[10 Points] What is the meaning of this song?

Question

Jay Chou - Tui Hou (退后) - (Music Video)

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tian kong h*i de xiang ku guo

The sky is so gray that it looks like it just cried

离开你以后

li kai ni yi hou

After leaving you

並沒有更自由

bing mei you geng zi you

I did not gain more freedom

酸酸的空氣

suan suan de kong qi

The sourness from the air

嗅出我们的距离

xiu chu wo men de ju li

Smelling out our distance

一幕锥心的结局

yi mu chui xin de jie ju

A scene of of heartbreaking ending

像呼吸般无法停息

xiang hu xi ban wu fa ting xi

Like breathing, unable to stop.

抽屉泛黄的日记

chou ti fan huang de ri ji

The yellowed diary in the drawer

榨乾了回憶

zha gan le h*i yi

pressed dry our memories

那笑容是夏季

na xiao rong s**+ xia ji

That smile is summer

你我的过去

ni wo de guo qu

Our past

被順時針的忘记

bei shun s**+ zhen de wang ji

Has been forgotten as time goes by

缺氧过后的爱情

que yang guo hou de ai qing

A love that lacked oxygen.

粗心的眼泪是多余

cu xin de yan lei s**+ duo yu

Careless tears are unnecessary

我知道你我都没有错

wo zhi dao ni wo dou mei you cuo

I know that it is not your fault or mine.

只是忘了怎么退后

zhi s**+ wang le zen me tui hou

We just forgot how to step back

信誓旦旦给了承诺

xin s**+ dan dan gei le cheng nuo

We made promises to each other with confidence

却被时间扑了空

que bei s**+ jian pu le kong

Yet it has been emptied by time

我知道我们都没有错

wo zhi dao wo men dou mei you cuo

I know that it is not your fault or mine

只是放手会比较好过

zhi s**+ fang shou h*i bi jiao hao guo

It's just that letting go would make things easier

最美的爱情回忆里待續

zui mei de ai qing h*i yi li dai xu

The most beautiful love is to be continued in [my] memory

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Please and Thank You

No one would answer my previous one ~__~

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Answer 1

It's about something that was but no longer is.  Theirs was an all-consuming love; one that lacked breathing room bc it was so powerful and possessive.  He thought he needed freedom from it because he was frightened of the power it had over him.  But after he left her, he quickly learned the downside of freedom...the air was sour without her sweet aura in it...and he could not stop thinking of her or loving her...just as he could not stop breathing.  Diary writing only made her memories linger, and it was painful for him, so he left the diary by a window and tried to forget about it.  The sun was its only viewer, and it gave the pages a yellowish tint, yellow for age and yellow for melancholy.  Of course, over time the wound stopped bleeding, but there was a scar.  And every time he thought upon the scar, with a pang of wisdom he realized the blunder in their love, but more importantly, he understood its youthful and innocent beauty, even to the point where he could smile upon it with nostalgia.  

Sounds kind of like a young love lost, where reality reveals the idealism of former promises and makes what once seemed so pure and powerful to two young lovers suddenly seem more sour and trivial.  It's a very cynical poem, and I would guess written by a wise older man who has experienced the pain, and still remembers it from time to time.  It's beautiful.  

And of course it could be interpreted in many other ways.

Answer 2

A break up over stress or pressure

but it seems like he Regrets it

so the Memorys (good) play out in his head constantly

Answer 3

Is that an english translation right below the romanji? Ohh god, Chu. Do we need to translate the english to 3 year old speech? >.<

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I hate people that thumb me down. Since I have a thumb down on this answer, I'm not gonna bother to even translate this for you. EVER!

>=l