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Help Yourself
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Album Type: Cantonese EP
Record Label: Cinepoly Records
Date of Release: 1997
 
.On Time
 Guardian Angel
 Help Yourself
 Di-Dar (historical mix)
 Pledge (discovery mix)
 Sleepwalk (universal mix)
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On Time (track 1) 

song: Chen Xiao Xia/lyrics: Lin Xi

I could, if you're willing; even if this feeling comes too late
Words which have never been spoken are written on my hands, flowing through my veins
Just once; there's no need for a second time
Let me listen at ease to your reminiscences of past times
Especially your moving stories; please let me know, what can be more beautiful?

Love and fate are never on time, if they really could be
Even if my hair turned white before I could be with you, it wouldn't be too late
Lovers don't like to be on time, perhaps it could be
It would allow me for once to be completely happy

I ask you, if you're willing; to give me all your old photos 
To make up for the loving images we never encountered in the past
The blank pages keep me company as I lose sleep
I could, if you're willing; let me appreciate naive youth
That smiling face after maturity; how it developed, how the eyes have changed

Guardian Angel (track 2)

song: Huang Jia Qiang/lyrics: Lin Xi

Angel, so unclear behind your back
Angel, is me; perhaps you don't care yet
To be able to guard you to the point of not caring about myself
To focus all my attention on guarding you, this is my destiny
Angel, for you; it's not your responsibility to fall in love
Angel, is me; to shoulder past crimes
Who told God to be unfair; I need to accomplish selfless acts, so that I could be enlightened

Punished me before; not at all saint-like
(perhaps this angel isn't good enough)
Constantly following in your path
(you passed by but perhaps you didn't notice)
As long as the sky isn't old
(dying from old age with you would be ideal)
I overwork myself, but still, I wish you well
(hope you'll never discover my mark)
I overwork myself, but still, I hope you'll be better off than me
(hope you'll never discover I wished you'd be better off than me)

Give the bad to me and I'll save the good for you
When the sky collapses I'll protect you
Give the light to you and I'll take the grey
Even if you refuse because you and I have fallen
I'm guarding you like an angel

Help Yourself (track 3)

song: Adrian Chan/lyrics: Lin Xi

If you're not used to it; don't fear trouble, don't fear trouble
I'm quite lazy, don't have much time
My body should be cast into the fields
This love, the product doesn't match the sample
You need not return it

Like a trashed pop can; let us play amongst the trash
Let you be dissatisfied, you won't dare be self-satisfied
Let this world judge; no matter how much it has improved it will still be like this
Of this life I only need half
I'll let you come with outstretched hands to take charge of it

The future is something I don't need
Do help yourself to it, to whom should I give it otherwise?
Freedom is something I don't like to possess
Please come...take it, take it
The journey is something I'm not too concerned about
Naturally I'm at ease with you, there's no need to give it to anyone
Value is something I won't guarantee
You don't come, and don't realise you need to pursue it
Help yourself, take it, please take it

Di-Dar (track 4)

song: Faye Wong/lyrics: Lin Xi

I don't want to spy on you for even a second
It's because I fear I'll suddenly laugh
I'll naturally love all the way
I'll scream loudly all of a sudden
Calling to the spirits to come out, come out, come out

I don't want to hear your heartbeats
It's because I fear you'll suddenly wake up
You naturally say it's too late
You really have to go
I suddenly cry, cry, cry
Di-Dar....

I don't want to possess you
It's because I fear I'll suddenly think
That you're really too important
I suddenly can't breathe
I'll suddenly want to shout, want to jump, want to possess
Di-Dar....

Pledge (track 5)

song: Faye Wong, Dou Wei/lyrics: Faye Wong

I thought that we could be together forever 
Lots of times, I think of this and I don't want to fall asleep
If you could give me a sincere certainty
It doesn't matter; nothing matters to me

The road ahead is perhaps not too clear
After I proceed on confidently, perhaps I'll find it exhausting
Perhaps I'll want to stop but cannot stop

The darker the sky becomes, the more tired my heart becomes
I saw your face, listened to your unvoiced pledge
At that moment I discovered
That one day I walked past you and didn't catch your gaze

I take my heart and give it to you to console
Is it possible for me not to have to take it back?
[Please] don't think that a resolute heart is unbreakable
[Please] don't think that nothing matters to me

Sleepwalk (track 6)

song: C.Y. Kong/lyrics: Lin Xi

Looking at his eyes I think of someone else
I have stayed, but my heart has not*
I look at the lights of the night, yet I think of white clouds
A night like this is too boring
And that time, that night was so captivating

I cannot understand any of the boisterous jokes
Confused amidst the crowd of people, I seem to be in outer space
My empty arms seem to embrace
It seems to be me but it isn't me
And I'm just creating my dreams

There is no end to sleepwalking at whim
Sky and earth seem so free
People actually love to sleepwalk
Consciousness is filled with too many curses
This flighty existence is the only thing I feel I own

I develop according to my moods
[I'm] in midst of the vivacity, yet my heart isn't there
I mumble to myself, my inspiration flies about
I'm sitting in the car, it's as if I'm flying over the fields
It's too stifling this way
Yet my moods are so entangled

Sky and earth are free

Love to sleepwalk, it's freer than sky and earth
Only when sleepwalking can I find no boundaries
Need to sleepwalk, it's freer than sky and earth
Let me sleepwalk, I find no boundaries

*I'm not sure about this line; in the lyrics, no subject is stated,
and so it can be interpreted in two ways. I have translated it
in the first person, since the previous line was "Looking into his
eyes I think of someone else", suggesting that even though she
has stayed, her heart is somewhere else; however, you could
also interpret it as "He has stayed, but his heart has not." 

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