3.18 am
Your tears
Glisten, laced with pain
The crescent moon
Hangs in the past
Pale with sickness
Cool night, too long
Turns to frost
Who is on the tower
Frozen in despair?
The rain drums lightly
On a crimson pane
My destiny is written on paper
Fluttering in the wind
Distant dreams
Rise like incense
Melting into night
is your image
🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶
Chrysanthemums fall
Weeping to the ground
Traces of your smile
On a yellowing scroll
Your heart now empty
My thoughts quietly rest
The north wind blows
Not yet dawn
Your shadow clear and close
Only companion of my soul
On the lake, a couple mirrored
🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶
Blossoms of evening sky
Beauty undimmed
Scatter everywhere
A fate hard to swallow
Sadness, do not cross the river
Your autumn heart will sink
Drowning in longing
You will not reach the other shore
Whose hills and rivers
Echo with the clamor of hooves?
My armor is shredded
By the dividing hour
The sky slowly brightens
Your sights, silk soft
Weave a night of sorrow
So fragile, so spare
🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶
Chrysanthemums fall
Weeping to the ground
Traces of your smile
On a yellowing scroll
Your heart now empty
My thoughts quietly rest
The north wind blows
Almost dawn
Your shadow clear and close
Only companion of my soul
On the lake, a couple reflected
🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶
Chrysanthemums sigh
In the cool night air
Traces of your smile
In yellowing despair
Your heart now empty
My thoughts quietly rest
The north wind blows
Almost dawn
🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶
Your shadow, so close
The only companion of my soul
On the lake, the two of us
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Lyrics of the song
from the movie name,
Curse of the Golden Flower,
a masterpiece of Chinese and Hong Kong cinematography