I wasn't going to share this one because it's so personal to me but I was kind of obsessed with translating this song and I translated this the fastest ever (faster than White Wish, which took me literally like 1 hour only).
So the theme for this song is death, goodbye/parting and hope. Bitterness of death, the goodbyes between the loved passed one and those who remain and two totally different but exactly similar kinds of hope: hope for the future. The hope for the future for the person to escape death, and hope for the future for those who remain behind to keep smiling and living, hoping that they will continue living even though it hurts. Personally, I don't believe death is bittersweet (bitter in the pain, sweet that the person is now without pain) but this song got too depressing so I had to change it.
Enjoy.
Smile Again (English Version: Smile Again)
Days, weeks and nights, flow away
And I can’t seem to hold on
I, want to sleep, forever and eternally
And dream about the darkest night
A night where nothing comes out wrong
And nothing goes right
A night where nothing ever happens
So I dream, dream into that endless night
Start to sleep…
Smile again
Deep inside you have the will to live
Don’t give in to the blackness of night
Live again to see the start of day
Don’t lose and
Try again
Remember all the joys of life you’ve lived
And want to see
A smiling lover, one best friend
The rising sun
Remember the joys that you’ve never seen
Pain, tears and hope, lives in you
So I push and push but no more
Can, anyone, feel and live through all this pain?
This pain that slowly kills inside
Hurts so much to fight and live
So much better to just let go
But I’m scared to enter in that darker world
Scared to leave the ones I love
And make them cry…
Smile again
I don’t know if I can but I’ll try
Try for you ‘cause I know you’ve been here for me
Through the times that of your desperate hope
One more time
Try again
I’m so sorry, no, please, won’t you hear my words?
If you knew then you’d let me go
But promise me
That you won’t cry when I, ‘cause I chose to leave
Smile again
Yes you can though I am somewhere far
But remember that I’ll always pray for you
‘Cause you’ve prayed for me with all your heart
Don’t cry and
Try again
Try to smile for those who still live, those still by you
And know that there’s no pain, no more, and know that you,
You were my strength through, those last dying days
You were my strength through, my last dying days
Dedicated to: JK + her family... and JWK (RIP)
