You are not truly happy

This song is by May Day, a very popular Taiwanese pop band. The leader of the band, Monster (怪獸), was two years senior than me in the same department at National Taiwan University.

I quite like this song because its MV is so touched which I haven't seen any other MV could bring this kind of feeling to me. This song discusses that people always wear musk in daily life which make them dare not show their true feelings. In this story, a guy is selling jokes on the street to amuse people. After listening to his funny stories, everybody laughs and walks away. When they turn around and face oneself, they stop smiling and look deep in their minds. One day, when the guy tells a joke to a young lady, she bursts into tears immediately and runs away. The reason is that, in order to amuse people, she has to make believe that she's happy everyday and hide the real her. It's painful to her. One day, however, she finds that in fact the guy who's selling jokes on the street bears a bigger secret in his mind. That day, the guy pushes his girlfriend, a young lady with paralysis, sitting on a wheel chair in to the place she works and asks the lady who ever bought a joke from him to take a photo for his girlfriend and him. The young lady suddenly feels better and realises how heavy a burden his mind bears.

The thing which moves me the most is the girl with paralysis smiles after the guy tells her something by her ear. And I believe that this smile also touches the girl who is taking a picture for them.

The following is the lyric in Traditional Chinese.

你不是真正的快樂 (作詞：阿信 作曲：阿信)

人群中 哭著 你只想變成透明的顏色
你再也不會夢 或痛 或心動了
你已經決定了 你已經決定了

你 靜靜 忍著 緊緊把昨天在拳心握著
而回憶越是甜 就是 越傷人了
越是在 手心留下 密密麻麻 深深淺淺的刀割

你不是真正的快樂 你的笑只是你穿的保護色
你決定不恨了 也決定不愛了
把你的靈魂 關在永遠 鎖上的軀殼

這世界 笑了 於是你合群的一起笑了
當生存是規則 不是 你的選擇
於是你 含著眼淚 飄飄盪盪 跌跌撞撞的走著

你不是真正的快樂 你的笑只是你穿的保護色
你決定不恨了 也決定不愛了
把你的靈魂 關在永遠 鎖上的軀殼

你不是真正的快樂 你的傷從不肯完全的癒合
我站在你左側 卻像隔著銀河
難道就真的 抱著遺憾 一直到老了 然後才後悔著

你不是真正的快樂 你的笑只是你穿的保護色
你決定不恨了 也決定不愛了
把你的靈魂 關在永遠 鎖上的軀殼

你不是真正的快樂 你的傷從不肯完全的癒合
我站在你左側 卻像隔著銀河
難道就真的 抱著遺憾 一直到老了

你值得真正的快樂 你應該脫下你穿的保護色
為什麼失去了 還要被懲罰呢
能不能就讓 悲傷全部 結束在此刻 重新開始活著