Having come back from the concert, I realised I didn't even take a photo of the spot. I must have been thinking about something. I didn't even put on my earphones until I came to the station.
Everything was as if in a dream.
But now I have to concentrate, because this choco thing is meant for me to draw something on the top of the cake.
I guess miracles don't happen if you do nothing to make them come true. But maybe if you don't feel like doing something, they should stay miracles inside your imagination.
crossing the 'Golden Bridge', listening to 'Love', suddenly a traffic jam. if not for the sympathy for the people who are not sitting but standing, I would wish the moment lasted forever. why does 'Love' always start playing when the weather is fine... I raise my eyes to the sky just to notice the clouds are so beautiful, like the ones in the PV
in a wet dress, after an unexpected rain came out of the blue, I return home late in the evening. 'tis 10 o'clock and the sky is even darker than the previous time, when I was going home and made a photo. why does 'koe ni' start playing when I go along the evening street...
each time listening to Siam Shade, I notice something special. the world around starts to sparkle and it feels so calm. if only I could tell them how music can save a life
That's kind of late, but I learned that ms Kiriya is having her second concert in November-December, this time adding Osaka to the performance places list. Obviously the fans' voices from her native place reached her. But that's not the only problem.
If I would ever like to go to Siam Shade's live, this is probably my only chance. I only came to know about them 8 years ago, which was after their disbandment and visiting Japan in 2007 was impossible, so the only time I could really see them was in 2011 when they played in some concert after the Great Earthquake, but that was not destined to happen, of course. And now they are having a row of lives. 2 of them in November, again.
and it feels like 'once a lifetime'. but... it's kind of late
At first I was going to translate a song like 'Life' or maybe 'Passion' - with some romance in the lyrics and wonderfully touching melodies. However, I ended up translating 'buranko'.
Together with +Арагорн Араторнович we were discussing different things concerning our lives, our past and future, and how we are getting older still unable to accomplish something meaningful, when suddenly I heard
大切のは足跡じゃない
There aren't many songs I can call my 'lifesavers'. Probably Tamura Naomi's 'Bottom Line' comes up to mind, and I also liked 'mirai no kyoudaitachi e' from 'Sakura Wars' a lot. Well, now 'buranko' is one of them.
What do people want to learn, what do they cherish
When they start running?
They wanted to know why, but they could not,
And still they were clinging to the white swing
Entrusting bodies to the flowing wind, those changeless days
They feared the unknown tomorrow
Overcoming the sadness, erasing the doubts,
The flower I grasped
Is soothing my heart each time it is hurt
Extricating my heart break
Probably, that time my feet could not reach the ground
And I was asking for too much…
Every day I was only praying for my wishes to come true,
As if on a white swing, entrusted to gods
What is important are not your footprints,
But you bare feet following your heart which treads on your present
Overcoming the sadness, erasing the hesitation,
Let us keep on walking wherever it takes
Tomorrow will be more dazzling that today,
I believe in that on my way
Overcoming the sadness, erasing the doubts,
The flower I grasped
Has the light by the name of hope,
And is pouring it into my heart strongly
Overcoming the sadness, erasing the hesitation,
Let us keep dreaming forever
Let us become a big blossom blooming in this age,
A rosebud stealing eternity
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you either give up and compromise, which may be not bad, by the way, or not. and if it really makes you feel remorse and regret, then do what Hideki tells you!
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The Japanese love to replace reading of common kanji with those of another. Here you can see 'riyuu' replaced with 'wake' which only slightly changes the meaning from 'they want to know the reason' (something exact, concrete) to 'they want to know what's what/how and why of things' (what it's all about). Also, 'mirai' - future - is replaced with 'asu' - tomorrow, which makes the 'future' less distant and implies that every new day was frightening with uncertainty.
