A Song a day: 21st Feb 2014 (大開眼戒 (A.K.A. 打回原形)

The song for today is “大開眼戒” (A.K.A. “打回原形”) by Eason Chan. This was requested by a reader of this blog. I like this song, and I thought I had talked about it already until yesterday when I tried to search for it. This song is very interesting as it got two names. It was said that the song was originally called “打回原形” (in English it means “Back to the original form”), but as it was a song for a skin care product promotion campaign, this name is not suitable (as no one want a product that bring you back to where you started). So they change the name to “大開眼戒” (meaning “Eyes wide open” in English directly, but it means to broaden you view. I guess the skin care product is an eye cream?). This name “大開眼戒” was used when the song first come out. But later on, the lyrics writer of the song, Wyman Wong (a very famous lyrics writer in Hong Kong) thinks that the original name “打回原形” better suit the song, as a sign of respect for the lyrics writer I guess, the song now uses the original name “打回原形”.

The lyrics of the song are about the protagonist think that he is not good enough to fall in love with a girl, and he thinks that if he shows his true self, she will be scare and walk away. It begins with the protagonist asking whether he could leave the light off and kiss with the girl in the dark. He wonders would she still hug him if he shows his true self. He is worry to break the sense of environment and no one knows how dark his heart is. If his true self is so low grade, how could he matches with her. If lover is curious, she would need to be prepared that he might frighten her. But who could be so clean in this world. How could she bear this curiosity, the answer is razor sharp. So he wishes that when they are open to each other, he wouldn’t hurt her. When she is not sure, perhaps she shouldn’t have walked too close. So if he happened to show her all the spots (I guess in the context, it means scars) on his body she could turn around. He was born this way, if they could change is DNA, take it apart and put it back together, he is willing to do so. Regardless of what happen to him as long as she is happy. If lover is curious, she would need to be prepared that he might frighten her. But who could be so clean in this world. How could she bear this curiosity, the answer is razor sharp. But you know, who doesn’t have their little secretes. How many hands and legs would it require for her to fall in love with him without any problems? If she loves him, then don’t trouble him, a few pairs of ears, and just go tango with him (personally I don’t quite get the meaning of this last sentence. I guess broadly it means that if she likes him then just ignore everything else and let him take care of it). How to bear this curiosity? Is she prepared to fall in love with him? If she like weird people, then he is beautiful. Hope you will enjoy the song.