雨花石 Rainflower Stone

雨花石 Rainflower Stone
by 李玉刚 Li Yugang, 石头 Stone

雨儿轻轻飘 心儿似火烧

The rain gently falls

The heart seemingly aflame

那是谁的泪 在脸上轻轻绕

Whose tears is it

Gently moving upon my face

石对雨的爱 就像蓝的海

The stone's love for the rain

Is like the blue ocean 

虽有万千语 不知怎么去表白

Although there are ten thousand things to say

Not knowing how to put it into words

嗨 你在哪儿

Ah where are you

嗨 我看不见

Ah I cannot see 

我是一颗小小的石头

I am a tiny tiny stone 

深深的埋在泥土之中

Deeply buried in the mud

你的影子已看不清

Your shadow already fading

我还在寻觅当初你的笑容

I'm still here searching for your smile from that time

千年以后 繁华落幕

A thousand years later 

Glamour and opulence long gone 

我还在风雨中之中为你等候

I'm still in the wind and rain waiting for you

我还在土中为你守候

I'm still in the mud expecting you

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Notes:
飘 - floating, drifting
(I went with 'falling' because rain doesn't really float)
似火烧 - lit. appears to be burned by fire
(I wanted seemingly because it matched with gently. It's like I can't perfectly translate it into a new song but I don't want to completely let go of the aesthetic)
绕 - wind, rotate around, circle around
(Tears don't rotate around the face, but the idea is that it keeps moving. Also lack of subject once again leaves me struggling. Whose tears? More like whose face??)
表白 - explain, confess, profess
(Lit. not knowing how to go and confess, to profess all those words)
繁华 - bustling, flourishing, glamour
落幕 - lit. curtain falling, meaning endings
(This was really hard to translate because saying the end of flourishing? Saying prosperity ended makes it seem like it's really poor now but I think the idea of the line is that after a thousand years the bustling/flourishing cities are gone...kind of feeling. God, mad props to professional translators.)
守候 - waiting, but with a feeling of anticipation/expectation