Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity…

傻孩子–閻韋伶

看著你無暇的表情 我猜不透的 只是你的心
我一直冷靜 卻還是走不出 這祕密 好孤寂
我開始失去了勇氣 而你 卻好像在遊戲
我假裝清醒 看清你的心 終於我選擇了離去

你像個孩子一樣的被我看穿 在你面前我試著隱瞞
所有過去全都變成傷害
我像個傻子一樣的被你出賣 一字一句都要我承擔
到了最後我選擇 分開

我開始失去了勇氣 而你 卻好像在遊戲
我假裝清醒 看清你的心 終於我 選擇離去

你像個孩子一樣的被我看穿 在你面前我試著隱瞞
所有過去全都變成傷害
我像個傻子一樣的被你出賣 一字一句都要我承擔
到了最後 我選擇分開

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MV內容的reference: http://entbig5.jxnews.com.cn/system/2007/11/07/002604161.shtml

我注意到中間在教室上課的那一段是西班牙文課…

Here’s a video of Lea Salonga auditioning for the role Kim in Miss Saigon.

The guys on this vid were utterly desperate searching for an Asian who can play the role of Kim for the play Miss Saigon. As soon as Lea finished her trial of the song Sun and Moon, their faces cleared up. I remember watching a documentary that claims that talent search team were about to give up ’til they heard Lea and Monique Wilson. The producers decided to search for talents among Asian countries and I think Philippines was the last country they decided to search to, one of the French producers remembered having watched a Lino Brocka film about the Marcos regime and he recalled a scene in which, a group of activists were singing and told himself that these people can sing! Thus deciding to go in the Phils to search for talents who can play the roles for the play. They found Lea.

Still, here are Lea Salonga and Monique Wilson on final auditions and selection process. The second song Lea and also Monique did is a song called “too much for one heart”, a song originally included in Miss Saigon but was thrown out the last minute and replaced with “Please.”

Lea was offered the lead role, with Wilson as the alternate (who was also assigned the role of bar girl Mimi).

Here’s Lea’s performance in Miss Saigon, a song called “Sun and Moon.” Touching!

And here’s the last part, Lea’s interview with Terry Wogan (1989).

Lea sings “on my own” in Les Miserables

And now I’m all alone again
Nowhere to turn, no one to go to
Without a home, without a friend
Without a face to say hello to
And now the night is near
Now I can make believe he’s here

Sometimes I walk alone at night
When everybody else is sleeping
I think of him and then I’m happy
With the company I’m keeping
The city goes to bed
And I can live inside my head

On my own
Pretending he’s beside me
All alone
I walk with him till morning
Without him
I feel his arms around me
And when I lose my way I close my eyes
And he has found me

In the rain
The pavement shines like silver
All the lights
Are misty in the river
In the darkness
The trees are full of starlight
And all I see is him and me
Forever and forever

And I know it’s only in my mind
That I’m talking to myself and not to him
And although I know that he is blind
Still I say there’s a way for us

I love him
But when the night is over
He is gone
The river’s just a river
Without him
The world around me changes
The trees are bare and everywhere
The streets are full of strangers

I love him
But everyday I’m learning
All my life I’ve only bee pretending
Without me his world will go on turning
A world that’s full of happiness that I
Have never known

I love him, I love him, I love him
But only on my own

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For more info, log onto Lea’s official website: http://www.leasalonga.com/

by Vienna Teng

Blue blue caravan
Winding down to the valley of lights
My true love is a man
Who would hold me for ten thousand nights
In the wild wild wailing of wind
He’s a house ‘neath the soft yellow moon.
So blue blue caravan
Won’t you carry me down to him soon

Blue blue caravan
Won’t you drive away all of these tears
For my true love is a man
That I haven’t seen in years
He said, “Go where you have to
For I belong to you until my dying day.”
So like a fool, blue caravan
I believed him and I walked away.

Oh my blue blue caravan
The highway is my great wall
For my true love is a man
Who never existed at all
Oh he was a beautiful fiction
I invented to keep out the cold
But now, my blue blue caravan
I can feel my heart growing old
Oh my blue blue caravan
I can feel my heart growing old

你走了　換一個寂寞　和我對坐
搖晃的　開著的門口　冷風來笑我
這一場　支離破碎的夢　是不是你想要的結果
痛過　傷過　好過沒愛過　就是我現在的感受

傷口再痛　痛不過　背叛的傷痛
淚水再多　多不過　你給的冷漠
我站在你給的角落　看透你虛假的溫柔
我知道這一次　我還是不懂

你走吧　別又再回頭　說你難過
這一次　不會再接受　廉價的笑容
這一場　支離破碎的夢　是不是你想要的結果
痛過　傷過　好過沒愛過　就是我現在的感受

傷口再痛　痛不過　背叛的傷痛
淚水再多　多不過　你給的冷漢
我走到你給的盡頭　領悟你所謂的承諾
我知道為什麼　從不說愛我

別再用那眼神看著我
讓我走　不要再傷害我
還給你要的自由　是種解脫

傷口再痛　痛不過　背叛的傷痛
淚水再多　多不過　你給的冷漠
我站在你給的角落　看透你虛假的溫柔
我知道這一次　我還是不懂

傷口再痛　痛不過　背叛的傷痛
淚水再多　多不過　你給的冷漠
我走到你給的盡頭　領悟你所謂的承諾
我知道為什麼　你從不說愛我

The girl in the other room
She knows by now
There’s something in all of her fears
Now she wears this thread bare
She sits on the floor
The glass pressed tight to the wall
She hears murmurs low
The paper is peeling
Her eyes staring straight at the ceiling

Maybe they’re there
Or maybe it’s nothing at all
As she draws lipstick smears on the wall

The girl in the other room
She powders her face
And stares hard into her reflection

The girl in the other room
She stifles a yawn
Adjusting the strap of her gown
She tosses her tresses
Her lover undresses
Turning the last lamp light down
What’s that voice we’re hearing
We should be sleeping
Could that be someone who’s weeping
Maybe she’s there
Maybe there’s nothing to see
Just a trace of what used to be
The girl in the other room
She darkens her lash and blushes
She seems to look familiar

Rusted brandy in a diamond glass
Everything is made from dreams
Time is made from honey slow and sweet
Only the fools know what it means
Temptation, temptation, temptation
I can’t resist
Well I know that she is made of smoke
But I’ve lost my way
He knows that I am broke
But I must pay him
Temptation, oh temptation, temptation, I can’t resist
Dutch pink and Italian blue
He’s there waiting for you
My will has disappeared
Now confusion is oh so clear
Temptation, temptation, temptation
I can’t resist
Temptation, for love, temptation, temptation
I can’t resist

“It’s so beautiful here,” she says,
“This moment now and this moment, now.”
And I never thought I would find her here:
Flannel and satin, my four walls transformed.
But she’s looking at me, straight to center,
No room at all for any other thought.

And I know I don’t want this, oh, I swear I don’t want this.
There’s a reason not to want this but I forgot.

In the terminal she sleeps on my shoulder,
Hair falling forward, mouth all askew.
Fluorescent announcements beat their wings overhead:
“Passengers missing, we’re looking for you.”
And she dreams through the noise, her weight against me,
Face pressed into the corduroy grooves.

Maybe it means nothing, maybe it means nothing,
Maybe it means nothing, but I’m afraid to move.

And the words: they’re everything and nothing.
I want to search for her in the offhand remarks.
Who are you, taking coffee, no sugar?
Who are you, echoing street signs?
Who are you, the stranger in the shell of a lover,
Dark curtains drawn by the passage of time?

Oh, words, like rain, how sweet the sound.
“Well anyway,” she says, “I’ll see you around…”

Prendre l’air, parler à quelqu’un
Avoir l’air d’aller plutôt bien
Déjeuner, y penser au moins
Tenir, tenir, tenir debout et demain
Décoller de mon traversin
Faire une liste de trucs qui vont bien
M’y tenir, essayer au moins
Tenir, tenir, tenir debout et demain
Prendre un thé et puis prendre un bain
Me coiffer, essayer au moins
Balancer tous ces vieux machins
Tenir, tenir, tenir debout et demain

Plus de chocs et plus de prières
Moins de clopes, plus de somnifères
Refaire la chose que je préfère
Tenir, tenir, tenir debout et demain
Appeler quelqu’un qui m’aime bien
L’étonner, changer de refrain
L’inviter, manger plus ou moins
Tenir, tenir, tenir debout et demain
Mettre une robe, saluer le voisin
Essayer de plaire à quelqu’un
M’amuser de tout et de rien
Tenir, tenir, tenir debout et demain

Prendre l’air, parler à quelqu’un
Avoir l’air d’aller plutôt bien
Déjeuner, y penser au moins
Tenir, tenir, tenir debout et demain

跟著感覺走　緊抓住夢的手　腳步越來越輕　越來越快活
儘情揮灑自己的笑容　愛情會在任何地方留我

跟著感覺走　緊抓住夢的手　藍天越來越近　越來越溫柔
心情就像風一樣自由　突然發現　一個完全不同的我

跟著感覺走　讓它帶著我　希望就在不遠處等著我
跟著感覺走　讓它帶著我　夢想的事那裡都會有

Seems like it was yesterday when I saw your face
You told me how proud you were but I walked away
If only I knew what I know today

I would hold you in my arms
I would take the pain away
Thank you for all you’ve done
Forgive all your mistakes
There’s nothing I wouldn’t do
To hear your voice again
Sometimes I want to call you but I know you won’t be there

I’m sorry for blaming you for everything I just couldn’t do
And I’ve hurt myself by hurting you
Some days I feel broke inside but I won’t admit
Sometimes I just want to hide ’cause it’s you I miss
You know it’s so hard to say goodbye when it comes to this

Would you tell me I was wrong?
Would you help me understand?
Are you looking down upon me?
Are you proud of who I am?
There’s nothing I wouldn’t do
To have just one more chance
To look into your eyes and see you looking back

I’m sorry for blaming you for everything I just couldn’t do
And I’ve hurt myself
If I had just one more day, I would tell you how much that
I’ve missed you since you’ve been away

Oh, it’s dangerous
It’s so out of line to try to turn back time

I’m sorry for blaming you for everything I just couldn’t do
And I’ve hurt myself

By hurting you

Hoy he querido tenerla cerca
Hoy he sentido que me hace falta
Yo sé que el tiempo no ha de borrarla
Honda es su huella dentro mi alma.
Sin ella no puedo vivir(no puedo más)
Sin ella el amor no es amor
Sin ella la vida no tiene razón
Sin ella el amor no es amor.(bis)
La ausencia viene hablar conmigo
Me he dado cuenta que la he perdido
Solo te he amado y comprendido
No había equilibrio en nuestro amor.
Sin ella no puedo vivir(no puedo más)
Sin ella el amor no es amor
Sin ella la vida no tiene razón
Sin ella el amor no es amor.(bis)