Black Myth: Wukong - 'Listen Not' (Chapter 4 Ending Song) | English Subtitles/Lyrics

Translation from in-game Music Library

Song: Listen Not / 勿听( 《黑神话：悟空》盘丝岭片尾曲 )
Singers: Feisi / 赵紫骅, 张紫宁
Original Mandarin lyrics written by: 冯骥 (founder of Black Myth: Wukong)

Produced by: BigFirebird Animation & GreenMonster Team

All credits to Game Science

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[諸葛鋼鐵]

This story breaks my heart:
The girl gave up her identity as a fairy and turned into an ugly monster to pursue her lover who also turned into a monster.

She gave up everything for Bajie, but she didn't regret it.

[yopapa]

I cried at the last line..the male singer requested to forget him and move on but the female singer begged him not to leave.

[amberyao]

The last line of lyrics, the man says in the next life I beg you say no, he thinks this relationship brings pain and suffering to her. But she said please don't say no. She never regrets

[akumu]

ABSOLUTE OLD DISNEY TREATMENT CINEMA! I SWEAR, IF THEY MAKE A MOVIE ABOUT BAJIE AND SPIDER LOVE STORY, IT GONNA BIG HIT!

[黄黑-td]

The rake of the Bajie represents farming, and the silk of the Spider Lady represents weaving, which is the daily life of ordinary couples in ancient China.

[chibigoji]

Even though Pigsy is kind of an ass in the actual story... you can't help but feel bad for him. Poor guy just wants to be loved

[dhikapratama]

🐷: Love me? After all this year....?
🕷:
🐷: In the next life, if we ever meet again.... i beg you....
🐷/🕷: ....Say No to Me/ ....Dont Say No to Me

[ThinhLee]

Man, Bajie's love story has more humanity in it than anything them diversity screamers could ever come up with.

[linanthony]

Bajie was a handsome god and he was into this white hair lady chasing her. During the chase he bumped into the the pink dress girl who was the servant of the white hair lady. The pink dress girl fell for Bajie. Bajie then saw the white hair lady having an affair with the white hair guy who happens to be the leader of the gods. Seeing Bajie discovered his affair, the white hair dude was pissed and banished him into the mortal world to reincarnate. Bajie became a pig and scared the lady away and realized he has become an ugly creature. During Bajie's journey to the west, he saw a bunch of spider monsters transformed as girls bathing. He recognized one of the spider monster was reincarnated by the pink dress lady. The spider monster also recognized Bajie and immediately they fell in love. Seeing the pink dress lady reincarnated and transformed into spider monster to meet Bajie, Bajie's heart transformed from an ugly pig creature to his once handsome self and shed tears. When Wukong destroyed spider monster's cave, Bajie spared spider monsters their lives and went on with Wukong. However, deep down inside him he really wanted to stay with the pink dress girl. In the game he couldn't confess his love for the spider monster nor acknowledged their daughter likely to protect them. The pink dress lady knew about it and when she died in the game she said Bajie you are still stupid like always (implying hiding his desire to be with her) and Bajie stayed silent.

[毛舒凡]

Stunningly beautiful translation! It even resonates the rhyme of the Chinese lyrics. Yet, the translation has to sacrifice more than half of the details (in the Chinese version) so that the English version is not swarmed by too many syllables and may remain poetic. But as a result, far richer and deeper senses in the Chinese version actually could not go through here.

As an example, the first two sentences of the second part was translated to:
Man: Forget the paths, I blindly strolled.
Woman: Cherish our memories, however old.

However, if translated more straightforwardly, the Chinese sentences mean:
Man: What I forgot, was the lately added filth.
Woman: What I remember, is the 'cliche' (between us).

For here, it's relatively easier to understand that the spider cherished all romances between the two, while it's harder to get the 'added filth' from the pigsy. It actually refers to twisted fortune of him:

Bajie (the pig) was a 'marine' general in the celestial court. Yet, being unable to get rid of lust, he flirted with a maiden in the guanghan palace (this is somehow adapted in the anime, in which he was only attracted to her, and caught her secret with a higher lord of the celestial court). As a result, Bajie was sentenced and dumped to the mortal world (that's why he's falling) and was destined (by the higher ranks of the celestial world, probably) to be born as a pig/boar. Bajie used to be a lazy guy overwhelmed by libido before becoming the celestial general. Therefore, being born as a pig/boar back in the mortal world ironically mirrored his older nature which had not been eradicated even after serving up above. As Bajie had served as a general in the celestial court for long being decent and noble, reborn as a boar now exposed his lust and slothfulness. And that is the 'lately added filth' meant in the lyrics.

Because Bajie 'forgot', or was not yet readily aware of his transformation into a boar, he got into quite some troubles in the mortal world. And it was due to the 'filth' and the troubles that Bajie somehow felt 'blindly strolling' in the world, captured by the English translation.

Taking together, in the lyrics (the two sentences above), Bajie's talking about the twisted fortune, and the trouble he's got after being exposed of part of his true nature to the mortal beings (as the punishment), while the spider lady's saying that what she cared about were their romance, but not those nature of Bajie (as she knew those from day one they met). What was in her eyes about Bajie, was something else, that he's being straightforward, frank and never a hypocrite.

Another scene hard to pick up is when they reunioned in the pool, Bajie turned into a boar and the lady turned into a spider. Here's my interpretation.

After they were sure that they recognized each other, Bajie first turned into the huge boar form. In this way, he was saying that: see, I'm not the general in the celestial court anymore. Everyone scolds me for my ''ugliness' looking like a boar now, and how I look actually reflects a part of my true nature, which people spit on.

The lady stunned for a moment and then realized what he meant. She immediately turned into the giant spider form, which was saying that I'm not the maiden in the celestial world anymore either. I knew your nature from day one, yet I fell in love with you as I'm the one who can understand you, embracing your true nature, both the good and bad part of it. I could have not become a spider, but following my heart, I pursued my love in the price of losing her position in the celestial court and even becoming a beast.

These are somehow testified in the later slides that flashed back the lady's life, which suggested what she possibly had experienced from a maiden high above into a spider that consuming flesh.

After they assured the love to each other, the spider lady wished Bajie could stay but he knew he had to leave, as he's in the team to the, wesr (with Wukong). Also, there's deeper reason why he couldn't stay: staying means quitting the team and disobeying the Budhha. Bajie knew the consequence of that, on both him and the spider lady. Therefore he had to leave, and that gave rise to the last scenes in the anime. At last, while she wished that he could stay, he wished she could forget it all. That's why

She said: if you let go, how can you free us from it all.
While he resonated: If you don't let go, how can you free us from it all.

And at last she said:
That in the next life, please don't say no/please do turn back (Chinese version)
But he said:
that in the next life, I beg you say no/please don't turn back (Chinese version)

BTW, there's no romance between the spider and the pig in Journey to the West, which the game is based on. The love story is an adaption of the game.

Another note about the 3 girls. Basing on the game adaption, the lady despising Bajie's could be interpreted as some high-rank in the celestial court, while our heroine here might have a lower rank in the court. The third lady who Bajie first met after turning mortal is Gao Cuilan, someone Bajie married and got along with, yet immediately showed disgusts and fear of Bajie once he exposed his boar form. As a former official in the celestial court, Bajie still remembered spells and could turn into a normal looking guy after first born as a pig in the mortal world. He was in the normal form when he first met Gao Cuilan, as shown in the anime. And he was still normal when they married.

[叶青岚]

A little tips: After u pass the Chapter 4, U can tp back to the that Painting wall place, u can find the spide lady's tomb behind the tree, and u can find a pearl which is Bajie put in, that pearl is a rare treasure obtained by Bajie in Journey to the West，the function is keep face and bady forever young, he understand that is spide lady's wish, and he left this pearl there to commemorate her.

[nolifeasian-ds]

As an Asian man who lived with Journey to the West from the childhood, I've hate this character with all my heart, he's a selfish, coward hero and just eat and sleep most of the time thru-out the journey. But this game, broke my heart. Now I love him more, he deserved better, always.

[buiduc-cxsf]

Damn, all the song of Bajie's love story arc are so beautiful

[tyulpanyyyy]

Imagine a girl who loves you no matter whether you succeed (be a marshal in heaven) or fail (be cursed into an ugly pig demon). Just that, every man is willing to sacrifice everything ( even his life ) to love and protect her and their children.

[madarauchiha]

im glad the game is not just action, but full of stories as well.

[haseo]

This is my favorite cinematic from the game and I loved it even if I didn't know what the lyrics said. Now that I saw I'M TEARING UP EVEN THIS IS SO BEAUTIFUL.

It's amazing how this is the company's first AAA game and it only took 4 years with about a team of 30 people. Huge companies really need to learn from places like this. This game has so much love put into it. If this game doesn't get Game of the Year then the people in charge are fools. Can't wait for the DLC of this game.

[weiwang]

"like mist, like dew, like frost, like snow, they all die in the morning glow." The lyric is so tragically beautiful.Just like their unforgettable love, dreamlike but can not get eternal sunshine. The ending part the girl singing please don't say no, but the boy singing i beg you say no. OMG their love seems still bound to be missed in next life.(╥_╥)

[skippershih]

歌词不准确。重新翻译了下：

月光 在初见的桥头
Moonlight at the bridge of our first meeting

月光 在惜别的城楼
Moonlight on the tower where we parted

思念 是眉间的痒
Longing is the itch between my brows

月年年望相似 寻常最长久
Year after year, the moon remains the same; the ordinary lasts the longest

汹涌如江流
Surging like a river

忐忑似轻舟
Trembling like a light boat

有你相伴
With you by my side

这一路多么多么自由
This journey feels so free

云卷
Clouds unfurl

云舒
Clouds stretch out

风清
The wind is clear

雨骤
The rain is sudden

从立春到立秋
From the beginning of spring to the start of autumn

在那一刻我爱上你的所有
In that moment, I fell in love with all of you

忘了 是新添的垢
Forgetting is the stain newly added

记得 是老套的旧
Remembering is the old, worn cliché

知音 是相拥无言
A soulmate is one you embrace in silence

愿天黑话到明 总归说不够
May we speak through the night, but it's never enough

喧闹如江流
As noisy as a rushing river

宁静似轻舟
As serene as a drifting boat

有你相伴
With you by my side

这一路多么多么无忧
This journey is so carefree

晚霞
The evening glow

朝露
The morning dew

昙花
The fleeting bloom

苍狗
The ever-changing clouds

黑夜不过白昼
The night is merely a part of day

听错了风 又怎么会有以后
If you mishear the wind, how can there be a future?

飘渺似轻舟
Drifting like a light boat

寂寥如江流
Lonely like the river's flow

你不放手/你若放手
If you don't let go / If you let go

这一路何年何月得救
When will this journey find its end?

欢喜
Joy

或者哀愁
Or sorrow

绽放或者不朽
To bloom or to wither

有缘无分 下一世莫回眸
If fate brings us close but not together, don't look back in the next life

真情
True love

难留
Hard to keep

假意
False intentions

未够
Never enough

相守
To stay together

今生有求
There’s a desire in this life

下一世相遇
If we meet in the next life

请别再回眸/请记得回眸
Please don't look back / Please remember to look back

[pledcil]

For anyone wondering what is the deal with the love story between a spider and a pig, ‘a pig’ and ‘spider’ sound exactly the same in Chinese, the poor girl heard that his man got cast into mortal realm and turned into a pig, she gave up everything and came after him, but since a pig and spider sound exactly the same, the girl turned into the wrong thing when she cast down into the mortal realm.

[shadowtrooper]

I love how this animation humanises Zhu Bajie with his love for the spider monster compared to other Sun Wukong stories.