One of the pieces we will do in TOKYO FLOWER CHILDREN at Tokyo’s Pink Cow Sunday, June 8, is “Jounetsu wo Torimodosou.”
Teruyuki Kawabata, leader of Tokyo indies band CigaretteSheWas, wrote the lyrics and music for the tune, which is on the soundtrack for a just released movie “Chiisana Koi no Monogatari (A Little Love Story),” from Kurosawa Studios.
I translated the lyrics. It’s harder than you may think because “jounetsu” literally translates as “passion.”
This is what I ended up doing:
Remembering Soul
we leave without saying a word
people will understand
yesterday’s sunset burns in our memory
but tonight we remember soul
forever tucked in that pocket of our soul
we will forget the days of tears and fears
we asked for too much and
made those close to us sad
remember, remember,
in this pocket of our soul
we don’t need to cry
dalalalilah, dalalalilah, dalalalilah
just look at the sun and the sky
we don’t need to fit in
remember, remember
in this pocket of our soul
we don’t need to cry
we don’t need to cry
we don’t need to cry
dalalalilah, dalalalilah, dalalilah