はじまりはいつも雨～Always rainy at the beginning～

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMGbz6BtHqE

「君に会う日は　不思議なくらい
雨が多くて
水のトンネル　くぐるみたいで
幸せになる
君を愛するたびに
愛じゃ足りない気がしてた
君を連れだすたびに
雨が包んだ
君の名前は　優しさぐらい
よくあるけれど
呼べば素敵な　とても素敵な
名前と気づいた
僕は上手に君を　愛してるかい　愛せてるかい
誰よりも　誰よりも

今夜君のこと　誘うから空を見てた
はじまりはいつも雨　星をよけて」

作詞：飛鳥涼

私が初めて好きになった歌手が、
CHAGE&ASKAです。
ASKAの詩は、とても独特の雰囲気があって、
その世界観がなかなかつかめなかったのですが（今でも進行形）、
その世界に引き込まれるかのように、
私も作詞の世界を垣間見ました。
それが、中学２年生の時。
ASKAのような世界を自分も演出してみたくて、
自分の心の中を覗きながらいくつも詩を書き溜めたものです。
その数年前に作曲を少しだけかじったことがあったので、
シンガーソングライターまがいのことができるのでは、と、
曲作り用の作詞もちょっとだけ勉強した記憶があります。

あれから数十年（！）経って、
ふと詩を書いてみようと思いついたのですが、
人生経験は当時よりある（はず）なのに、
素直に自分の気持ちを言葉に表すことができず、
結局４週間で書けた詩は５つ。
ボキャブラリーが少ないだけなのか、
素直じゃないからなのか…

☆☆☆☆☆★★★★★☆☆☆☆☆

“When I meet you
It is usually rainy, incredibly
It is like walking under the tunnel of water
Which makes me feel happy
Whenever I made love to you
I didn’t feel it was not only a matter of love
Every time I took you out
Rain was all around us
Your name is quite common
So is kindness
But I realised
That your name was precious, very special, as I talked to you
Do I love you well and much enough?
Do you think I can
More than anyone else?

I looked up in the sky tonight
Because I was going to ask you out.
Always rainy at the beginning
Trying to escape from the stars in the sky

Written by Ryo Aska
Translated by me (Please note that it is paraphrased, so not as exact as what the author wants to say. Could be a wrong translation)

“CHAGE & ASKA” is the first duo musician that I liked in my life.
One of them, ASKA, has his unique style in his lyrics, melodies, and singing.
His world view described in his poems was hard to understand for me (and still is!), but very attractive to me and led me to the world of poem.
It was when I was in Year 8.
I wanted to express my feeling and thoughts like ASKA did in his poems, so I listened to myself and tried to put them into words.
A few years before I started writing poems, I learned a little bit of composing music, so I also learned how to make poems to music ( imaging as if I was a singer-song-writer!).

Recently, after those years of not writing any, I suddenly made up my mind to write poems.
I am sure that I experienced much more than that time, but I couldn’t express my feeling and thoughts freely.
I wrote only 5 poems in 4 weeks….
I wonder why is it because of short of vocabulary or because of lack of honesty….?