Lyrics of Shanghai park

Shanghai park

My house is only a few minutes away from the railway station

Get out of the car and look around. Everything is the same as when I left

So I walked back slowly along the street I had walked through 40 years ago

It's like going out early in the morning and having dinner when you're tired

It's only 40 years since I went out

When I left, I was young and strong with black hair

Now, though I'm looking for my way home, I'm white haired

In the past 40 years, I really had a big dream

You're carrying the ocean

The joys and sorrows of this life are engraved on your face

Take root here, weave the next life here

Why do you leave home for the dream you once had

Are the mountains and rivers of the old country still old? Are the parents alive

I think of the silver waves of Shanghai's ten mile ocean square

It's like a world apart when we meet again

I don't want to live this life, but I want to be filial to my parents in the next life