My level of ambivalence toward human contact can be disconcerting.
\n\u8de1\u306a\u3057 ("ato nashi") translates to "without a trace", which is what I would have called this song in English. It’s better to keep it in Japanese since I wouldn’t want people thinking I wrote about the TV show (which I like, by the way.)
\nI started this lyric some months ago when I decided to go out for a late-night dessert at Kerby Lane Caf\u00e9. I brought my lyric book with me just to see whether I could jot down a few verses while I waited for my food. It was a busy night, so I didn’t get far.
\nI found the lyric last night when I started Romanizing Supercar’s "Fairway", and I figured I may as well finish it. It’s a wordy piece, so whatever melody I fashion for it is going to be busy.<\/p>\n
\n\u8de1\u306a\u3057
\nDec. 19, 2006
\nAnother weekend come and gone
\nAnother mark on the calendar
\nThe next day ends like the one before
\nAnd passes like every one to come
\nI couldn’t say what I did back then
\nLike I can’t say what I’m doing now
\nIf you ask me about my plans
\nI’ll tell you nothing you want to know
\nIs it so wrong to never connect?
\nIs it so wrong to not get involved?
\nIf I disappear without a trace,
\nIs it so wrong to never be found?
\nI can’t remember what it felt like
\nThe touch of someone else’s body
\nMust not have been that big a deal
\n‘Cos I don’t think I ever missed it
\nAnother night just came and went
\nWithout you here to keep me lonely
\nThe next day feels like the one before
\nAnd passes like every one to come
\nIf one day I disappeared, the world won’t notice
\nAnd I won’t mind
\nIs it so wrong to never connect?
\nIs it so wrong to not get involved?
\nIf I disappear without a trace,
\nIs it so wrong to never be found?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
My level of ambivalence toward human contact can be disconcerting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s4Bkir-post_2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/meisakuki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/meisakuki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/meisakuki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/meisakuki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/meisakuki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/meisakuki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/meisakuki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/meisakuki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/meisakuki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}