Today, I have gone very sentimental while listening to Madonna singing “Don’t Cry For Me Argentina”. The song’s covert connotation takes my feeling to its height that somehow after all these years when the song was meant for Argentina, now wails for Hong Kong as well, for those people who are enduring and struggling and those left not on their own will to a new place for the choice of freedom.
The song is so revealing and so I quote:
So I chose freedom
Running around
Trying everything new
But nothing
Impressed me
At all
I never
Expected it to
And as for fortune
And as for fame
I never invited them in
Though it seemed
To the world
They were all I desire
They are illusions
They’re not
The solutions they promise to be
The answer
Was here
All the time
I love you
And hope you love me
You may have physically left to a third country or mentally left to be no more vocal, I hope this part of the lyric will help you voice again to know that supports are actually everywhere.
Don’t cry for me, Argentina
The truth is
I never left you
All through my wild days
My mad existence
I kept my promise
Don’t keep your distance
Have I said too much?
There’s nothing more
I can think of
To say to you
But, all you have to do
Is look at me to know
That every word
Is true!
For people who share this emotion, I am sure nothing more needs to be said or added here, right? I wish those who have left “a very bright future and things will work out for them and good luck”. From now on when I feel low, I shall certainly sing this song.
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If you wish to listen to the song after reading this article, the following link is good for you. Have a nice day.
When you are 68 
Your article make me cry for my birth place Hong Kong, my brought up place Hong Kong, the most affectionate, memorable friendship place; the most easy accessible to everything and good food place and mostly the Cantonese speaking Hong Kong people and my brothers and sisters gathering together in my father’s house, in brother’s house in Hong Kong; now seems to be at a distance to me. Yesterday is song I think of to express my feeling chasing for yesterday at the moment.
Yesterday love was such an easy game to play
Now I need a place to hide away
Oh, I believe in yesterday.
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Leaving, or staying, is a choice between two evils. People will certainly opt for the lesser, but is it the right selection? Only time will tell.
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