Albireo

I've got this song stuck in my head... not that I'm complaining. It's one of my favorite songs ever by one of my most favorite people in all the world:  Albireo by T.M.Revolution.

Albireo is one of his older songs, released in 2004. I can't explain what it is about this song that speaks to me. It's not the lyrics themselves, exactly, since it's in Japanese and I don't speak Japanese. AIthough, having said that, when I read the translation to the lyrics, the lyrics do mean something to me. I think maybe it's just his voice when he sings it. In my humble opinion, Nishikawa Takanori  has the voice of an angel.

Plus, I absolutely love the rare, hard-to-find alternate version of the video. The one commonly found on YouTube is an edit of concert footage, but there was an earlier production video. Apparently it was pulled from YouTube for copyright reasons. I have no clue why.

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T.M. Revolution
Albireo
{Words: Inoue Akio -- Music: Asakura Daisuke}

Ukabarenai yoru ni kusuburisou
Totto to oware to kimi bakari daiteru

Mushi shiteru soredemo yobareteku
Torawarete yume ni pashiri no you na shuutai

Iki ga tomaru hodo kimi ni toketemo
Ashita no soba ni wa nugukirenai kodoku ga ari

Kienai shakunetsu no hana kagayaki misete okure
Kono yo no hate hisoka ni hanatsu omoi ni sasowareyou

Itakunai hara o saguranaide
Machi wa aka nukenai nisemono uzagatteru

Modokashii negai mada todokazu ni
Waruagaki shitemo koukai hitotsu arun ja nashi

Kienai shakunetsu no hana kagayaki misete okure
Kono yo no hate hisoka ni hanatsu omoi nogasanaide

Douse minna jibun no erabu michi de shika hashirenai
Motome nagara meguri megurou sou yuu jidai deshou?

Samayou mirai ni nozomi wa ari?

Kienai shakunetsu no hana kagayaki misete okure
Kono yo no hate hisoka ni hanatsu ima o nogasanaide

Futari de hitotsu ni natte doko made yukerun darou
Kasanariai tsuranaru kokoro towa no hikari abite

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I found the English translation to these lyrics on the web. I don't know who did the translation, so I don't know who to credit here.

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I feel like I'm going to sink into the gloom,
of a night I can't seem to be happy.
I do nothing but hold you, just wanting it to end.

I ignore it, but still it calls to me
I'm enraptured, behaving shamefully like a slave to the dream

Even if I melt into you so far I can't breathe
there's a loneliness that can't be wiped away with the new day.

Undying burning flower, show me how you shine
I'm going to be lured by the feeling quietly sent out
from the ends of the world.

it doesn't hurt, don't go digging around in my heart
I've had it with this fake unsophisticated town

This wish that just won't be, still hasn't reached
even if you make futile efforts to resist, there's still regret.

Undying burning flower, show me how you shine
don't let the feeling quietly sent out
from the end of night get away.

Everyone will run the track they themselves chose anyway,
going round and round in search, is that the age we live in?

In a future of wandering, is there hope?

Undying burning flower, show me how you shine
don't let the moment quietly sent out
from the end of the world escape

How far can we get once we've become one
our hearts, one atop another, strung together,
bathe them in the light of eternity.

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