Sarishinohara

This is the first song, from the boy's perspective. This is actually based off a real story, where a girl from AKB48 named Rino Sashihara was exiled for a relationship with a boy (they have a no relationship policy). She is now a member/manager of HKT48.

cover by Rib. I just love his voice!

original by Miku Hatsune

Clear & Rib version

Jazz Version

acoustic version- Yamai

romaji

Sonnet 130

SONNET 130

My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red than her lips' red;
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
I have seen roses damask'd, red and white,
But no such roses see I in her cheeks;
And in some perfumes is there more delight
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound;
I grant I never saw a goddess go;
My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground:
   And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
   As any she belied with false compare.

-Shakespeare

Paperman

better version here.

A Line-Storm Song

A Line-Storm Song

The line-storm clouds fly tattered and swift,
The road is forlorn all day,
Where a myriad snowy quartz stones lift,
And the hoof-prints vanish away.
The roadside flowers, too wet for the bee,
Expend their bloom in vain.
Come over the hills and far with me,
And be my love in the rain.

The birds have less to say for themselves
In the wood-world’s torn despair
Than now these numberless years the elves,
Although they are no less there:
All song of the woods is crushed like some
Wild, easily shattered rose.
Come, be my love in the wet woods; come,
Where the boughs rain when it blows.

There is the gale to urge behind
And bruit our singing down,
And the shallow waters aflutter with wind
From which to gather your gown.
What matter if we go clear to the west,
And come not through dry-shod?
For wilding brooch shall wet your breast
The rain-fresh goldenrod.

Oh, never this whelming east wind swells
But it seems like the sea’s return
To the ancient lands where it left the shells
Before the age of the fern;
And it seems like the time when after doubt
Our love came back amain.
Oh, come forth into the storm and rout
And be my love in the rain.

-Robert Frost

Prisoner of Love

Utada Hikaru! Prisoner of Love! I don't think I ever heard this song of hers until yesterday.

lyrics

From Y to Y

I've always loved this song, even before I found Clear's cover of it. The way I interpret the title, is that 'Y' stands for 'yes'(relationship), and that since the person singing does not want the relationship to go from 'y to z' (to end), she/he keeps believing in 'y to y'. I think I might've born that interpretation from a comment somewhere, but I don't really remember. I still listen to this song.

 

Original song

romaji and translation

FREELY TOMORROW

Yes, and the fourth post today! My ultimate favorite by Mitchie M.! I'm just tripping over my own toes with this one. Once I actually LIstenEd to the lyrics, I realized they were infinitely more interesting than I first put them out to be. This is how I want to live, maybe. FREELY TOMORROW

Ai Dee

"Hey lonely Boy! Hey lonely Girl!"

Mitchie M. again, kee hee!
'Ai' means 'love' in japanese,
and 'Ai dee', like ID= Identity.

All the wrong way

I know,
it's because
all you wanted from this world was love,
right?
But don't you realize
that you're going about it,
all the wrong way?

You can never,
demand love or respect.
Because they are free.

Can't you learn to love yourself,
just a little?

Just a Game

All is fair in Love and War. Love is just a game, as is War. There are rules you can cheat just for the sake of winning. There are always consequences at the end of it, whether happiness or sadness. But we still play even if we lose, because it's enjoyable? Well, it is just a game.

Lyrics and Translation Here

'Taste' in Romance

I think everyone needs a good romance story sometimes. But there really are 'tastes' in romance that differ completely from everyone else. For example, I can't stand the idolized 'Twilight' or other shows shown as popular, but I'm all over the small taste in 'Shangri-La'. I guess I really can't just go for all-out cheesy romance. I like a little more subtle, with most of the story being action and adventure. I also like it when the two people are rivals at first, and beat each other up in many different ways. It makes me laugh at how well they actually get along. When they're together, they also have to have some kind of 'impact'. A difference from when they're alone or with other people. Whether this is an all-out scream fight, or an awkward silence, it should be there. There's other things I could say, but I think you get the picture. That's only my taste, though.

Ai Think So

Ai Think So. A song I like recently. 'Ai' means 'love' in Japanese; a sort of play on words. I enjoy reading the lyrics. Bunny princess, yay!

Song of a Broken Youkai

Fate turns on mercilessly, doesn't it? I didn't like this song at first, but after a few tries, I now have fallen in love with it. Will I be broken too?

The song of a broken youkai who loved a human

OVER

This is the song that relates me to my ('fifth') first love, though I don't know if I could even call it that. (Ah, well). Miku Hatsune- Over. Incredibly ironic that it's called 'over', isn't it? If I recall, I also wrote a crappy poem to it that I've never posted....ha ha ha.