Here is another very good but not very popular song. Sadly beautiful, it was written by Taiwanese songwriter 周传雄, beautifully sung here by China singer 孙露.
It’s a song about love, loss and loneliness. The lyricist employed the poetic image of a desert to illustrate the feelings of the protagonist. Loss is always painful, but the most beautiful love stories are the ones without an ending.
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How often we leave things on the back-burner due to a lack of courage and/or motivation. But a disappointed traveller in China once said to me, 不去会遗憾终生，去了又终身遗憾. To not go for it and regret the missed opportunity or to go for it and be disappointed with the results. If you were to procrastinate, you might as well forget about it.
And perhaps there is nothing for this lady to cry about. The most beautiful love stories are the ones without an ending.
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This is a rare China-produced song that has universal appeal. The lyrics are simple, but the melody is haunting and goes very well with the emotions being expressed. When something we want has left us, the yearning cuts and burns, delivering pain and melancholy. The natural thing to do is to get oneself drunk, but drinking only transforms the pain into a vision, a blurry image that becomes even clearer and more glaring when the alcohol wears out. An excellent companion during a drinking session.
By the way, the woman in the video is not the singer Tang Xi, a Sichuanese who looks somewhat plain. With music and poetry, it’s all about imagery.
