On June 20th, Father's Day, everyone expressed their love and blessings for their fathers in the circle of friends and various social media. A colleague asked me, is there any better song dedicated to my father?
I thought, compared to the songs dedicated to the mother, there are not many songs dedicated to the father. But I think of a treasure song that must be given to her Amway, which comes from a legendary Chinese rock band, BEYOND.
BEYOND has a song "Really Love You", dedicated to the mother, which can be described as a household name; but they also have a song dedicated to the father, but it is not so widely known, this song is called "Repaying a Lifetime". Let's revisit the song.
"Repaying a Lifetime" is a distinctive work, and there are many differences compared to other works that are well known during the Four Sons period:
1. Composer wong Ka Keung. The vast majority of other works are composed by Huang Jiaju, and the styles are obviously different;
2. Sung by Huang Guanzhong. Although BEYOND's first famous song "The Land" was sung by Huang Guanzhong, after all, Huang Jiaju was the lead singer of the band, and the number of other three as lead singers was still not much;
3. The song is a movie theme song. It is a song specially written for the movie "Old Bean Fears More" released in 1991;
4. The song is included in Beyond's 1992 compilation "Control", which is the only new song in the compilation.
How about this song? I think it's very good, and it's a popular band lyric song. In fact, as soon as you listen to the melody, you can hear that it is Huang Jiaqiang's style, and it cannot be Huang Guanzhong's work. But why is it Huang Guanzhong who sings? Because Huang Guanzhong is one of the main actors in the movie "Old Bean Fear More", the other three did not participate in this movie.
"Old Bean" means father, which is a movie about father-son love, so there is this song about father and son in "Repaying Life". The lyrics invited BEYOND's royal lyricist Liu Zhuohui to take a shot. As soon as the master struck, he knew if there was one. Liu Zhuohui said only a few words, portraying the deep fatherly love of great love without words into three points:
"Why rebels are not willing to retreat / Why are extremes and only want to go away", when we were young, we were always ignorant and willful, did not listen to my father's teachings, but "always complained in my heart / bound my freedom", and only wanted to go far away; when I really left home, I found that "the original road was full of gaps / The original did not know the sky and the earth was thick"; therefore, when he was confused and helpless, he stood silently behind you, "Father always had no complaints / drove away the reverse current", so that you could continue to move forward; every moment of life, he always "dedicated to me / There is no end..."
Maybe until one day, when your father is too old to pay anything for you, or even leave you forever, that you suddenly burst into tears, "I hope that now you can see all the nostalgia / Yesterday's love I have seen through / But the reward will never be enough ..."
Isn't this the case with fathers and sons in the world? Father is one of the most "laborious and unflattering" characters in the world, when you were a child, because of the ignorance and rebellion that disciplined you, you were misunderstood and even hated countless times, and when you grew up, you realized that you were wrong, and only then did you understand the greatness of father's love. Father's love is like a mountain, the mountains are silent, he may not have a superfluous ding in your life, but whenever you turn back, he is always there, always the strongest backing in your life...
When I first heard "Repay a Lifetime", I fell in love with this song. It's not because it's BEYOND's work that I like it, it's just because the melody is good and the lyrics are moving. On the contrary, some OFOND works at that time (mainly more heavy metal types) I still can't accept, and this work that is not so much like the BEAM style is the same as before.
However, "Repaying a Lifetime" belongs to a relatively unpopular work in BEYOND's works, probably with songs such as "Midnight Complaint", "Intertwining a Thousand Hearts", "No More Wrong", "Morning Train", "Single Kiss", "Dance Song of the Past" and other songs, which are far from "Really Love You" that praises motherly love. But from the Internet, I learned that for true BEYOND fans, this song is the favorite of many people.
As the younger brother of the recognized musical genius Huang Jiaju, Huang Jiaqiang's talent should not be underestimated, in addition to this song "Repay a Lifetime", there are also "Rush Away Everything" that became popular in the early days and "The Earth", the theme song "Long Sky" of "Infernal Affairs 2" that won the Academy Award, "Wish You Happiness" and "Good" in memory of his brother, "Perfunctory" and "Guardian Angel" created for Faye Wong, as well as "Always Love", "Still Want to Break" and "Wake You Up"...
12 years later, in 2004, Huang Guanzhong also produced another Chinese song about his father's love, "Season", which is also a very good song, but it is N times more unpopular than "Repay a Lifetime", and not many people should have heard it.
The tree wants to be quiet and the wind is not stopping, and the son wants to raise and not to be kissed. On this holiday that belongs to Dad, can listening to this song "RepayIng Life" make you understand your father's love one more layer? Can you understand your father's wordless depth one day earlier?