Music Lyric Monday
Sadly enough, I have made it nearly three full years here without ever hearing this song until tonight when a new friend sent it my way. The writer of the song (the lead singer Kieth Kane) clearly has lived in Japan - he put to expression things that I can't quite verbalize about being here. However, I want to be clear that I do indeed love living in Japan. I sometimes hate it, but mostly love it. But it will make you lonely & bare in a way you'll never know.
Since I already have my "American beauty" here with me, for fun I'd like to pretend that it's a solid church where we'll love & serve for a long time in the states...makes it fit more personally! Without further ado:
JAPAN: by Vertical Horizon
I saw a young man by a telephone
He was sitting alone in the rain
I said, "Hey, young man what you doing here?"
He said, "Sir, I'm going insane"
See I love an American beauty
But nobody here understands
So he looked to the sky with resentment in his eyes
And said, "Lord, why am I in Japan?"
Lord why am I in Japan?
He told me a story about yesterday
How he walked in the search of a friend
But nobody came to his rescue
So he came to his bitter end
He pulled me close and said
"They all stopped and stared
As I walked down the street alone
And nobody knew my name
Nobody knew my name"
I said, "Young man I know where you're going
And young man I know where you've been
But I've been in this land for a lifetime, it seems,
And I'm never to come back again
No, I'm never to come back again
So I turned and I gave him my blessing
And I left him alone in the rain
But I had to just stop and laugh at myself
Still nobody knows my name
Nobody knows my name
お名前はケインです。(my name is Kane)
日本語できます。(I can speak Japanese - lit. I can do Japanese)
慶應義塾大学のケインです, 伴します。(I am attending Keio University, nice to meet you - lit. Keio University's Kane, pleased to meet you)
どーも、どーも、どーも。(thank you, thank you, thank you)
ままなく一午前に電車が見えます。(I'm now looking out a from a train at 1am - [he goes really fast here, I may be way off...in fact, you can't trust my entire translation!])
日本に買いませんでした。(I never bought into Japan - lit. I did not buy Japan)
アメリカ, アメリカが大好きです。(America, I love America - lit. America, America I like a lot - Japanese rarely say love "愛する" [pronounced aisuru - to love or "愛" - ai - love], not even to each other & so they find it extremely odd how we say "I love pizza" or "I love America," so the gist of "大好き" [pronounced daisuki] is like how we use "love" even though it actually means "like a lot."
VIDEO w/ SONG:
Since I already have my "American beauty" here with me, for fun I'd like to pretend that it's a solid church where we'll love & serve for a long time in the states...makes it fit more personally! Without further ado:
JAPAN: by Vertical Horizon
I saw a young man by a telephone
He was sitting alone in the rain
I said, "Hey, young man what you doing here?"
He said, "Sir, I'm going insane"
See I love an American beauty
But nobody here understands
So he looked to the sky with resentment in his eyes
And said, "Lord, why am I in Japan?"
Lord why am I in Japan?
He told me a story about yesterday
How he walked in the search of a friend
But nobody came to his rescue
So he came to his bitter end
He pulled me close and said
"They all stopped and stared
As I walked down the street alone
And nobody knew my name
Nobody knew my name"
I said, "Young man I know where you're going
And young man I know where you've been
But I've been in this land for a lifetime, it seems,
And I'm never to come back again
No, I'm never to come back again
So I turned and I gave him my blessing
And I left him alone in the rain
But I had to just stop and laugh at myself
Still nobody knows my name
Nobody knows my name
お名前はケインです。(my name is Kane)
日本語できます。(I can speak Japanese - lit. I can do Japanese)
慶應義塾大学のケインです, 伴します。(I am attending Keio University, nice to meet you - lit. Keio University's Kane, pleased to meet you)
どーも、どーも、どーも。(thank you, thank you, thank you)
ままなく一午前に電車が見えます。(I'm now looking out a from a train at 1am - [he goes really fast here, I may be way off...in fact, you can't trust my entire translation!])
日本に買いませんでした。(I never bought into Japan - lit. I did not buy Japan)
アメリカ, アメリカが大好きです。(America, I love America - lit. America, America I like a lot - Japanese rarely say love "愛する" [pronounced aisuru - to love or "愛" - ai - love], not even to each other & so they find it extremely odd how we say "I love pizza" or "I love America," so the gist of "大好き" [pronounced daisuki] is like how we use "love" even though it actually means "like a lot."
VIDEO w/ SONG:
