You know you need a KTV song! Beijing, Beijing is a slow ballad sung by Chinese artist 汪峰 [pinyin]wang1 feng1[/pinyin] and was in the <a href="http://music.baidu.com/top/new">Baidu Top 100</a> top 10 for a bit this year. Now it looks like it's fallen between the 30th and 40th place on various music charts, but it's still pretty popular, particularly in, you know, Beijing. If you can find it in yourself to embrace the painful 80's growly I-mean-it man voice and the "Streets of Philadelphia" emo-dad thing, you may find that the song is a good karaoke song if you're just starting out because it's repetitive, it's not abstract, it's sung slowly enough to sing along and it's so emotionally over-fraught that it's fun. 

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I recommend you read and translate the lyrics before you listen to the song, so you've got an idea of what you're hearing. 

A few translation notes: it's not always clear exactly how to translate song lyrics. Example: 寻找着追逐着奄奄一息的碎梦 is not an easy lyric to translate. Or rather, it's super easy to get the gist of the meaning (searching, chasing, dying, broken dreams... you get the idea), but put an "of" in the wrong place and the meaning changes to something slightly different. I've done my best, feel free to re-write or re-interpret those in a different way. 

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1) 当我走在这里的每一条街道 
我的心似乎从来都不能平静　
除了发动机的轰鸣和电器之音 　　
我似乎听到了他烛骨般的心跳 　　
我在这里欢笑 　　
我在这里哭泣
我在这里活着 　　
也在这死去 　　
我在这里祈祷　
我在这里迷惘　
我在这里寻找 　　
也在这儿失去 　　
北京 北京 　　

2) 咖啡馆与广场有三个街区 　　
就像霓虹灯到月亮的距离 　　
人们在挣扎中相互告慰和拥抱 　　
寻找着追逐着奄奄一息的碎梦 　　
我们在这欢笑 　　
我们在这哭泣 　　
我们在这活着 　　
也在这死去 　　
我们在这祈祷 　　
我们在这迷惘 　　
我们在这寻找 　　
也在这儿失去 　　
北京 北京 　
　
3) 如果有一天我不得不离去 　　
我希望人们把我埋在这里 　　
在这儿我能感觉到我的存在 　　
在这儿有太多让我眷恋的东西 　　
我在这里欢笑 　　
我在这里哭泣 　　
我在这里活着 　　
也在这儿死去 　　
我在这里祈祷 　　
我在这里迷惘 　　
我在这里寻找 　　
也在这儿失去 　　
北京 北京
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1) When I walk the streets here
It seems like my heart can never be serene
Beyond the rumble of engines and sounds of electronics
I seem to hear its candlewick heartbeat
This is where I laugh happily
This is where I weep
This is where I live
And this is where I'll die
This is where I pray
This is where I'm confused
This is where I search
And also where I lose
Beijing, Beijing 　　

2) The three blocks between the coffee shop and the plaza
Seem like the distance between the neon lights and the moon 　　
People comfort and embrace each other as they struggle together
Searching for, chasing after, the last gasp of broken dreams
This is where we laugh happily
This is where we cry bitterly 
This is where we live
And this is where we'll die
This is where we pray
This is where we're confused
This is where we search
And also where we lose
Beijing, Beijing 　　　

　
3) If someday I have no choice but to leave
I hope people bury me here
Here I can sense my existence 
Here there are too many things I yearn for
This is where I laugh happily
This is where I cry bitterly 
This is where I live
And this is where I die
This is where I pray
This is where I'm confused
This is where I search
And also where I lose
Beijing, Beijing 　　
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