FOLLOW ME UP
2015.09.30
Waiting for the rain
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I’m waiting for the rain
I’m bracing for the thunder
A twig that wouldn’t sway
In the wind
Awaken from a dream
Arising from a slumber
I’m far away from home
On my own
Hear my yearning
See the crimson flame
Like a ruby
It’s the hope
In my eye
If you go away
And I don’t see you anymore
I still wouldn’t sway
But I’d be
Missing you
Now don’t be afraid
You the flower couldn’t sting
You can hide in my shade
Or maybe I…
Could I be safe
In yours?
A moment left to bloom
I wither by the morning
Can we be staying here
For a while
Hear my yearning
See my raging light
It’s my token that we won’t
Say goodbye
If you go away
And I don’t see you anymore
I still wouldn’t sway
But I’d be
Missing you
Now don’t be afraid
You the flower couldn’t sting
You can hide in my shade
Or maybe I…
Would go away
And I don’t see you anymore
I still wouldn’t sway
But I’d be
Missing you
Now don’t be afraid
We are lasting yet awhile
I will give you a day
Or maybe I…
Could I have one
Of yours?
I’m waiting for the rain…
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Spin Big
Translator: Sarah/frecklegirl
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Song info: Digital single.
長く短い祭／神様、仏様 Nagaku Mijikai Matsuri/Kami-sama, Hotoke-sama / The Long, Short Festival/God, Buddha
2015.08.05
Info: The cover art is from the Nebuta Festival.
神様、仏様 Kami-sama, Hotoke-sama / God, Buddha
Translator: Sarah/frecklegirl
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Song info: Used as a TV commercial jingle for au smartphone “isai vivid” manufactured by LG Electronics. Ringo also starred in the commercial.
長く短い祭 Nagaku Mijikai Matsuri / The Long, Short Festival
Translator: Sarah/frecklegirl
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Song info: Used in advertisements for Coca-Cola Japan in summer 2015.
2015.06.17
至上の人生 Shijou no Jinsei / Supreme Life
2015.02.25
どん底まで Donzoko made / To Rock Bottom
Translator: Sarah/frecklegirl
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至上の人生 Shijou no Jinsei / Supreme Life
Translator: Sarah/frecklegirl
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Song info: Used as the theme song for the drama series Marumaru Tsuma [A (Something) Wife]. The song was written as a tribute to the drama’s screenwriter Kazuhiko Yukawa and its production staff.
Notes: The phrase shijou no jinsei was a lyric originally found in the song “Nippon” (which I translated as “Supreme life” although Ringo’s translation is “A Life Supreme”).
2015.01.28
日出処 Hi-izuru-tokoro / Where The Sun Rises 2014.11.05
Ringo created her own translations of the tracklist, which again are not perfect/accurate translations. The list is as follows:
1. Quiet Counterattack
2. Collateral Damage
3. To the sea of trees
4. Cruzar a linha do equador
5. Flight JL005
6. Manipulate the time
7. Présent
8. Les couleurs chantent
9. Une femme ordinaire
10. L’oeillet
11. La Solitude de l’aube
12. NIPPON
13. The Invaluable
孤独のあかつき（信猫版） Kodoku no Akatsuki (Nobu Neko-ban) / In the Event of Loneliness (Nobu/Neko Ver.)
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You, hey close your open eyes
cover up your ears inside
the silent signs
of darkness will arise
and you will start to hear
breathing in your own free air
and hear the pulsing pounding in your heart
And if you’ve caught yourself
Won’t you let it go now
Run and see
the world is way too big to hesitate
Hold it tight
your life is way too short to waste away
Tears will fall
but dreams and love are waiting where they drop
You will find
A wider world is waiting here for you
Hey, don’t turn the other way
cover up your lonely pain
The hurt you feel
Don’t lock it in your heart
And if it hurts your eyes
And if it tries your mind
And if you find you’re losing all control
The wind will blow it through
Won’t you let it go now
Here and gone
And all that we receive will pass away
Come and go
And all we are made of is made this way
Let it out
Something held inside may be breaking through
Scream it out
You can scream it out cause you’re beautiful
Morning sun is in your brown eyes
water glimmering spring grasses, green fields
Flowers bloom and scatter round you
night bird calling clear waking the moonlight
Tears will rise
and fall into the pain of a caring heart
Sadness hurts
so turn yourself and look up to the stars
Close your eyes
tonight the light is blinding in the dark
You will see
us walk into the breaking dawn of day
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Song info: English version of Kodoku no Akatsuki.
“Nobu/Neko version” refers to the fact that Nobuhiko Nakayama was in charge of programming and Neko Saitou was the conductor, violinist, and in charge of the string arrangement.
今 Ima / The Present
Translator: Sarah/frecklegirl
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ＪＬ００５便で JL005-bin de / On Flight JAL 5
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What are you afraid of
You say that you feel so
feel so alive
That’s a good thing, no?
What are you afraid of
They’ve gotten so real
Those things that you feel
But progress is good, no?
What is it you’re doubting
You know I just found you
Here suddenly
That’s a good thing, no?
What is it you’re doubting
You’re asking me if you
can love me more
But onward we move up
Don’t think I don’t know that time had come to rest
All of last night, the world was just us
Block by block the rain had let up,
the city stopped and seemed to die
And so right then it was like we’d done the same
feeling like ghosts, like death had no end
drifting slow we can’t go back now it felt so good
But we were young too young
I’ve got to find somewhere
No pocket of air can
Hide you away
They never did exist
Wherever I fly to
I know that the perfect
Nest is a lie
However we move up
Don’t think I don’t know no weather could upset
All of last night, this world was a nest
None of us were starving but we
Just turned our hearts to you and I
Oh why then there could we not have stopped to think
something gained is another thing lost
stopped our hearts and stopped our lives from all drifting off
’cause we were young too young
It’s why I mutter my mind
I don’t know how to hide you
And you do it all the time
Why won’t time stand still
I know I know it when you feel that your life
Fires too fast the sounds are too bright
colors loud it’s like a sign that it’s dangerous but we were young
I think you should know I’m floating all alone
drifting, wondering when you’ll come back home
but oh we just can’t come apart ’cause when we met
then we were young too young
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Song info: The flight route titled Japan Airlines 5 flies from JFK Airport in New York City to Narita Airport in Tokyo.
