Heaven Official's Blessing Audio Drama S2 || Insert Song, "Vice (Ballad Version)"
原著：墨香铜臭@墨香铜臭MXTX 策划：括号君@战场老军医括号君 作曲/编曲：李大白@李大白k 作词：冥凰 演唱：无面小生 混音：三星堆工作室
运数又何为 命中误 / And how could the allotment of fortune become life's mistake? 似这般无妄劫 怎可渡 / Like this unexpected calamity — how can anyone survive, crossing it? 一个是琳琅材 一个是凡间骨 / One, a jadelike talent; one, a mere mortal 偏谁得奇缘 放醉入仙府 / Which one gained the luck to enter, drunken, into divine palaces? 做仙的眼无珠 / The godly have eyes but see nothing 做鬼的有恨难诉 / The ghostly have resentment difficult to speak of 骨肉终消散 尝尽悲与苦 / Bones and flesh will eventually disappear, having experienced all of suffering and sorrow 这欠命的已还命 赎命的却无人赎 / Those who owe a life have repaid it, but who will atone for this life? 问去去来来谁赢输 / Asking around — who won, and who lost? 叹尘归尘来 土归土 / Only sighing — dust returns to dust, and earth to earth
^ quick and unpolished translation of 冥凰 Ming Huang's incredible lyrics — both the lyrics to the original version of 《辜》 and this version are written in this lovely literary/operatic, almost classical cadence. the 双玄副本/black water arc is, from beginning to end, characterized by spectacle/spectatorship: not only do we witness the dead-knot entanglement of He Xuan and the Shi brothers from the outsider perspective of Xie Lian, but we learn the tragedy of He Xuan the mortal from the 血社火, the grim parade that progresses along the street outside the teahouse, which performs the misfortunes and sufferings of He Xuan's life, his resentful end. so it's fitting that both versions of 《辜》 are written from a distant, neutral perspective, the song's narrator observing and commenting in impersonal judgment