Alright so screw editing the other post I'm just making a new one...
My thoughts on Yameteyo Shite Sawaranaide:
I love how Miyavi has several songs from the view point of a female... I'm completely amazed by this XD Not to say it doesn't happen, look at Tsunku (head guy of Hello! Project)! He writes most of the music and lyrics for Hello! Project and because it's a group of only girls he has to write things from a girl's perspective. Still, I think of Tsunku as some weird alien not a normal human being (haha, horrible I know but if you know H!P you'd understand XD).
"
Hey, I'm stupid so I don't know any better.
So it's alright now, you don't have to bother with me."
Granted I know nothing of the Japanese culture when it comes to society's view on intelligence. However, the first thing that pops into my mind is "I know I'm stupid, I get it... So why do you bother with me?" A person interally struggling. To me, that idea changes the song from sounding frustrated to being devasted.
I'm skipping around a little here...
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Stop it, cut it out, don't touch me, you're making me dirty.
I hate you.
Bibbidy Bobbity Boo.
He, that man, violated me, raped me.
'I can't get married anymore'"
That verse alone brings up SO MANY QUESTIONS. Is it a sequence? Someone making this girl feel dirty, hate, "bibbidy bobbity boo" events happen, now she's violated. Who is this man? Did they know eachother?
Thinking about the "stupid" comment... She could have been luring the guy on. Maybe she was a prostitute and now this is the result of it. It could've been a stepfather. That makes me think of "Lolita" and how the little girl was seducing her stepfather. I don't know... that one part makes me sit here and go "Hmmm... o.o" and stare for hours XD Kind of like I'm doing now SO MOVING ON.
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Around May when I said good-bye, the sky was shedding tears.
I, on the other hand, not a single drop.
...
Around June when I said good-bye, I was shedding tears.
The sky, on the other hand, was a nice weather despite it's season"
Two things to mention. One... I love that. So much. Just from going to the sky crying to her crying... beautiful. The month difference confuses me, how it went from May to June. Another reason I think of this song being sequential. She left in May... maybe to go find herself... she was raped... then in June she's saying goodbye again... I do question that second goodbye, is it possibly a suicide? The translater's note on "satsukibare" annoys me too. "Clear weather during May" but the lyrics clearly stated "June"... I assume she said May because "satsuki" translates to the "fifth month in the
lunar calendar" but looking it up it says "early-summer fine weather (during rainy season)" I highly doubt that sits strictly to May.. e.e
Okay I'll stop ranting...
I love picking apart Miyavi's lyrics because there's so much to them... but they can be so frustrating because they make you go in circles!!
Well that was fun (not) and I'd love to hear other's views on this or any Miyavi lyric for that matter. I love this stuff... it makes me stupidly giddy =B
Sarah, that video's a hoot! I wish I could understand what they're saying T^T
I love Photoshop and it's layers. It makes correcting errors so bloody easy xD
(and yes you did help cheer me up, I love my Granny <3<3<3)