White Windmill (白色風車) - Lyrics, Harmonic and Functional Analysis

The song that I'm going to do is White Windmill (白色風車). It's the 9th track in his Still Fantasy album.

Translation/pinyin/lyrics by Ho@multistars.com

白色风车

Bai se feng che

Composer: Jay Chou (周杰倫) (周杰伦)

Lyricist: Jay Chou (周杰倫) (周杰伦)

白色的风車

bai se de feng che

安静的转着

an jing de zhuan zhe

真实的感觉

zhen shi de gan jue

梦境般遥远

meng jing ban yao yuan

甜甜的海水

tian tian de hai shui

复杂的眼泪
fu za de yan lei

看你傻笑着

kan ni sha xiao zhe

握住我的手
wo zhu wo de shou

梦希望没有尽头
meng xi wang mei you jin tou

我们走到这就好
wo men zou dao zhe jiu hao

因爲我不想太快走完这幸福
yin wei wo bu xiang tai kuai zou wan zhe xing fu

很可惜没有祝福
hen ke xi mei you zhu fu

当爱你并不孤独
dang ai ni bing bu gu du

不会再让你哭
bu hui zai rang ni ku

我背你走到最後
wo bei ni zou dao zui hou

能不能不要回头
neng bu neng bu yao hui tou

你紧紧的抱住我
ni jin jin de bao zhu wo

说你不需要承诺
shuo ni bu xu yao cheng nuo

你说我若一个人会比较自由
ni shuo wo ruo yi ge ren hui bi jiao zi you

我不懂你说什麽
wo bu dong ni shuo shen me

反正不会松手

fan zheng bu hui song shou

我背你走到最後
wo bei ni zou dao zui hou

能不能别想太多
neng bu neng bie xiang tai duo

会不会手牵着手
hui bu hui shou qian zhe shou

晚一点才到尽头
wan yi dian cai dao jin tou

你说不该再相见只爲了瞬间

ni shuo bu gai zai xiang jian zhi wei le shun jian

谢谢你让我听见

xie xie ni rang wo ting jian

因爲我在等待永远

yin wei wo zai deng dai yong yuan

The piece started out in F major. As usual, it starts out with a dominant chord (chord I) to chord vii in bar 8. I think that from bar 1 to 10, it's an expansion of the dominant chord due to frequent use of tonic chords. After which at bar 11, it's a chord V. At bar 22, there's a change in key signature to when the song goes into the chorus at "我背你走到最後...". It then proceeds from chord I - I6 - I6/4 - ii6/4 - iii - V - I6 - I6/4 - vi6/4 - I6/4 - V - I - vi - vi6/5 - iv - V7 - V - I6/5 - iio7 - ii4/2 - V7 - I.

As expected, it goes from a tonic to a dominant and after which it returns to tonic at the end.

First 3 pages

Start of chorus

1st Analysis

Hi people... It's been a long time since I updated the blog. Haha. Sorry for the long wait. Here it goes...

As you all can see... I'm actually gonna do some analysis on Jay Chou's songs. Most of his songs are his own compositions. Oh well, he's so talented. There's one of the most dominant reason for me liking him. This is the seventh album from Jay Chou, this album is named to after his most famous album Fantasy and represents Jay's insistence of not changing his style and that his music is still very much Fantasy. Thus, it's called Still Fantasy (依然范特西).