Our Commonplace Day-to-Day

Title: Just Another Day
原題: ありふれた日々
Artist: Tadashi Hirosawa
Lyrics: Tadashi Hirosawa
Composition: Tadashi Hirosawa
From the album Midnight Stroll

Why do we hurt the ones we love?
Why do we let them go?
And why do we go out of our way
To destroy what we have?

And yet all we want to see is
That idyllic scenery
Snuggle up with the ones we love
In our warm, commonplace day-to-day

We roll on down this cobblestone road
Meeting each other again in a strange town
And once we've found common ground for a while
We set out on the journey anew

We tell lies
We never set out to tell
Play games
We never set out to play
Unable to say that this isn't
What we had in mind at all...

And yet
All we want is the little things
We go rolling on and on
In our sweet and commonplace day-to-day

We fall in love
We quarrel
And we go back to square one
To do it all over again
And yet even though we get hurt
Over and over
We end up trusting again

And so it is
We rush through our lives
Speeding past the gently rolling clouds

And yet all we want to see is
That idyllic scenery
Snuggle up with the ones we love
In our warm, commonplace day-to-day

Notes: The music video was created using photos and videos sent in from Mr. Hirosawa's fans. It's a collaborative effort that just went online today, 21 Sep (PDT). You can watch it on his YouTube channel or by clicking the link above.

Curtain Call // ayumi hamasaki

Curtain call
Lyrics: ayumi hamasaki
Composition: 

I can hear your voice
Calling to me

Your face reflected in these eyes
Smiling at me

Do you hear my voice?
It's calling your name

Is my face reflected in your eyes?
I'm smiling at you

Even now, I cannot seem to say
The very word
I want to express more than any

But this song is definitely...

A love song from the bottom of my heart
I give to you, my beloved

I can hear your voice
Calling to me

Your face reflected in these eyes
Smiling at me

Do you hear my voice?
It's calling your name

Is my face reflected in your eyes?
I'm smiling at you

A love song from the bottom of my heart
I give to you, my beloved

RAINBOW // ayumi hamasaki

Title: RAINBOW
Artist: Hamasaki Ayumi
Lyrics: ayumi hamasaki
Music: CREA (Hamasaki Ayumi) + D.A.I.

lalala…
Gently echoing with such a familiar sound
The warmth that was always right by my side

Forgiven through forgiving
Accepting even the distant,
Yes, the long-ago past
Seeking to heal,
It was I who was healed

By the time I realized,
That's the way it happened
When I tried to distance myself from love,
Love saved my life

You flutter downward from above
You always convey to me
The happiness that is right by my side

Caring for you, I feel you supporting me
I lean in closer and closer
Protecting you, I am protected
And then, I am certain of this:
When I tried to push love away,
Love saved my life

If the hurt seems insurmountable,
Why don't we shoulder it together down this road?
Bringing together so much joy one person cannot contain it alone
Let's share it together and walk on, hand in hand

I'll sing just for you
I'll sing just for you
My treasure
You are my treasure
lalala…

::no rain, can't get the rainbow::

Tell me why

Tell me why
Artist: Hamasaki Ayumi
Lyrics: ayumi hamasaki
Composition: Hanif Sabzevari, Lene Dissing, Marcus Winther-John, Dimitri Stassos
Translation: Donny

~

What's on your mind right now?
Truth is, I wanted for you to lay your eyes only on
All that is sweet, all that warms your heart

Why do you insist on forcing yourself
To put on a happy face for my sake
When your eyes are so sad?
Why do you insist on putting up a front
With all you've got,
Telling me that you're OK?

I want to hear you say it with your voice
It doesn't come across when it's on a screen
The trivial things, the silly things
Even just things like that, they mean something

Why do you always insist on
Shouldering it all by yourself and suffering alone?
Why do you insist on blaming yourself for the way Things have turned out
Saying it's all your fault?

Am I that powerless?
I can't be what you need in the slightest? wow oh
I wanna share your burdens, you know
Your pain, your doubts, and your past

Why do you insist on forcing it...
Why do you insist on putting up a front
With all you've got,
Telling me that you're OK?

(English)
oh oh Tell me why
oh oh Tell me why
oh oh Tell me why
oh oh Tell me why

oh oh Tell me why
oh oh Tell me why
oh oh Tell me why
oh oh Tell me why

Why do you insist on keeping up that story?

Moonlight Conductor // HIROSAWA Tadashi

Mr. Hirosawa is scheduled to release a new album on 9 July 2016 and celebrates his 15th anniversary as a major label artist on 11 July 2016. Congratulations to him on both these milestones!

Title: Moonlight Conductor
Romaji: Tsuki no Shikisha (月の指揮者)
Artist: HIROSAWA Tadashi
Lyrics & Melody: Tadashi Hirosawa

We get into our share of fights
And make up just as quickly
Always acting out as the mood strikes
But, baby, don't throw the towel in on us

Torn asunder, the pieces of us
Reverberate and echo to one another
The one keeping time with the baton
Is the moonlight conductor
The moonlight conductor

If you disappear into the night,
Totally covered in darkness
I'll raise my eyes to the night sky

Torn asunder, the pieces of us
Reverberate and echo to one another
The one keeping time with the baton
Is the moonlight conductor
The moonlight conductor

The moonlight conductor

dragonfly // dreams come true

Title: dragonfly
Artist: Dreams Come True
Lyrics: YOSHIDA Miwa
Melody: YOSHIDA Miwa

I'll see you again
On my way back home, the dragonfly
Sailed across the lane
Soaring oh so high I thought
The colors of the sky would change

We all have so much of everything
But still we lack
The wings to fly

Oh, if I could take your wings into my heart
How far away might I go?
If I could sound your wings in my heart
What kind of sound would they make?

How far away could I go?

眼鏡越しの空 // Sky beyond My Glasses

I first heard this song on the Dreams Come True greatest hits album THE SOUL.

Artist: Dreams Come True

Title: Sky beyond My Glasses

Romaji: Megane-goshi no Sora

原題: 眼鏡越しの空

Lyrics: YOSHIDA Miwa

Melody: YOSHIDA Miwa

Album: The Swinging Star

I used to hate my glasses, but I haven't been able to take them off these past few days

They're just right for "hiding feelings" and "seeing right"

For some reason, I was in tears (1) the morning after I dreamed of you

I was in tears when I thought of how frumpy I am

Every time I call to mind your hair cut short and elegant posture

I'm longing to be like you

On the card in the album of photos of the sky I borrowed from the library

Was your name printed in your sharp, clean handwriting

What I hate isn't my glasses but the way I am

Even though I'm screaming from within the glass, no one notices

I'm sorry I always use them as a barrier

I'll change to lenses that show me off the way I am (2)

Every time I call to mind your hair cut short and elegant posture

I'm longing to be like you

On the back cover of the photobook you left on my desk is a crescent moon

The only thing that knows that side of me

I'm longing to be like you

The notion gives me strength

I'm longing to be like you

The notion gives me strength

in the midst of the pouring rain

rainy day // ayumi hamasaki
lyrics: ayumi hamasaki // music: GEO of SWEETBOX // translation: Donny

When it comes to the things we don't want to forget
We needn't even try to remember them
There's no way they will be forgotten
Yes, calm and quiet conviction in this

It was a cold day and in the midst of the pouring rain
I just kept waiting for you

Even if this were my final moment
Even if that were so
I feel so fearless
That I wouldn't be concerned in the least

People smiling happily at one another
Passed me by over and over but

I just stood there without even an umbrella, alone
My smile more at peace than any other

I lifted my freezing hand
When you appeared there, I looked to you
I was on the verge of crying
But it wasn't because of sorrow

A momentary flash of light illuminated we two
As though to celebrate the path we would walk together