Trịnh Công Sơn: Cát Bụi | Sand and Dust, played on guitar by Huy Liem Nguyen

Trịnh Công Sơn (1939-2001): Cát Bụi | Sand and Dust, a guitar arrangement by Trần Thế Kỷ, played by Huy Liem Nguyen Guitar: Kohno Sakurai Special 2022 Strings: Hannabach Exclusive iMovie App for producing the Video in iPhone 14 Pro Max Recording Studio Location: Hauptfriedhof Frankfurt am Main | Main Cemetery Frankfurt am Main Lyric: Grain of dust, morphed into meLet my being one day rise and blossomO wonders, sand and dust!Let the sun shine through a rambling lifeGrain of dust, morphed into meLet me one day return untoSo worn out sand and dustAs the beat goes on, infiniteYears into a human life, in the blinkOf an afternoon, the hair turn white High above, fading leaves fall out As hundred years enter death, in a single dayWhich passing sun has lit up my heartIn which love is eroding to gravelsFace hidden, as sorrow raisesEach passing day I await blissForest of thinly leafed treesFrom the abyss I heard the callO this fate, sand and dust, An inkdrop was erased, in oblivion. translated by Vân Mai
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