Respawn Entertainment: Days of Glory

Chapter 1004 Love That Cannot Speak

The same situation continued with "Fireworks" and "No Place to Hide". It wasn't until "Enter Sandman" that some fans fell behind due to language barriers.

But that's not a big deal, because even these music fans who don't know the lyrics are humming along to the rhythm.

As for Guo Sichu's performance, even with Hatter's excellent version as a precedent, rock music fans feel that Guo Sichu's version, which has a bit of a gothic flavor, can compete with Hatter to see which is more suitable for the ears of Chinese music fans!
Ivo said directly to his agent, "If Guo could sign with our company, I think..."

"Ivo, that's a great suggestion, although it's almost impossible. But I think Rolling Stone would love to see a disruptor like us emerge!"

After finishing her regular songs, Guo Sichu, as usual, first thanked the fans and then called Bian Lang up on stage to take a group photo.

Then I heard the fans chanting "Encore!" one after another!
This was Guo Sichu's first time performing at a music festival as the lead singer of Rolling Stones, so how could she not have prepared encores? In fact, she had prepared several. Just as the group was discussing what to sing, Liu Ziyang's voice came through Guo Sichu's in-ear monitor:
"Don't drag it out too long, the leaders said to try not to delay..."

After Guo Sichu conveyed her meaning, she looked at Bian Lang, indicating that he should make the decision.

"Rock 'n' Roll on the New Long March..." Upon hearing this song title, the Rolling Stones crew began to disperse and take their places. Bian Lang, however, did not leave the stage but quietly retreated backstage.

Guo Sichu was unprepared for this song because, personally, she has found it very difficult to understand and sing it in the same way as Bian Lang.

But she understood all too well why Bian Lang chose this song. She didn't even need to start the key; it wouldn't affect the effect at all if she handed it over to other musicians at Rolling Stone.

Moreover, Hatter had done this once before, and the fans had coordinated perfectly!

Just as she predicted, as soon as the brass intro began, the fans in the audience got ready. There was no way around it; the song's popularity wasn't limited to the rock scene.

The influence of appearing on CCTV's gala is absolutely different. Even Guo Sichu's fans were initially a bit confused, but once the chant started, most of them realized what song it was.

"I've heard of it, but never seen it. Twenty-five thousand li... Some say it's not easy, but others say they haven't done it. How can they know it's not easy..."

Guo Sichu didn't sing at all; she just held a microphone and danced around on stage with everyone.

After she finished singing "one, two, three, four, five, six, seven," she began to say her final goodbye to the fans: "Thank you all for coming to support the Rolling Stones today. We hope you will continue to support us in the coming year!"

Just then, someone shouted, "Is it officially over now? Can Bian Lang go on?" Then the whole audience started chanting Bian Lang's name!
At first, Bian Lang didn't pay much attention, but the exit notice had been playing on repeat for several minutes, and very few people were leaving. Moreover, the shouts for his name were getting louder and louder, which made things a bit difficult!

He'd never encountered this situation at music festivals on Earth before. He'd only heard of these kinds of situations at certain pop superstar concerts, like the one where people couldn't leave, or Wu Bai's concerts where people were yelling "overtime!"...

Now that things had come to this, seeing the pleading look Guo Sichu was giving him, he could only jog up, take the microphone, and chat with the fans: "Thank you all for your support. To be honest, I'm very touched, but..."

Before he could finish speaking, someone in the audience interrupted, shouting, "We'll crowdfund the fine!"

Hearing this, Bian Lang could only smile bitterly and say, "This isn't about the fine. I believe everyone here knows my situation. I don't want to lose you all. A year isn't a short time, but it's not a long time either..."

"Bian Lang! Bian Lang! Bian Lang!" Facing the loyal fans below the stage, Bian Lang truly couldn't bear it. However, if he continued to act recklessly, he himself had no idea how bad the consequences would be.

Meanwhile, several leaders in Haikou also became anxious.

Judging from the current situation, unless they simply shut down the gates and leave, these music fans will likely cause a ruckus for quite a while. But if they do shut down and leave, then what seemed like a perfect music festival will probably be met with a barrage of criticism from fans afterwards.

Although they felt they could suppress it, it was ultimately imperfect!

Just then, the highest-ranking leader in charge spoke up: "Does anyone have any good ideas about this? Is it possible to actually get Bian Lang to go on stage and sing a song?"

Before the words were even finished, the SJZ member spoke up: "Singing is no problem, it's just a matter of whether everyone is willing to bear the consequences. If this gets blown out of proportion, Rock Records might get fined, and Bian Lang's ban might be extended. Fines are minor issues, it's Bian Lang's situation that's difficult to handle..."

Everyone knows exactly how difficult the solution is.

Even if you were to permanently ban Bianlang now, it's hard to say how much impact it would have on him. But the anger that has been stirred up among rock music fans is something that's hard to predict how things will turn out.

After listening to SJZ's analysis, the leader in charge in Haikou immediately said to the person next to him, "Go tell the people at Rolling Stone to have Bian Lang sing a song, but..."

Before the news even reached Bian Lang's ears, everyone heard his voice: "Now that the music festival is over, I guess I'm doing this underhanded work! Just one song..." With that, Bian Lang turned to grab his guitar...

The fans in the audience erupted in cheers!
Da Yong and Di Li knew they couldn't dissuade him, so as brothers, they would just accompany Bian Lang to crash into the south wall.

Dili came up and asked Bianlang, "What song is it?"

Bian Lang waved his hand and said, "It's a new song, you don't need to help with anything, just listen to it..." After saying that, Bian Lang picked up a wooden guitar, walked to Guo Sichu's side, took her hand, and walked to the center of the stage.

Amidst everyone's anticipation, Bian Lang sat down cross-legged and began adjusting the microphone stand. After he finished, he pulled Guo Sichu to sit next to him and softly said, "Love that cannot speak!"

After he finished speaking, Bian Lang closed his eyes, and the music fans all fell silent in an instant.

After a moment of gathering her emotions, a cappella singing began before the music: "Are you tired from embroidering? The cattle and sheep have come down from the mountain..."

Like deep breaths, the songs began, striking straight to the heart: "We burn our own houses and bodies, we light fires..."

"Untie your red sash, scatter a blanket of snow-white blossoms, and all the waters of the world ripple in your eyes..."

The meaning of these lyrics may require careful consideration to fully appreciate, but even a brief listen is enough to leave one in awe.

Among the writings about men and women engaging in sexual intercourse, Zhou Yunpeng's is the most insightful. Anyone with even a basic understanding of human nature can comprehend it, can imagine it, and might even feel blushing, their heart racing, and their mouth watering.

My dearest, this is by no means a sign of lust or evil, but rather the singer's use of the most beautiful words to describe the truest feelings, as if they were right before your eyes, making one marvel at the charm and wonder of language.

With just a few words, she can pull you away from the hustle and bustle of life, away from the nine-to-five routine, and quietly lead you into another world: a red bellyband, snow-white skin, and tears welling up in her eyes...

"No lights are on in the windows, no one is on the road, our wooden bed sings a song saying that happiness has gone..." The loneliness in the words inevitably reminds one of Rilke's "Watching the last house's silhouette, the red sun falls asleep in solitude," and "Dusk comes from afar, passing through the whispering pine forest buried in snow."

Guo Sichu leaned quietly against Bian Lang, the intense tremor within her transforming into involuntary physical reactions. At times, she felt she understood Bian Lang, but whenever this kind of work appeared, she could sense the loneliness within him.

It has nothing to do with romantic love or family; it's just a pure, spiritual sense of loneliness.

Saying "no one in the world can understand me" is a bit of an exaggeration, but Guo Sichu believes that if someone truly understood Bian Lang, then Bian Lang probably wouldn't have written these works.

Without even listening to the rest, Guo Sichu could tell that if these lyrics were considered a poem, they would be among the most outstanding in modern poetry.

On the original Earth, "Love That Cannot Speak" won the 2011 People's Literature Award for Poetry on November 3, 2011.

Zhou Yunpeng himself said that the artistic conception of this song comes from "Wang Feng: Junzi Yu Yi" in the Book of Songs. By using the artistic conception of the Book of Songs, he then depicts a love story.

"My dearest sister, my dearest elder sister, my poorest queen, the little cabbage next to my house..."

"The days are numbered, the fruit is ripe, we will harvest each other for the last time, and from then on, our hatred will run deep..."

Upon hearing this, Guo Sichu couldn't stop her tears! For some reason, the emotions she heard in these pessimistic lyrics didn't apply to herself and Bian Lang, but she inexplicably felt that if this was the end of love, then it was indeed beautiful enough.

Bian Lang silently played the piano and sang the entire song in one go:
"You go to your future, I go to mine, we can only wander in each other's dreams..."

Hovering over your future, hovering over my future, hovering amidst water, fire, and soup, steaming with anticipation...

We look forward to the arrival of more beautiful people, to the arrival of even better people, and to the return of our souls that have possessed it...

It's back, it's back..."

After the song ended, the audience was completely silent. Under Pan Jianhu's direction, the staff turned off all the stage lights, allowing the song to blend silently into the darkness!
This song is about Lao Zhou's story, and there is such a story. You can listen to it for now, but don't take it too seriously!

Old Zhou came to Beijing alone in his early years and made a living by busking. One day in the subway, a girl came up to him and said, "Come on, stop singing, I'll treat you to dinner."

That's how they met. They talked about novels, poetry, and philosophy. He dictated his writing, she wrote it down, and he played the piano and sang for her.

Cooking and eating together.

CCTV's "Oriental Horizon" program also reported on them, with the headline "Love in Winter" and the subtitle "A Love Story Between a Blind Man and a Female College Student." Her family discovered the affair, and her mother hired a lawyer to negotiate with him.

She failed her postgraduate entrance exam, and coupled with immense family pressure, both of them became irritable and started arguing. Finally, they decided to separate temporarily, so he went to XZD alone.

But after Xiao Zhan returned, they still broke up. She later went on to study at Peking University, got married, and went into publishing.

Although the two had some overlapping friends, they never met again and lost contact with each other.

He wrote a song about this relationship called "The Love That Cannot Speak," and all the pain was transformed into the line in the song: "We harvest each other for the last time, and from now on, our hatred will be as deep as the sea."

As for the composition, Lao Zhou himself said that it was adapted from O'Connor's "Thank you for hearing me".

Old Zhou is blind. The poem is so vividly colored that it is hard not to be puzzled. Red bellyband, white snowflakes, water in the eyes, fire burning in the house and body—how did he perceive all of this?

It is said that he lost his sight at the age of nine, and the last impression he had of sight was an elephant in the zoo playing a harmonica with its trunk. This was certainly selective, and I think the real image would not be so symbolic. His recollection can only show that he had an innate foundation in singing.

Regardless, the lyrics conceal the difference in his visual perception compared to ordinary people. Does the concept of "synesthesia" in art exist in reality? Perhaps we are being too serious. Poetry itself is art, but we still find it quite amazing that such a vivid imagery came from the hand of a blind person.

What is the main theme of this poem?
It is selected from "Cattle and Sheep Going Down the Mountain". If you look through the following poems, you will find that most of them are related to Du Fu. This is probably the only one that is related to cattle and sheep.

He chose the countryside as the setting for his love story, but the love story is broken. What is he trying to say? The dependence between lovers is influenced by the environment. For example, on the grassland, where there are few people, the mutual dependence is strong and there is no loneliness.

In cities, where there are many people, it's easy to stray from one's comfort zone yet still feel lonely.

So, this song is about original sin. What is original sin?

The story goes that when Eve and Adam ate the fruit, their eyes were opened, they learned to distinguish good from evil, and they knew shame. Jehovah then punished them by sending them to earth, severing their communication with the divine. They had to work hard to atone for their sins before they could return to the Garden of Eden. This is the origin of original sin.

Is it related to this poem? Is it related to love? Let's analyze original sin. What is sin? Eating the forbidden fruit. What is the cause of sin? Being tempted.

What is punishment? It is severing ties with God, hatred between men and women, suffering and atonement, and bearing a deep sense of guilt. This is the record of the first generation of Adam.

His descendants bear an even heavier burden of guilt. They are born almost entirely devoid of spiritual vision and wisdom, replaced by a fallen, self-centered humanity. This state determines that people will stray from God and have a tendency to sin.

This poem almost perfectly encapsulates the concept of "original sin," even though it is indigenous to the country.

Local realities also exist, reflecting a sense of "repentance" that is not inherent in our character. When problems arise, don't we always "hope for a more beautiful person to come, hope for a better person to come"?

Of course, what makes Lao Zhou better than others is his last sentence about redemption: "Hoping that our souls will possess us and return." With that, the concept should be perfect, right?
Love may not speak, but it can paint. With just a few strokes, Lao Zhou sketched a peaceful and serene picture.

"Are you tired from embroidering? The cattle and sheep have all come down from the mountain..."

Listening to this song, if you were to walk into a meadow full of wildflowers, accompanied by green mountains and beside a stream, there would be a wooden house where a girl embroidering would sit, stretch, stand up, and squint the sunset into her eyes, into the steps of the cattle and sheep going down the mountain.

It reminds us of the poem, "The reeds are green, the dew is white as frost; the one I long for is on the other side of the water." Even a gentle hum of the most beautiful poem is a wonderful folk song.

The best folk songs, even without a melody, are still incredibly moving because they are poems in themselves.

(End of this chapter)