eastern youth

KUMO INUKE KOE/ MAY MY SCREAM REACH THE CLOUDS

7th Album - Released in 1999 by Toy's Factory
< Hisashi Yoshino - Guitar, Vocals >
< Tomokazu Ninomiya - Bass >
< Atsuya Tamori - Drums >

Lyrics translated into English by: Unknown
Thanks, MW-san, for the photo below!
1. SAJIN NO KANATAE/ TO THE SANDSTORM

Like sand, like drizzle
The midday sun shines on me
My arrow of rejection goes through the clouds
Hits the sky and drops it
"With my eyes closed, I see mustard flowers, a sad memory"
Ridiculous sentiment
Now I look
It doesn't matter whether I see it or not
The world in front of me is in a sandstorm

Under flowing and vanishing scattered clouds
In a shadow of a building, in a piercing autumn wind
I am standing there humming

"Is it sweet?
Is it bitter?
Is it warm?
Is it cold?"
Voice, do not feel ashamed
Voice, do not hesitate
Get right under the sun!

I'll just ramble till someday
I greet lazy darkness
With a subtle smile
Always, there's a ringing
Suddenly it awakes me
It is a voice without a voice
A song without a song

It doesn't matter whether I see it or not
The world in front of me is in a sandstorm

Under flowing and vanishing scattered clouds
In a shadow of a building, in a cruel autumn wind
I am standing there humming
(I don't even need words)


2. CHIISANA YUJIN/ SMALL FRIEND IN MY HEART

You pretend you don't hear
What are you looking at?
In this atmosphere
Are you tired of conversation?
Your mind is full of dirt clumps

See, you're crying again
And then a guffaw

He's a small friend, a shadow in my heart
Busy crying and laughing
Hey, do you feel better now?

With a troubled face
What happened to you?
A chilly night by the window
You stare far away
Waiting for interesting news

Oh, you disappeared again
But I think it's still all right

He's a small friend, a shadow in my heart
Doesn't matter when or where, marking time
Still yearning for something

Let's walk close to each other
To the end of the world

He's a small friend, a shadow in my heart
Sometimes you're lost and your glasses are misted
But don't forget the flame in your eyes


3. HAZAKURA NAMIKI/ AFTER CHERRY BLOSSOMS

I let my heart sleep and join the people
It seems the blossoms are gone
There are only leaves on the trees on the avenue

From the faraway horizon
Rises crematory smoke

Before I knew it
The key didn't fit the hole
It seems the rain has stopped
Smell of dust

Sunshine to sleepy eyes
Gives an unstable field of view
Getting tired by meandering
I talk with my sole

Communicate at least for a moment
Gently exchange smiles
A shining key at the bottom of the deep water

But it's still at the bottom of the water


4. UKIGUMO/ FLOATING CLOUDS

Now, under the morning sky
Dazzling blue and white

When the pavement burns
Muddy anxiety dissolves and flows
Life goes away at a walking speed
Taking away my thoughts

With a bitter face, I look up to the sky
I stop and look up to the sky
I am a drifter, a floating cloud

Along the way, I see various shapes
Today, they are in shreds and rolling
The green clump
Tells my maze that it's afternoon
The sound of an airplane above
Scolds me for being lazy

With a bitter face, I look up to the sky
I stop and look up to the sky
I am a drifter, a floating cloud

"Where is my destination?
Where should I go?
If I'm a floating cloud, I can go anywhere
I'll keep on drifting from day to day
I'll keep on drifting, that's my way"

And...
In days when even telegraph poles perish
The image of your face will scatter and vanish
I, the drifter, the floating cloud
Will continue my trip


5. AMAZARASHINARA NURERUGA IISA/
GET WET, IF YOU ARE EXPOSED IN THE RAIN


From a chink of concrete
Something like a grass, like a flower
"I don't care whatever"
I just stand there like nothing

"Get wet, if you are exposed in the rain
Anyway I don't have an umbrella
When the time comes, it's not bad to reach the end
If that is the last phase of my destiny
I'll be able to see the wind on my eyelids
I'll quietly rock

The sigh that I've heaved has dried
And was picked by birds
Clouds come to invite me
But I can't ride on you, can I?

When it snows, I'll shed some tears
They can melt a little snow
If they freeze, I'll burn my rage
That'll burn the whole landscape
While burning and scorching the heart
And sending it up in smoke

Since the day I was born
There is nothing behind
Nothing but an expanding world
Which I'll stare at

With my brave show going on
Hey, even the rain clouds seems to clear
When the time comes, it's not bad to reach the end
If that is the last phase of my destiny
I'll be able to see the wind on my eyelids
I'll quietly rock"


6. KAZENO NAKA/ WIND-SWEPT

Splitting and bouncing
That kind of fury I have today
In the madder sunset
Is this thin haze or cloud?
That is waving the treetops
Cold blasts in the city
This wind-swept day
I'll give it to you, take it away

Now, the setting sun got the town
The surging crowd waiting for the evening
What blows through them and howls at them
Is the sound of the wind

To a far away distance
Are waves of tiled roofs
I've been looking at without any sense
A clear moon in the cold sky

Landscape of 4 AM
At crossroads, to alleys
Their backs disappear
Into their daily loopholes that cross

Now, the rising sun shot the town
As a start of my mockery
The only thing that I hear
Is the sound of the wind

So many resonant dreams
Water flows
Stars in the sky
Abortive flower in the field
Wind-swept
7. ZUKKOKE DOUCHU/ BLINDFOLDED ON A TIGHTROPE

Drizzle on the pavement
For a guy like me
Who can't do even simple things
The night air is cold
But I don't have to despair

Take a chance when you catch the dawn muttering!

"What is it? What's going on? I can't get it"
Laughed by the whole crowd
Pitiful is my manner
Force the stalking nightmare
And invite tomorrow

Take a chance when you catch the dawn muttering!

Every time it rains or blossoms fall
I feel sad
But I'm enjoying my forlorn journey
Walking blindfolded on a tightrope!

Take a chance when you catch the dawn muttering!
Bet everything!


8. MADAMADAYO/ ON THE EDGE

Birds fly over branches of roadside trees
Voices of children running
Long shadows burnt into the window
A casual smile on my face

Drinking coarse tea, I'm waiting for the judgement
While I'm humming
Laundering, I'm waiting for my destiny
While I'm dancing for joy

Where should I go after leaving my house?
Night is on the town overcrowded with people
I drink and get drunk and I roll in vain
Bottom of the night, bottom of the town

I'm boozing and waiting for the judgement
While staggering
Being intoxicated, I'm waiting for my destiny
It's raining in my heart

"I'm hit hard on my back
And by that force I'm drove out
I don't know which is right, which is left
I stray east, west, south and north
Going and returning, it's the same thousand miles
What's the use crying?"

I kick up dry grass
Jump over everything
Dance in frenzy covered with mud
I stray east, west, south and north
Going and returning, it's the same thousand miles
I'm still alive on the edge
I'm still alive on the edge

Look, it's dawning, it's dawning
It's dawning to such a distance


9. YORUNO TSUIOKU/ NIGHT BY NIGHT

Goodbye, spring day
Let's meet again someday
Goodbye, pale crescent
Of the past

On that day, at that moment
I left my solitude
Sewn on the moon shadow
I clinch my memory

I play on the solitude that the night brings
Now feeling the choking summer night
Each time the curtain sways
Things in the past sways
Your eyes of that day, of that moment
Are rolling

Goodbye, spring day
Let's meet again someday
Goodbye, pale crescent
Of the past

"Days that won't come back
Wait for me
Wait for me"
Although I look back and holler
There's nothing
There's nothing...


10. CHIKASHITSUNO KENSOU/
BEER, SMOKE AND ILLUSION


Are you real?
Is this reality?
I can hear your voice
I can even see your image

The wall seems to reach the stratosphere
The ditch seems to reach the centrosphere

Yeah, that's right!
I haven't still met you!
Beer, smoke and illusion

The blather in the basement
Is flushed down the toilet
In the world of razz outstripping smiles

The distance is more than between earth and moon
Solitude, like being dropped on a desert one night

What do you think?
Will we meet?
Beer, smoke and illusion

The morning of such a day is always sad
The morning of such a day is always clear


11. AMANUMA YUKEI/ AMANUMA, 5 PM

In my aimless solitary journey
I whistle
Even grieves of sadness and desolateness
Become dust on the edge of the road

It's all right if it's ludicrous
Goodbye with a one-way ticket
Hello there
How's it going?
All the best
See you again someday

Like usual
The sun sets between the roofs
The night falls far away and around us

Voices of birds goes far away
In a familiar alley
People in their home having supper, others walking

I don't care if nothing happened today
Goodbye with a one-way ticket
Hello there
How's it going?
All the best
See you again someday

Look
The sun sets between the roofs
The night falls far away and around us

Will something happen tomorrow?
My simple mind dreams
Yeah!
Tomorrow I'll keep on standing waiting for something
In front of the station, at Loop 8

I know I'm a fool on this animal trail
A flowers of tears
Will bloom again tomorrow somewhere
It will bloom again
Yeah!
The sun sets again
The night falls again
In rotation
In rotation












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