:)

@ Sáng nay MM thức dậy, bụng đói meo, mở tủ lạnh ra tìm kiếm, oh không còn một chai sữa nào trong tủ lạnh cả! MM có thể nhịn ăn cơm một ngày, nhưng không thể nào nhịn uống sữa được! Suốt cả một buổi sáng, MM chỉ mơ màng nghĩ tới một chai sữa mát lạnh và thơm ngon... Ngày mai thứ Bảy, MM sẽ lái xe đi chợ Việt để mua một hộp sữa bột (vừa rẻ - vừa nhiều), nhưng hôm nay thì MM chắc chắn một điều: NO MILK TODAY!

No milk today my love has gone away.
The bottle stands for lorn, a symbol of the dawn.
No milk today it seems a common sight,
But people passing by. Don't know the reason why.

How could they know just what this message means.
The end of all my hopes, the end of all my deams.
How could they know a palace there had been,
behind the door where my love reigned as queen.

No milk today it wasn't always so
The company was gay, we turned night into day.

But all that's left is a place dark and lonley
A terraced house in a mean street back of town
becomes a shrine when I think of you only
just two up two down.

No milk today it wasn't always so
the company was gay, we turned into day
As music played the faster did we dance
we felt it both at once, the start of our romance.

How could they know just what this message means.
The end of all my hopes, the end of all my deams.
How could they know a palace there had been,
behind the door where my love reigned as queen.

No milk today my love has gone away
The bottle stands for lorn a symbol of teh dawn.

But all that's left is a place dark and lonley
A terraced house in a mean street back of town
becomes a shrine when I think of you only
just two up two down.

...

2/7/2010 - 2/10/2010

Nỗi cô đơn không thể nói lên bằng lời. Chỉ có âm nhạc mới diễn tả hết nỗi niềm của tôi trong lúc này. Và hôm nay là tròn 3 tháng tôi sống nơi xứ lạ quê người.

Tôi chưa gặp được hai chữ "may mắn", tôi chưa tìm thấy hai chữ "hạnh phúc", tôi vẫn còn đây quanh tôi hai chữ "cô đơn"...

Im sitting here
Thinking bout
How Im gon-na do without
You around in my life and how am I
I gon' get by

I ain't got no days
Just lonely nights
You want the truth
Well girl Im not alright
Feel out of place and out of time
I think im gonna lose my mind

So tell me how you feel (im lonely)
Are you for real (so lonely)
Do you still think of me (I think of you)
Baby still (are you lonely)
Do you dream of me at night (like I dream of you all the time)

So let me tell you how it feels (its like everyday I die)
Wish I was dreaming but its real (when I open up my eyes)
Let me tell you how it feels (and don't see your pretty face)
I think that I will never love again

I miss your face
I miss your kiss
I even miss the arguments
That we would have from time to time
I miss you standing by my side

I'm dying here its clear to see
There ain't no you, God knows there ain't no me
Don't wanna live, I wanna die
If I can't have you in my life

So tell me how you feel (Im lonely)
Are you for real (so lonely)
Do you still think of me (I think of you)
Baby still (are you lonely)
Do you dream of me at night (like I dream of you all the time, so lonely)

Oh let me tell you how it feels (its like everyday I die)
Wish i was dreaming but its real (when I open up my eyes)
Let me tell you how it feels (and don't see your pretty face)
I think that I will never love again...

@ MeoMup:

Yes,
One day in your life
When you find that you're always lonely
For a love we used to share
Just call my name, and I'll be there.

@ Thank you, bro dinhphan. Someday... I will.

Chị xem video clip em tặng dinhphan & Phương5960 rồi. Hay quá MM ah.

Mọng sự may mắn & thành công sẽ đến với em.

God bless you.

@ MeoMup:

Thanks for this clip, It's made me good feeling.

Take care!

1977... Khi bản nhạc này được phát hành thì Ba của MM đã mất được một năm rồi. Nhà cửa sa sút đến thiểu não. MM phải làm đủ mọi công việc để giúp Má chăm lo cho cả nhà. Những thành viên trong gia đình bám víu vào nhau để mà sống. Không có các con, hẳn Má của MM đã quỵ xuống. Không có Má, đàn con nheo nhóc và tan tác. Mọi người trong gia đình dựa dẫm vào nhau, ngả vào vòng tay thương yêu nhau, vượt qua biết bao nhiêu khốn khó và biến cố. Trong cuộc đời ô trọc này, chúng ta cần có ít nhất là một vòng tay để nương tựa vào... LAY BACK IN THE ARMS OF SOMEONE.

If you want my sympathy
Just open your heart to me
You get whatever you ever need.

If you think that's too high for you
Oh but baby
I would die for you
When there's nothing left
You know where I will be.

Oh you lay back in the arms of someone
You give in to the charmes of someone
Lay back in the arms of someone you love.

Lay back in the arms of someone
When you feel you're a part of someone
Lay back in the arms of someone you love.

So baby
just call on me
When you want all of me
I'll be your lover
I'll be your friend

And there's nothing I won't do
Please baby
I just live for you
With nothing to hide no need to pretend.

Oh you lay back in the arms of someone
You give in to the charmes of someone
Lay back in the arms of someone you love.

Lay back in the arms of someone
When you feel you're a part of someone
Lay back in the arms of someone you love.

If you think that's too high for you
Oh but baby
I would die for you
When there's nothing left
You know where I will be.

Oh you lay back in the arms of someone
You give in to the charmes of someone
Lay back in the arms of someone you love.

Lay back in the arms of someone
When you feel you're a part of someone
Lay back in the arms of someone you love.

@ MM cảm ơn em Sumrose, chị Loan và anh phandinh.

@ Dear Petervu007, I will send you an e-mail. Thank you for your kindness.

Có những bản nhạc lời Anh nghe thật hay, nhưng khi được chuyển sang lời Việt thì nội dung của hai bài hát chẳng ăn nhập gì với nhau cả. Thí dụ như The Show (Lenka) và Cô bé truyện tranh (Bảo Thy).

Nhưng cũng có những bản nhạc cả lời Anh lẫn lời Việt đều là những tuyệt tác của nhân loại. Thí dụ như Green Fields (The Brother Four) và Đồng Xanh (Lê Hựu Hà). Bản nhạc này gắn liền với kỷ niệm của rất nhiều người có tuổi đời từ 45 trở lên, trong đó có cả MM.

Once there were green fields, kissed by the sun.
Once there were valleys, where rivers used to run.
Once there were blue skies, with white clouds high above.
Once they were part of an everlasting love.
We were the lovers who strolled through green fields.

Green fields are gone now, parched by the sun.
Gone from the valleys, where rivers used to run.
Gone with the cold wind, that swept into my heart.
Gone with the lovers, who let their dreams depart.
Where are the green fields, that we used to roam ?

I'll never know what, made you run away.
How can I keep searching when dark clouds hide the day.
I only know there's, nothing here for me.
Nothing in this wide world, left for me to see.

Still I'll keep on waiting, until you return.
I'll keep on waiting, until the day you learn.
You can't be happy, while your heart's on the roam,
You can't be happy until you bring it home.
Home to the green fields, and me once again.

@ MM cảm ơn hai em Petervu007 và Legia.

Hoa bồ công anh (photo: MM)