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Not For Sale
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Album Type: Mandarin compilation
Record Label: Cinepoly Records
Date of Release: 1997
 
 Unbelievable
 I'm Willing
 Love without Regrets
 Sky
 Angel
 You are in My Heart
 Lotus in the Snow
 Hope People Last Forever
 Impatience
 Chesspiece
 Amaranthine
 Comet (Latin mix)
 Pledge
 Cold War
 Reservedness
 Inconstant
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I'm Willing (track 2)

song: Huang Guo Lun/lyrics: Yao Qian

*note: extra verse translated; this verse can be found
on a special version of this song (there's a different
music video to go with it too!)

Reminiscence is very profound
Like a shadow, always there
Soundlessly and unnoticed, it emanates from the heart
In a blink of an eye, it is consumed by loneliness

I have no strength to refuse
Especially at night
I think of you until I can't breathe
I resent the fact that I can't run towards you immediately
And tell you at the top of my voice:

I'm willing, I'm willing
I'm willing to forget my identity for you
For just one more second in your arms
Losing the world would not be a pity

I'm willing, I'm willing
I'll willingly be banished to the edge of the world for you
As long as you're sincere
And give me love in return
I'm willing to do anything, anything, for you

(Distance is razor-sharp, piercing emotion
I worry that our love will wear out because of this
And drown out the harmony of our hearts
The love you give is what I live for
You are the only one in my life
I have always wanted to lean close to you
To prove to you with my actions...)
[chorus]

Love Without Regrets (track 3)

song: Yuan Wei Ren/lyrics: Faye Wong

This time I resolutely confront
I rashly allow myself to become enraptured
I don't care whether this is right or wrong
Even if it is a dangerous trap, I won't care about anything else
Even when it comes to love, I'll love without regret

Don't tell me that I should give up
That I should open my eyes
I use my heart
To see and to feel
You're not me, so how can you understand?
Even when it comes to love, let me love without regret

I'm not as perfect as you think
I admit that sometimes I can't tell the difference between truth and deception
It's not that I'm unwilling to walk out of this heap of love
It's only that this time, this time it's me and not someone else

Whose heart should I use to comprehend
To truly experience my surroundings
Even if it's painful, even if it's tearful
It's all part of my remorse

Whose heart can I use to comprehend
To truly experience my surroundings
Even if I'm tired, even if I'm weary
I can only love without regret

Sky (track 4)

song: Yang Ming Huang/lyrics: Huang Gui Lan

Why is my sky filled with tears?
Why does my sky always have a grey face?
Wandering on the other side of the world
Letting loneliness invade again and again
The sky is streaked with longing

Is your sky filled with clouds of thought?
Does your sky have a cold moon?
Banished to the other side of the sky
Letting loneliness take over night after night
The sky is filled with hidden longing

Our skies, when will they become one?
Our skies, when will they be united?
Each waiting on different sides of the world
Letting loneliness taunt us year after year
The sky is piled with layers of longing

Hope that the sky won't be filled with tears
Hope that the sky won't paint a grey face

Angel (track 5)

song/lyrics: Huang Shu Jun

If I could, I want to be more conscious
If I could, I want to be lighter

Passing through fog, passing through clouds
See your heart clearly
It's too emotional, it's too suspicious
It's giving you a signal

My love is on the verge
Will soon fly to you
My beautiful angel of a heart
No longer mysterious
Will only wait for you
My tender angel of a heart
Only want you to watch over me for a lifetime
I will forever, sweetly day and night
Love you with my heart

I don't believe in a moment of courage
I only accept a lifetime of fate

Passing through fog, passing through clouds
See through your heart
It's real love, it's cherished
Don't want it to be a game

You are in my Heart (track 6)

song: Zheng Shang Zhong Fu/lyrics: Wang Wen Yuan

You said that you would return to see me
Do you know that I long for you every day?
Don't forget that you once said you were deeply in love with me
Hope you'll come back soon, so that I can regain the romantic feelings of bygone days

Please stay here and not go far
Listen to my heart-felt phrase
In my heart, I love you so
I hope that I'm also in your heart

Remember my every heart-felt phrase
Treasure our sweet times together
Forget the times when we were separated
Our pain and loneliness
I also ask that you never
Cruelly forget me

Please stay here, don't go
I love you with all my heart
In my heart, I love you so
I hope that I'm also in your heart

Lotus in the Snow (track 7)

song/lyrics: Huang Min

Snowflakes drift
So much love drifts about
Snowflakes fly
Destiny takes flight
The lotus blooms amidst the snow
So much hope, so many wishes

Patiently waiting for my past love
I hope that love will never change
Snowflakes fly one by one
Filling the sky

Snowflakes drift
So much love drifts about
Snowflakes fly
Destiny takes flight
Past times are like dreams, like evanescent clouds
So much sweetness
So much longing

Yet we're still so far apart
True love will dwell forever in my heart
Snowflakes fly
Filling the sky

Impatience (track 9)

song/lyrics: Faye Wong

September
The sky is high
One is restless

In September
Things are simple and boring
Everything is fine
Only lacking in worries

Chesspiece (track 10)

song: Yang Ming Huang/lyrics: Pan Li Yu

I wish to leave your territory
Yet I enter your war situation
I don't have strong defences
And don't have an alternate route into which to retreat

I wish to escape from your trap
Yet I find myself trapped in another dilemma
I don't have the courage to determine victory or defeat
And don't have the good fortune of escape

I'm like a chesspiece
Attacking and retreating at your will
I am not the only knight in your eyes
Just an ordinary pawn

I'm like a chesspiece
Coming and going against my will
Raising of a hand without return; you never wavered
Yet I am under your control

Amaranthine (track 11)

song/lyrics: Huang Shu Jun

The longspun thread of longing has finally been broken
Years of attachment, yet [we] still missed our date
You have gone far away, disappeared from my life's horizon
The happiness and sadness of this life have lost their flavour

Memories are spreading, consuming my countenance
I cannot walk away from yesterday, cannot shed tears
You were once my sky, I needed only to raise my face to possess everything
How can I face a night without you?

My deep love for you is amaranthine
My resentment for you is amaranthine
My devotion for you is amaranthine
From now on until eternity

My yearning for you is amaranthine
My broken heart is amaranthine*
My best wishes for you are amaranthine
Even if you become oblivious to all my wishes from now on

*Please note that a better translation for this line would be "I will forever remain
broken-hearted because of you", but I have opted for the less accurate translation
as it fits in better with the rest of the lyrics.

Comet (track 12)

song: Liu Yi Da/lyrics: Zhou Yao Hui

I'm at the corner of the sea, yet you're at the edge of the sky
Two stars destined to appear together
We communicate at a distance, yet can never move close together
You and I reflect each other in the darkness

Is this attachment, or is it mutual destruction?
It's already been too long
There's no way to sustain it
I need to escape from your tender universe

I've become a comet, I care not where I fly
Behind me are glistening memories
I am a comet, I have a wish
To leave you
By myself, I'll beautifully disappear

Between the two of us
There seems to be nothing
There's only a silver river flowing with tears
You are the cowboy; I don't dare be the spinning maid
I don't want to continue the dismal poem

I don't want to attach myself to you like this
Don't want mutual destruction
It's already been too long
There's no way to sustain it
It's time for me to return to the mortal world

I've become a comet, I care not where I fly
Behind me are glistening memories
I am a comet, I have a wish
To leave you
By myself, beautifully...

I've become a comet, I care not where I fly
Behind me are glistening memories
Countless comets have only one wish
I search for my own beautiful story

Pledge (track 13)

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

Reservedness (track 15)

song: Guo Zi/lyrics: Xu Chang De

I have never refused your charm
Even though you have never been in love with me
I have always looked at you with a smile
My love has always easily overflowed in front of [your] eyes

I once imagined on a lonely night
That you were finally in my room
You closed your eyes and kissed me
You silently held me tight in your arms

I really love you, I love you deeply
[This is] the first time I have relinquished my reservedness
And let myself freely imagine everything about you and me

You really love me, you love me deeply
[This is] the first time I have relinquished my reservedness
I believe that I can truly love you deeply

Inconstant  (track 16)

["Sporadic" in some translations]

song/lyrics: Faye Wong

The night breeze is cool
Trees are swaying, moonlight flickers
Clouds are flying, I'm thinking
Water is flowing, flowers are fragrant
The image of the night in my heart
Happiness accompanied by sadness
There is light in the darkness
How to measure? how to reckon?
Fields, mountain tops
Desolation beneath superficial beauty
...Inconstant...
Look at the colour of the mountains and the light of the lakes
Look at the blue sky and the white willow
Can't see a hint of haziness
Look also at the waves of the sea
Look also at the coloured clouds of sunset and the light of dawn
Can't prohibit the rush and haste
Leave hope to disappointment
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