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hitome_bore and I got it into our heads that there was something super special about Nagayan's song Kotoba Kara (especially given that it's the song Tuti played at That Panisuta), and after much deliberation, we realized that the lyrics didn't sound like anything Nagayan would write at all...but rather sounded like Tuti himself speaking.
Yes, we thought Tuti wrote the song, and Nagayan sang it.
Three years after I originally translated the thing, I've retranslated it, and...
I feel even more strongly about it now 8D
You ask me over and over again, calling me a liar.
I know you worry, but just trust me a little.
Even if you plug in the cord and jiggle it a little, you can't suck up the past with a vacuum.
I stood fast, but you stared at the ground and whispered, "I'm lonely."
I know you want to hear me say I love you,
But I just want you to feel my overflowing feelings.
I could never lie to you.
I just want to stay like this together with you forever...
Don't lie to me, I know what's going on when you look at me like that.
You can't fool me with that fake smile and that off-balance attitude.
The words written in your text messages are reflected in your eyes
So to distract you from crying, I seal your lips with a kiss.
Words spoken lightly don't hold any real meaning.
I'm always looking at you and you alone.
So don't tell me, "It's fine even if it's a lie."
Feel me even closer than this...with you.
I'll hold you tight, all the time, close to my heart.
I won't let you go, I'll hold you tight, won't let you leave my heart.
I know you want to hear me say I love you, but I just want you to feel my overflowing feelings.
I could never lie to you. I just want to stay like this together forever...
I can't put it into words. I can't help falling in Love.
Love forever, Love forever, I can't help falling in Love.
Love forever, Love forever, I can't help falling in Love.
Love forever, Love forever, I can't help falling in Love.
...with you.
Read that with the thought in your mind that it's Tuti speaking to Nagayan and try and tell me you can't imagine it happening :P It's the little things ("I know you want to hear me say I love you, but I just want you to feel my overflowing feelings" and "You can't fool me with that fake smile and that off-balance attitude") that you could just write off as typical lyrical stuff (which it may very well be) but really just scream Tuti to me -- plus, seriously, who would write lyrics like "you can't suck up the past with a vacuum cleaner"?? XD;;;
Thoughts?
hitome_bore and I got it into our heads that there was something super special about Nagayan's song Kotoba Kara (especially given that it's the song Tuti played at That Panisuta), and after much deliberation, we realized that the lyrics didn't sound like anything Nagayan would write at all...but rather sounded like Tuti himself speaking.Yes, we thought Tuti wrote the song, and Nagayan sang it.
Three years after I originally translated the thing, I've retranslated it, and...
I feel even more strongly about it now 8D
You ask me over and over again, calling me a liar.
I know you worry, but just trust me a little.
Even if you plug in the cord and jiggle it a little, you can't suck up the past with a vacuum.
I stood fast, but you stared at the ground and whispered, "I'm lonely."
I know you want to hear me say I love you,
But I just want you to feel my overflowing feelings.
I could never lie to you.
I just want to stay like this together with you forever...
Don't lie to me, I know what's going on when you look at me like that.
You can't fool me with that fake smile and that off-balance attitude.
The words written in your text messages are reflected in your eyes
So to distract you from crying, I seal your lips with a kiss.
Words spoken lightly don't hold any real meaning.
I'm always looking at you and you alone.
So don't tell me, "It's fine even if it's a lie."
Feel me even closer than this...with you.
I'll hold you tight, all the time, close to my heart.
I won't let you go, I'll hold you tight, won't let you leave my heart.
I know you want to hear me say I love you, but I just want you to feel my overflowing feelings.
I could never lie to you. I just want to stay like this together forever...
I can't put it into words. I can't help falling in Love.
Love forever, Love forever, I can't help falling in Love.
Love forever, Love forever, I can't help falling in Love.
Love forever, Love forever, I can't help falling in Love.
...with you.
Read that with the thought in your mind that it's Tuti speaking to Nagayan and try and tell me you can't imagine it happening :P It's the little things ("I know you want to hear me say I love you, but I just want you to feel my overflowing feelings" and "You can't fool me with that fake smile and that off-balance attitude") that you could just write off as typical lyrical stuff (which it may very well be) but really just scream Tuti to me -- plus, seriously, who would write lyrics like "you can't suck up the past with a vacuum cleaner"?? XD;;;
Thoughts?
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FIC: Kotoba Kara (Part 1)
Date: 2009-01-30 03:53 am (UTC)They are only words, he reminds himself, again, and even though he knows it's true, it doesn't make him feel any better.
He's not mad, not really. He could never truly be mad at the idiot, frustrated at times most definitely, and annoyed occasionally over the stupidest and mundane issues when the idiot is being just that, an idiot, but mad?
Takashi snorts to himself.
It's kind of hard to get mad at a guy who speaks volumes with his actions.
Takashi sighs in the silence, feeling himself finally relax after a too long day of management obligation after management obligation, a horrible lunch date with his idiot boyfriend, and even more management obligations that get him home just in time before the trains stop running. He's mentally and physically exhausted, to the point where thinking hurts and yet that is all he can do is think, over and over, rehashing his earlier meeting with Tuti, trying to make sense of his own thoughts, words and feelings.
Tuti laughs at his own joke, one Takashi doesn't even get, but the laugh is infectious and happy and obnoxiously loud, but genuine and Takashi can't help but join in with a smile and a small subtle laugh as well.
This is love, pure and simple. Even if they don't talk about anything but stupid jokes and how one or the other embarrassed so-and-so, or even venting about this director or *pnish*'s Leader or Takashi's own managers, as long as they have this moment here, or that moment there, it's enough to put a smile on his face so he can face the rest of the day without this one important person next to him.
Tuti's laugh subsides and he looks at Takashi quizzically.
Takashi stares back, a smile still plastered on his face, crinkling his eyes, and he can't help the words that quietly spill out of his mouth.
"I love you."
Tuti's face becomes serious, almost worried and concerned, and it isn't until his boyfriend is looking around to see if anyone has heard that Takashi's smile falters. When Tuti has secured that no one in the coffeehouse heard, he turns back and quickly changes the subject.
"So Daiki-chan…"
Takashi doesn't hear the rest of what Tuti says, not that Tuti really got to finish what he was saying because Takashi abruptly stands and begins gathering his coat, hat and scarf.
"Hey, where are you going?" Tuti asks, seemingly oblivious.
Takashi doesn't respond. He shoulders his bag, and makes to leave but is stopped by Tuti grabbing his wrist.
"Sure you should be doing that?" Takashi questions, pointedly looking where Tuti is hold his wrist before looking back up. "Someone might see."
The comment gets Takashi's desired reaction as Tuti let's go, surprise evident in Tuti's eyes.
Takashi takes his leave, but only gets a block before he hears the labored breathing of a man running to catch up as Tuti calls out his name.
"Hey," Tuti says, grabbing Takashi's arm and jerking him aside.
"Tuti, I have to go," Takashi dismisses impatiently.
"Takashi… I'm sorry…"
Takashi pulls away. It doesn't help matters being tired and frustrated, but maybe just once it would be nice to hear those three words said back to him. He's never demanded them before, and he knows he doesn't need to hear them, but he thinks it would be nice, wouldn't it?
"So am I," Takashi returns and continues on his way, feeling more than little guilty for putting this all on Tuti, but not ready to deal with what it all means, or whether he can even figure it out.
Con't to part 2...
FIC: Kotoba Kara (Part 2)
Date: 2009-01-30 03:53 am (UTC)Takashi sighs again, angry now with himself for being mad (yes he admits he was a little mad) at Tuti for what he never needed to hear in the first place.
"Baka," Takashi calls himself out loud, making his way through the apartment to crawl into bed and call the day over. "Tomorrow couldn't be any worse."
It's with surprise that he sits back up, turns on the lamp on his computer table and picks up a folded piece of paper he heard crinkle under his weight.
The words written on the paper are in Tuti's annoyingly perfect script, and Takashi has to read the first two lines three times before he finally realizes what exactly he is reading.
You ask me over and over again, calling me a liar.
I know you worry, but just trust me a little.
Even if you plug in the cord and jiggle it a little, you can't suck up the past with a vacuum.
I stood fast, but you stared at the ground and whispered, "I'm lonely."
I know you want to hear me say I love you,
But I just want you to feel my overflowing feelings.
I could never lie to you.
I just want to stay like this together with you forever...
Don't lie to me, I know what's going on when you look at me like that.
You can't fool me with that fake smile and that off-balance attitude.
The words written in your text messages are reflected in your eyes
So to distract you from crying, I seal your lips with a kiss.
Words spoken lightly don't hold any real meaning.
I'm always looking at you and you alone.
So don't tell me, "It's fine even if it's a lie."
Feel me even closer than this...with you.
I'll hold you tight, all the time, close to my heart.
I won't let you go, I'll hold you tight, won't let you leave my heart.
I know you want to hear me say I love you, but I just want you to feel my overflowing feelings.
I could never lie to you. I just want to stay like this together forever...
I can't put it into words. I can't help falling in Love.
Love forever, Love forever, I can't help falling in Love.
Love forever, Love forever, I can't help falling in Love.
Love forever, Love forever, I can't help falling in Love.
...with you.
When the words finally click, his breath hitches uncomfortably, his heart jumps more than a beat, and it's in that moment Takashi finally realizes that it isn't so much important to hear Tuti say the words as it is to simply have Tuti love him.
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Date: 2009-01-30 03:56 am (UTC)Enjoy!
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Date: 2009-01-30 04:04 am (UTC)BUT I LOVED THAT. AND NOW YOU NEED TO POST IT. Feel free to copy-paste anything you need to explain, or explain it all on your own, anything :D
Guh, that's...yeeeaaah ♥___♥
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Date: 2009-01-30 04:29 am (UTC)Done :D
Seriously, I was quite surprised by this fic myself, so this topic must have struck a cord with me.
And thank you for translating the song again, actually for all the translations you have done with Nagayan's songs. It's nice having a general idea of what he is singing when I listen to them seeing as I haven't a clue without a translation.
God I love these guys...
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Date: 2009-01-30 04:31 am (UTC)I feel like all of his songs have to have SOMETHING behind them, some little something he saw somewhere, or experienced sometime...or a present from someone else ^_~
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Date: 2009-01-30 05:21 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-30 05:28 am (UTC)I did them all ^____^
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Date: 2009-01-30 05:32 am (UTC)Oh, thank you too! ;)
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Date: 2009-01-30 04:16 am (UTC)kjsdgkfjsdkljgfskdjgfksdjgfksgdf ♥♥♥♥♥♥
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Date: 2009-01-30 04:23 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-02-12 04:40 pm (UTC)this is amazing.
i need to stop flailing before I break the table.
It was just I needed after a long, rainy day.
thank you.... wow.
thank you and the person[s] who inspired you... for simply... being on Earth and not on Mars. *is shot*
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Date: 2009-01-30 06:35 am (UTC)Secondly...dfjsofi. I'm going to assume this is a fact and Tuti wrote it, because the world just became a better place :p The "fake smile" line especially sounds like something he could definitely tell Nagayan.
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Date: 2009-01-31 12:25 am (UTC)Especially now that you've convinced everyone on this theory. XDDD
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Date: 2009-02-12 04:34 pm (UTC)and I'm perfectly convinced that's how it is. I've always loved the song, I guess I love it even more. xD