遇見 by 孫燕姿

Ting Dong's actually got a great translation, hanyu pinyin and chinese character full posting of this song, which I've linked to. I'm still going to work with my own translation, at least with my own infused interpretation, since the lyrics in Chinese can't all be expressed easily in English.

To me, this song is so much about anticipation, waiting for something to happen and not knowing when things will fall into place. It's something I'm feeling so much now, this combination of anticipation, looking up in hope, and being somewhat tired by the way things are now. As always, things never happen when I want them to.

(This song was actually sent to me by Katsu, who doesn't speak much Chinese, and I had to actually run around trying to identify it to find out what song it was - for shame!)

遇見 by 孫燕姿

聽見　冬天的離開
I hear winter leaving
我在某年某月醒過來
I wake in some year, some month
我想　我等　我期待
I think, I wait, and hope
未來卻不能因此安排
Yet the future cannot be planned like this.

陰天　傍晚　車窗外
A cloudy evening outside the car window
未來有一個人在等待
There is someone waiting in my future
向左　向右　向前看
I look left, right and ahead
愛要拐幾個彎才來
How many turns must Love take to arrive?

我遇見誰　會有怎樣的對白
What kind of conversations will I have with the one I'm meeting?
我等的人　他在多遠的未來
The one I'm waiting for, how distant in the future is he?
我聽見風　來自地鐵和人海
I hear the wind rising from the subways and the crowds
我排著隊　拿著愛的號碼牌
And wait in line, holding Love's ticket's number.

我往前飛　飛過一片時間海
Flying forward, towards a sea of time
我們也常在愛情裡受傷害
We are so often hurt by romance anyway
我看著路　夢的入口有點窄
Love has such a narrow entrance in the road before me
我遇見你是最美麗的意外
That I had met you has been the most beautiful accident.

終有一天　我的謎底會解開
There will finally be a day when my riddle will be solved.