By: ยืนยง โอภากุล Yeunyong Opakul
Album: คนกับเม้าส์ Kon Gap Mouth (Person with Harmonica) (2008)
Singable English translation by Ann Norman; my direct translation is HERE.
From a video where Add Carabao introduces the song (my own unchecked translation): “In this life of ours, we are born alone and die alone. Maybe there are some times—some times or some people who give rise to a feeling of awe or being impressed, never to be forgotten. You might take it and turn it into lyrics or poems or compose a song. Or some people will go create movie or a TV drama. I believe all of us have something like this that comes our way. It’s not necessary to tell anyone. Keep it to yourself in your heart, know of it yourself, and you’ll be happy just you yourself. If you do this, you’ll feel good. But if you tell someone, nobody will criticize.”
Voice clip for demonstration purposes only:
Try to sing along with the Thai video:
If your life, more and more, seems like drama on TV
Shoulder love, struggle on. Cross sky, mountain, and sea.
Most of life disappoints, you’re failing like before. But sometimes, or just once, life’s everything and more
Then it’s enough. Life’s short. Things come, and quickly go.
But they may plow a row left deeply in the brain.
When you experience something and bond so quickly it’s insane
Time goes by, you dream away, never forget. . . . the connection you made
Mountain glaciers melt and flow down to sea. Life’s like that: you’re born, and soon you cease to be.
But love remains, as a legend, calling out a song. A tune of good times and the bad, of connections that are strong
And it’s enough. Life’s short. Things come, and quickly go.
But they may plow a row left deeply in the brain.
When you experience something and bond so quickly it’s insane
Time goes by, you dream away, never forget. . . . those connections you made
While we struggle on, can’t seem to get above– in the place we walk, it’s still good that we have love
If happiness has suffering that gets into our way. . . . It could be there we find . . . connections that stay.