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Chibi-Chan · #**132** 5th July 2016, 02:58 PM

I translated Heide and it was damn hard for me, because I spend a lot of time interpreting rather than translating to figure out what Tatsuro actually meant. Be aware that I’m no Tenshi no Hane, but I did my best. Furthermore, I asked a friend who is half German and half Japanese, and therefore grew up bilingual, if she could check my German translation. She was pretty satisfied and if she wasn’t just trying to not hurt my feelings, it should be alright.

But she also wasn’t exactly sure what’s the point he wanted to get across sometimes. Since I’m no native English speaker I guess my German translation is more accurate than my English one, but I hope you enjoy it anyway.
And because I spend so much time on interpreting, I will add that one too. Maybe we can discuss it? =)
Furthermore, I also translated Kanashimi to DANCE wo, I found it easier to translate and I find it interesting that in both songs a flower plays such an important part.

Heide

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Heide interpretation

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While reading the translation and interpretation, keep in mind that heather means solitude in flower language! Furthermore, keep in mind that my translation maybe isn’t accurate because I was interpreting it differently from what Tatsuro had in mind, especially when it comes to if the lyrical self is talking about another person or about/to themselves.
I listened to the song now a hundred times while translating and after some time a specific scenery was coming to my mind whenever I listened to that song. I always imagine someone standing by night in a raw countryside surrounded by heathers. The person now is asking themselves what kind of day tomorrow will be. Will it be a happy day or a sad day? The person is looking back at their life, realising that they always had dreams but that they were always limiting themselves in some way or another and therefore were kind of sad and unsatisfied with their life.
I think the person is actually talking to themselves, so that there is a distance between the person and their “true self”, as if the person really would be talking to somebody else. But somehow in this moment the person gains some courage, they realise that of course there will be happiness as well as sadness tomorrow, that it’s inevitable that there will be both. And so the shooting star transforms the sadness into something beautiful, because without sadness there won’t be happiness.
Suddenly a mild wind rises and while the person is standing there, surrounded by heathers (that’s when they sing “Heide”) everything becomes clear, they reapproach with themselves and understand why they were hesitating to really live their life. They were trying to protect themselves from the world but this also made the person unhappy. But in order to understand all this they needed to be at this (metaphorical) place all alone and just for themselves to be able to reflect their life.
Now that the person was able to understand all of this, they kind of become the (also metaphorical) paper plane they remembered at the beginning and start to fly on their own and break free from the cage. The person flies high up to the sky to the shooting stars and hands over a bouquet of flowers (made of the sadness that was turned into something beautiful) to the next person who’s struggling.

Kanashimi to DANCE wo

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