I often space out and miss my stop.
It’s normal to cry sometimes.
When I eat something delicious, I smile. “This is soooo good! ’
When I see something sad, I feel badly.
Of course I do all of those things. Because I’m human.
Today May’n-chan and I went on a dinner date.
Okonomiyaki!!
I was turning a mentaiko monja and it fell. (LOL)
I ordered mentaiko monja, but now it’s just plain old monja!
And I forgot to put the toppings in and had to shove them in afterwards.
We chatted about all kinds of things while we made it and ate it. And we both said “This sauce is kind of thick. ” And added more because we’re from Nagoya and Gifu.
May’n-chan’s expression change so much when we talk, she’s so adorable.
Sorry for monopolizing her. (LOL)
We still had more to talk about, so we went to May’n’s house and talked for 5 hours.
I was so glad that we were growing closer and so happy about her increasing expressions that it just makes me want to see her again soon.
But we’ve been standing together for so long, and May’n-chan was the first person to ever say “I thought you were like 150 cm! ” (LOL)
Well, look! Really look at me! (LOL)
Let’s go on a beach date next.
(Still monopolizing her.)
Heh heh heh, Next break, I’m watching this!
DERA ADIGATO!!
Now then.
Today I’m gonna talk about itsuka no tegami, the b-side of my 2nd single crossing field.
Lyrics: Makoto Furuya
Music, Arrangement: Katsuhiko Kurosu
(Those two made Hana to Mitsubachi from LOVER”S”MILE)
I wanted to sing a ballad that I could sing during a date (LiVE) to get my emotions across slowly.
So that’s what I ask Kurosu-san for.
When he gave me the song, I thought it was amazing. The song was so incredibly amazing in fact, that I was a little nervous that it would be my song, because I wasn’t sure how amazing I could make it.
Furuya-san wrote the lyrics to express my feeling of ‘wanting to treasure ‘now’’ after he came to my outdoor show in April.
When he gave me the one chorus and I saw the lyrics, it made me think about back when I used to write letters to myself in the future.
He quickly altered the lyrics to reflect that.
Furuya-san wrote the lyrics, but it became a really special song that totally spoke of my own feelings.
I sang the song thinking about how I want to treasure ‘now’ so that I can tell my future self “Right now is the best.”
Those are the emotions that everyone made this song from. It’s DERA cool.
At the orchestral recording, the musicians and the staff gradually gave form to the music from Kurosu-san’s mind, and it made me so happy to see how they all put their soul into the music. It turned out to be a wonderful instrumental piece with so much hard in it.
All of those musicians putting everything they had into making that music, that’s reflected in the music, and I feel like it could swallow me up.
It’s gentle and yet somehow bittersweet. Bittersweet, and yet somehow warm.
That’s what this song is.
BTW, the sound of that wind instrument going Shalala, Kurosu-san played that part himself, with his own fingerwork. (LOL)
Right to left…I think that’s how it went.
He recorded it to stay true to the image of the song.
Songs are really more about heart than details.
When I recorded the vocals, I sung it with all the emotions I had felt from everyone during the orchestral recording.
I have so many favorite lines it’s hard to give one, but I think the coolest one is the very last part that says “I’m going to sing these feelings I can’t put into words/So that when you open the letter with a forgetful face, you heart will thump loud in your chest”
When I imagine myself, with a forgetful face, opening the time capsule I buried long ago, it makes me so excited.
I know that when I sing this song in the future, I’ll know answers I can only know then. I want to sing songs that I can only sing then. Those are the feelings exploding inside me.
When I recorded the riffs at the end, I just sang whatever came to me.
Not a melody that someone had chosen for me. It was the voice of my heart singing.
And in the very end, my feelings grew so overwhelming that I reached a very high place there. (LOL)
When I sing the song acoustic, that last bit there feels so great to sing. I feel like my voice could go on forever.
It felt so good to sing outside beneath the sky.
I want to see the scenery that it makes when, one day, your la la la la and mine mix together. A world of just my voice and your voices.
I think the song will only be truly complete at a date (LiVE). It needs your voice. The two songs need to mix together like a conversation. That’s the view that I want to see.
The precious ‘now’ that all of you there can build.
Please complete the song with me.
In the “Someday” of the future, this song will show us another view, and gives us different emotions, so I want to treasure the “now” which we will only have once.
Be Happy!
Today’s another great day.
BYE-CHIっ!
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