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I Love Japanese Songs

This is a much-loved song. By Masatoshi Nakamura. He has aged. So have we. The show was shown here in the early eighties. I must have been thirteen or fourteen. Liked it a lot. It was an escape from studies and family troubles. Did not know my favourite actor's name was Nakamura until very recently.

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novembermoon · 51-55

The translated lyrics:

A slope of a dream is a cobblestone leaf pattern
Dazzling white long wall
Do not leave footprints or shadows

Into the unknown mountain
It is what is continuing
The evening sun of a dream is a cobalt color sky and sea
Fellowship is just the end
Just remembering that it shone
Just a small first star
It is pursued and disappears
In a boat floating in a dream on the back
It seems that you are waving your hands still
In a boat floating in a dream on the back
It seems that you are waving your hands still

A tale of dreams is wheat colored way home
A way back in the field
In the flower of the water melon
Countless numbers of years
It is a snapshot
In a boat floating in a dream on the back
It seems that you are waving your hands still
In a boat floating in a dream on the back
It seems that you are waving your hands still

Cierzo · M

Not my kind of music, but that's not relevant. I understand so much your need to go back in time. When current times look empty and dreary we need to take a vessel to escape them

novembermoon · 51-55

It is another day at work. People come in and expect me to solve their problem. A disagreement between two colleagues, marking and grading of papers, returning of exam scripts, emails to be answered, resources to be sent out, kids not well and having to be sent home, kids getting cranky in class and not doing their work...

Sometimes I come back home and I am too exhausted to feel anything. I look at the food and it turns my stomach. I have no appetite. I feel no capacity for pleasure. I turn on the TV and nothing interests me. The news is either about 'looking forward to the future economy' or some dark assassination conspiracy surrounding some North Korean man.

I feel dead inside most days. I try to think of happy things. I can't seem to locate many happy things these days, so I grasp at the past. It makes me sad too to see that Nakamura has aged so much.

In a boat floating in a dream,
It seems you are waving your hands still.

My tears are falling. WTF. Maybe it's good I can still feel something.

Cierzo · M

@novembermoon: Some days are like that. We are demanded and required all the time. Nothing happening outside our small world has any connection with us or gives us anything in any way. Sometimes the past looks drab and dull.The only thing we can feel is a loud but mute cry inside to everything and everyone 'LEAVE ME ALONE'.

JustNik · 51-55, F

🤗🙂 he has a nice voice. I sure appreciate your translations! 😄

novembermoon · 51-55

I do not know Japanese and needed the translation too. 😜

JustNik · 51-55, F

@novembermoon: hahaha!! Never even occurred to me! 😄🤗

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