This song "Memories" never fails to make me tear up when I hear it play. You know what, the lyrics of this song is a true narrative of the unabated affections of every soldier's wife to her husband when he is "away", ROC soldiers in particular. I will call this song ---- a military version of "家後".
I checked all youtube and found this one is still the best in comparison. May be because the time controlled better and clearer with slower melody. Also this one was performed in the Taiwan National Concert Hall that make it a great plus.
Thank you for the sharing. It brings me to the days of youth. What a beautiful and miserable song. I was taught this song by my Chinese teacher at junior high school. She is such a poet, a fantastic teacher. The memerable days. Ah, time fly...
The composer was from Taiwan, but the lyrics was written successively by two music teachers from mainland China with 18 years in between. The song probably has to owe a lot of its popularity to its lyrics. The theme of the song is about a woman reminiscing about her husband who left for battlefield and not yet returned home, a common topic in Chinese culture which was shared by people in Taiwan and mainland alike. It would help a foreigner to obtain a more profound feeling of why this song was popular in Taiwan if he/she can comprehend the sophistication of the original Chinese text.
