Chinese Translation - M Ward

I sailed a wild, wild sea

Climbed up a tall, tall mountain

I met an old, old man

Beneath a weeping willow tree

He said, «Now if you got some questions

Go and lay them at my feet

But my time here is brief

So you’ll have to pick just three»

And I said, «What do you do

With the pieces of a broken heart?

And how can a man like me

Remain in the light?

And if life is really as short as they say

Then why is the night so long?»

And then the sun went down

And he sang for me this song

See, I once was a young fool like you

Afraid to do the things that I knew I had to do

So I played an escapade, just like you

I played an escapade, just like you

I sailed a wild, wild sea

Climbed up a tall, tall mountain

I met an old, old man

He sat beneath a sapling tree

He said, «Now if you got some questions

Go and lay them at my feet

But my time here is brief

So you’ll have to pick just three»

And I said, «What do you do

With the pieces of a broken heart?

And how can a man like me

Remain in the light?

And if life is really as short as they say

Then why is the night so long?»

And then the sun went down

And he played for me this song