不是梦。。。 Not A Dream…
这首歌很莫名其妙在教会“红”起来，出乎我预料之外。。。
首先它是我十多年前写的一首属于慢版的敬拜歌，但我一直对它的旋律不太满意，所以被打入“冷宫”十多年。。。
去年心血来潮把它修饰过，再改为轻快版的赞美歌。。。
敬拜排练教唱这首歌时，还被电脑和我网站天才 Hen 开我玩笑说是 70年代刘文正式的歌。。。让我哭笑不得！
但当我采用一首美国现代诗歌的编曲来套在这首歌上时，突然它变的很有动感，很带动气氛，大家就改观了，结果一炮而红。。。
所以一首歌的编曲相当重要。。。编得对，不太好听的歌都会变得好听；编不对，很好听的歌都会失去原味。。。
This song has unexpectedly become popular in church, beyond my imagination…
First, it was a slow worship song which I wrote more than ten years ago, but I had never been satisfied with its melody, so it was shelved and ignored for all these years…
Last year or so I had the urge to modify and change it into a livelier praise song…
As I was teaching this song during praise and worship, our computer and website genius Hen joked that it sounded like a 70’s oldie… I did not know whether to laugh or cry!
But when I used the arrangement of a contemporary American Christian song on this song, it suddenly became quite upbeat and catchy, and people’s opinion changed, and it became a hit straight away…
So a song’s arrangement is very important… if the arrangement is right, a not-so-nice song can become very nice too; but if the arrangement is not good, a very nice song would lose its original feel too…
***至于这首“不是梦”，我最喜欢的是这句 “与主攀登那最高山峰，我不小心坠落，却掉入我主的恩手中”。。。
***As for this song “Not A Dream”, my favourite phrase would be “climbing that highest mountain with the Lord,
carelessly I stumbled and fell, but landed in the gracious hand of my Lord”…
不是梦 Not A Dream
(词曲: 林义忠)
冲向云端的高峰 Towering mountains in the clouds
星光灿烂的夜空 Bright and starry night sky
小鸟悦耳的歌声进入我的耳中 Listening to the beautiful singing of the birds
叫我的心 随之歌颂 My heart is singing along
迎风微笑的花朵 The smiling blossoms in the wind
雨后亮丽的彩虹 The colourful rainbow after the rain
大海澎湃的声音 仿佛也在歌颂 The sound of breaking waves seem to be praising along
让赞美的声音传遍全宇宙 Let the sound of praise fill the entire universe
仿佛在一个美丽梦中 Feel like I am in a beautiful dream
与主攀登那最高山峰 Climbing that highest mountain with the Lord
我不小心坠落 Carelessly I stumbled and fell
却掉入我主的恩手中 But landed in the gracious hand of my Lord
嗯 ～ 这不是梦 Hmm… this is not a dream
并不是梦 It is not a dream
安息在主温暖怀中 Resting in the Lord’s warm embrace
主温柔声音唤醒我 The Lord’s gentle voice awakens me
睁开眼睛看见天父慈爱看着我 I open my eyes and see my Father gazing at me lovingly
这不是梦 This is not a dream
并不是梦 It is not a dream