someday

someday
music: George Michael
lyrics: Richard Lam
arrangement: 趙增熹

perhaps we have to wait for a few days
perhaps it may happen today
don't know if it is possible to happen sooner
but I know everything will happen
say it one more time or less
it wouldn't change anything

someday, someday
you will finally discover
it is my silhouette that electrifies your heart unexpectedly
someday, someday
finally there will be a late evening
your mind explodes in excitement solely because of my smiling face

as if we are meant to be
falling into the deep end of love
even if nothing has yet happened
but I know it very well

someday we will kiss and embrace
we can no longer hold back and will compose intimate nights
SAY!
someday we will kiss and embrace
our souls filled with excitement
our futures must happen like this

someday, someday
you will eventually discover
you will be unease, if you haven't seen me in half a day
today, even if you repress all the flames
but there are sparks already flickering in your eyes

translation: memories.blossom@gmail.com
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始終一天
曲: George Michael
詞: 林振強
編曲: 趙增熹

也許要等數天 !　也許會於這天 !
不知究竟會不會可以可以快一點 !
卻知道一切將會飄到
多說一遍,　少說一遍,　也不可變 !

一天, 一天,　始終你有天將發現
是我身影輕輕不經意使你心觸了電 !
一天, 一天,　始終有天深宵裡面
令你思海精彩將會只有我那張淺笑面 !

像註定你共我　定要飛進愛的深河
就算一切未發生過　但我很清楚

始終一天我們將擁吻
情將不禁 造成纏綿夜半 ! SAY!
始終一天我們將擁吻
二人靈魂把興奮盛滿 !
以後未來必一起這般......

一天, 一天,　始終你有天將發現
是你輾轉反側假使你跟我半天不見面 !
今天,　身邊即使你強壓低火與焰
但有一些火花早已於你雙眼正中隱與現 !

heartglow

heartglow
music: Dick Lee
lyrics: Thomas Chow
arrangement: 黃偉年

in a monochromatic sea of people
where's the shore
I am taking some time to find out
it is so easy to forget the shore
and to look back where we've come from
in a fast-paced world, on every face
I finally have the time to look
having the time to steal a glance
how people are in a rush on their journeys

there is life hidden in every face
even if they look a bit weathered
there is coolness in every face
and yet they can make your heart glow

one can find heat and warmth in numbers
and rediscover the strength in our hearts
love can be awakened by the people
so that we can commit to setting sail together
(and co-create everyday!)

one can feel the strengths of footsteps in numbers
spreading the strengths in our hearts
looking up I walk in stride
everyone is invited to come with me
(we'll travel together again in numbers)

in a monochromatic sea of people
on every face, there are accounts that can never be settled
on every face, there's indecisiveness
I wish I could cast away sorrow

life is fleeting, where's the shore
now I can finally tell the direction
I can tell the direction, in order to bring forth the morning light

every face is preoccupied by livelihood
I will no longer be complacent
every face may be forgotten eventually
but I am still willing to lend a helping hand

translation: memories.blossom@gmail.com
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暖暖紅塵
曲: Dick Lee
詞: 周禮茂
編曲: 黃偉年

人海滄滄　那裡是岸　此際歇息看一看
那裡是岸　最易遺忘　回望去來於那一方
人間匆匆　每個面上　總算有空再一看
再有空去窺看　人在這途上　怎去趕

面孔每張生命藏　也許帶點滄桑
面孔每張雖是涼　卻令心溫暖生光

人群內找到熱和燙　重尋昨天心裡力量
人群喚醒天生的愛　再一起結伴航　(每一天同開創)
人群內只覺步兒壯　傳揚我的心裡力量
抬望眼我邁步前向......　誰也邀請一起同往　(人群內再邁步同往)

人海滄滄　每個面上　總有算不清的脹
每個面上　偶亦徬徨　期望我　能驅走哀傷

人生匆匆　那裡是岸　此際看清了方向
我看清了方向　來為這途上點曙光

面孔每張生活忙　我不會再偷安
面孔也許終淡忘　我願可幫上一幫

let me walk this way with you

let me walk this way with you
music: 陳秀男
lyrics: Richard Lam
arrangement: Joshua Wan

don't walk too fast to play solo ahead of me
so fast that I can hardly keep up with you
also don't fall behind, because in the wind
I'll be lost without you leading the way

in fact we can play duet on our journey
if we can stretch out and hold our hands together
our footsteps fall into a perfect synchrony, if you and I
are willing to travel together on this long journey

are you brave enough to open up our own universes
drink each others' great and bitter wine of life

endless passions I'm willing to bestow upon you
can you give me all the excitements for which I've been longing
tumbling together can take me away from the desert in my heart
and forget all the lonely nights I've faced in the past
(completely illuminate my dreams and nights)

don't walk too fast to play solo ahead of me
so fast that I can hardly keep up with you
but please don't fall behind as well, if you can let me
travel with you on this long journey

translation: memories.blossom@gmail.com
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寵愛
曲: 陳秀男
詞: 林振強
編曲: Joshua Wan

別步在前面飛快獨奏
快至我沒法可跟你走
但亦別留後　因風中我
亦也不知怎領導著你走

但實在途上可以合奏
你與我若各伸出兩手
步伐沒前後　假使彼我
漫漫長路也肯一塊走

敢不敢張開彼此宇宙
飲彼此的苦酒美酒 ?

千千億億寵愛為你我肯傾瀉 !
可否精精采采送我所等那些 ?
翻翻滾滾使我別去心中荒野
忘懷從前曾獨對孤獨長夜
(完完全全燃亮我的夢和夜......)

別步在前面飛快獨奏
快至我沒法可跟你走
但亦別留後　可否准我
漫漫長路那方一塊走 ?

time of my own

time of my own
music: Dick Lee
lyrics: Calvin Poon
arrangement: Joshua Wan

could you please for now
let me temporarily get away alone
get away from layers of stress
get away from suffocating love
get away from the busy crowd, stay away

could you please for now
simply don't admonish me that I should know better
no need to guess where I am
no need to worry, as I will be back
I will rekindle all beautiful sparks with you again

In this world, if there is love
if there is dream, if there is romance
if there is fate, I will return
And I have always believed in love
believed in dreams, believed in romance
believed in contradictions, yet will always love each other
(believe that with you, we can always love each other more)

don't say separation
I just wish to let go for now
surreptitiously exist in solitude
think about how I should love others
even if you are worried, please let go

translation: memories.blossom@gmail.com
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躲起來
曲 Dick Lee
詞 潘源良
編曲 Joshua Wan

請你　暫時
暫時准我　獨個躲開
躲開身邊壓力重重
躲開天天緊逼的愛
躲開世上擾攘人群　避開

請你　暫時
暫時不要　罵我不該
不必猜測我在何地
不必擔心我定回來
當跟你再會願重燃異彩

人世間　要是有愛
要是有夢　要是有情
要是有緣　定回來
而我始終　信是有愛
信是有夢　信是有情
信是有矛盾　依然相愛
(信定會和你　更能相愛)

休說別離
但求可以　暫且拋開
偷偷的一個地存在
想一想應該怎麼愛
假使你此刻在徬徨　願放開

come back to love

come back to love
music: David Koven, Darice Homs
lyrics: Thomas Chow
arrangement: Tsang-Hei Chiu

can't touch your dreams
can't feel your heartbeats
can't hear your words
can you hear me cry
I stand before you again
seeing you, who remains silent
trying to fight back my tears
but how can I not feel my wrenching heart

don't you know I'm calling
don't you know I'm beside you
thinking of your past
suffering through days and nights
even if it's an abyss of love
I still can't let go
come back to love
today
come back to love
can't you give me some warmth
I can't resist your love
don't you know I am still willing

don't you know I'm calling
don't you know I'm beside you
don't you know my heart is confused
don't you know I have never stopped
thinking about your past
I wish I could linger
to love you more
to love you a day more

I wish you would fall for me once
even if love has left, a fragment remains
can't we fall in love deeply again
let's say and admit that
love dwells in tomorrow

come back to love
stay for a day more (today)
come back to love
don't you know nothing has changed
I can't resist to love you
can't it come true one more time
let me rest on your shoulder
let me rest peacefully on your shoulder
come back to love

translation: memories.blossom@gmail.com
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回來愛的身邊
曲: David Koven, Darice Homs
詞: 周禮茂
編曲: 趙增熹

觸不到你的夢　感不到你心動
聽不到你的話　聽得到我哭吧
又站在你跟前　望著是你默然
正要強忍不哭　那裡禁得心酸

知不知我呼喚　知不知我依伴
知不知我心亂　知不知我不斷
念著是你當年　日夜在痛纏綿
縱似愛的深淵　我卻再想依戀

回來愛的身邊　這天　回來愛的身邊
可否給我熱暖 ?　我是捨不得愛戀......
可知我心裡依然 ?
知不知我呼喚　知不知我依伴
知不知我心亂　知不知我不斷
念著是你當年　但願讓我迴旋
再愛你多一點　再愛你多一天

求你也再次為我醉一遍
愛就算曾離棄過尚有點 OOH!
可不可再次熱戀 ?
說吧說聲但求承認
愛尚有的是明天 !

回來愛的身邊留多一天　(這天)
回來愛的身邊　可知一切未變 ?
我是捨不得愛戀......　可否再一次依然 ?

讓我躺於你的肩　讓我安躺於你的肩
回來愛的身邊 !

baby, it's you

baby it's you
music: B. Bacharach, M. David, D. Williams
lyrics: Lin Xi
arrangement: Roel Garcia

only the songs to which you listen make sense to me
only your words and thoughts provide concrete meanings

yes you can, you can, everything you can
close to you, I'm so spoiled,
just like a child
(who makes me begin)
the longest story
happiness is.....
it begins with you oh......
it begins with you oh......

only your favourite books make me fall in love with poetry
(no other people can)
the hand which is tightly held by you
makes me feel so good, even if it hurts
(it's so easy to love you)

only this time, this time, this very time
I'm embraced by the grace from heaven
hence I can feel this way
(who makes me begin)
the longest story
happiness is.....
(the final meaning of love)
it begins with you oh......
it begins with you oh......

all the true love is similar
close to you, I'm so dependent, just like a child

I am, and so are you
(baby it's you)
once it's begun
it's too late to regret, baby

it's so easy to love you passionately
yet there is no way to stop now
the most importaint thing in this world
is about you and me
now in this world
I am the happiest woman
whenever it begins
time has been flying by

baby it's you

translation: memories.blossom@gmail.com
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由你開始
曲 B. Bacharach, M. David, D. Williams
詞 林夕
編曲 Roel Garcia

是你所聽的歌　才有意思
是你所想所講　便有意義

可以可以一切都可以
靠近你　我多麼得寵　如孩子
(誰令我開始)　最漫長故事　快樂是
由你開始 HOO...　由你開始 HOO...

是你喜歡的書　令我愛詩　(再無別人可以)
被你緊握的手　痛極也是好事　(愛著你極輕易)

只有一次一次這一次
愛受到上天的恩寵　才能如此
(誰共我開始)　最漫長故事
快樂是　[最終的愛意]
由你開始 HOO...　由你開始 HOO...

所有真正的愛都相似
貼近你　我的倚持如孩子

我已是　而你也是　(BABY IT'S YOU!)
一開始　後悔太遲　BABY

熱愛著你太易　但卻沒法竭止
世上最重要是　我共你的事
現我在這世上　是最愉快女子
那月那日開始　歲月似飛馳

i want you back

i want you back
music: Dick Lee
lyrics: Thomas Chow
arrangement: Andrew Tuason

when the exciting party's over
I feel hollow again
it's empty like the wind blowing in the streets
is it cold, or is it painful?
to embrace the wind, how can it be an embrace
I don't want my heart to be agitated again
by your arms, by your face, and by your vivid passion

I've been thinking of you so much tonight
I know I shouldn't have thought of you at all
love me, come here to love me
please come here to love me
I'll cast away my self-esteem in exchange for a night with you

can you give me tonight or not
I've never been so in lust before
love me, come here to love me
please come here to love me
forget it
it's so fruitless

perhaps I'm a wildflower
yet you're like weeds
how can I pretend I'll never know about that
you've been holding others in your arms shamelessly
I may know of everything, so what
whenever I see you, I only fall for you
I don't want my heart to be agitated again
by your eyes, by your sensuous lips, and by your passions

it's me who keep thinking about you
is it me who keep thinking about you
I don't want to be agitated again
by your aroma, by your sweat, and by your flame of passion

it's me who keep thinking about you
yet I know you'll never feel the same way as I do
the lonesome night is passing by, oh
I don't care whether it's me thinking about you or not
no matter how much I think about you, it is fruitless

oh my baby I want you back!
I need your love!

translation: memories.blossom@gmail.com
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沒結果
曲: Dick Lee
詞: 周禮茂
編曲: 杜自持

鬧哄的約會告終　感覺驟變空
空似是街邊的風　凍或還是痛
擁抱著晚風　怎算是抱擁 ?
不禁在心中洶湧　你臂胳你面容
你在情動

在這夜多麼的想你　明明明白不應再想起
愛吧就來愛愛我吧
用我一晚自尊去換你
在這夜可不可給我 ?　從來沒這麼情慾過
愛吧就來愛吧就來愛愛我吧
算了吧 ! 吧 !　沒結果　(沒結果　沒結果)

或許我是野花　偏你是野草
怎再又裝作不知道　你亂懷亂抱
知道又怎麼 ?　你一笑我便醉倒
不要又心中洶湧　你眼眸你熱唇
你是情做

想你是我　想你是我麼 ?
不過又心中洶湧　你氣味你汗滴
你的愛火

想起你的是我　想起你不是我
長夜過長夜過　OH!
在這夜是我是否我　再想著你又怎結果 ?
Oh my baby! I want you back!
I need your love!

wake up

wake up
music: Anthony Lun
lyrics: Richard Lam
arrangement: Anthony Lun
additional arrangement: Chiu Tsang Hey, Clarence Hui

I saw you searching everywhere
pursuing after fame and fortune
you have turned yourself into a predator

You exploit! exploit! exploit so cruelly
and never give anything in return
you see nobody else in your eyes

gradually you don't even care about me
the promises of yesterday
you dismiss them all like dust and crawling ants
forget about love, you only care about self-serving interests
you said you were afraid of squandering your life

yet after you have robbed off everything
after your soul has gone numb and withered
to exist so meaninglessly in that empty shell
without true love and affection
how awfully sad and pathetic

wake up! wake up quickly
don't you know you are terminating your life
(there is no life when you don't understand love)
wake up! wake up quickly!
listen to the call of love in my eyes

wake up! wake up quickly!
(son't you know this is the final call of love?!)
come back! won't you come back!
back to love!
back to love!

rush, rush, rush
you shed your sweat everyday
you are perpetually busy for your own self
forget about love while you are
fixating on the wealth in this world
your eyes just beam

translation: memories.blossom@gmail.com
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醒醒
曲: 倫永亮
詞: 林振強
編曲: 倫永亮, 許願, 趙增熹

我見你在轉在尋　追逐名利
你變了像個獵人 !
取 ! 取 ! 取 ! 極端凶狠　只取沒回贈
你眼裡沒有別人 !

對我漸不關心　當日承諾
全部你已當作是蟻是塵 !
忘掉了愛　現你只關心私慾滿足
你說怕浪費一生 !

然而全部你搶到後　靈魂麻木了　枯了後
茫然存在那空殼內　全沒有真愛在
太悲亦太哀 !

醒醒 ! 盡快清醒 !　知不知你在殺掉你生命 ?!
醒醒 ! 盡快清醒 !　聽一聽我在眼內愛的呼聲 !
醒醒 ! 盡快清醒 !　當不懂愛便再沒有生命 !
醒醒 ! 盡快清醒 !　知不知這是最後愛的呼聲 ?!
Come back! Won't you come back!
Back to love!
Back to love!

闖 闖 闖　天天在流汗
你永遠也為你在忙 !
忘掉了愛　但當偷偷看天下財物
你兩眼便會生光 !

come back to love - a strong gospel influence

Come Back To Love is a special project, a project that signifies the inaugural album of Stardust Factory. This album was released approx. 10 months after Wildflower. Although Come Back To Love did not quite match up to the artistic breakthrough achieved by the previous album, it did bring a few pleasant surprises to music lovers.

This album includes three tracks composed by Dick Lee: I Want You Back, Time On My Own, and Heartglow. However, this time we could hardly find a trace of fusion. All the tracks in this album represent many influential musical archetypes: dance, R&B, ballad and jazz. Even when a Chinese instrument like pipa was used to embellish Baby, It's You, the overall arrangement was still an all-out signature Euro-pop.

This album also came across as having a very strong gospel influence. Aside from the spectacular choral arrangement in Heartglow and the mysterious Gregorian chant in Let Me Walk This Way With You, almost all the tracks convey some sort of psalm-like, "love thy neighbour as thyself" messages. Last but not least, Singaporean arranger Joshua Wan was well known for his jazz and gospel music, no wonder this album has a such a definitive spiritual touch.

Sandy Lam's vocal performance continued to progress in this album, showcasing a vast range of techniques and revealing an array of unprecedented subtleties. Most of the outdoor photos were shot on location in Canada (i.e., Montreal and Quebec City), and it was uncanny to see so many familiar places in this album. Without the participation of Kinson Chan, I am of the view that the art direction of this album is slightly less sophisticated than SL's previous ones.

All in all, this is a solid and well produced project, and the very last overt concept album released by SL.
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executive producer: Clarence Hui producers: Clarence Hui, Chiu Tsang Hei
photography: 青蜂俠, 馬榮輝
image direction: Stardust Factory fashion
styling: Clarence Hui, Sandy Lam, Kim Robinson
graphic art direction & design: Stanley Wong
photo shoot art direction: Clarence Hui, 青蜂俠, Kim Robinson
hair design & styling: Kim Robinson (Le Salon)
make up: Sandy Lam
copy writing: Thomas Chow, Clarence Hui
graphic production: Unlimited Design