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Originally Posted by Polyrhythm
Hikari is superior. Simple and Clean's funky lyrics make me wonder how Hikki got into Columbia University....
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Gonna agree here. The only lyrics I like in Simple and Clean are at the end, when she says, "regardless of warnings, the future doesn't scare me at all." The rest is just trite. I never understood her choice of the phrase "simple and clean" anyway. It's not anything that I can relate to, and I don't understand how a person can make someone else feel "clean" without actually cleaning them, lol. And at the end of the chorus, when she says, "it's hard to let it go", what is "it"? I feel like a lot of the lyrics just don't have good ryhthm in English. I also VERY MUCH prefer the chorus of Hikari. It's a lot more powerful...the music in Simple and Clean is more subdued.
Hikari's lyrics are superior in almost every way. I always liked them because they have a very domestic, down-to-earth feel. I like how she describes this person as her "light", and yet this person is flawed. The end lyrics, where she wants to talk about the future, and "turn off the tv and look only at me" express something very common and therefore powerful. How many times do you have these small arguments with or requests for your loved ones? It's something I understand. Simple and Clean is just the tired concept of a flighty lover.
As for Passion and Sanctuary, I emphatically prefer Passion. I actually dislike Sanctuary very much. First of all, her "aaaahhh aah ah" in the background during the chorus is removed in Sanctuary. This sucks. Secondly, her rhythm and rhyme is again off. The "melt awaa-hay-hay-haaaaaayy" and "laaa-aaaa-aand" parts in the chorus just sound bad. It's like she shoehorned those words in without thinking about the richness of the sounds. Worst of all, the entire closing set of lyrics is removed! Why?? I adore those lyrics in Passion. Again, they speak of something very down-to-earth and real; she says she hears that the person she liked long ago is having a child, and she gets nostalgic about their time together. It's brilliant and emotive. I don't what all this prattling about "new lands" and "angels in time" or whatever is about in Sanctuary. Ugh, just a mere shadow of the original.
And why doesn't she write more than one set of lyrics for the choruses in her English adaptations? In both these songs, she sings the same lines every time in English. In Japanese, she switches it up.