//beconfused

I won’t be posting Japanese music lyric translations for a while. I sort of ended my run too. I planned to post 10 of these. I post every Friday until the there are 10. The feedback has been quite positive so far, but last week, I posted number 10.

So this week, there’s nothing. I decide to post some credits instead.

I listen to some Japanese songs, some of which have rather strange lyrics, so I posted them. I never did translations, I do not understand Japanese. I took lyric translations from fan pages etc. Sometimes, the web fails me and I ended up typing the lyrics out by copying the subtitles from the video clip.

The songs come from different sources, I shan’t talk much about it, lol. Some came from video clips. I use m&g Software’s AVI to WAV extractor 3.5 to extract out the sound from the video. [The software is free by the way.]

For song cropping, normalizing of volumes and fading in and out, I use either Ahead Nero Wave Editor or Sonic Foundry Sound Forge. Both are good programs, I use the latter more though.

Songs are encoded in Windows Media Audio 9 for smaller downloads at a quality loss. I use Microsoft Windows Media Encoder 9 Series to encode all my music. [This is a free software too.] Windows Media Audio sounds best at lower bit rates as compared to other formats.

Some posts include still image captures, these are captured by Microsoft Windows Media Player 9 Series. [This is another free software.] Images are later cropped or edited by Macromedia Fireworks. [Photoshop committed suicide, great..]

These are the past postings [Most of the music are removed already, sorry.]

# music//ichi [Ayumi Hamasaki - Real Me]
# music//ni [Yukino Satsuki - Densetsu no Onsen GAME (Legendary Hot-Springs Turtle)]
# music//san [NICEGUYJIN - Hai, Irasshai! (Hello, Welcome!)]
# music//shi [Funta - Wake Up Angel ~ Negaimashite wa Mugen Nari ~ (Wake Up Angel ~ Wishing for this is unlimited ~)]
# music//go [Aoi Tada - Wo Qui Non Coin]
# music//roku [Yuuichirou Sakuraba - Hitoribocchi no Haburashi (Lonely Toothbrush)]
# music//shichi [Gackt - To build a fire (To feel a fire)]
# music//hachi [Judy and Mary - Kujira 12 gou (Whale #12)]
# music//ku [Maki Goto - Genshoku GAL Hadeni Ikube! (An Authentic GAL Should Be Bold)]
# music//ju [MiniMoni - Okashi Tsukutte Okassui (Making Sweets: Strange)]

I enjoyed posting these. I’ll do these weekly posting thingy in future too.

Yesterday, I posted a quote that has been posted a day before. I forgotten to change it to a new one in my template. Opps.

So one of my favorite Japanese artists sang an English song. However, I’m not too eager to support him. He is known as Gackt, full name [so he claims..] is Camui M. S. Gackt (ç¥?�? 楽æ??, Kamui Gakuto). He claims his birthday to be July 4, 1540, that makes him over 400 years old. He must be thinking that I’m a 3-year-old to believe him.

Gackt was part of Malice Mizer before he went solo. His shoe size is 25.5 cm, 10 inches or size 8. [What the hell am I thinking to give shoe sizes..] So anyway, Gackt sang an English song. In _Engrish_ to be exact.

Japanese pronounces English with much difficult, so speaking in English is quite a problem for them and now Gackt sang the entire song in English, correction, _Engrish_. Pronunciation problems are arose from different stress in vowels etc.

I included a portion of Gackt’s song “To feel the Fire” and the lyrics for that portion. “To feel the Fire” is a song written by Stevie Wonder for a Kirin beverage commercial called “Fire”. [Okay, "Fire" supposed to be some coffee brand..]

The lyric part with the italicized squared parenthesis [like this] is the actual lyrics. Those without are just lyric that sounded like what Gacktis singing.

I have encoded 1min 30sec sample in WMA file proprietary (Windows Media Audio 9; 32 kbps, 32 kHz, stereo 2-pass CBR) for you people. This is the highest quality I encoded so far, it’s 32 kHz too! [Previously was 16]

Download the sample from here (374 KB). [Download it quick, as I'll remove it on February 02.]

To build a fire
[To feel a fire]
’cause when I look inside my yard and I tell that toast to me
['cause when I look inside my heart and I tell the truth to me]
Loudly to my zoo I come, we stop upon the sea
[Loud and clear my soul cries out with total honesty]
I need the fire, fire, fire to keep me warm
[I need the fire, fire, fire to keep me warm]
I’ve got to build a fire
[I've got to feel the fire]

Your smiling face, me enough to warm a sign
[My smiling face, with laughter on the side]
You say “no duh”, I get butt-sore every night
[You'd say no doubt I get passion every night]
But if you don’t die, your underwater dive
[But if in our bed your arms don't hold me tight]
Means you leave much to be desired
[Means it leaves much to be desired]

’cause when I look inside my eye and I tell the two’s too mean
['cause when I look inside my heart and I tell the truth to me]
Loud and cold my soul I come with stuff that rhymes with ‘C’
[Loud and clear my soul cries out with total honesty]
I need the fire, fire, fire to keep me warm
[I need the fire, fire, fire to keep me warm]
I’ve got to fear the fire
[I've got to feel the fire]

And if you look into my eye and the toad does something dude
[And if you look into my eyes and you told yourself the truth]
You can make a bunny hop if you don’t ride the goose
[You can't make a body hot if you don't light the fuse]
I need the fire, fire, fire to keep me warm
[I need your fire, fire, fire to keep me warm]
I’ve got to build a fire
[I've got to feel the fire]

Source: Misheard lyrics taken from The Japanese Flannel, actual lyrics from Sawasdee Gackt: Lyrics ~ Gackt ~� I only include a portion of the lyrics, minor amendments have been made too.

Just take a listen to the song and you’ll realize that Gackt’s lyrics sounds more like The Japanese Flannel’s version.

My favorite lines include “I get butt-sore every night”, “I come with stuff that rhymes with ‘C’” and “You can make a bunny hop if you don’t ride the goose”. Now I know what to do.. Since I don’t ride a goose, I’ll make a bunny hop. Gackt sure gives good advices.