[ENG TRANS] Hey Kong - Key.L 刘聪 | English Translation

Intro:

He looks at the scenery outside the window

The October sky is very clean

The writing on the desk is too packed

He wants to go outside to take a walk and take his mind off of things

He’s letting his imagination run wild as he longs for the future

He’s always very concentrated when he blanks out

Writing a letter for his future self

Hey Kong, can you hear me?

Verse 1:

Hey Kong, I’m sitting in the last row writing you a letter

The field outside is very quiet, but I still can’t understand what’s going on in this math class

O just sent me a text, she wants me to ride the boat on Saturday with her and her friends, but I don’t want to go

I don’t want to go to school anymore, but I don’t want to disappoint my parents

If I told my mom I wanted to make music she would probably say I lost my mind

But next semester I can go off campus and rent an apartment

Then I won’t have to forcefully squeeze through the crowded cafeteria, it’s too crazy there man

Hey Kong, are you doing well? Have you still been playing the piano? Have you released an album yet? Do you have fans?

Or maybe you opened a clothing store.

I think you probably named it Purple Rain

Oh, by the way

Last night I hit the bro sitting in the sixth row

I let him borrow my Walkman but he broke my headphones

He was glaring at me and telling people to block me at the school gate *because KeyL hit him

Okay, the bell is about to ring

This is Kong listening to the bell in the opposite direction

Chorus

He feels blue this afternoon, his heart feels suffocated while walking back home

He has this feeling that he can’t put into words, like there is something there, feelin deja vu

Hey Kong, can you hear me?

Hey Kong, can you hear me?

Hey Kong, can you hear me?

Hey Kong x4

Verse 2

Hey Kong, I’m sitting on the roof of this building

In my hands I’m holding a breakup letter, I can’t hold my tears back

I folded it into a paper airplane and sent it off under the rays of sunlight

We used to embrace each other, she was smiling in my lap

If took a leap (off this building)

She would definitely feel sad for me, she would definitely regret her decision (to break up with me)

But Kong, I can’t disappoint my parents who have raised me and cared for me

They want me to go to college, now I’m panicking

I’m starting to get anxious, I can no longer escape, I made up countless excuses but I can no longer ignore (my problems)

I don’t wanna be like the school gangster and get expelled from school

But how can I finish this semester

Kong, how long do I have to keep living like this?

Can I truly become a rapper?

I heard that wormholes can travel through time and space

Isn’t deja vu when your soul transports through the cracks of time

I don’t know if you’ll remember the me from the past

I’m currently holding a pen, writing a letter to you

I don’t know how you’ll feel when you think about the past

This is Kong. Fall of 2003

Chorus

He feels blue this afternoon, his heart feels suffocated while walking back home

He has this feeling that he can’t put into words, like there is something there, feelin deja vu

Hey Kong, can you hear me?

Hey Kong, can you hear me?

Hey Kong, can you hear me?

Hey Kong x4

Verse 3:

Kong, my dream last night was so vivid

Right now it’s 5am, and I am wide awake

I dreamt that you jumped from that building

That made me remember the letter you wrote me in high school

I almost forgot about it

Kong

I recently released a new album, and I’m preparing to go on tour

The tickets sold out in under twenty minutes

You don’t have to care about their opinions, they’re all brainless, they can’t tell good from bad

Oh right, Kong

Now everyone calls me KeyL

I registered your name as an email account

That year I passed the Gaokao* cut off by just three points *college entrance exam

Not long after going to Changsha, my whole life changed

Oh man, that day you really should’ve gone to ride the boat

Those precious days of my youth, I don’t even have pictures to remember it by

That day at the school gate you really should’ve fought back, now I have punching bags hanging around in my house, I can defeat them all 

Kong, if you can really travel through time, every moment will be precious

Chill Man, time flies, now it’s 2019

This is a message from KeyL

END
Hey Kong
Can you hear me?

He looks at the scenery outside the window

The October sky is very clean

The writing on the desk is too packed

He wants to go outside to take a walk and take his mind off of things

He’s letting his imagination run wild as he longs for the future

He’s always very concentrated when he blanks out

Writing a letter for his future self

Hey Kong, can you hear me?