Lyrics of Qiantang River by Deng Weibiao

Past and present

(monologue)

You can only be in the same boat after thousands of years of cultivation

We can help each other only by cultivating the world

In the crowd

No one is the only one

But there are always people who are willing to lose your life

(female voice)

Distant memory

Moon shadow in the river

And the autumn wind

A woman on the way

The hair of palm

All stubbornness is a thousand years in the twinkling of an eye

Separation and combination

Come and go

Like an uncontrollable chess piece

Look at each other but not talk to each other

We don't depend on each other

Is this a fault of reincarnation

The infatuation of the past and the present

Ask who has insight

Is this life like this

But we can't help each other

The infatuation of the past and the present

Ask who has insight

I would like to grasp this life

About the afterlife

Ask to know each other

Come and go

Come and go

(Accompaniment)

Together and apart

Come and go

Like an uncontrollable chess piece

Look at each other but not talk to each other

We don't depend on each other

Is this a fault of reincarnation

The infatuation of the past and the present

Ask who has insight

Is this life like this

But we can't help each other

The infatuation of the past and the present

Ask who has insight

I would like to grasp this life

About the afterlife

Ask to know each other

Come and go

Come and go