IMAGINATION OF "FUYU TOKYO"
from: Vicious, January 2000
talks: Mami Akagi
translation: inertia
with many thanks to Shizu's friend allows for the "loving", "be loved", and "memory" rows.
status: INCOMPLETE. I'm still stuck on "memory"...
Please e-mail me if you think you can help.
On December 15, Lareine releases their new single "Fuyu Tokyo".
Sentimental thoughts, dramatic melody,
people running by each other making an image for receiving...
From inside the song's vivid vocabulary, the members tell us their association of ideas with the words.
| KAMIJO | MAYU | EMIRU | MACHI | |
| TOKYO | DRAMATIC | an area that's admired (longed for) | favorite place | a city in which many people and dreams wait to come together. |
| WINTER | a cold, large city | mukashi BAITO de keibi-in o yatte ita kankei ue, mechakucha TSURAI to iu IMAGE ga aru. [1] | night's manifested road to a shrine | the house is beloved/dear |
| LOST LOVE | love isn't a thing that's lost | recovery is terrible | that scene when one was dumped during student days | "Kimi naki sekai" by YUUMIN |
| IMITATED SMILE | MASQUERADE | it's sad to be among fake smiles | Recently I've seen MAYU smiling a lot. He'll regret it if he's deceiving us! | sociability, human relations |
| HEART | the core of life | the source of emotions | the heart is a lock | want to make it beautiful |
| SENTIMENTAL | LOVE * ROMANCE | something used in passion | MAYU (laugh) | "Kimi naki sekai" by YUUMIN |
| CRYING | me, when I was playing with Lego blocks | Don't "crying bugs" have 6 insect legs? | me | tears of regret or emotional/excited tears |
| WINTER FLOWER | seeing an illuminated Christmas tree through clouded glass | preferred to summer flowers | a couple walking snuggled together in winter | Sasanqua (a winter flower) |
| COMFORT | guchi ni wa dasazu, koudou shite ikinau [7] | futile | MAYU comforting the (band) members + people around after a show | it's not good to presume upon it too much |
| BREATH | I have no words for it | I'm often breathing sighs | If MAYU's usually sighing, he's breathing, but... | I breathe before sleeping |
| SNOW | when snow accumulates on the shoulder, it's like a pearl necklace | it's delightful when it snows | a model of one's whole body by the road in Hokkaido (Sapporo) | ROMANTIC |
| MEMORY | music packages one's mind as a memory | as for memories, they're good because they're memories | I don't have good memories. | Suddenly I remind it [9] |
| LOVING | desiring your partner's happiness | I want to be loving someone | equals being hated | sometimes i cannot understand something |
| BE LOVED | when i know what my partner has in his (or her) mind | I want to be loving someone [10] | a thing I haven't experienced | sometimes i cannot understand something [10] |
| TRAGIC LOVE | I raise love | everyday/always | MAYU's student-days memories. He really takes it. (laugh) | There's a lot of it, isn't there? |
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[1] I think this is something about being a top guard long ago and it being absurd and trying. But I'm not sure if Mayu's referring to a previous job he had, or if he might be describing some fictional guard in the past... according to my dictionary, "mukashi" means antiquity... [7] gomen... I have NO idea what these verb endings are... [9] futoshita toki ni omoidasu [10] yes, both Mayu and Machi gave the same answers for those rows. |