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LAM WAI

TSIM SHA TSUI, 2AM

Learned to sing from cassettes his father played in a taxi for thirty years

style

  • cantopop
  • neon-lit synths
  • live band warmth
  • expressive male vocal
  • eighties chord movement with modern low end
  • cantonese accent
  • romantic and nocturnal
  • cantonese accent
  • romantic
  • nocturnal

the numbers

bpm
99
key
C major
energy
0.69
dance
0.95
valence
0.49
vocal at
1.4s
length
3:02
language
Ca

lyrics

(loeng dim)

Ba ba ge dik si hoeng liu saam sap nin
Thirty years of my father's taxi and one cassette
Go joeng jam ngo hai hau zo bin hok jyun
I learned to sing from the back seat, facing the wrong way

The city changes its name while you sleep
Signs come down like a tide going out
And the songs keep the shape of streets that closed

Tsim Sha Tsui, 2am, Tsim Sha Tsui, 2am
Everything I love is a photograph of a place
Tsim Sha Tsui, 2am, Tsim Sha Tsui, 2am
And I sing it like a map to a room that moved

Ngo dik jam ngok hai gau dik, ngo zi dou
My music is old-fashioned. I know. I chose it.
Ngo bat hai hoi gau, ngo hai bou cyun
I am not nostalgic. I am doing preservation work.

Ba ba hai gau sap sei seoi ting ngo dik cong pin.
My father heard my record at sixty-four in the same taxi.
He turned it up. He did not say anything. He turned it up.

Tsim Sha Tsui, 2am, Tsim Sha Tsui, 2am
Everything I love is a photograph of a place
Tsim Sha Tsui, 2am, Tsim Sha Tsui, 2am
And I sing it like a map to a room that moved

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