Sunday, January 25, 2009

Pete, I have a request...

Can you learn one of my favorite songs? It's Kaze wo Atsumete, sung in Japanese on the Lost in Translation Soundtrack. Here 's a rough English Translation:

(1)
As I was walking down a towering alley
In the outskirts of the city
I saw beyond the blotched fog
A streetcar still sluggish from sleep
Crossing over the sea
(Chorus)
So, I gathered the wind (under my wings),
Gathered the wind (under my wings)
And ran across the blue sky
(2)
As I passed through a beautiful sunrise
I saw beyond the empty-looking breakwater
A city with its day-colored sails up
Moored in the port
(Repeat)
(3)
When I was killing time one morning
At an empty coffee shop
I saw through the cracked glass
The rustling of the high-rises' silken clothes
Brushing on the sidewalk
(Repeat)


Pretty, no?

Here are the lyrics in Japanese:
machi no hazure no
senobi shita roji wo sanpo shitetara
shimi darake no moya goshi ni
okinuke no romen densha ga
umi wo wataru no ga mieta n desu

sorede boku mo
kaze wo atsumete kaze wo atsumete kaze wo atsumete
aozora wo kaketain desu
aozora wo

totemo suteki na
asaake doki wo toorinuketetara
garan to shita bouhatei goshi ni
hi'iro no ho wo kakageta toshi ga
teihaku shiteru no ga mieta n desu

sorede boku mo
kaze wo atsumete kaze wo atsumete kaze wo atsumete
aozora wo kaketain desu
aozora wo

hitoge no nai
asa no KO-HI-ya de hima wo tsubushitetara
hibi wareta GARASU goshi ni
matenrou no kinuzure ga
hodou wo hitasu no wo mita n desu

sorede boku mo
kaze wo atsumete kaze wo atsumete kaze wo atsumete
aozora wo kaketain desu
aozora wo


Anyway, the dude in the video pretty much shows you how to play it, which is cool. I don't have any idea how challenging this would be.

If you can, great! If not, it's a good song to listen to. P.S. I can't stop this post from underlining.


1 comment:

Anonymous said...

that's a really nice tune. I'll give it a try. Thanks for the suggestion. Isn't youtube great?
-pete