drifting

drifting
music: Dick Lee
lyrics: Thomas Chow
arrangement: Dick Lee

endless is the night, the moon, the sky
when lying down exhausted, the heart is also sinking
when lying down exhausted, why can't I dream
have I ever felt so tired before?

drifting is the night, the earth, the sky
once for a dream, I have given my all
once for a dream, why did I end up empty-handed
when awake, I'm in tears

hollow is the night, the dream, the heart
the yet unfinished dreams, are all frozen
the yet unfinished dreams, why are they still heavy
after a dream, my heart still trembles
from where came the morning breeze

translation: memories.blossom@gmail.com
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夢了
曲, 編: Dick Lee
詞: 周禮茂

夜深 月深 天深
疲倦了躺下 心也在下沉
疲倦了躺下何以竟未能夢 ?
倦意幾曾這樣濃 ?

夜飄 地飄 天飄
曾為了一夢 不了且一了
曾為了一夢何以竟一撲空 ?
夢了醒來飄淚紅

夜空 夢空 心空
仍未了的夢 此際都冰凍
仍未了的夢何以依舊沉重 ?
夢了竟仍心震動
在哪吹來破曉風 ?

thanks for your love

thanks for your love
music: Robert Civilles
lyrics: Richard Lam
arrangement: Alexander De La Cruz

turning back, I look at you again
you were my meaning of existence
we once dreamed together and firmly believed
we could walk together all our lives
without having any disappointments

on the challenging journey, we had tried
to hold tight to each other
in adversities, we never gave up our dreams
ironically, dreams may last forever
but we can only dream together up to here

almost there
(destiny always plays tricks on people)
we could be the best couple in the world
(pursuing together all our lives)
although we have been giving sincerely
at the end we still go separate ways
I could only say:

thanks for your love
and all your memories
all the wonderful things about you
all the wonderful things about me
so beautiful
so worthy to remember
so hard for me to let you go

if we could fall in love again one day
I still wish you would be every detail of my story
look up, and look at me again
no one is to blame, we just leave it as an unfinished business
let all of me, kiss you one more time
thanks for loving me so deeply in the past
the moment you said goodbye, the world suddenly came to an end
yet you have given me, the meaning to live

when I belonged to you

thanks for your love
and all your memories
all the wonderful things about you
all the wonderful things about me
so beautiful
so worthy to remember
when I still belonged to you

(thanks for the love)
thanks for your love
(thanks for the love)

time might erase certain things
yet it can never erase everything
on a certain day, on a certain night
when I still belonged to you
(thanks for the love)
thanks for your love
time might erase certain things
but I am always grateful to you
on a certain day, on a certain night
how hard for me to let you go

translation: memories.blossom@gmail.com
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多謝
曲: Robert Clivilles
詞: 林振強
編: Alexander De La Cruz

回頭望 多看你一次
你是我 是我存在意義
曾同夢 深信會可以
一世共行 無落寞故事

崎嶇中試過 為彼此相擁
患難中 不放棄我倆心裡夢
可笑是夢兒 永遠不止
你卻只可以同造夢到此 !

差一些 (情緣總愛弄人)
能成為一對最好的情人 (了結半生追尋)
然而付出真 到最後也分
我只有說 :
Thanks for the love and all the memories
曾極精彩的你那些
精彩的我那些
多麼美 多堪記 !
多麼再令我不捨你 !

如來日 可再愛一次
也願你是我全部故事
抬頭吧 多看我一次
不責備誰 留下未了事
准許整個我 吻你多一遍
謝謝昨天 愛我不淺
當你話別時 世界終止
你卻有給過我 活著意思 !

當我屬於你 !

Thanks for the love and all the memories
曾極精彩的你那些
精彩的我那些
多麼美 多堪記 !
當我屬於你 !
(Thanks for the love!)
Thanks for your love!
(Thanks for your love!)

年月縱或抹掉某些
卻未抹掉那些
某個日 某個夜 當我屬於你
(Thanks for the love!)
Thanks for your love
年月縱或抹掉某些
我對你亦多謝
某個日 某個夜
多麼再令我不捨你

you are the one I am waiting for

you are the one I am waiting for (duet by Danny Chan and Sandy Lam)
music: Jose Mari Chan
lyrics: Calvin Poon
arrangement: Andrew Tuason

I've never fantasized about the features of my lover
only relying on imaginations, how can one be sure
my perfect match is like an ideal, which is as distant as a star
in a sea of individuals, if we are made for each other
we'll be able to meet somehow

and today, standing in front of you
silently, I can almost hear your thoughts
I stand beside you and you me
let this happiness wash away all the sorrows
you're the one I am waiting for, we've finally met

in the past, the features of my perfect match
have faded away when I became older and wiser, as if it was only a dream
glancing over the ever-changing world, where passion is fleeting
I no longer expect that love can witness anything

but today, standing in front of you
earth and heaven seem to be sewn together by a thread
(silently, I can almost hear your thoughts)
i can see clearly, every single day from now on
staying beside you, how warm it can be
you're the one I am waiting for

so many things in the past, seem to be never-ending
as if they all lead to this day
so many things in this world, seem to be never-changing
as if they all bring me closer to you

the sailing heart of mine, eventually stays ashore
a thousand wishes, seem to have been answered today
just like a dream

eventually we have met
eventually we have seen each other

translation: memories.blossom@gmail.com
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我要等的正是你 (林憶蓮, 陳百強 合唱)
曲: Jose Mari Chan
詞: 潘源良
編: 杜自持

從來沒幻想心中情人特徵
全都倚靠想像 誰能定
情人像理想, 始終遙遙像星
人海中, 到底可有緣能遇見

而這一天, 站在妳面前
沒作聲, 心思都仿彿聽見
我身邊就是你身邊
讓這歡欣去底消嗟怨
我要等的那位正是妳, 終於遇見

從前在理想中的情人特徵
成長中已消逝 如夢境
凝望世事匆匆 痴情如幻影
漸不敢再奢望, 愛情能做證

而這一天 站在你面前
地與天 都仿彿牽於一線
(沒作聲 心思都仿彿聽見)
看得清 日後每一天
在你身邊 多麼多麼溫暖
我要等的那位正是你
(終於遇見)

多少往事, 不斷 就似為了今天
多少世事, 在變 助我達你身邊
一顆浪蕩的心 終於停泊於岸邊
一千個痴情願 這天同時也得到呼應
如夢境

終於見面

crazy for you

crazy for you
music: T. Gale, K. Hairston
lyrics: Richard Lam
arrangement: 陳澤忠

let me enter into your arms, your soul
despite you have someone else waiting for you
don't you leave, don't leave
but if you're coming near
please don't ask whether this is appropriate or not

like a blasting storm
like waves and oceans
like a swiveling quicksand
don't try to analyze
should you expect a long wonderful night
if you let tonight and myself
to fall for you hopelessly, oh

don't you know from the very beginning
I can't stop loving you
it's been a long time since I've been crazy for you
the flames of passion have consumed my heart
I love you, yet how much do you really know
it's been a long time since I've been crazy for you
(love me like crazy, come loving me like crazy)

can you enter quickly into my shivering soul
don't you know I can't hold back anymore
I live for whom? wait for whom?
come here for whom? I can answer them wonderfully
only if I have you

if I ran to you, would you push me away
refuse me or embrace me with kisses
please use your arms to say
let's kiss passionately!
let me fall for you even I'll be scared by my own insanity!

(Rap written and performed by Dick Lee)
Baby can't you see, you're the only one for me
I'm thinking of you night and day, I say
how can that be?
you make me weak in the knees
I want to set myself free
but you're the only one I want
& I am crazy for you, see?

translation: memories.blossom@gmail.com
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瘋了
曲: T. Gale, K. Hairston
詞: 林振強
編: 陳澤忠

准許我進入你臂內, 靈魂內
即使你有別人等待
你別離開, 別離開 !
若前來, 請不要問其實這該不該 !

如狂風吹吧 ! 像浪與海 !
如浮沙捲吧 ! 別要分析
要預料長夜無盡美妙
若讓夜和我 為你痴到透了 ! OH!

知不知一開始 已發覺愛你不可止
我早已為你, 為你瘋了 ! YEH!
而戀火把此心燒焦 !
我愛你, 你卻知多少 !
我早已為你, 為你瘋了 ! OH OH!
( 瘋戀我吧 ! 來瘋戀我吧 ! OH OH - YEH! )

可否快進入, 我震動靈魂內 ?
知否我已極難忍耐 ?
我為誰生 ? 為誰等 ? 為誰來 ?
得到你便全部答得精彩 !

若是我奔向你, 願問會推開我麼 ?
惋拒或狂擁我 ?
快用臂胳說吧 ! 熱吻吧 !
讓我為你瘋到自己都害怕 !

(Rap written and performed by Dick Lee)
Baby can't you see, you're the only one for me?
I'm thinking of you night and day
I say, how can that be?
You make me weak in the knees
I want to set myself free
But you're the only one I want
And I'm crazy for you, see?

so it goes

so it goes
music: R. Flack, B. Miles, M. Angelou
lyrics: 小美
arrangement: Terry Chan

slightly cool is the autumn
when it touches my wounds
slightly cool is the wine
when bitterness slowly pervases
slightly cool is me
who never forget the excuses
when saying goodbye in a late autumn

why in those days
we never knew how to love
why after breaking up
we realized we were so much in love
why at night
there was swelling sadness
were they all inappropriate

in this fleeting life, I journey on in solitude
with my lament of love vapouring in the wind
haphazardly I stand in the street corner
gently engulfed by the evening haze
as if I've lost my map
(I pray in the darkness)

a heart without dreams can never learn how to love
let my lonely heart bid you farewell
loneliness is drifting near at this moment
do I think it is unfair

I almost have you back
yet my heart is afraid to wait in silence
(my heart is making a curse)
at night, I think of tomorrow
and I'm not staying around anymore

love is a rush of wildwind
the scent of a summer rose
a whistle blowing on a distant track
and when it goes
it goes
(so it goes)

translation: memories.blossom@gmail.com
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微涼
曲: R. Flack, B. Miles, M. Angelou
詞: 小美
編: Terry Chan

微涼的秋 蕩來傷口
微涼的酒 苦澀輕透
微涼是我 未忘藉口
道別某個深秋

為何當天 不懂去愛
為何分開 方知熱愛
為何夜了 蕩來感慨
是否不應該 ?

匆匆一生獨自上途
風乾情感的苦惱
偶站進街角墮進了夜霧
像消失地圖 (在漆黑?默禱)

無夢的心不懂去愛
讓孤單心靈失去你
寂寞感覺此際蕩來
是否不甘 ?

差一點把你再擁有
但我心卻害怕靜後 (心卻在詛咒)
夜了想到以後
不在逗留

Love is a rush of wild wind
The scent of the summer rose
A whistle blowing on a distant track
And when it goes, it goes.

hello my loneliness

hello my loneliness
music: 陳秀男
lyrics: Thomas Chow
arrangement: Andrew Tuason

hello, feelings
do you still remember
when we ran into the breeze together
hello, feelings
who treated me as good as you
and gave me more than enough to squander
you said you were getting slothful
and would like to hide in a lazy corner
I said I was feeling cold
and would like to be single
hello, feelings
come and hold my body
come and hold my empty body

hello, feelings
sorry I've left you behind and ran away to work
hello, feelings
I almost forgot I didn't like any restraints
you said you were getting used to
being left behind everyday
I said it was too late for me to feel sorry
I'd also like to call it a day
hello, feelings
come and hold my body
come and hold my empty body

you said I had become aloof
and would neglect you again
I said you were too introspective
you wouldn't be surprised at all
hello, feelings
come and hold my body
come and hold my empty body

my loneliness

translation: memories.blossom@gmail.com
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哈囉感覺 !
曲: 陳秀男
詞: 周禮茂
編: 杜自持

哈囉 ! 感覺 !
還念記嗎, 一起向風撲 ! 唔 !
哈囉 ! 感覺 !
誰像你好肯給我揮霍, 唔 !
你說你已漸懶
愛懶於角落
我說我也漸冷 卻想再寂寞
哈囉, 感覺 !
來吧抱擁這軀殼
來吧抱擁空空的這軀殼

哈囉 ! 感覺 !
離別對不起 ! 跑去工作 ! 唔 !
哈囉 ! 感覺 !
忘掉了不喜歡有束縛 ! 唔 !
你說你已習慣
每天給冷落
我說我已恨晚
也想告段落
哈囉 ! 感覺
來吧抱擁這軀殼
來吧抱擁這空空的軀殼 !

你說我會漸淡
再把你冷落
我說你太自覺
你不會錯愕
哈囉 ! 感覺 !
來吧抱擁這軀殼
來吧抱擁這空空的軀殼 !

mercy

mercy
music: Dick Lee
lyrics: Thomas Chow
arrangement: Terry Chan

the umbrella in my heart
has been tugged rigorously in the storm
while the rain is pouring down

I quietly say a prayer
for the nights I was lost
in drunken solitude

distort my vision
arouse my desires
the wine is flowing down
who will take away my long lonely nights
I hope for an amnesty
who is willing to render me

mercy mercy me! (mercy)
mercy mercy me! (mercy)
mercy mercy me
oh let my heart grow wild
oh let my heart grow wild tonight (for one night)
mercy! mercy

I don't want to hide
there is also a tug of war in my heart
which silently cascades

I hold fast my umbrella
standing in the rain to watch vehicles racing by
and spend my night as such

impair my vision
put off the imbalance
my heart is now withering
it cannot grow wild temporarily
I hope for an amnesty
can someday somebody render me

every night what has been tangling me
is actually my own self
I'll wait for a night that I can be wild again
tonight I only want to stay in the wind and sigh
exhausted, yet I still can't forget the nights being wild

translation: memories.blossom@gmail.com
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心野夜
曲: Dick Lee
詞: 周禮茂
編: Terry Chan

心中雨遮 被猛風肆意拉扯 雨傾瀉
心中暗奢 是我失去那一些 獨醉夜

歪曲我視野 帶動我的邪
酒也在流射 漫長夜誰願轉借 ?
只奢盼特赦 誰人願意賒 ?

Mercy Mercy Me! (Mercy!)
Mercy Mercy Me! (Mercy!)
Mercy Mercy Me!
准我又准我又心野
准我再心野在這 (某) 夜
(Mercy, Mercy)

不想掩遮 在我心也有拉扯 暗傾瀉
撐起雨遮 在雨中看看飛車 渡這夜

萎縮了視野 撲滅了傾斜
心也在零謝 暫時未能又心野
只奢盼特赦 來日為我賒

夜夜在纏住我 這個它卻也是我
等等等只等一晚給我再度野
這晚卻願獨留在風中心輕嗟
疲倦但也但也未忘心野夜

love and life

music: 陳耀川
lyrics: Thomas Chow
arrangement: Andrew Tuason

oh let me smile, it might not be easy
oh let me smile, I insist
oh let me smile, I am still willing to try
in the past, it was me who buried
my own rational mind

the moon says I can
the sun also approves
after crying all these times
I only wish for this day to arrive

oh let me smile for just once, I think
oh let me smile away my sadness
oh let me smile for just once
I'd ask for nothing else if I could just simply smile

oh let me smile about this story
oh let me smile about my infatuation
oh let me smile with my self-reliance
in the future, I can
remember the irony of love

love can become too comfortable
and rather dissatisfying
after all these hardships
I just call it quits like this

oh let me smile for just once, I think
oh let me smile about the will of heaven
oh let me smile for just once
if I desert you, it was never intended

it's okay, if I can still smile
oh let me smile, who can I rely on?
I wish I could smile one more time
it's really out of my hands

translation: memories.blossom@gmail.com
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讓我笑吧 !
曲: 陳耀川
詞: 周禮茂
編: 杜自持

讓我笑吧不太易
讓我笑吧我堅持
讓我笑吧仍願試
從前是我 淹沒了我心智

明月說可以 紅日同示意
哭得許多了 願有這日子

讓我笑吧笑一次 是我想
讓我笑吧了失意 Ah!
讓我笑吧笑一次
願能笑吧便如意

讓我笑吧這故事 讓我笑吧我的痴 Oh!
讓我笑吧來自持
容日後我 記念愛的諷刺

情是太寫意 仍未能合意
辛苦許多了 亦放棄者此

讓我笑吧笑一次 是我想
讓我笑吧了天意 Ah!
讓我笑吧笑一次
是遺棄吧亦無意

願能笑吧 便可以
讓我笑吧誰可依
仍願笑一次
我也不得不得已

dreamer

dreamer
music/arrangement: Dick Lee
lyrics: Thomas Chow

the deserted voice has risen again
yet how many deserted feelings still linger
if one never listens, never makes contact, one will never feel the pain
if I don't bother to see, don't bother to recall, nobody will bother to ask me
about the things I've got today
they are too much to manage

heaven, it ends day after day
earth, it ends day after day
my heart can't predict what's in store
I'm no longer insignificant
let yesterday come to an end
perhaps
in a certain month
on a certain day
on a certain night
I'll feel tired

how often people embrace changes
how frequent people make up their minds and march forward decisively
a clear day, followed by a rainy day
it seems to end but it actually ends in vain
even if your future is not very promising, it doesn't matter

heart, it ends day after day
dream, it ends day after day
although it is hard to predict
my own determination
has not faltered at all
perhaps
in a certain month
on a certain night...

translation: memories.blossom@gmail.com
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破曉
曲, 編: Dick Lee
詞: 周禮茂

遺棄的聲音又響起了
遺棄的感覺偏剩下多少
不聽 , 不觸摸 , 不痛楚
懶看 , 懶記憶 , 懶問我
今天得到的叫甚麼 ? 管不了

天 , 亦天天的了
地 , 天天的了
心也未能料 我已再不渺少
讓昨天一朝了
或且某月某日某宵 , 我倦了

人有幾多天拾起改變
人有幾多次堅定地向著前
一天清一天風雨飄
似了似了不了地了
他朝得到的縱是小 不緊要 !

心亦天天的了
夢天天的了
雖也未能料 , 但是我的決心
沒有點滴動搖
或且某月某日某宵

drifting - a timeless classic

In retrospective, Drifting struck the fine balance between commercial success and artistic achievement. In light of the groundbreaking City Project trilogy, SL rose to superstardom in the HK pop music scene. Her next album became the centre of interest and generated many an expectation. Everyone was asking merely the same question: how on earth would SL surpass her achievement in pop music and bring more pleasant surprises to her fans? Deliver she did. In fact, Drifting built upon the experimental unison of oriental and occidental music elements found in Paradise in my heart, and carried it one step further in this album. In Dreamer I and II, Dick Lee created a masterpiece marrying traditional Chinese instruments such as er-hu and flute, with symphonic instruments such as grand piano and strings. And yet, the album also includes other genres of pop music, including R&B (Love and Life), funk (Mercy), hip house (Crazy for You), ballad (And So It Goes, Thanks For Your Love), duet (You are the One I am waiting for) and acoustic/piano ballad (Drifting). This album highlights yet another big leap forward in SL's vocal technique and performance, may that be a much broader and higher vocal range, or a more diverse and adaptable delivery that precisely nails down the genre of music in question. Drifting, like a black and white movie, is truly a timeless classic that remains evergreen and refreshing.
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executive producer: Clarence Hui
producers: Clarence Hui (1-10), Dick Lee (1,8,10,11), Alex Baboo 楊振龍 (6), Makoto Kubota (11)

image direction: Clarence Hui guest appearance: Dick Lee, Danny Chan
fashion co-ordination: Edith So
photographer: Green Hornet 青蜂俠
art: Kinson Chan
graphic production: Ming
hair design: Kim Robinson (Le Salon)
location hair stylist: Andrew Yang (Le Salon)
make up: Stephanie Patrimonio (Escape Couleur)