Artist: Zhao Lei (赵雷, Lei Zhao)
Song: 理想 (Li xiang)(Ideal) •Album: 吉姆餐厅 (Jim’s Restaurant)

理想

一个人住在这城市
为了填饱肚子就已筋疲力尽
还谈什么理想那是我们的美梦
梦醒后还是依然奔波在风雨的街头
有时候想哭就把泪掩进一腔热血的胸口

公共汽车上 我睡过了车站
一路上 我望着霓虹的北京
我的理想把我丢在这个拥挤的人潮

车窗外已经是一片白雪茫茫
又一个四季在轮回
而我一无所获的坐在街头
只有理想在支撑著那些麻木的血肉

理想今年你几岁
你总是诱惑著年轻的朋友
你总是谢了又开 给我惊喜
又让我沉入失望的生活里

又一个年代在变幻
我已不是无悔的那个青年
青春被时光抛弃
已是当父亲的年纪

理想永远都年轻
你让我倔强的反抗著命运
你让我变得苍白
却依然天真的相信
花儿会再次的盛开

阳光之中到处可见奔忙的人们
被拥挤著被一荒而废的光阴 忽略过

Idealism

A man living in this city
Toiling day and night to get his daily bread
Idealism is just a faraway daydream
And after awakening, it’s back to hardship once more

I slept past the bus stop
All the way gazing at the neon lights of Beijing
My idealism abandoned me in the suffocating crowd

A flurry of snow has covered the bus window
Another four seasons have come and gone
Yet I sit alone on the sidewalk having accomplished nothing
With only idealism sustaining my numb limbs

Idealism, how old are you this year?
You’re always tempting those young people
You always give me pleasant surprises
Only to then bring me back to my disappointing life

Another era has come and gone
I’m no longer that young man of no regrets
The years have forsaken my youth
I’ve already reached the age of fatherhood

Idealism will remain young forever
You make me stubbornly resist fate
You make me pale and haggard
Yet still naively believing
That the flowers will bloom once more

Under the sun are countless people bustling about
The transient, ever-diminishing light passes them by

Submitted by jhan