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This song is written for the environmental cause and written from a tribe/animals' perspective who lost their home to the "first world" people and its industrialisation.
when I learnt many histories and current issues that the first world is creating, a thought, "This world seems already enough as it is but we keep destroying it ignorantly. Maybe we can't comprehend how beautiful this world is and just don't know what to do with it" inspired me to write this song.
The song starts as mono-tonal music, like a piece of tribal music and then it changes to Jazz fusion after the second verse - which represents industrialisation.
lyrics
深く清い森の奥 (in a deep and pure forest)
先祖代々継いだ家 (in a home which inherited from my ancestor)
狩りの後の子の笑顔 (smiles of children after hunting)
遥か遠い空仰ぐ (looking up to the sky, far above)
突然壊されたその暮らし (but the life was destroyed suddenly)
変な味の水に 奪われた仲間 (the water with strange taste took away lives of my people)
こうして僕らは消えてった (That’s how we disappear)
”ヒトノスメルマチ” (for “the place for people”)
いつか一緒に住めるのか (Will there be time for us to live along)
Just don’t know what to do with it
Settled in a cosy nest with my family
Peaceful wind and crystal water
But (then) everything was lost all at once
No place to stay or no place to go
That's why we had no choice but to leave
This place is(was?) made for someone else
Will there be time for us to live along
Just don't know what to do with it
Just don't know what to do with it
Just don't know what to do with it
Don't you see the tears of that dusty sky
Can't you hear the cry of that falling trees
Don't you remember skies are way up high
The sun's so bright that flowers bloom
Despite the beauty of this shining world
Just don't know what to do with it
Breath of the ocean and the drops of dew
The raindrops are falling to the earth
Despite the beauty of this shining world
Just don't know what to do with it
Beautiful world
credits
released June 5, 2021
Songwriter: Utako Toyama
Lyric writer: Utako Toyama, Noriko Umeda
Lead Vocal. (Japanese part): Utako Toyama (Japan)
Lead Vocal. (English part): Brionne Aigné (USA)
Backing vocal: Utako Toyama and Brionne Aigné
E. Guitar: Fabio Isella (Italy)
Keyboard: Takafumi Suenaga (Japan)
Bass: Maxwell McKellar (USA)
Drums: Kazuhiro Odagiri (Japan)
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