Melodies of Life

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmShPzYD9ng
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ye7BGnlTZmQ&feature=related
Lyrics (translated):

Alone for a while I've been searching through the dark,
For traces of the love you left inside my lonely heart,
To weave by picking up the pieces that remain,
Melodies of life - love's lost refrain.

Our paths they did cross, though I cannot say just why.  //the answer to 'why' has yet to unfold entirely
We met, we laughed, we held on fast, and then we said goodbye.
And who'll hear the echoes of stories never told ?
Let them ring out loud till they unfold.  //There is still much to be 'figured out' as it were from the relationship, but once understood, the stories will serve as a guide to our future relationships, wherever our now separate paths may lead us, whether they shall cross again or not.

In my dearest memories, I see you reaching out to me.
Though you're gone, I still believe that you can call out my name.  \\ we're still friends and can still be there for each other, even if it seems we are both in separate worlds now.

A voice from the past, joining yours and mine.
Adding up the layers of harmony.
And so it goes, on and on.
Melodies of life,
To the sky beyond the flying birds - forever and beyond.

So far and away, see the bird as it flies by.
Gliding through the shadows of the clouds up in the sky.
I've laid my memories and dreams upon those wings.
Leave them now and see what tomorrow brings.
\\ It seems as if my memories of you are going to have to continue to fly off into the distance so that I can clearly see tomorrow and what it has in store.  

In your dearest memories, do you remember loving me ?
Was it fate that brought us close and now leave me behind ?
\\ Fate?  God's will?  Both are hard to discern, but we are both finding the reasons why we were together and all the good that it did, as well as why you have 'now left me behind,' and all of the great things that will come because of it.

A voice from the past, joining yours and mine.
Adding up the layers of harmony.
And so it goes, on and on.
Melodies of life,
To the sky beyond the flying bird - forever and on.

If I should leave this lonely world behind,
Your voice will still remember our melody.
Now I know we'll carry on.
Melodies of life,
Come circle round and grow deep in our hearts, as long as we remember.
\\ I will always remember both the good and the bad, even though by then they will have been flown into another realm.


As to the video with the song...  The cutting of her hair seems to resonate some sort of importance as it did when you cut your hair, I don't know, in both cases there is some sort of unspoken shift that took place... the sad part about it is that soon afterwards is when the girl in the video waved goodbye and flew off into the distance.

It is one of the great ironies that this song is the one that relates to me most now, as it is the one song that I listened to most frequently at the beginning of our relationship.  Fate always has the last laugh I suppose.  I think this song is a good balance between remembering the good, dealing with the dark and shadowy bad, and coming to accept that both must be left behind.  The song is nostalgic; it has a sad vocal tone to it, yet underlying is a bright and hopeful symphony.  It is the perfect mix of feelings that accompanies me now, and that is why I would like to share it.  This like the other song I sent you will continue to have a double meaning... it's like a palimpsest, where the original meaning has been overwritten, yet it still remains distinct enough to be read and remembered for what it was.