Mr Children: Surrender
Surrender
04.01.30
Artist: Mr. Children
Title: Surrender
Words: Sakurai Kazutoshi
Music: Sakurai Kazutoshi
Burning my self on coffee is an indication
of how upset I am.
It’s cause you go and spring ‘goodbye’ on me suddenly.
If I could just laugh it off,
how great a guy would you think I was.
but that’s not me.
It’s last minute but
I give it one more try,
but, I Surrender
the thick thunder clouds are gathering in my heart.
I believed love was just an illusion anyway,
back when I lived my life thinking I knew everything
I thought you foolish but,
I’m beaten ragged, here
just some sap,
no more, I Surrender
that the fusion I so despise could make me cry,
makes me despise myself, despise.
light up the darkness, the way you used to
without you I feel insecure
I used to think I could lose it all and not give a shit
I had myself convinced of it…
a merciless rain falls in my heart
the days we were together, wash by and disappear
like trash in the street. The End.
Translated By: Brian Stewart & Takako Sakuma
Translator’s Notes: Devastating.
Romaji
ko-hi- gurai de yakedo shita no ga
douyou shiteru shouko nan dakedo
sayonara wo kimi ga kyuu ni iu kara sa
waraitobasu koto ga dekita nara
donna ni ka gureito na yatsu to omowareru darou?
demo boku ha chigau
mou dotanba
saredo mou hitooshi
keredo I Surrender
bunatsui sekiranun ga mune no naka ni tachikomeru
aijyou nante douse iryu-jyon da to
wake shiri kao de kurashita hibi ha
kimi ga hakuchi ni omoe mo shita kedo
mou kotenpan
tada no ohitoyoshi
mohaya I Surrender
daikirai na fyu-jyon de nakesou na jibun ga iya iya
kurayami wo terashite yo ano koro no you ni
kimi nashi jya fuantei nanda yo
issaigassai wo nakushite mo kamawanai to omoeta no ni
sou shinjireta no ni
mune ni mujyou no ame ga furu
futari de sugoshita hibi ha rojyou no chiri no you
nagare kiete The End sa
Romaji By: Brian Stewart
really curious how he could write such amazingly powerful lyrics… was he going through anything like this when he wrote it?
I think that he may have been going through a break/divorce with his first wife at the time, but I am not sure.
I think this was post divorce. everything it’s you and brand new my lover were written during the divorce period, I remember reading about it and finding it unusual for a song like everything it’s you, which at a glance seems like a love song, is actually a cynical jibe at love and ’til death do us apart’. The lyrics suddenly takes a different meaning once you realize the motivation behind the song.
anyway, sakurai did say that all his songs are personal in nature.