Kazumasa Oda (小田和正) is a very famous Japanese singer/songwriter. He is also one of my favorites. There are several of his songs I like. One of them is "言葉にできない = kotoba ni dekinai" (my rough free translation will be "can't be descrided in words" - correct me if I'm wrong). Last night, while taking a break to browse YouTube , I came across the following clip by a guy from Burbank, CAthat calls himself nbcsaku . From his profile, he is a Japanese major student at UC Berkeley. He will be graduating in May and he will be returning back to
Japan "...to continue with my music career that has been on hold since I
came back to the states to graduate (studied abroad at Keio for a year
and got picked up by a label)" in his own words. I'm posting here his rendition of "言葉にできない" by 小田和正 and hope that you will enjoy it as much as I did. If you can please also listen to the original song (with the lyrics subtitled).
Update: As requested here are the lyrics of the song:
終わる筈のない愛が途絶えた いのち尽きてゆくように
ちがう きっとちがう 心が叫んでる
ひとりでは生きてゆけなくて
また 誰れかを愛している
こころ 哀しくて 言葉にできない
la la la……言葉にできない
せつない嘘をついては いいわけをのみこんで
果たせぬ あの頃の夢は もう消えた
誰れのせいでもない
自分がちいさすぎるから
それが くやしくて 言葉にできない
la la la……言葉にできない
あなたに会えて ほんとうによかった
嬉しくて 嬉しくて 言葉にできない
la la la……言葉にできない
Owaru hazu no nai ai ga todaeta inochi tsukite yuku youni
Chigau kitto chigau kokoro ga sakenderu
Hitori de wa ikite yuke nakute
Mata dareka o aishite iru
kokoro kanashikute kotoba ni dekinai
la la la... kotoba ni dekinai
Setsunai uso o tsuite wa iiwake o nomi konde
Hatasenu ano goro no yume wa mou kieta
Dare no seitemo ni
Jibun ga chiisa sugiru kara
Sore ga kuyashikute kotoba ni dekinai
la la la... kotoba ni dekinai
Anata ni aete hontou ni yokatta
Ureshikute ureshikute kotoba ni dekinai
la la la... kotoba ni dekinai
Anata ni aete hontou ni woo...
Kotoba ni dekinai
Ima anata ni aete woo...
By: kamadiva* (Guest IP 92.228.143.174) on 13-02-2008 02:45
i watched the movie *the letter* and i loved the ending scene with this song...*** and ur interpretation of it is really nice!* by the way..ur japanese is really good..but i think you already know! *greetings from germany*
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mmh..nice!*
By: kamadiva* (Guest) on 13-02-2008 02:45