This week we have a 20th cover, in English, of a song by Ben Folds.
( 🤔 How many covers are planned? )
This song is the message of a father to his son.
We are not going to spread out with hazardous assumptions about which father or son it could be.
It’s just a beautiful song, with a beautiful message that Kim Hyun Joong had wanted to sing for a long time and certainly also to leave recorded for posterity.
In fact he had promised to sing this song during the Live Instagram dedicated to White Day on March 14, 2022,  and here is the final version a year and a half later.
The proof that even if an idea takes a long time to mature, when you want something it is only a question of time, consistency … and patience.
Original Lyrics of “Still Fighting it”
(check the video)Hello, son.
I am a bird
Wearing a brown polyester shirt
Do you want a coke ?
Maybe fries ?
Roast beef is only 9.95 $
It’s okay, you don’t have to pay.
I have all the change.Everyone knows
It hurts to grow up.
And everyone does it
It’s weird to be back here.
Let me tell you.
The years go on and
We always fight, we always fight.
And you look so much like me.
I am sorry.Hello, son.
In twenty years.
Maybe we will sit down and have a few beers.
And I can tell you about today
And how I came to get you and everything changed
It was pain.
Sunny days and rain
I knew you would feel the same.Everyone knows
It sucks to grow.
And everyone does it
It’s weird to be back here.
Let me tell you.
The years go on and
We always fight, we always fight.
You will try and one day you will fly
Far from meHello, son.
Hello, son.
Hello, son.
Hello, son.Hello, son.
I am a bird
( Hello, son )
( Hello, son )
It was pain.
Sunny days and rain
I knew you would feel the same.Everyone knows
It hurts to grow up.
And everyone does it
It’s weird to be back here.
Let me tell you.
The years go on and
We always fight, we always fight.
We always fight, we always fight.
And you look so much like me.
I am sorry.
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( * ) Live on Instagram – translated – from March 14, 2022.