1		Sporadic
	2		Impatience (躁)
	3		Imagining
	4		Fracture
	5		Uneasy
	6		Where
	7		Decadence (墮落)
	8		Repressing Happiness
	9		Doomsday (末日)
	10		Wild Three Hills

	All track description from Forget You Like Forget Me Track 1 'sporadic' is a two -part song seperated by the title word 'sporadic.' Faye starts the song abruptly and crystal-clearly, putting you in her reflection on the night's view "beneath beauty's pity," and the second part is a certain lover's reflection on the day's view. The quiet-jumpy difference of the 2 parts is also accentuated by the last and most powerful line of the song 'to save hopes for dissapointment.' Such is Faye's distinct lyrics-writing. It is very obvious from the start that Faye is defying structured songs here. Those who are not used to the free expression of song-writing, and has been conformed to the traditional canto-pop style of song-writing will hate this album from the start. I, for one,am liking this to death. Sporadic Music and Lyrics: Faye Wong night wind lightly cool tree sways moon shakes little clouds flying I am thinking water flowing flower fragrance a slice of night's view put on heart admidst happiness's melancholy admidst darkness's light how to measure how to weigh wild field moutain range beneath beauty's pity sporadic you see that moutain's view lake's light you see that blue sky white willow cannot see a shine of infinite you see again the sea sky green waves you see again twilight beam cannot help but hurry to save hope for dissapointment [Top][Next]
	Track 2 'impatience' starts out softly with Faye declaring september as the month of impatience. She then aggressively yodels 'la chart bo' (and we could hear an alarm going off, dooo dooo dooo, all the way. It's the obvious sound for impatience, and I think 'la chart bo' is just the kind of sound someone will make when s/he is impatient, say, like waiting to get into the bathroom and can't stop babbling until s/he get to go.) and then slow down for some breathy melodic sounds, then it's all 'la chart bo' again and then Faye does her signature nomadic lyrics-yodeling, much much more liberated than one could find in 'pledge.' Faye finally alternates between 'la chart bo's' and soothing whispers. Impatience (躁) Music and Lyrics: Faye Wong september sky high people imaptient in september plain and boring everything's fine only lacking vexation [Previous][Top][Next]
	Track 3 'imagine' requires a lot of our imagination. It's the first song of Faye with indecipherable lyrics. It certainly does not mean there isn't lyrics to the song. Yet, only Faye will know what she is singing, but listeners should be able to feel what she is singing here, and appreciate the beauty of the song, for song is not so much about the lyrics, but perhaps the sound, and the melody, and the instruments, the resonance of all these things making an impression in your psyche. (Cocteau twins fans will have no problem at this) Faye utilizes a wide range of sounds here, husky, ethereal, saprano, nomad-like, amongst other 'weird' tones. Do I hear cantonese somewhere in the song? 'Ngor bei gor nei.....sarm sarm....' There would be no way to find out i f Faye is really talking about giving a shirt to someone or not, but that does not stop us from imagining. Imagining zekima eh au mes sing mau ah mau ze um esegul beidau bei no no zegun bedau beedau be uh dau dau zegun beidau bei un au au me yau me yeh ah ah ah ah un au me yau me yeh ah ah ah ah un au un zegibei dau bei no no bee bee dau bee dau dau au au au *siarm me eh bee bee dau bee um bei dau zigum bei dau bee um (ah um)* bei dau eh um bei dau eh yo bei jor nei ah wah yee (da........da.......eee....da da da) yo bei gor mei sarm sarmee um (da........da.......eee....da da da) repeat * au mee yau me yeh (au mee yau me yeh) zigabei dauoooo au mee yau me yeh zigabei fong oh [Previous][Top][Next]
	Track 4'fracture' is one of those ascension-of-soul songs of the cocteau twins. To transform sorrows into such beauty makes it much more sorrowful and beautiful. That is the power of twins' soundscapes. Someone ignorantly points out the indistinguishabl e parts of the song. The fact is that the song is an idea. This time it's about a fracture in a relationship, both physical and emotional. This is when no one can ever distinguish parts anymore, like many things in the secular world, when we try to rati onalize emotions with reasoning. There is none. It's not capable. It's too big. Lin Xi writes exquisite lyrics for the song. Probably the most visceral ever written by him. "reminiscence's cells continuously fracturing....." The ascension is felt during "a pair of eyes seeing a countenace of your kindness...." Before that, there were touch ( "embrace's tragedy") and breath ("let me breathe") and blood ("one person flowing two persons' blood). Now no longer blind, we see, and this is more poignant than ever, t o have us actually witness the separation, the damage the love has done to two, like, a "wingless butterfly," only, perhaps, to have fallen into the fissure. Fracture Music: Cocteau Twins Lyrics: Lin Xi fracture fracture smile's innocence harmlessness on one side seeing through everything on the other fracture fracture love's exhaustion fatigue on one side nothing's abandoned on the other it's me has embraced you a drip a drop keeping in hand it's you have embraced me without a fissure to let me breathe fracture fracture resolutely confronting everything on one side planting seeds on the other fracture fracture to guard a one person's world to bleed two person's blood it's that embrace's tragedy one half of heat one half of coldness it's that embrace's tragedy one half of sky one half of earth (reminiscence's cells continuously fracturing... fracture fracture) it's that embrace's tragedy a bit of me a bit of you (reminiscence's cells continuously fracturing... fracture fracture) it's that embrace's tragedy a bit of man a bit of woman it's that embrace's tragedy a side of blue a side of green it's that embrace's tragedy pretend nothingness summoning sky stealing earth (reminiscence's cells continuously fracturing... fracture fracture) it's that embrace's tragedy scaring sky shaking earth plain and ordinary (reminiscence's cells continuously fracturing... fracture fracture) a pair of eyes to see a countenance of kindness to open a pair of eyes yet seeing a countenance of arrogance psyche following you to another world body yet seems like a wingless butterfly seeing you i'll begin to see emptiness when not seeing you to confront myself yet am a bit frightened fracture fracture sometimes resolutely confronting everything sometimes needing to plant seeds fracture fracture to guard a one person's world to bleed two person's blood fracture fracture smile's innocence harmlessness on one side seeing through everything on the other fracture fracture love's exhaustion fatigue on the other [Previous][Top][Next]
	Track 5 is a pulp-fiction like instrumental by dou wei and cheung yah tung (who wrote 'float' and 'I want' and played in previous albums of Faye). The songs following this make a twist, from the mostly jovial, etheral, to darker (and perhaps more beautiful at the same time) stuff. Notice the titles 'where,' 'decadence.' 'brooming happiness,' 'doomsday,' and the title of this instrumental 'uneasy' is where everything start to shake up....in disguise. Uneasy [Previous][Top][Next]
	Track 6 'where' is an urgent seek of somethingness. The upbeat-ness of the music reminds me of 'backside shadow' and 'pure love' but the vocals is reminiscent of 'sleepwalking' plus a plethora of new vocal techniques used by Faye. Indecipherable lyrics may o nce again be a turn-off by some, but I consider his track, along with track 3, and 'vacation' as the best songs ever written by Faye. I do hear 'where...where' sung by Faye, in the song, and I am sure Faye knows what she is singing. The repetition within th e three turns in the song-structure is refreshing, but perhaps not noticeable because now we have to rely on the sounds. That pushes us to listen more carefully and be more entranced when we get to the monk-like chant in the middle of the song, and the s aprano and sustain-notes at the end of the song. Faye is not a genius, she is just an angel. Where [Previous][Top][Next]
	Track 7 'decadence' is a bonus because of Faye's exeptionally extended lyrics. Perhaps we can see the irony that Faye is obviously playing here. In the begining there's a very dark feel to the melody and vocals, and Faye is talking about bright side of th ings ("this world seems very happy, cannot see regrets...."), when her voice brightens up, she is talking about the hellish, decadent behaviors ("to painfully enjoy, hesitantly embrace decadence"). Is Faye a devil here? She sings with enthusiasm and compass ion "oh come oh come, I accompnay you....continue continue...." to lead someone into the vortex of decadence, and of misery, perhaps. The confusion is evident in my favorite line of the song - "the intertwining of intoxication and anesthesia." And the road to decadence is like the mood of the song, a confusion in the bright and the dark, eternally unconscious. Decadence (墮落) Music and Lyrics: Faye Wong this world seems very happy cannot see regrets always smiling reticence you do not fear do not worry you're naturally (to be) undaunted to shed disguises pick away beliefs you are not willing to speak much you want to be less restrained nothing to be afraid of nothing to worry painfully enjoy hesistantly deteriorate cannot hinder temptation you then refuse lonliness you are not wrong because no one has been right tranquil heart so you embrace decadence oh come oh come I accompany you oh come oh come oh come to continue to continue I don't have much to say cannot think clearly of outcome and am not prepared for self-reprobation I do not fear do not hurry naturally (to be) undaunted hopelessly to ascend against downstream knowingly to fall into trapped net do not have any other thinking only want to be less restrained to pretend not to discover behind is goodness' falsity draining spirit coercively struggle nothing is missed actually gaining nothing cannot say it's dissapointment intertwining of intoxication and anesthesia starting from here unconsciously to embrace decadence oh come oh come I accampany you oh come oh come oh come to continue to continue [Previous][Top][Next]
	Track 8 'brooming happiness' is a precious-sounding creation of the heavenly cocteau twins again. The song is written for Faye and was actually part of the setlist of the 'milk and kisses' tour. It's called 'green' or 'touch upon touch' by the twins. While liz fraser of the cocteau twins opt for her very famous and mesmerizing skat-singing in the song, Faye opts for the scratchy, jazzy feel. (This time she is much better than in 'quiet night clarinet' of her early career) She enunciates a word at a time, and s tresses certain tones to perfection. It's subtle and trembly. Wyman, with some assistance of two friends, Andrew and Cherry (not given credit), expresses the lazy-calmness ('lazy calm' is a cocteau twins' song title) , the overcast clarity, and the willful b lindness of the confrontation of reality. The ungrammatical title 'brooming happiness' is appropriate for a twins song. The "playing cards," the "clouds" and the "pan of water" adds to the attractivness of the song. We hear Faye mumbles far away in the backg round, yearning, or perhaps, lamenting the destruction of happiness, but only in the background. In the foreground, Faye remains placid, tranquil. Repressing Happiness Music: Cocteau Twins Lyrics: Lin Xi stacking stacking cards you a move of hand to have me falling drinking drinking cola you a turn of head to have me crying disguising disguising happiness you a look to have me unable to disguise forgetting forgetting solitariness your a question to have me thinking * oh always not wasting a blow of ashes you have me from that dream world running away (oh) always so effortlessly you tell me from where the depths of white clouds falling* @ cautious patience you without paying attention to have me hurdling very easily amused your one sentence to have me turning bad whole life waiting your within a second to have me awaken freely induce in bordeom your a pan of cold water thrown towards me@ repeat *@* [Previous][Top][Next]
	Track 9 'doomsday' is a story of a man who "cries beautifully" for his inability to acheive his goal. Faye's intermmiten vocals and swirly-sounds create an atmopsheric doomsday. The tingles in the beginning is perhaps an indication of the exigent doomsday, and they are then replaced by Faye's impression. The immediate ascension to doomsday ( i've always envision death as a resident of the apex of a mountain, and we climb to seek peace sometimes) and the ghoustly (angelic?) vocals of Faye leaves us shuddered (blessed?). The song reminds me of Camus' 'The Stranger,' particularly the line 'the sun is a bit too scintillating." Faye's anti-materializm and nihilism is again evident, as in 'exit.' Despite given only two months' time, this album is an exquisite creation . Doomsday (末日) Music and Lyrics: Faye Wong aspiration loitering crossroads do not know which side to go road of confidence continuously looking down countitng stones under feet the sun is a bit too scintillating the air is not too fresh he thinks of this hesistant and not advancing beautifully flowing tears saying goodbye to himself deceitfully showing a smiley face vortexing in the crowd rationalization not convincing self decided to give up desire to buy everything yet cannot satisfy emptiness ordains and doctrines have no meanings three hearts two wishes is captivating doomsday coming a bit curious curious no one will care [Previous][Top]
	Track 10 'wild three hills' is an interplay of drums/guitar/vocals of dou wei/cheung yah tung/Faye. It's a foreceful, magnificent way to end the album. You can just imagine Faye walking back into the wild hills, sporadically.....

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