驯服爱欲 (Taming Desire) by Desire4 (Huang Xing, Qiu Dingjie, Li Peien, Jiang Heng) (ABO Desire OST)

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The english title is Master of Desire. This is ABO Desire OST, starring Huang Xing (Eliot Huang), Qiu Dingjie (Kipuka Qiu), Li Peien (Seeky Li), Jiang Heng (Ocean Jiang), which was released recently.

Color-coded lyrics:
White: Huang Xing
Yellow: Qiu Dingjie
Turquoise: Huang Xing-Qiu Dingjie
Green: Li Peien
Blue: Li Peien-Jiang Heng
Red: Desire4

Translated and interpreted by me, with initial support from machine translation tools and cultural linguistic research

Hanzi lyrics credits:
剧好听-jht on Youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CAKOqGf4ws


Explanations:

"A gentle kiss or a brisk, hard peck"
Gentle kiss: "restraint, intimacy, first contact"
Brisk, hard peck: "quick, hard kiss"
Shows range of intimacy, gentle to forceful

"Taming desire is like boiling a frog"
Desire (àiyù): "entanglement of love and desire—one gives rise to the other"
Boiling a frog: "gradual, unnoticed descent into danger, until it's too late—slow, subtle"
Slow, unconscious surrender—desire can be subdued through gradual suppression rather than force

"In courtship—[we] pile lie upon lie"
Lies: "illusions / facade—hiding insecurities, saying what the other wants to hear, exaggerating qualities"

"Taming desire, disregard truth or falsehood"
Disregard: "willful ignorance or emotional compromise"

"carving devout scars"
Pain that feels righteous or sacred—scars received in the name of love or loyalty. Love and violence may co-exist

"Tears, trembling—all turn docile"
Emotional suppression or forced composure

"Repeating folly—oblivious to shame"
Oblivious: "here, it's not simple unawareness, but willful ignorance of shame despite recognizing the absurdity of his actions"

"Still reveling [in] being a joke"
Continuing previous line—implies active, self-aware indulgence in his own absurdity, even while aware of being perceived as a joke

"Unwilling to break free—such an absurd flawlessness"
Absurd flawlessness: "a delusion so perfect, despite being ridiculous"

"A hypocrite's embrace, stiff and theatrical"
Hypocrite in ABO dynamics: "the tension between instinct and artifice"
Fake compliance to manipulate power

"After all, kisses [are] better than angry scoldings"
A continuation of the hypocrite's embrace from the previous line—prioritizing surface harmony over raw confrontation

"Stop speaking lies"
Rejecting the earlier facades

"Such polished smoothness—how disgraceful [to] be fooled again"
Smoothness: "pragmatic finesse turned slippery and calculating"

"Sincere heart hung before deity's statue—[whether it's] blessed or not, depends on fate"
Fate (zàohuà): "not personal fate, but the universe's indifferent whims"
Sincere heart offered as sacrificial objects before divine judgment. The outcome is determined by fate's whims, not effort or morality

"The tamed one is me"
Reveals the song's turning point—taming as self-deception. He feigns dominance, but is the one being consumed. Entangled in self-complicity in lies, manipulated devotion and addictive submission. The earlier "boiling the frog" line hints at this slow, willing surrender


Lyrics by 弄简 (Nong Jian)
Composer by 陈蚂蚁 (Chen Manyi), 米七 (Mi Qi)

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This is an unofficial translation for reference and appreciation purposes only. Please note that this translation reflects my personal interpretation, and other interpretations may differ.