TEE KOK SHENG Song Review - 你是我的眼 （“You’re My Eyes”）

Song Review – 你是我的眼 （“You’re My Eyes”）

By: Ricky Hsiao (Hsiao Huang Chi)

Today, I would like to introduce you a song, name “You’re My Eyes”. This song is written by Ricky Hsiao (Hsiao Huang Chi). He is a blind Taiwanese Tai-pop and Mandopop artist. He was born at 22 September 1976 in Banciao, Taiwan. Ricky had congenital cataracts which cause him to be blind at birth. When he was 4 years old, his blind had partially cured by surgery. However, due to overuse of his vision, he lost all his vision at the age of 15.

Although he totally lost his eyesight, he thought positively and never gave up. He accepted his destiny bravely and wrote a lot of songs.  Besides, he is musically gifted. He is able to play guitar, saxophone, drums and so forth.  He has written many wonderful, heart-warming songs.

CHINESE LYRIC

如果我能看得见　

就能轻易地分辨白天黑夜　

就能准确地在人群中

牵住你的手

如果我能看得见

就能驾车带你到处遨游

就能惊喜地从背后

给你个拥抱

如果我能看得见

生命也许完全不同

可能我想要的我喜欢的我爱的

都不一样

眼前的黑不是黑　

你说的白是什么白

人们说的天空蓝

是我记忆中那团白云背后的蓝天

我望向你的脸　

却只能看见一片虚无

是不是上帝在我眼前遮住了帘　

忘了掀开

你是我的眼　

带我领略四季的变换

你是我的眼　

带我穿越拥挤的人潮

你是我的眼　

带我阅读浩瀚的书海

因为你是我的眼　

让我看见世界就在我眼前

就在我眼前

TRANSLATION

If I can see

I can distinguish day and night easily

I can take your hand accurately in the crowds

If I can see

I can drive a car and fetch you to everywhere

I can give you a surprise by hugging you from behind

If I can see

Maybe life will totally different

Maybe the thing that I like, I love will different

The black what I see is not black

How is the white that you mention

The blue sky that people say

Is the sky beyond the white cloud that has been in my memories

I look at your face

But I see nothing

Is that God put a curtain in front of my eyes

Forget to open it

You are my eyes

Let me realise the changes of four seasons

You are my eyes

Bring me pass through the crowds

You are my eyes

Guide me read the books

Because you are my eyes

Let me see this world in front of my eyes

It is just in front of my eyes

 “You’re My Eyes” is one of the songs that wrote by him in year 2002. This is a lyric and a very touching classic song. Through this song, he described his feeling be a blind man. He feels that if he can see, he can do a lot of thing that normal people do. He can easily distinguish day and night, drives a car traveling around everywhere, and even can protect a people. We cannot understand his feeling as we can see when we are born. However, Ricky Hsiao can only see something by undergo eye surgery but unfortunately, he totally lost his vision 10 years after the surgery.

Ricky Hsiao mentions that if he is not a blind person, maybe his life will totally different from now. The things that he likes and loves will totally different if he can see. He is a blind man, the thing that he always sees is not black colour, but it is dark. He does not know what is white colour. When he talks to someone and looks at his face, he sees nothing. He makes a joke that maybe the god put a curtain in front of his eyes and forgets to open it. The things what he writes on his lyric is the feeling of a blind man. A blind man cannot do a simple thing as normal people because they cannot see. He hopes he can see and lives with a normal life.

Moreover, the purpose he writes this song is to appreciate his mother who takes care of him although he is blind. His mother accompanies him, acts as his eyes, tell him everything that he does not know. For instance, he can know the changes of four seasons, his mother lead along him, read the book for him, tell him everything in the world. Therefore, he seems can see everything although he is blind. He hopes he can see once a day. This is what he wish, a small desire that a normal person will not hope.

In conclusion, after listen this song, “You’re My Eyes”, I feel that we should appreciate everything that we own right now. For example, we should not waste the food because there are a lot of people out of food in this world such as the people in Africa. Ricky Hsiao hopes he can see once a day, but the people who can see do eye surgery due to beautiful purpose. Some people lost their home due to natural disaster, but the people who have home feel that their home is too small. From his creation, I have learnt that we should not be greedy and should learn to be content. Content is happiness. On the others hand, we should show understanding and sympathy for the person who face adversity, mutilation and incomplete. We should judge another person’s feeling by one’s own so that our community will full of love.

Thank you.