The second song I picked for this arc is called, 时间都到哪儿去了, Where Did All The Time Go?
It’s not the best fit for this arc… not even in the slightest, but no other arc comes close either for a long time.
This song was first performed in 2010, when Old Niu’s Family War, a TV show about the Niu family’s internal struggle for obtaining inheritance, requested for the musicians Dǒng Dōngdōng and Chén Xī (who are a married couple) to compose a theme song for the TV show. Chén Xī was inspired to write the lyrics by her mother’s 60th birthday. When she saw her mother’s appearance, how after ‘experiencing the daily struggles of life for a half a lifetime, in the blink of an eye all that was left was all the winkles that filled her face,’ she became overcome with the feeling that time seemed to slip past so fast without us noticing. After Chén Xī finished writing the lyrics, Dǒng Dōngdōng immediately composed the accompanying music.
The next post will be about the animated music video, then the next four posts will have the lyrics~