2. Are you still playing your flute?
When there is hardly time for our
love
I am feeling guilty
To be longing for your song
The melody concealed in the slim
hollow of the bamboo
Uncovered by the breath of an
artist
Composed by his fingers
Blown by the wind
To the depth of my heart.
Are you still playing your flute?
In the village so quiet and deserted
Amidst the sick rice fields
While here it has become a luxury
To spend time watching the rain
Gazing at the evening rays
Collecting dew drops
Or enjoying the fragrance of
flowers.
Are you still playing your flute?
The more it disturbs my
conscience
to be thinking of you
in the hazard of you
my younger brothers unemployed
and desperate
my people disunited by politics
my friend slaughtered mercilessly
this world is too old and bleeding.
3. LINE MEANING
LINE MEANING
1 The persona asks the man if he is still playing his flute
2 When the is little time for their love
3 She is filled with guilt
4 To be wanting to hear his song
5 The music is hidden in the hollow parts of the slander bamboo
flute
6 The sound is produced by the musician blowing into the flute
7 And by the movement of his fingers on the chords
8 The music is carried by the wind
9 Creting strong emotions in her heart when she hears it
4. LINE MEANING
LINE MEANING
10 The persona repeats the questions if he is still playing
his flute
11 In the village where it is very quiet for many people
have left
12 In the middle of the rice fields that is barren
13 Meanwhile the persona is now at a place where it is
considered an extravagant use of time
14 To sit and watch the rain fall
15 To look at the sunset
16 To touch the dew drops
17 And to smell the fragrance of flowers
5. LINE MEANING
LINE MEANING
18 The persona repeats the questions if he still playing the flute
19 Her conscience is pricked
20 For she is longing to listen to his music
21 He is a danger because he is distracting her from thoughts of
22 Her younger broders who are jobless and in a state of
hopelessness
23 Her people are divided and weakend by politics
24 Her friend are killed in the war without mercy
25 The nation’s leaders are old and ineffective and so the people
suffer
