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Now playing: 平原綾香 - 翼をください
via FoxyTunes Our friend, Yoshimasa, comes over to our house regularly.
We eat, laugh, play games, read the Bible and make music.
Recently he started to teach us an old Japanese favourite from the 70's entitled 翼をください(tsubasa wo kudasai), which, translated, would be "Give me wings".
Below is the lyrics of the song in English (my translation)
If my wishes could come true
Please give me wings
Wings like those of birds
White and pure.
* I want to spread those wings and rise
High into the endless sky
To the world of freedom above
Where sorrows are no more
I'd spread those wings and rise
We still dream the very same
As our childhood dreams
repeat *
And these are the original Japanese lyrics:
今 私の願いごとが叶うならば
翼がほしい
この背中に鳥のように
白い翼つけて下さい
* この大空に翼を広げ
飛んで行きたいよ
悲しみのない自由な空へ
翼はためかせ
行きたい
子供の時夢見たこと
今も同じ夢に見ている
To these heart felt desires to know freedom, happiness and love, the God of the Bible offers just what will make these dreams come true.
