Mandarin learning guide
Learn with 原諒我
This guide follows the speaker’s request for forgiveness, self-blame, and letting go. The lyrics repeatedly move between apology, restraint, and the wish that the other person can live better.
What to listen for
The lyrics are built around a speaker who asks to be forgiven while admitting immaturity, pretending indifference, and choosing to let the other person go. Repeated lines make the emotional movement easy to track: first a plea not to forget, then a confession of pain, and finally a clearer admission of sadness and understanding.
- Recognize how the song uses 请原谅我 to make a direct apology.
- Understand how phrases like 比我适合 and 不是我 express comparison and exclusion.
- Practice reading lines that use concession, excuse, and self-restraint in emotional language.
How the song moves
Opening plea
The lyrics begin with a request not to forget the promises and with the statement that the other person's forever no longer belongs to the speaker.
Confession of restraint
The speaker describes holding back words, pretending coldness, and letting love go before the other person says goodbye.
Repeated apology and self-blame
The refrain centers on asking for forgiveness, calling the speaker immature, and admitting that saying 'not loving you' was an excuse.
Final reflection
The ending widens into a list of lived emotions, then returns to the request to forgive and the admission of sadness and understanding.
Translation choices
请不要分了以后还记得 亲吻过的承诺
- Natural English
- Please don't forget the promises made after we broke up, or the kisses we shared.
- Why
- This keeps the plea soft and direct. '分了以后' is naturally rendered as 'after we broke up' in context, and '亲吻过的承诺' links the remembered promise and the shared intimacy without overstating it.
爱放了手 我伪装冷漠 比你先说分手
- Natural English
- I let love go, and I pretended to be cold, breaking up before you did.
- Why
- This follows the line's sequence of actions: love letting go, then pretending indifference, then getting ahead of the breakup. '比你先说分手' is best kept as 'before you did' rather than a more abstract phrasing.
别无所求彻底忘了我 爱原来要舍得
- Natural English
- Don't ask for anything; just forget me completely. Love, it turns out, requires letting go.
- Why
- This rendering preserves the command-like tone of '别无所求' and the reflective conclusion in '爱原来要舍得'. '舍得' is better captured as 'letting go' here because the lyric uses it as an emotional lesson.
Useful Mandarin from the song
A direct apology formula. It can stand alone or repeat for emphasis, as it does in the lyric.
Used here to admit that 'not loving you' is only a pretext. In ordinary Mandarin, it refers to a reason that is not sincere or not sufficient.
The speaker offers to carry loneliness. This verb often appears with hardship, pain, or pressure that someone endures.
Here it summarizes the idea that love requires release. The word often expresses whether someone can bear to give up something.
Listen closely
- Notice how the repeated plea begins with 请原谅我 and returns in slightly different lines, which helps you hear the apology as the song's center.
- Listen for contrast words such as 不是, 比, and 其实, which shift the lyrics from feeling to judgment and self-judgment.
- Track the emotional turn near the end: the list of past actions is followed by 原谅我 and then the short conclusion 我难过 / 我才懂.
Check your understanding
Which line shows the speaker admitting that 'not loving you' is only an excuse?
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不爱你是借口。
What does 比我适合 mean in this lyric's context?
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It means 'more suitable than I am,' referring to the other person being a better match.