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Is it still called a funeral if you aren't being buried?
I'd like mine to be called an osaraba party, which I'm sure is atrocious grammar (because there's actually an idiomatic phrase for a real "going away party"), but whatever -- in Japanese, (o)saraba means a farewell (the "o" is an honorific used with certain words, in certain forms). ...and now you also know the meaning of my tag, yay!
So at my "funeral", there shouldn't be ONLY sad music played, but because I am overly enamored of epically sad music/lyrics in general, these are my top two choices; they are guaranteed to make (me) you(?) shed a tear.
Stan Rogers' Northwest Passage
Fave lines: tracing one warm line through a land so wild and savage
I love that line so much I had part of it tattooed on my wrist. And basically, the whole fucking song is an amazing adventure relived every time I hear it (lyrics here).
Sakamoto Kyu's 上を向いて歩こう (Ue wo Muite Arukou) ["I Look Up When I Walk"]
Fave lines: ue wo muite arukou / namida ga koborenai you ni / nakinagara arukuu / hitoribotchi no yoru (i look up as i walk / so that the tears won't fall / though the tears well up as i walk / tonight i'm alone)
Japanese romaji & English translation of lyrics here.
I can never articulately describe how sad and beautiful this song is and it bugs me SO EFFING MUCH that it was called "Sukiyaki Song" in the 60s when it crossed over to the US, and then that the "English version(s)" fell so flat in comparison to the original.
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I'd like mine to be called an osaraba party, which I'm sure is atrocious grammar (because there's actually an idiomatic phrase for a real "going away party"), but whatever -- in Japanese, (o)saraba means a farewell (the "o" is an honorific used with certain words, in certain forms). ...and now you also know the meaning of my tag, yay!
So at my "funeral", there shouldn't be ONLY sad music played, but because I am overly enamored of epically sad music/lyrics in general, these are my top two choices; they are guaranteed to make (me) you(?) shed a tear.
Stan Rogers' Northwest Passage
Fave lines: tracing one warm line through a land so wild and savage
I love that line so much I had part of it tattooed on my wrist. And basically, the whole fucking song is an amazing adventure relived every time I hear it (lyrics here).
Sakamoto Kyu's 上を向いて歩こう (Ue wo Muite Arukou) ["I Look Up When I Walk"]
Fave lines: ue wo muite arukou / namida ga koborenai you ni / nakinagara arukuu / hitoribotchi no yoru (i look up as i walk / so that the tears won't fall / though the tears well up as i walk / tonight i'm alone)
Japanese romaji & English translation of lyrics here.
I can never articulately describe how sad and beautiful this song is and it bugs me SO EFFING MUCH that it was called "Sukiyaki Song" in the 60s when it crossed over to the US, and then that the "English version(s)" fell so flat in comparison to the original.
List of all days.
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Date: 2011-06-16 02:48 pm (UTC)OMG I'M CRYING NOW
DAMN IT, SARA!!!! I LOVE YOU!!! BAKA!!!!
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Date: 2011-06-16 03:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-06-16 03:13 pm (UTC)Hi!
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Date: 2011-06-16 03:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-06-16 06:51 pm (UTC)AND THE SECOND ONE OMG. I LOVE THE LYRICS AND THE WHISTLING AND just how HAPPY it is compared the the lyrics. They way its structured is so poetic. guuuuh. If this was at your funeral I'd probably bawl my eyes out. T
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Date: 2011-06-16 07:25 pm (UTC)It's so funny, for Ue wo Muite Arukou, because my friend had called me to ask what I thought of the song -- what it meant, or what it sounded like, because she had thought it sounded all happy too -- before looking up the lyrics.... and I was like, it sounds so SADDDDD and NOSTALGIC/MELANCHOLY. LOL, she was like SARA, YOU'RE CRAZY. Ahahahah. And then I looked up the lyrics and was like, OH. It actually IS sad and nostalgic. <3333333
I normally wouldn't want people to bawl their eyes out at my funeral BB, but I sort of wouldn't mind if it was because of either of these two songs! BECAUSE THEY ARE THAT AWESOME. <3
SO GLAD YOU ENJOYED THESE!
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Date: 2011-06-17 02:12 am (UTC)*hums along to Northwest Passage*
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Date: 2011-06-17 03:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-06-17 05:50 am (UTC)Fave lines: tracing one warm line through a land so wild and savage
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Date: 2011-06-17 03:10 pm (UTC)