The lyrics of "The Road to Heaven is Wide and Broad" are as follows:
I have just captured a few demons, and I have captured a few more demons.
Why are there so many demons and demons? Monsters, please give me a stick.
If I kill you, your soul will be lost, your soul will be lost, your gods will tremble, and your ghosts will tremble.
The wolves, insects, tigers and leopards were beaten until they had nowhere to hide, and they just captured a few monsters.
A few more demons were subdued. Why are there so many demons and monsters?
Monster, if you take a stick from me, I will kill you and you will lose your soul.
The gods trembled and the ghosts trembled, beating the wolves, insects, tigers and leopards with nowhere to hide.
I just climbed over a few mountains and crossed a few rivers.
Why are there so many rough and bumpy roads? I, Sun, have to go!
The mountains are more dangerous and the waters are worse. We have encountered difficulties and endured hardships.
The road to the sky is wide and wide, and we have just climbed a few mountains.
We crossed a few more rivers, but they were so rugged and bumpy.
Creative background:
The famous composer Yao Ming not only served as the composer of this opening song, but also the lyricist of this opening song. According to Yao Ming: In the 1980s, 15 episodes of the 25-episode large-scale mythological TV series "Journey to the West" directed by Yang Jie were left unfilmed due to economic constraints at the time.
In the late 1990s, the filming of these 15 episodes began again, so Yao Ming was appointed as the composer for the sequel, and he composed about 5 or 6 interludes in the sequel. Yao Ming chose to write this opening song from the perspective of Sun Wukong, so he came up with this simple, catchy, funny and optimistic opening song.
In terms of music rhythm, the techniques commonly used in pop songs are used to make it more popular. Yao Ming also added Sun Wukong's catchphrase "Eat a stick from me" into the song to make it more lively and interesting. Yao Ming specially hired Sun Wukong's voice actor Li Yang to speak this line to make the image in the song more vivid and vivid.
The singing was initially recorded in two versions, one with the Clover male vocal group and the other with the male solo. In the end, the director believed that the male vocal group was more powerful and had better results, so he chose the Clover male vocal group to sing.