走进外面的世界：青春与现实的交汇 In die Welt hinausgehen (cn | en)

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作者：小羊冰冰

上大学的时候，喜欢听齐秦的『外面的世界』，也常常哼唱这首歌。那时候，心中向往外面的世界，那是一个充满新奇和梦想的世界。齐秦写这首歌的时候，身在少年感化院，大约16岁，在姐姐齐豫的关爱和鼓励下，经过数年的牢狱生活，后来走上了音乐之路，成为红遍海峡两岸的著名歌星，至今还活跃在歌坛。

如今，已然在那时候所盼望的外面的世界里，生活了多年，也早已遗忘了这首歌的味道。前几日，偶然在网上听到齐秦新唱的『外面的世界』，他的声音仿佛年轻时候一样美丽动听，他的口琴间奏也动人心弦，将这首歌演绎到一个新的艺术高度，勾起了我的万千思绪。

齐秦用了几十年的时间实践他歌里写的爱情故事，而我作为一个听众，也用了几十年来体会他歌里的那个外面的世界。外面的世界很精彩，外面的世界很无奈。我们在外面的世界打拼多年，暮然回首才发现，自己已经身在江湖，回不到从前了。那个从前的世界，多少次魂牵梦绕，多少次泪湿枕巾，终究还是渐行渐远，遥不可及了。莫非这就是一语成谶?

在外面这个世界里，多少的承诺都转眼成空，多少的心愿都随风飘落。常常是顾首不能顾尾，瞻前不能顾后。活在外面的世界，无法与父母亲人团聚厮守，是真实的难言之痛。外面的世界再精彩，外面的世界也无奈。在向往外面的精彩之时，是否也曾经想到会承受外面的许多无奈?

“当你觉得外面的世界很无奈，
我还在这里耐心的等着你。
每当夕阳西沉的时候，
我总是在这里盼望你。
天空中虽然飘着雨，
我依然等待你的归期。”

我在等什么呢，等待那从前的世界回到现在吗? 还是等待我回到从前的世界? 抑或，不是我等，而是我被等待，被盼望，有一天回到从前的世界? 回家，不是游子当初离家的初衷吗? 外面的世界再大，能大过心中的期盼吗? 不管是我等待，还是我被等待，心中有爱的力量，前路不再畏惧艰难。那就砥砺前行吧，为了心中永远的盼望和梦想。

（2025年2月 除夕之夜 德国柏林）

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英文翻译版：

The World Beyond: Dreams of Youth and Reality

Back in university, I loved listening to Chyi Chin’s The Outside World, often humming its melody to myself. At the time, my heart yearned for that world beyond—one filled with wonder and dreams. When Chyi Chin wrote this song, he was just sixteen, confined to a juvenile detention center. With the love and encouragement of his sister, Chyi Yu, he emerged from years of imprisonment and eventually embarked on a musical journey that led him to fame across both sides of the Taiwan Strait. Even today, he remains a shining presence on the music scene.

Now, I have long lived in that once-dreamed-of world beyond. And somehow, I had forgotten the taste of that song. But a few days ago, I stumbled upon a new rendition of The Outside World by Chyi Chin himself. His voice, as beautiful and captivating as in his youth, paired with a soulful harmonica solo, elevated the song to a new artistic height—and stirred in me a flood of memories.

Chyi Chin spent decades living out the love story he once wrote into song, and I, as a listener, have spent decades experiencing the world outside that his lyrics spoke of. The world outside is so splendid, and yet so helpless. After so many years of struggle in this world beyond, I suddenly realize—I have already become part of it, and there is no going back. That world of the past, the one I dreamed of time and again, that brought tears to my eyes and visited me in countless dreams, has drifted far, far away. Could it be that the song’s words foretold this all along?

In this world outside, so many promises vanish in the blink of an eye, so many wishes are scattered with the wind. Often, we find ourselves unable to look both ahead and behind. Living in this world afar, separated from our parents and loved ones, is a pain too real to put into words. However brilliant this outside world may be, it carries its share of sorrow. When we longed for its splendor, did we ever imagine we would have to bear its heavy weight?

“When you feel the world outside is full of sorrow,
I’ll still be here, patiently waiting for you.
Each time the sun sets in the west,
I’m always here, longing for you.
Though the sky may be filled with rain,
I still await your return.”

But what am I really waiting for? Am I waiting for the past to return to the present? Or am I hoping that I might return to the past? Or perhaps… it is not I who wait, but I who am being waited for—longed for—to one day return to that world I once left behind? Isn’t returning home the very reason we once left?

However vast the world outside may be, could it ever be greater than the longing within our hearts? Whether I am the one waiting or the one being waited for, as long as love fills the heart, the road ahead need not be feared. So let us keep forging ahead—undaunted—for the sake of that eternal hope and dream that lives within us.

（New Year’s Eve, 2025, Berlin）