actually, well there are some of his lyrics that i don't quite catch on cause they're frigging weird ok, think about the lights of the tokyo tower, i imagine that with some of his lyrics... on the other hand, he has some really beautiful lines. He utilizes nature alot in his lyrics. I wonder if this is a japanese thing or what, but his lyrics reminds me of like old japanese poetry (like those in Tale of Genji or those Heian period stuff) where he uses the imagery of snow, cherry blossoms, flowers... very beautiful, trafic, depressive, yet serene.
But as much as i love the English translation to the songs, i regret i cannot understand japanese because i think i'd love his lyrics even more. Because what i love about AKG even now is that:
1) he writes the type of lyrics i love.... reiterations. He repeats the same lines, the same phrases over and over again in different parts of the song but each time, or at some climatic point in the song, he changes a word or two... and this also brings me to point
2) when he changes the phrases, it sound very beautiful or well, very flowing and rhyming in Japanese, because basically, one or two syllable of the word changes sound which completely changes the meaning of the word altogether. makes it VERY beautiful... simply brilliant! (this is like Ash, what i love about Ash was that Tim did the same thing too, and this dude does it like WAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY alot!! but damnnnnnnnnnn man, BRILLIANTLY)
3) i like his imageries alot.... like alot of the stuff that i pulled out and pasted here, i pasted them cause he talked about about stuff like memories and dreams, which has always been themes that i love.... like how i loved Ash 1977 because of Tim's references to stars all the time..... so yeah....
One thing though, about it is that.......... hehehehehehe........... i guess it's BETTER that i didn't understand the songs right now because i love them for the music.... and u know, this dude is brilliant cause NOT ONLY did he WRITE the lyrics, he wrote the MUSIC also!!! DAMNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!! what the hell....... But yeah.... I love AKG's music without listening to the songs..... But for some of the songs like Kimi to iu Hana (a flower called "you"), the song sounds so happy but the lyrics is damn tragic... Same with Kimi no Machi Made, it sounds like such a fun song but it's damn tragic! Or well... at least the translation is damn tragic...... anyways..... here are sample of his lyrics okay....
Knowing the answer, we seem to repeat ourselves
My heart beings to thaw, split finely
My reason for sadness is not filling in the crack
I'll scorch your heart with my impure hands
We seem to repeat the same mistaken answer
Feeling ill, my heart is gone
My depressed mentality is not filling in the crack
I'll break your dreams with my impure hands
(dat's the change i was talking about that i love)
The evening rain, the sound of the cicada, the illusions that are worth nothing
I'm just left behind, drifting
Drawing myself up haphazardly, I might as well pretend to be strong
A summer day, don't disappear afterimage, don't disappear
You lower your judgment, abandoning your impulses
An emotional argument, packed full of desires
In your one step forward, you lower your judgment
It's alright if you don't worry about your pace
Because you're going to tear things up
Ah, it's all boiled down to passions
Going round and round
But certainly when that's over
What will you use to satisfy yourself
Once, in the shadows of hope?
In our transparent desires
My heart that is dying out, looped
Moving forward somehow, unconcerned
A hesitant story
For how long will we lose things?
You know the real me, that I was hiding
Moving forward somehow, meaninglessly
A hesitant story
In short, everything was smashed up
In short, it was dancing in the wind
A drop shining in your eyes
Ah, thunder in the blue sky
If there is only pain, then it's divided between us, that's right
The color of the two of us
Until our white breath runs out
That road that we flew over
From atop a hill, I can see a flower called "you"
That has bloomed in the city, and will bloom again
Ahead in the twilight, is the moon lighted silver
We are projected as though in a mirror, carrying our helplessness and all
This song exists for me to fly to your town
You who are trembling and helpless
Will you one day become the wings of tomorrow that will save us?
(DAMN AWESOME!!!)
The shadows point at 2 o'clock
The wind blows through the gaps between the shining red trees
If only I could fly to your town
With only pain and sadness
You who are next to me, and un-serene
Will you one day become the wings of tomorrow that will save us?
I can't fly to beyond way over there, which is shining
But the time in which I'm flapping my wings won't disappear
(AWESOME AWESOME!!!)
The seasons pass, changing colors, feelings always do the same
You always run away as fast as you can
You who are trembling and helpless
Will you one day become the wings of tomorrow that will save us?
Even if I can't fly to a place that's like a dream
The time in which I'm flapping my wings won't disappear
(again, see how he changes the words........ awesomeeeeeeeee....)
The city is clearly colored in the approaching
Footsteps of winter, it dances
With trivial misunderstandings and a misunderstood heart
With my song I just want to hold back my feelings that are coming apart
(love that!)
Snatching away the passing time and breaking it
Even still, I'm tying together my memories
I mourn after cutting my sprouted feelings
I cry after realizing that I'm just mediocre
My rotted heart
A filthy lie
It's painful, the pain has already broken the illusion of our hopes and dreams
On the line between reality and ideals
(sounds like what i feel about all my trying to promote AKG in US!!!)
The light ahead in your muddy eyes does not disappear, on the street corner
It was in your heart, don't get rid of it
I wish for the unseen tomorrow ahead in you, unsounding
Surely, some day...
Your heart is ajar, I understand that
Don't reject how you were on that twisted day
Your heart has no light, but even so I'll wait for tomorrow
Don't let go of my hand
I wish for the unsounding space running through time
Surely, some day...
(DAMN, this whole song, i WISH someone would sing that to me!!! shite! so sweet!!)
You cried uneasily, I understand that
Even if the stick thorn won't come out
Those days you cried, shutting yourself away, I understand that
Don't reject how you were on that twisted day
What is left over of my melted heart
Won't recover as it is, my closed wounds are painful
On the cities street corners that I'm running through
Your siren echoes
Unveil it
Wail out, proof of life
Siren
The world belonging to you who has grown used to lies
I'll paint it white...
(one word... ok two: fking BRILLIANT!)
so anyways......... here's the dude..... he looks geekish and stuff =\ NOT exactly Haido neee hehehehehehehe..... but fcking brilliant!! shite... fcking brilliant! Like Tim Wheeler.... dang!!!!!!!!
namae wa Gotoh desu.... i think! yeah shud be... if memory serves me right
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