Thai lyrics and music by Aed Carabao แอ๊ด คาราบาว
Album: นักสู้ผู้ยิ่งใหญ่ Nak Soo Phu Ying-yai (2002)
This ALBUM IS HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. BUY IT at eThai CD.
Singable English translation by Ann Norman (based on exact version done with help from anonymous foreign exchange student).
This was the first singable translation I did, and we made a video. :D The direct translation, with the Carabao video, is HERE
Morning light bursts from that distant hillside
Saying much more time has arrived
Take your life onwards toward the goal that you choose
You might win, you might lose, you should try!
Watch the crows flying off and out of our sight
each looking for something to eat.
A reminder that each soul is born to this world
To search, to struggle, to fight
O life is so full of so much to do
We are born, suffer, die, every man
But what isn’t the same is the dream we pursue
Don’t stop till it’s held in your hand.
A person combines both the good and the bad
The noble include rich and poor
We know love is a beautiful thing to be had
Disappointment will happen for sure
In our way is the sky, the land, and the stream
Cross over to grab for your dream
Life comes just once
Once and that’s all!
Make sure it is something you mean
O life is so full of so much to do
We are born, suffer, die, every man
But what isn’t the same is the dream we pursue
Don’t stop till it’s held in your hand.
Through months when it seems that everything’s dark
We still have the right to dream bright
Like a candle will light up the path far ahead
Like a firefly sparkling at night
To stand still afraid you are kidding yourself
Is the same thing as failure itself
You haven’t done anything yet, good or bad
You’re burned by your fear, nothing else
O life is so full of so much to do
We are born, suffer, die, every man
But what isn’t the same is the dream we pursue
Don’t stop till it’s held in your hand.
The sky, and the mountain, you’ve crossed both before
I ask have you crossed to your dream?
Go off to your dream far away on the shore
In the end you will catch it and more
Try out being a person who chases your dreams
The prize of dreaming is dreams
Life comes just once
Once and that’s all!
Don’t let it be boring and mean
Morning light bursts from that distant hillside
Saying much more time has arrived
Take your life onwards toward the goal that you choose
You might win, you might lose, you should try!
Try out being a person who chases your dreams
The prize of dreaming is dreams
Life comes just once
Once and that’s all!
Don’t let it be boring and mean
O life is so full of so much to do
We are born, suffer, die, every man
But what isn’t the same is the dream we pursue
Don’t stop till it’s held in your hand.
O life is so full of so much to do
We are born, suffer, die, every man
But what isn’t the same is the dream we pursue
Don’t stop till it’s held in your hand.