Reminiscence / Wai Leem

(composed by Cocteau Twins, lyrics by Wyman Wong, translated by Edith Fung)

Close the windows
Keep the air within
Light a cigarette
Imagine feeling your breathe

Search in my mind
All the words you've said
In emptiness
I'm still searching for the answers

Reject all the
other invitations
Lock myself up
to wait for news about you

Become happy
used to hearing "no"
There are no traces
Enjoy the gaps within our lives

Maybe like to think of you
More than seeing you
And maybe like to fantasize
More than owning you

Close the window
Keep the air within
Light a cigarette
Imagine feeling your breathe

Scattered around
Riddles of our lives
In emptiness
I'm still searching for the answers

Reject all the
other invitations
Lock myself up
to wait for news about you

Changes, changes
Sweet suspicions
And you act so secret
to make yourself more interesting

Maybe like to think of you
More than seeing you
And maybe like to fantasize
More than holding you

AH...

Maybe like to think of you
even when you are here
And maybe like to fantasize
Cannot deal with having you

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(translated by Abby Wu)

Close my win-dow, de-oxi-dize it
Smoke fills my room, nostal-gic for your breath

Search my brain for in-complete discord
Stare thru thin air, fighting against your questions

Always re-fuse, real dating with you
Trapping my-self, growing desire for your news

Pleased with my own, I reject your charm
With-out one trace, enjoying my distance with you

Perhaps like to long for you, more than look at you
I perhaps like to think of you, more than possess you

I close my win-dow, de-oxi-dize it
Smoke fills my room, nostal-gic for your breath

Falls off one floor, con-fusing puzzles
Stare thru thin air, fighting against your questions

Always refuse, real dating with you
Trapping my-self, growing desire for your news

Come here go there, doubts full of sweetness
Act out myst'ry, prolong your cu-riosity

Perhaps like to long for you, more than look at you
I perhaps like to think of you, no need to hug with you

Ah ah...ah Ah ah ah ah ah........

Perhaps like to long for you, more than look at you
I perhaps like to think of you, cannot stand to be with you