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
