I have been listening to " ten years " for nearly twenty years. I have never been able to figure out what the "two words" in the first lyric "if those two words don't tremble" are? It wasn't until Lin Xi, the lyricist of this song, told the background of writing this song that I realized that this was another song with a touching story behind it.
At the beginning of the 21st century, Lin Xi, a famous Hong Kong musician, had a gathering with friends and heard a true story while chatting. It's about a taxi driver who picked up his girlfriend after ten years of separation one night. Maybe the driver never let go of the girl in his heart, and he recognized her the first time he got in the car. After all, they had been separated for ten years. Even if they recognized each other, the driver didn't want to recognize each other, so the car drove forward. After a while, the girl in the back row said she wanted to change her destination, and took out her phone to chat with a friend about home affairs. The topic the girl talked about was how she had worked so hard in the past ten years. When the destination arrived, the girl reluctantly got out of the car and choked with sobs: "Ten years, ten years. What I wanted to tell you, I just said it on the phone, but you didn't have a word to say to me?" "The driver just choked and said two words tremblingly: "Hello!" As soon as he finished speaking, the girl turned around and disappeared into the night, crying loudly.
At this point in the story, we have discovered that the "those two words" in the first line of the lyrics "If those two words don't tremble" in "Ten Years" turn out to be "hello". After hearing this story, Lin Xi wrote the lyrics that night, and couldn't wait to hand them over to the composer Chen Xiaoxia the next day. Her usual composing style is to write the music first and then hand it over to the lyricist to write the lyrics. But this time after listening to the story told by Lin Xi and giving her the lyrics written overnight, Chen Xiaoxia also changed her usual creative style and composed the music along with the lyrics written by Lin Xi. The record company also attached great importance to this song and chose Eason Chan , a new singer at the time, to sing it, and constantly described the moving prospects of this song to Eason Chan. Sure enough, as soon as this song was released, Eason Chan quickly became popular on both sides of the Taiwan Strait. I have loved and hated... and there are so many decades in a person's life.
"Ten Years" may convey to the audience that true love is hard to find, please cherish this love when you meet it. Never say "hello"! Because these two words have made you friends.
