"When you are old? Hair white
sleepy
You can't walk when you are old.
Take a nap by the fire and remember your youth.
How many people loved your happy youth?
Worship your beauty is false or true.
Only one person still loves your pious soul.
Love the wrinkles on your old face
Old age, drooping eyebrows.
Dimly lit, uncertain
The wind blew away your news.
This is the song in my heart.
When you get old, your hair will turn white.
sleepy
You can't walk when you are old.
Take a nap by the fire and remember your youth.
How many people loved your happy youth?
Worship your beauty is false or true.
Only one person still loves your pious soul.
Love the wrinkles on your old face
When I get old, my eyebrows droop.
Dimly lit, uncertain
The wind blew away your news.
This is the song in my heart.
When I get old, I really hope
This song is for you. "
It is said that Zhaozhao was inspired by his mother to write this song, but I prefer to listen to it as a love song, such as the original intention of the poet Ye Zhi to write this poem When You Are Old. His attachment to Maud Gunn's life, though bitter, is enough to make the world emotional. How exaggerated this "affair" is, because I respect and understand the poet, so I won't say it here.
Besides Zhao Zhaoyuan, Karen Mok, Li Jian, Batu and many others have sung When You Are Old. My favorite is Karen Mok's version. When she was mopping the floor in a long skirt, standing leisurely on the stage of the Spring Festival Evening of 20 15, singing When You Are Old, I can only bet that this is my favorite version.
Karen Mok, born in 1970, is 46 years old, which surprised me a little. The last time I saw her appear on the screen, I caught a glimpse of her in the reality show "Here We Come" of Hunan Satellite TV. She walked on the runway in a red wedding dress, which was the climax of the night. This woman, who is sometimes a virgin on the screen and stage, rehearsed the posture I should have when I was old with her optimism, self-confidence, indifference and a little pride. She said that she will always be seventeen, and I believe that because of the freedom of the soul, she can stay at any time.
Not long ago, I saw a recent photo of Joey Wong and Maggie Cheung on the Weibo. The face of 49-year-old Joey Wong has changed a lot. She is almost different from the enchanting Xiao Gan before. Maggie Cheung, 52, is bony with high cheekbones. Maggie, who used to have a cute baby fat, now feels extremely thin. Netizens no longer regret their looks, especially Joey Wong, who thinks she is at the peak of the goddess. I am also a little surprised at their changes, because young stars who are ten or even twenty years older than them "retain" the legend of youth like plastic people by frequent manual carving and whitewashing.
A thousand-year-old "white snake" and a five-hundred-year-old "green snake" are so magnanimous and easy to grow old. The old one is real. Joey Wong took a yoga mat to the gym in a foreign country, which was low-key and natural, and he was not afraid of being photographed by someone who was nosy. Maggie Cheung, wearing a red dress, smiled despite her flaws, calmly faced the audience and the spotlight, and remained chic and casual.
I don't know if they are still enjoying love, but it doesn't matter anymore. The song sings: "How many people have loved your youthful exuberance and worshipped your beauty with hypocrisy or sincerity? Only one person still loves your pious soul and the wrinkles on your old face". It suddenly occurred to me that, perhaps, the person who fell in love with your pious soul and old wrinkles, except her or him, is yourself, let you face your old age calmly and smile. It turns out that when you are old, you can also sing a love song to yourself.
Finally, we should also review Li Jian's When You Are Old in the program I am a Singer. He adapted the song and added the French folk song "la vie en rose" to the episode. The original singer added the following lyrics: "Time can't keep me, time keeps me; The fragrance that never stays for me is my spring. "