Under A Vast Sky

(Adam Cheung)

Thanks to all who came out and shared your poems and thoughts on Ka-kui.  Thanks to our guest musician aniDa for performing Ka-kui’s songs and some of her own original pieces.  And most importantly, a big thanks to the young rocker who watches from above, who reminds us through his music the importance of living our dreams while caring for the world. 

是次小型音樂分享會得以完滿成功，全賴各位出席參與的朋友，尤其是aniDa的義務演出，她除了演繹家駒的成名作，當然還有她自己的創作作品。最重要的是一眾喜愛搖滾樂的朋友，透過他的音樂，令我們要有實現夢想的決心和心繫世界。

Polly offered an English interpretation to the song  《海濶天空》

Under A Vast Sky

Today I saw snow drifting through the sky

With a deadened heart I set off on a long journey

hustling in the rain

I barely made out my way in the mist

Will we ever change under a vast sky

All these years confronted by jeers and mockeries

Never have I abandoned the dream in my heart

A sudden hesitation

And the fear of getting lost

Slowly cool down the love in my heart

(chorus)

Forgive me for being wild and yearning for freedom

Yet fearing someday I might fall down…oh No

To give up one's dream

It isn't hard to anyone

Never mind if someday there's only you and me

Undaunted and carefree

I will forever sing out my songs

Walking thousands of miles

Adam’s lines were a reflection of the song 《情人》

If my thoughts go back to a time

When our distant waiting was a grand old story

Let you and I be kept apart

For absence makes the heart grow purple

If my thoughts go back to the airport and your blue cardigan

The way your sleeves hung loose, your pale hands flickering

Let the colours stain the mind

For a fountain of inspiration

If my thoughts go back to the way you gazed into the distance

When you said you’d die before thirty

I may give up the chance of running into you on a humid Friday night

Unless you’ve moved to the City as I have

And the pressure has you chained to a flat by the gray harbour

Married to a man with a thick-strapped watch

Drowned in white laced curtains and afternoon programs

Your prediction was true

You gaze into the distance

With the same melancholy that touched me then

Oh, the City is too small

Surely we’ll meet on the streets by chance on a humid Friday night

And you’ll be with yours

His leather belt, polished shoes, oblivious

To my breezy confident strides

The closest we’ve ever come is the harshest distance yet.

But I retain my thoughts, back to a time

When our distant waiting was a grand old story

Yet perhaps the better story

Is if I had never left.

Danny’s poetic tribute was set to the song 《無人的演奏》

Limelight is my name (2011-4-26)

10 in the evening
audience flocked down the railing
away from the stage
applauded and twinkled once upon a time

Limelight flares
upon a body laying over there
there in the centre centre
bumping and leaking in the stare
he hoped to be there 
whispering to him he could not have done any better

At one point
he wished to surpass Laurence Olivier
conquering all stages and theatres
becoming a name shining forever after

But now
he just wanted to be embraced by someone so very dear
for he finds such comfort a much concrete answer 

And yet
all he can find is the limelight he could never get over
with tears shivering down the untrodden powdered frontier...

In our hearts -- Kammy Wong

We thought of you with love today,

But that’s nothing new

We thought of you yesterday,

And days before that too!

Constantly, we hear your songs,

Loudly, we speak your name.

Silently, we think of you,

Magically, we see you on stage….

You weave and you simile,

Swing your head, play the guitar;

Your voice gets hoarse, but still you sing.

How we wish you’re still here!

Your memory is our keepsake

With which we’ll never part,

God has you in his keeping,

We have you in our heart

(photos by Wong Wai Yim)