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For the Sky

by Solanin

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Ame no Uta 03:40
(Japanese lyrics) Ame no uta Ame no uta Sono hi, hashite kaeta Nureta fuku wo nuida Kyuu ni haru ga kita Kotoshi mo kureru Hana hana hana Doko ni sundeiru Ame no uta Ame no uta Kare ni hana wo moratta Ame ni shiroku natta Kyuu ni harete kita Ashita mo hareru Hana hana hana Doko ni sundeiru (English translation) Song of the rain Song of the rain On that day, we came home running We took off our wet clothes Suddenly, spring came This year, it can also come Flower, flower, flower, Where do you live? Song of the rain Song of the rain He gave me flowers In the rain, they turned white Suddenly, the sun came out Tomorrow, it can also come Flower, flower, flower, Where do you live?
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In the shadow of the mountain, two children born In the quaking fit of a summer storm A midnight flash--their mother was lost, A rippling echo in a lake of frost. As their mother sank into the opposite world, They saw her two reflections merge. So every soul watches from two windows, One death one life, one boy one girl. In the shadow of the riverbed, they watched her flight-- In a golden mirror, a tree of light And it bore a trunk down into the earth Swinging all its branches like their mother in birth It swung its branches like a mother in birth And as they grew, they dripped with The smell of the lemon tree As if untrue, their trembling hands Set strands of pollen free Netting the flies and cleaving The route of the bumblebee Through air, that light was tearing The night's blind trajectory I was that tree. You were my earth. I knew your touch before my birth. And when my leaves fell with the frost, You were the roots I never lost. And when the night shouldered the air, Blanketing all, blinding and fair, I was that cry. Night was my song-- Star-spattered sky, I will belong.
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That day, the river wove its own story And I waited silent, hearing its breath As daylight ascending over the apple tree Plucked from the bark the ark of death And knowing my tree would one day sink into the river I called to my brother, "Let's run away For I see the peak of the mountain cut sharper Against the sky. Oh, we must find our father." We wrapped our feet in woven grass. We stored our water in gourds. With vines we tied them to our backs. We knew he had to be higher, higher. Oh my brother, Don't stop though the rain comes For we must climb higher And force our feet to meet the sun. After one week of climbing up the mountain, I no longer knew my feet from the stones-- So cracked like the bark of the blossoming cherry tree. My blood whispered free from the cage of my bones. And on the seventh day, the rain came. I was so happy I laughed. I knew that it would wash all of me clean again. But night drew the rain around us And I thought of a blanket growing thicker Sharpening each tree and living thing Like a cherry tree blossoming, blossoming, White blossoms in my eyes--the snow. Under the snow how bright All of the stars And with what a willing light The moon pierced the branches For the first time in my life I knew what fear was My brother I tied to me with vines (Abandoning the gourds, for our water had frozen) And so, both tied together, We pulled and we pulled, Pulled at each other, Charging in opposite directions, Two polarities each all for the other. I tried to hide beneath a treetop How the snow found me I tried to hide beneath a riverbed It nearly drowned me I tried to burrow down to safety What cruel deception-- The heat of those tongues lapping at your breath And whispering, "We are protection." My love, my love, When the cold wind comes closer, Remember this-- This story I've told you And don't keep me warm-- Will you teach me to be warmer For I'll rescue myself From that cold storm--forever Oh my brother, Don't stop though the rope breaks For I will find you in the snow No matter how many years it takes Why I survived and my brother was taken I will never know, but at least I'll ask why Oh my life, what a price you demanded Just to learn that my father was the sky And when, on that peak, all the snow faded below me And I saw that mountain peak sipping dusk from the air, The night sky a maze of amber-trapped memory, All flooding with light Well I knew we were there.

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released April 1, 2010

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