One magazine interpreted the second two lines of the verse as meaning that Wong might recover, but Qiu Yiju believes that as the singer's roots were in Hong Kong, but he lay unconscious in Japan, it was not possible to "replant [his] roots," and so the outlook was not good for his recovery.
有雜誌社根據後兩句判斷他可復原，但裘一居則認為歌手的根在香港，卻昏倒在日本，無法「培回根本」，因此病情並不樂觀，而後來黃家駒終究沒有醒過來。