑
去面对　下一个　拥抱