A Song a day: 9th Mar 2013 (橫濱別戀

Sunday, March 10, 2013

9th Mar 2013 (橫濱別戀 – Amanda Lee)

The song that I chose for today is “橫濱別戀” by Amanda Lee. This song is one of my favourite and it was from 1995. Back then Amanda was very popular. Sadly these days Amanda hardly sing, I think part of the reason is that her voice is broken now, her voice is a lot deeper than it was and it sounds a bit murky as well. Anyway, this is was from her golden era so she sounds perfect in it. The direct English translation of the song is “Goodbye my love in Yokohama”.

The lyrics of the song are about trying to move on. The song started by the protagonist going into a café that was playing some sad music. She meets this guy there and listens to him talking about his life. He likes to wait, waiting for his love one to respond to him, but love one never did reply. He remembers it was autumn in Yokohama, he kisses his girlfriend before she left. A few days later, he hears that she didn’t make it through the storm during her travel. He remembered that the yellow street light in Yokohama, they used to hug and kissed on the bridge. He is looking over this bridge every night hoping that she would come back, but no miracle occurred. Now he is living alone in already familiarised Tokyo, living a normal life. Ever since she left, he kept quiet and isolated himself from others. It is rather a sad song, but I hope you will enjoy it.