“JADE” is the last song on Monsune’s debut EP Tradition.
The album art has the calligraphy for 传统 (tradition) and subtly hints at his Chinese-Canadian background, but “JADE” incorporates it more fully.
Jade is a material that has lots of meanings throughout Asia, but in China particularly, it symb...
[Verse 1]
Over the ocean
Watch as I float into the sky
Over the summer
I will appear before your eyes
I hear you say, "Don't look back at me
I don't want you to, I've got bills to pay, too
By the time that you can't remember my name
I'll still be waiting for you"
Ooh, ah
For you
Ooh, ah
[Verse 2]
Fruits of your labour
Watch as they fall across the sea
Sooner or later
I will come home, I will come home
I will come home if you want, if you want
Oh, I feel you
Ooh, I feel you here
Come and go and
Back and forth and
Fifteen years, fifteen years
Ooh, I feel you
Ooh
[Outro]
I don't know, sometimes you just grow up like that