徐霞客

[Intro] [Spoken Word] [Whispered] 四百年前，我踏出了自己的边界。 无人让我前往，也无人将我阻拦。 一根木杖，一身布履， 大丈夫当朝碧海，而暮苍梧， 何处不可埋骨也。 (breath) [Build] [Half-Time] [Taiko Rise] [Verse 1] [Rap] [Boom Bap Drums] [Upright Bass] I was twenty-two when I walked out of the exam hall, no rank, no name, no road, no protocol. My mother sewed a hat and told me, "Go and find the sky." I asked her how. She said, "By putting one foot past the line." First thief took my silver, second took my coat, third one took the last of it and left me on the road. I ate nothing in the mountains, wrote my notes with frozen hands, 'cause starving for a story is a hunger I could stand. Every gate I never entered had a name above the door, and every peak I climbed has never asked me what I'm for. So when they ask me, "Boy, what office do you hold?" I say: "The one that's forty thousand miles of unmarked road." [Pre-Chorus] [Low Dynamic] [Reduced Hats] [Muted Strings] They drew the world for me and signed it with a seal, but a drawing isn't land and a fear isn't real. I can't read a life that somebody else has written so I tore the paper, and I kept on walking. [Chorus] [Chant] [Stomp Claps] [Male Lead Rap] [Choir] No wings — — I cut through snow, No path — — I carve my own. They hand me a map — — "Here lies the world," I say the world is all the map has unfurled. No wings — — still I rise and soar, Not fate — — I choose to roar. No wings — so I become the wind. Blaze your trail — — blaze, blaze your trail [Dramatic Female Vocal Outro, Low Mid-Range] “Carve my own.” [Post-Chorus] rise to the challenge rise to the challenge rise to the call rise to the call [Verse 2] [Rap] [Trap Hats] [808 Bass] [Guzheng Riff] Thirty-four years, never settled, never crowned, twenty-one provinces, my shoes were my hometown. Two hundred and ten caves — I crawled in with a lamp, wrote how water turns to stone across ten thousand nights. A friend died on the road; I carried him up a mountain, 'cause a promise doesn't care if the weather's burning. And when they asked me what I did to make a living, I said: I turn the world into remembering. [Bridge] [Beat Drop Out] [Female Soprano] [Guzheng Solo] 吾朝碧海，暮苍梧， 丈夫何必，问归途。 几荷一束，埋吾骨， 何处青山，不埋骨。 [Build] [Riser] [Impact] [Choir Rise] [Chorus] [Big Finish] [Double-Time] [Full Orchestra] No wings — — I cut through snow, No path — — I carve my own. They hand me a map — — "Here lies the world," I say the world is all the map has unfurled. — No wings — — still I rise and soar, Not fate — — I choose to roar. No wings — so I become the wind. Blaze your trail — — blaze, blaze your trail. Blaze. Blaze. Blaze your trail. (hey! hey!) [Outro] [Break] [Spoken Word] [Whispered] 后人会将我的名字写在书里， 但我只是一个不甘困于斗室之人。 当天地辽阔，风雪之下—— 无人扶我青云志， 我自踏雪至山巅。 (breath) [End]