Karashima Midori - Natsuiro Monogatari (夏色物語)

It's another one of Karahisma Midori's (辛島美登里) song which is not amongst the most popular.  It's also one of the earlier ones in her singing career.  It's released in 1991.  I love its melody, although I find the lyrics a bit abstract.  I am not Japanese, so I don't know what they think when they read the lyrics.  But I can talk about my feeling towards this song.

夏色 ("summer colors") evokes "passion", "prosperity", and "blue sky and ocean" in my mind.  Since the story took place in summer, I think it represents a passionate love story.  However, autumn, which is usually associated with looniness and gloominess, follows summer.  When the female character said she wanted the season to stop, it gave me the feeling that she's afraid of the inevitable departure, like the changing of the season.

When I read the words 裸足のままの恋心 ("loving heart which remains bare footed"), the words 裸足 ("bare footed") evokes adjectives such as "innocent" and "unreserved".  So, it's that kind of love that I am thinking when I'm listening to the song.

All in all, this song gives me a poignant feeling that "all love will eventually be followed by departure."



夏色物語

曲，詩：辛島美登里

夏色の物語　ひき潮がつれ去る前に
駆けだしてしまいたい　裸足のままの恋心

月の光が　やけたあなたの　背中をそっと泳いでる
眠れないのは　海鳴りじゃなく　あなたの漏らす吐息のせい

言葉にすれば　何かが　こわれてゆきそう
強く抱いたら　抱くほど
指のすきま　すべり落ちる砂のようね　愛は

夏色の物語　海のインクで書きつづる
潮騒の首飾り　さざ波はもう唄わない

叱って欲しい　どんな私も　見逃さないで　導いて
許して欲しい　どんなあやまちも　包みこむように　見守って

腕を離せば　このまま　会えなくなりそう
だから過ぎゆく季節を
とめて　とめて　ひとりきりで　何処へゆくの　愛は

夏色の物語　ひき潮がつれ去る前に
駆けだしてしまいたい　裸足のままの恋心

裸足のままの恋心

A Tale of Summer Colors

Composer, Lyrics: Karashima Midori

The tale of summer colors

Before the ebbing tide takes away 

My loving heart which remains bare footed

I wish I would have set out running

Moonlight gently swimming in your suntanned back

I'm not being able to sleep

Not because of the roar of the ocean

But it's due to the fault of your soundly leaking breath

Putting it in words would seem to ruin something

And so I am holding you as tight as possible

Love is like sand slipping through between the gaps of the fingers, isn't it?

The tale of summer colors is written in the ink of the sea

Necklace of the roaring ocean

Already, wavelets are singing no more

Whatever I am, please scold at me

Guide me so I will not miss

Whatever the fault, please forgive me

Protect me as if I was being wrapped

If I leave your arms

And remains like that

It looks like we'll never be able to meet again

Thus, I am begging the passing season

Please stop going

Please stop going

Where else could my love go in complete solitude?

The tale of summer colors

Before the ebbing tide takes away 

My loving heart which remains bare footed

I wish I would have set out running

My loving heart which remains bare footed