人間の心の中には生まれつきある音楽が流れていてそれに似た曲を人は好きになるんだとか。「自分の曲」は何だろうといつも考えながら歌詞を和訳しています。
I have heard that every one of us has a special music running deep inside our soul and whatever music we love in our lives has something in common with it. I always translate English lyrics into Japanese, wondering what my music sounds like.
検索キーワード「half the world away」に一致する投稿を関連性の高い順に表示しています。 日付順すべての投稿を表示
検索キーワード「half the world away」に一致する投稿を関連性の高い順に表示しています。 日付順すべての投稿を表示
元々はOasisの曲ですが，今年はイギリスのデパートJohn Lewisのクリスマス広告用にノルウェイ人シンガー・ソングライターのAuroraがこの曲をカヴァーしています（2番目のヴィデオ）。この曲についてOasisのNoel Gallagherは「これは別れや出発を歌った感傷的な曲で，Definitely Maybe時代の曲はどれもある場所を離れて別の場所へ行くということについて歌っている。ある意味当時の記録。多分意識してないところでいつかはこのマンチェスターを出て行くとわかっていたんじゃないかな」と語っています。
An Norwegian singer-songwriter Aurora covered this song which was originally by Oasis for the John Lewis Christmas advert (the second video below). As for the song, Noel Gallagher explained "It's quite a melancholic song about leaving. All those songs around the Definitely Maybe time were about leaving somewhere and arriving somewhere else. It kind of documents that period. I guess subconsciously we always knew we were never gonna stay in Manchester." Half The World Away (Oasis / Aurora)
(Aurora cover for John Lewis Christmas advert)
[Verse 1]
I would like to leave this city
This old town don't smell too pretty and
I can feel the warning signs running around my mind
And when I leave this island
I'll book myself into a soul asylum
I can feel the warning signs running around my mind
[Chorus]
So here I go
Still scratching around in the same old hole
My body feels young but my mind is very old
So what do you say?
You can't give me the dreams that were mine anyway
You're half the world away
Half the world away
Half the world away
I've been lost I've been found but I don't feel down
[Verse 2]
And when I leave this planet
You know I'd stay but I just can't stand it and
I can feel the warning signs running around my mind
And if I could leave this spirit
I'll find me a home and I'll live in it and
I can feel the warning signs running around my mind
[Chorus]
So here I go
Still scratching around in the same old hole
My body feels young but my mind is very old
So what do you say?
You can't give me the dreams that were mine anyway
You're half the world away
Half the world away
Half the world away
I've been lost I've been found but I don't feel down
[Outro]
No I don't feel down
No I don't feel down
I don't feel down
I don't feel down
Don't feel down
I don't feel down
ご存知のように世の中のものはすべてが相対的です。10代の人間に言わせれば20代の人間は若くないのかもしれませんが，50代の人間にとってはかなり若く，子どもとさえ言える場合もあります。この曲は23才になった主人公が10代の頃，具体的に言えば17才だった頃を懐かしむという内容ですが，23歳でもまだ若いと言えます。
As you know, everything is relative in this world. If you're a teenager, twenty-somethings are quite 'old' to you. They're pretty young or sometimes kids to those in their 50s. The narrators are 23 and reminisce their days in their teens, specifically when they're 17, saying they were young then. Yes, they still are. Eastside (Benny Blance, Halsey &Khalid)
[Verse 1: Khalid]
When I was young, I fell in love
We used to hold hands, man, that was enough (yeah)
Then we grew up, started to touch
Used to kiss underneath the light on the back of the bus (yeah)
Oh no, your daddy didn't like me much
And he didn't believe me when I said you were the one
Oh, every day she found a way out of the window to sneak out late
[Pre-Chorus: Khalid]
She used to meet me on the Eastside
In the city where the sun don't set
And every day you know that we ride
Through the backstreets of a blue Corvette
Baby, you know I just wanna leave tonight
We can go anywhere we want
Drive down to the coast, jump in the seat
Just take my hand and come with me
[Chorus: Khalid]
We can do anything if we put our minds to it
Take your whole life then you put a line through it
My love is yours if you're willing to take it
Give me your heart 'cause I ain't gonna break it
So come away, starting today
Start a new life, together in a different place
We know that love is how all these ideas came to be
So baby, run away with me
[Verse 2: Halsey]
Seventeen and we got a dream to have a family
A house and everything in between
And then, oh, suddenly we turned twenty-three
Now we got pressure for taking our life more seriously
We got our dead-end jobs and got bills to pay
Half our friends are now our enemies
Now I-, I'm thinking back to when I was young
Back to the day when I was falling in love
[Pre-Chorus: Halsey]
He used to meet me on the Eastside
In the city where the sun don't set
And every day you know where we ride
Through the backstreets in a blue Corvette
And baby, you know I just wanna leave tonight
We can go anywhere we want
Drive down to the coast, jump in the sea
Just take my hand and come with me
Singing
[Chorus: Halsey & Khalid]
We can do anything if we put our minds to it
Take your whole life then you put a line through it
My love is yours if you're willing to take it
Give me your heart 'cause I ain't gonna break it
So come away, starting today
Start a new life, together in a different place
We know that love is how all these ideas came to be
So baby, run away with me
[Bridge: Halsey & Khalid]
Run away, now
Run away, now
Run away, now
Run away, now
Run away, now
Run away, now
[Outro: Halsey & Khalid]
He used to meet me on the Eastside
She used to meet me on the Eastside
He used to meet me on the Eastside
She used to meet me on the Eastside
In the city where the sun don't set
Maroon 5の曲にはよくあることですが，ミュージック・ヴィデオを見てもあまり曲の内容はわかりません。この曲で主人公は，セックスは以前のようにしているものの，好きだった相手が別人に思えるほど変わってしまったと嘆いています。
As is often the case with Maroon 5's song, the music video doesn't help us understand what the song is talking about very much. In this song the narrator's complaining about the second person has changed so much that he can hardly recognize her as the person he once loved while their physical intimacy is intact. Cold (Maroon 5 ft. Future)
[Chorus: Adam Levine]
Cold enough to chill my bones
It feels like I don't know you anymore
I don't understand why you're so cold to me
With every breath you breathe
I see there's something going on
I don't understand why you're so cold
[Verse 1: Adam Levine]
Are we taking time, or a time out?
I can't take the in-between
Asking me for space here in my house
You know how to fuck with me
Acting like we're not together
After everything that we've been through
Sleeping up under the covers
How am I so far away from you?
[Pre-Chorus: Adam Levine]
Distant, when we're kissing
Feel so different
Baby, tell me how did you get so
[Chorus: Adam Levine]
Cold enough to chill my bones
It feels like I don't know you anymore
I don't understand why you're so cold to me
With every breath you breathe
I see there's something going on
I don't understand why you're so cold, yeah
Whoa, yeah
Whoa, yeah
I don't understand why you're so cold
[Verse 2: Adam Levine]
What you holdin' on, holdin' on for?
If you wanna leave, just leave
Why you wanna bite your tongue for?
The silence is killing me
Acting like we're not together
If you don't want this, then what's the use?
Sleeping up under the covers
How am I so far away from you?
[Pre-Chorus: Adam Levine]
Distant, when we're kissing
Feel so different
Baby tell me how did you get so
[Chorus: Adam Levine]
Cold enough to chill my bones
It feels like I don't know you anymore
I don't understand why you're so cold to me
With every breath you breathe
I see there's something going on
I don't understand why you're so cold, yeah
[Post-Chorus: Adam Levine & Future]
Whoa, yeah
Whoa, yeah
I don't understand why you're so cold, yeah
So cold, it’s a cold world
Whoa, yeah
So cold, it’s a cold world
Whoa, yeah
So cold, it’s a cold world
I don't understand why you're so cold
[Verse 3: Future & Adam Levine]
Never thought that you were like this
I took the tag off, and made you priceless
I just spent half a mill' on a chandelier
Now you tryna' cut me off like a light switch, yeah
Tryna' stay, and I leave
Saying that you need some time to breathe
Thinking that I'm sleeping on the four letter word
But the four letter word don't sleep
We goin' two separate ways
You ain't been actin' the same
You gotta go, but where your heart used to be
You gold dig every day
I switched the four door to the two door
'Cause I can't let my driver hear what you say
Girl, I tried to give you space
Baby, tell me how did you get so
[Chorus: Adam Levine]
Cold enough to chill my bones
It feels like I don't know you anymore
I don't understand why you're so cold to me
With every breath you breathe
I see there's something going on
I don't understand why you're so cold
[Post-Chorus: Adam Levine & Future]
So cold, it’s a cold world
Whoa, yeah
So cold, it’s a cold world
Whoa, yeah
So cold, it’s a cold world
I don't understand why you're so cold, yeah
So cold, it’s a cold world
Whoa, yeah
So cold, it’s a cold world
Whoa, yeah
So cold, it’s a cold world
I don't understand why you're so cold
[Chorus: Adam Levine]
体の芯からゾッとする
知らないヤツがいるようで
なんでそこまでこの俺にお前は冷たくするんだよ？
いちいち何か言うたびに
俺のどこか知らないとこで何かやっているんだろ？
なんでそこまでこの俺にお前は冷たくするんだよ？
この歌詞には，You get no loveという重要なフレーズが登場します。たった４語の短いフレーズで，難しい単語もなく，一見するとすぐに訳せそうなのですが，実際は違います。「お前にやる愛はない」と訳すわけにはいきません。この曲，題名はNo Loveですが，恋愛とは全く関係がなく，一言で言えば，ラップ／ヒップホップ業界の競争について歌った曲だからです。また，ミュージック・ヴィデオがいじめを題材にしていることを考えれば，逆襲／復讐の曲と言えるかもしれません。
しかも，日本人は日常会話の中で「愛（love）」という言葉を使うことがほとんどありません。私の知る限り，その単語を日常的に使っている日本人はただ一人。東京でクリーニング店を営む，６人兄弟の長男の「彼」くらいです。
それはさておき，この曲ではEminemのラップが圧巻で，言葉をまるで音符のように操っているため，彼がEminemという楽器に思えてきます。白眉は，3:13 辺りのSnatch the micから始まる30秒以上に及ぶラップ。ゾクゾクします。
The key phrase of the lyrics is "You get no love." It's a simple phrase, consists of only four words and doesn't look very hard to translate. Yes, it does. The title is "No Love" but there's nothing to do with a relationship. It basically is a song about a competition or struggle in the rap/hip-hop world. Watching the music video, depicting a bully at school, however, you could say it's about striking back or revenge. It could be.
Most Japanese don't use the word "love (=ai)" very often in conversation. As far as I know the only Japanese who uses the word daily is the guy who runs a small cleaner in Tokyo, the first child of six siblings.
Anyway, I was overwhelmed by Eminem's rap. He uses his words like musical notes. To me he seems to be a musical instrument called "Eminem" himself. My favorite part is the lines around 3:13, starting with "Snatch the mic." His fierce rapping lasts more than 30 seconds. It gives me shivers. No Love (Eminem ft. Lil' Wayne)
[Intro]
[Verse 1: Lil Wayne]
Throw dirt on me and grow a wildflower
But it's "fuck the world", get a child out her
Yeah, my life a bitch, but you know nothing bout her
Been to hell and back, I can show you vouchers
I'm rolling Sweets, I'm smoking sour
Married to the game but she broke her vows
That's why my bars are full of broken bottles
And my night stands are full of open Bibles
I think about more than I forget
But I don't go around fire expecting not to sweat
And these niggas know I lay them down, make your bed
Bitches try to kick me while I'm down: I'll break your leg
Money outweighing problems on the triple beam
I'm sticking to the script, you niggas skipping scenes
Be good or be good at it
Fucking right I've got my gun, semi-Cartermatic
Yeah, put a dick in their mouth, so I guess it's "fuck what they say"
I'm high as a bitch: up, up and away
Man, I come down in a couple of days
OK, you want me up in the cage, then I'll come out in beast mode
I got this world stuck in the safe, combination is the G code
It's Weezy motherfucker, blood gang and I'm in bleed mode
All about my dough but I don't even check the peephole
So you can keep knocking but won't knock me down
No love lost, no love found
[Hook: Eminem & Lil Wayne]
It's a little too late to say that you're sorry now
You kicked me when I was down
But what you say just (don't hurt me, don't hurt me no more)
That's right bitch: and I don't need you, don't want to see you
Bitch you get (no love)
You show me nothing but hate
You ran me into the ground
But what comes around goes around
I don't need you (don't hurt me)
You (don't hurt me no more)
That's right, and I don't need you, don't want to see you
You get (no love)
Bitch you get (no love)
And I don't need you
Get em
[Verse 2: Eminem]
I'm alive again
More alive than I have been in my whole entire life
I can see these people's ears perk up as I begin
To spaz with the pen, I'm a little bit sicker than most
Shit's finna get thick again
They say the competition is stiff
But I get a hard dick from this shit, now stick it in
I ain't never giving in again
Caution to the wind, complete freedom
Look at these rappers, how I treat them
So why the fuck would I join them when I beat them?
They call me a freak because
I like to spit on these pussies 'fore I eat them
Man get these whack cocksuckers off stage
Where the fuck is Kanye when you need him?
Snatch the mic from him, bitch I'mma let you finish in a minute
Yeah the rap is tight
But I'm bout to spit the greatest verse of all time
So you might want to go back to the lab tonight and um
Scribble out them rhymes you were going to spit
And start over from scratch and write new ones
But I'm afraid that it ain't gonna make no difference
When I rip this stage and tear it in half tonight
It's an adrenaline rush to feel the bass thump
In the place all the way to the parking lot, fellow
Set fire to the mic and ignite the crowd
You can see the sparks from hot metal
Cold-hearted from the day I Bogarted the game
My soul started to rot, fellow
When I'm not even in my harshest
You can still get roasted because Marsh is not mellow
Til I'm toppling from the top I'm not going to stop
I'm standing on my Monopoly board
That means I'm on top of my game and it don't stop
Til my hip don't hop anymore
When you so good that you can't say it
Because it ain't even cool for you to sound cocky anymore
People just get sick cause you spit
These fools can't drool or dribble a drop anymore
And you can never break my stride
You'll never slow the momentum at any moment
I'm 'bout to blow, you'll never take my pride
Killing the flow, slow venom and the opponent
Is getting no mercy, mark my words
Ain't letting up, relentless
I smell blood, I don't give a fuck: keep giving them hell
Where was you when I fell and needed help up?
You get no love
愛（すなわち恋愛感情）というものは一体どれくらい続くのでしょうか？真実の愛なら一生涯続くと考える人もいますが，恋愛の初期段階と，その時期に感じることの多い高揚感はそこまで続かず，12か月を過ぎた辺りから薄れ始めると言う科学者もいます。この曲はHayley Williamsの実の婚約者Chad Gilbertとの遠距離恋愛を歌ったものだそうで，2人は付き合い始めてすでに5年とか。仮に前で述べた説が正しいとするとちょっとした驚きですね。
How long does love (I mean romantic love) last? Some people believe true love lasts a lifetime. Some scientists say that the infatuated phase of love and the feeling of elation often experienced in that honeymoon period does not last very long and starts wearing off after 12 months. This song is said to be inspired by Hayley Williams' real life long distance relationship with her fiancee, Chad Gilbert. They have been together for five years. Given the theory above correct, isn't it a bit surprising? Proof (Paramore)
[Verse 1]
It’s really hard
I can’t cry in your arms
‘Cause you’re not here
It’s not your fault
And if it was I wouldn’t care
My heart is bigger
Than the distance
In-between us
I know it ‘cause I
Feel it beating
So strong it'll knock you down
So strong, so strong
[Verse 2]
Over here
Can't count the miles away
From where I want to be
I bet your skin is warm
And that you're smiling
Yeah, that’s what I always
Loved the most about you
So strong
Come and knock me down, hey
[Chorus]
Baby, if I’m half the man I say I am
(Whoa-oh-oh), if I’m a woman with no fear
Just like I claim I am, (whoa-oh-oh)
Then I believe in what you say
There’s nothing left for you to do
The only proof that I need is you
[Verse 3]
I’ll get in my car
Drive it faster than I
Ever did before
Head out west until I finally
Reach the shore
And then I’ll swim out
To wherever you are
And we'll ride the undercurrent
Down to the floor
Making friends with all
The unfamiliar creatures
And pushing back
All the unnecessary pressure
Come up for air just so you
Know we won’t drown
You’re so strong
The world can't keep us down, hey!
[Chorus]
[Verse 4]
So do you love me? (Yeah)
All you got to do is say yes
Now do you love me? (Yeah, hey)
And I won’t ever second guess
Now do you love me? (Yeah)
All you got to do is say yes
Now do you love me? (Yeah, hey)
Then you already proved it
Yeah, yeah, hey
[Chorus]
Baby, if I’m half the man I say I am
(Whoa-oh-oh), if I’m a woman with no fear
Just like I claim I am, (whoa-oh-oh)
Then I believe in what you say
There’s nothing left for you to do
The only proof that I need is
昨年の母の日に電話しながらふと兄弟の日や姉妹の日などというものもあるのだろうかと気になったのですが，実際にありました。10月24日の兄弟の日に加え，兄弟姉妹の日というものも存在し，アメリカとカナダでは4月10日が，ヨーロッパでは5月31日がその日に当たっているようです。 Last year making a call to celebrate Mother's Day, I was wondering if there's such a thing as Brother's Day or Sister's Day. Yes, we have Brother's Day which is October 24th as well as Siblings Day which is April 10th in the US and Canada and May 31st in Europe. Always Gold (Radical Face)
We were tight knit boys Brothers in more than name You would kill for me And knew that I'd do the same And it cut me sharp Hearing you'd gone away
But everything goes away Yeah everything goes away
But I'm going to be here until I'm nothing But bones in the ground
And I was there, when you grew restless Left in the dead of night And I was there, when three months later You were standing in the door all beat and tired And I stepped aside
Everything goes away Yeah everything goes away But I'm gonna be here until I'm nothing But bones in the ground So quiet down
We were opposites at birth I was steady as a hammer No one worried cause they knew just where I'd be And they said you were the crooked kind And that you'd never have no worth But you were always gold to me
And back when we were kids We swore we knew the future And our words would take us half way 'round the world But I never left this town And you never saw New York And we ain't ever cross the sea
But I am fine with where I am now This home is home, and all that I need But for you, this place is shame But you can blame me when there's no one left to blame
Oh I don't mind
All my life I've never known where you've been There were holes in you The kind that I could not mend
And I heard you say Right when you left that day Does everything go away? Yeah, everything goes away
But I'm going to be here 'til forever So just call when you're around
正直なところ彼のことは今日の今日まで知りませんでした。たまたまYouTubeアカウントの注目項目に挙がっていただけ。最初見た時「オタクっぽい子だな」程度の認識でした。この曲のヴィデオの中の彼はかなりぽっちゃりなのですが、現在の彼は別人かと思うほどやせています。lankyという表現が一番当てはまるかも。このヴィデオを見終わった瞬間、これはどうしても今日ここで紹介しなくてはという、止むに止まれぬ気持ちになりました。好き嫌いの分かれるタイプの人ですが、個性という点では群を抜いていると思います。最後のところに別のヴィデオMake You Crazyを入れておきました。（この曲は知ってました）。 To be honest, I didn't know him not until today. His video happened to come up on my YouTube account as a spotlight. My first impression of him is that he is a geeky young man in his twenties. He is rather lanky now but in this video (more than 3 and half years ago) he was not lanky at all. When I finished watching the video, I couldn't help but insert it here TODAY. Maybe he is not for everyone but I see him unique and certainly original. At the end of this post, I put another video, Make You Crazy. I think I knew the song. Ain't No Reason (Brett Dennen)
there ain't no reasons things are this way its how they've always been and they intend to stay i can't explain why we live this way we do it everyday preachers on the podiums speaking to saints prophets on the sidewalks begging for change old ladies laughing from the fire escape, cursing my name i got a basketful of lemons and they all taste the same a widow and pigeon with the a broken wing you can spend your whole life working for something just to have it taken away people walk around pushing back their debts wearing pay checks like necklaces and bracelets talking 'bout nothing, not thinking about death, every little heart beat, every little breath people walk a tight rope on a razor's edge carrying their hurt and hatred and weapons it could be a bomb or a bullet or a pin or a thought or a word or a sentence there ain't no reasons things are this way its how they've always been and they intend to stay i don't know why i say the things i say, but i say them anyway. but love will come set me free love will come set me free i do believe love will come set me free i know it will love will come set me free yes prison walls still standing tall some things never change at all keep on building prisons, gonna fill them all keep on building bombs gonna drop them all working your fingers bare to the bone breaking your back, make you sell your soul like a lung is filled with coal, suffocating slow the wind blows wild and i may move but politicians lie and i'm not fooled you don't need no reason or a 3 piece suit to argue the truth the air on my skin and the world under my toes slavery stitched into the fabric of my clothes chaos and commotion wherever i go love, i try to follow but love will come set me free love will come set me free i do believe love will come set me free i know it will love will come set me free yes there ain't no reasons things are this way its how they've always been and they intend to stay i can't explain why we live this way; we do it everyday
Youtubeの公開日を見なければこのミュージック・ヴィデオは1970年代のものだと思ったでしょう。Jalen Ngondaの歌い方は70年代風ですし，ヴィデオに登場するほとんどすべてのものがそんな風に見えます。 Without seeing the release date on Youtube, I would have thought the music video was made in 1970s. Jalen Ngonda sings like an artist in '70s and almost everything appears in the video seems to suggest as such. That's All I Wanted from You (Jalen Ngonda)
[Verse 1] Oh, I've got doubts beyond my worries But you reassure me when I'm feeling lost If the sun above, don't shine enough You pick me up without second thoughts
[Chorus] That's all I wanted from you Nothing more, nothing less, oh That's all I wanted from you Please don't give it no, to nobody else
[Verse 2] When the dark brings the cloud to the daytime And that cloud only sits above my head Your smile is the only smile that can drive that cloud away
[Chorus] Oh, that's all I wanted from you Nothing more, nothing less, oh yeah That's all I wanted from you Please don't give it no, to nobody else
[Bridge] In this world of no pity At times I feel half a man But when the love light shines in your eyes I showed up, understand, oh
[Verse 3] You've got that sweet disposition The kind you find in passing scenes And when fall arrives You open up more ways to make me stay
[Chorus] That's all I wanted from you Nothing more, nothing less, I'll be there That's all I wanted from you Please don't give it no, to nobody else
[Outro] Oh, that's all I wanted from you, oh That's all I, that's all I wanted baby Nothing more
