I Love You - Yutaka Ozaki
Friday, October 23, 2009
, Posted by SongBird at 10:31 PM
I LOVE YOU By Yutaka Ozaki(尾崎豊),is a oldies love song that captured the hearts of many Japanese of his age with a storm. This love song was written by Yutaka Ozaki when he was only 15.That's quite hard to believe, because his clever and amp; meaningful metaphors and similes used in the lyrics to convey the strong emotion of love, and the heart-moving melody that envelope it shows how talented an artist he was. This song speaks of unfulfillable love, left to be cherished in the heart.
We are just like abandoned cats
This room is like an empty box buried in dead leaves
And that is why you cry out with a voice like a kitten's
He was a teenage Idol, who grew to become a Star in a very short period capturing the hearts of the audience with his deep enchanting emotional voice. But the saddest part of his success story is that, he died mysteriously at the age 26, on April 25, 1992, after having been found half-naked in a Tokyo alleyway. The cause of death was reported as pulmonary edema.
Even after he has passed away, his love song continues to remain in the hearts of many and remind us of the pains and immaturity of love in our teenage days.
Mika Nakashima, Kasumasa Oda, Ryuichi Kawamura, Hikaru Utada, Ayaka and many Japanese artists covered Ozaki's song "I Love You". A Korean version is also covered by Max Changmin and Mandarin version by visually impaired singer, Kelvin Tan Wei Lian
Lyrics in Kanji
I love you ima dake wa kanashii uta kikitakunai yo
I love you nogare nogare tadoritsuita kono heya
Nani mo kamo yurusareta koi jyanai kara
Futari wa marude sute-neko mita
Kono heya wa ochiba ni umoreta aki-bako mitai
Dakara omae wa koneko no youna naki-goe
*kishimu BEDDO no ue de yasashisa wo mochiyor
Kitsuku karada dakishime�@ae
Sore kara mata futari wa me wo tojiru y
Kanashii uta ni ai ga shirakete shimawanu youni*
I love you wakasugiru futari no ai ni wa furerarenai himitsu ga aru
I love you ima no kurashi no naka de wa tadoritsukenai
Hitotsu ni kasanari ikite yuku koi wo
Nando mo aishiteru tte kiku omae
Kono ai nashi de wa ikite sae yukenai to
(*repeat)
Lyrics and Words in English
I love you, just for now, I don't want to hear any sad songs
I love you, I ran and ran, and found my way to this room
Because our love isn't one that is completely forgiven
We are just like abandoned cats
This room is like an empty box buried in dead leaves
And that is why you cry out with a voice like a kitten's
*If we hold one another closely
Sharing our tenderness on this creaking bed
Then, from there, we'll close our eyes again
So our love doesn't dampen into a sad love song*
I love you, because we are too young,
There are secrets about our love that must remain untouched
I love you, it's something that we can't reach in our lives right now
We'd only get hurt as we dream of a love
Where we can live as one
You ask me again and again if I love you
Almost as if you can't live without this love
(*repeat)
I love you, I ran and ran, and found my way to this room
Because our love isn't one that is completely forgiven
We are just like abandoned cats
This room is like an empty box buried in dead leaves
And that is why you cry out with a voice like a kitten's
*If we hold one another closely
Sharing our tenderness on this creaking bed
Then, from there, we'll close our eyes again
So our love doesn't dampen into a sad love song*
I love you, because we are too young,
There are secrets about our love that must remain untouched
I love you, it's something that we can't reach in our lives right now
We'd only get hurt as we dream of a love
Where we can live as one
You ask me again and again if I love you
Almost as if you can't live without this love
(*repeat)
I Love You by Ozaki Yutaka (尾崎豊)
From the album: 十七歳の地図 [Seventeen's Map]
Release: 1983.12.01, 1991/5/15（2nd Release）, 2001/4/25 （3rd Release）
Single Release: 1991.03.21
Version by Mika Nakashima. The song is being produced by Akira Sudo, the same man who produced Yutaka Ozaki's version. Sudo muses, "When you listen to what has been completed, it just touches your heart. Even when teenagers hear the song, their hearts will be moved. You feel that the world view which Ozaki-san and Nakashima-san share, are very close."
With just the piano and guitar, feel this heartfelt rendition by Ayaka.
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