我住長江頭，君住長江尾。

日日思君不見君，共飲長江水

此水幾時休，此恨何時已。

只願君心似我心，定不負相思意。

I live upstream, while you live downstream.

Every night till dawn of you can I only dream

on drinking the same water together

out of the endless Long River.

when will the river cease flowing?

O, when will the woe cease growing?

I wish your heart would just be like mine;

must I not let you down for what I pine.