'JEWEL' translation

[Jennie Mae]

Absolutely beautiful, thanks masa!!

[truehappiness]

I think it'd be hard to have a lot of variety after 120+ songs.

Honestly, would any of us as members be able to write that many songs, each with a different theme? :|
I guess that this is an important theme to Ayu, and it probably comes up a lot when she hears the composition of a sweet ballad~

I wouldn't want Ayu going all Kurogewagyuu on us.

[HiruNoKaze]

Originally Posted by truehappiness

I think it'd be hard to have a lot of variety after 120+ songs.

Honestly, would any of us as members be able to write that many songs, each with a different theme? :|
I guess that this is an important theme to Ayu, and it probably comes up a lot when she hears the composition of a sweet ballad~

I wouldn't want Ayu going all Kurogewagyuu on us.

At first I thought that was some kind of crazy warlord Hun-king or some crazy Japanese mythology monster. I figured out kuroge and then I looked up wagyuu and I was like OHHHHHHH I know those kanji...wait, black-haired Japanese cattle?????????? chotto mayotteru yo...

Btw repeated lyrics like this are rare, so I'm going to choose to think that there is profound meaning behind it.

[immel]

Originally Posted by HiruNoKaze

Btw repeated lyrics like this are rare, so I'm going to choose to think that there is profound meaning behind it.

That's the way in which I prefer thinking about it too. She has basically pronounced about that there always is meanings behind what she does. Sure, she might make mistakes and write the same thing once again, but if anyone I think she knows what she's doing when she takes her time to write a new chunk or lyric.

She knows what she's doing, and the profoundness is there.

[Uemarasan]

Originally Posted by truehappiness

I think it'd be hard to have a lot of variety after 120+ songs.

Honestly, would any of us as members be able to write that many songs, each with a different theme? :|
I guess that this is an important theme to Ayu, and it probably comes up a lot when she hears the composition of a sweet ballad~

I wouldn't want Ayu going all Kurogewagyuu on us.

I agree. If poets can revisit the same lines, metaphors, images, and themes throughout their career, then I don't see why lyricisits can't do the same. Sylvia Plath kept writing about her father again and again. Any great artist does this. Filmmakers like Martin Scorsese have done it. How many times has he made films about violence and redemption?

Repetition is important in art. It enables an artist to move towards a fuller understanding of his/her vision. In Ayu's case, it's what love and freedom means to her. When she revisits her themes and ideas, she is not repeating herself. She is reinterpreting herself.

[jkm444]

thanks for da translation!

[alt.total-loser]

I love these lyrics. Best this year. The end reminds me a tad bit of RAINBOW, but so what.

[Chibi_Venus]

Amazing, as always. Thank you, masa!

Because you always show me
That there remains a purity even in a corner of this city

That would have to be my personal favorite.

[Surreal]

Aw so sweet. Ayu has written tonnnnnes of love songs lately.

[truehappiness]

Hasn't Ayu continually said that she writes basically about two subjects?

Love and freedom or something like that..
[it was stated at DOME TOUR 2001]

[BigAyuFan]

aww this is very poetic......but im not good at un..de...code...ing poems.hmm what would it be in very easy to understand english lyric form??can anyone help??Oh and by the way thanks for the translation

[paperbag]

Originally Posted by truehappiness

Hasn't Ayu continually said that she writes basically about two subjects?

Love and freedom or something like that..
[it was stated at DOME TOUR 2001]

Now that I think of it, those are her most popular subjects. But she has also written about lonliness (POWDER SNOW) and about "giving up" (too late). So, she has different subjects as well.

[LacusClyne]

thanks masa

[syntherella]

Thanks for the speedy translation! Ayu's lyrics are as moving as always…

Originally Posted by masa

Because you always show me
That there remains a purity even in a corner of this city

The sweet, unprotected profile
That no one in the world but me knows

One day when the sunlight poured and the wind blew gently
As if it were nothing special

Though I wasn't sad at all, tears fell down
Because your feelings sank painfully into
The scar in the depth of my heart
And changed it into tenderness

These struck chords with me. A kind of understated and childlike simplicity.

[Neo Daydream]

thanks!
i like those lyrics! ^^

[truehappiness]

Loneliness imo is a 'lack of social freedom'~

[paperbag]

^ then what about giving up and quitting? Is that "losing freedom?"

[masa]

You are welcome.

[jeffycue]

masa did it again thanks!

[kiseki89]

Thanks masa...