Clair De Lune

■概要(Overview)
あ～今日も楽器のお稽古に疲れちゃったわ～
左手が上手く動かないのよね～関係ないけどお腹空いたし
パン屋に寄って帰ろう
あ、そうだ、左手にトングを持って左手の練習してみようかな
え～っと、ドーナツは・・あっ、でも今日はチョココロネが食べたい気分
・・はっ！・・視線を感じる・・ドーナツの！
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・・・・そんな事を想像して作った曲です。

Ah, I'm tired from practicing my instrument today too.
My left hand isn't working properly. It doesn't matter, but I'm hungry.
Let's go to the bakery and go home.
Ah, that's right, I think I'll try holding the tongs in my left hand and practice my left hand.
Um, donuts... ah, but today I feel like eating chocolate coronet.
...Ha! ...I feel the gaze...of the donut!
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...This is a song I created while imagining something like that.

■歌詞
「いらっしゃいませ！」
パン屋に寄ったの帰り道
クルミパンとチョココロネ
ああ　ドーナツを選ばなかった

それでもやっぱり気になって
チラッと横目で見てしまう
綺麗に並んだドーナツが
悲しそうだ

笑顔にするため
生まれてきたのに
通り過ぎるなんて
出来なくなっていた

♪♪♪(あなたの事を待っていた)♪♪♪

左利きのふりして(優しい手で今)
トレーにのせた
震える手で落とさないように

自分でもわからない
そんなこと
くだらないよ
見せかけだよ
偽善的だよ
自分に酔ってさ
(あなたが決めた事)

もしも私がこのドーナツを
手に取らなかったら
そして気まぐれを起こさなかったら
おやつ食べた天使の笑顔
見れたかもしれないのに


毎週買ってたドーナツ
たまには食べたいチョココロネ
ああ　誘惑に　負けてしまった

心の声：「それなら一緒に買っちゃいな」
心の声：「甘いものならばいくらでも食べきれるはずよ」
心の声：「迷いは不要よ」

♪♪♪(あなたの笑顔見れるかな)♪♪♪
♪♪♪

優柔不断で風見鶏
煮え切らないの　それって・・駄目ね
曇った心で純粋なあなたの気持ちを
ふざけた左手で触って壊した
天使の笑顔が見れたはずなのに

「無意味」なだけじゃなくて
「有害な存在」であると気付いた

♪♪♪♪♪♪

(甘い誘惑ね・・)
(正解は無いわ)
(あなたの思うままでいいはずよ)

何も望むものは無いわ
ドーナツが寂しそうだったから・・

もしも私がこのドーナツを
手に取らなかったら
そして気まぐれを起こさなかったら
おやつ食べた天使の笑顔
見れたかもしれないのに


(私たちには選択権が無いの)
(あなたは恵まれた環境にいるくせに・・)
(公園のベンチの真ん中に座って)
(ひじ掛けに左手を置いて)
(遠くの空を眺めながら)
(ため息をつく)
(そうやってかじった一口目の私はさぞかし甘いでしょうね)
(二口、三口と食べ続けて)
(最後の一口を食べ終える頃)
(あなたはすっかり忘れているはずよ)
(私たちの事を)
(まるで初めから存在しなかったかのように)

子供：「お母さん、ドーナツ食べたいよ」
母親：「さっき笹団子食べたばっかりでしょ」
子供：「えーっ、もっと、もっとー！」
母親：「いい加減にしてちょうだい」

(・・・いらっしゃいませ！)

■Lyrics
"welcome!"
On the way home from a stop at the bakery
Walnut bread and chocolate coronet
Oh she didn't choose donuts

Still, I'm still curious
I glance sideways
Donuts lined up neatly
Looks sad

to make people smile
was born
Thinking like that, I can't just pass by
could not


♪♪♪(I was waiting for you)♪♪♪

Pretending to be left-handed (with gentle hands now)
I put it on the tray
I was careful not to drop it with my trembling hands.

I don't even know myself
Such a thing
It's trivial
It's just a sham
That's hypocritical
get drunk on yourself
(That's your decision)

If I didn't put this donut on the tray
And if I don't cause a whim
The smile of an angel who ate a snack
they could have seen

Donuts I bought every week
Chocolate corone that I want to eat once in a while
Ah, I gave in to temptation.

Voice in my heart: “Then let’s buy it together.”
Inner voice: "If it's sweet, I'm sure I can eat as much as I want."
Voice in my heart: “There’s no need to hesitate.”

♪♪♪(Can I see your smile)♪♪♪
♪♪♪

Weathervane with indecision
My heart doesn't boil over. That's no good.
With a clouded heart, your pure feelings
I playfully touched it with my left hand and broke it.
I should have seen the smile of an angel

Not just “pointless”
I realized that I was a “harmful presence”

♪♪♪♪♪♪

(Sweet temptation...)
(There is no correct answer)
(It should be whatever you want)

There's nothing I want
However, I thought Donut looked lonely...

If I didn't put this donut on the tray
And if I don't cause a whim
The smile of an angel who ate a snack
they could have seen

(We don't have a choice)
(Even though you are in a privileged environment...)
(You're sitting in the middle of a park bench)
(You put your left hand on the armrest)
(While you look at the distant sky)
(You sigh)
(The taste of your first bite of mine will be really sweet.)
(Keep eating two and three bites)
(By the time you finish your last bite)
(You must have completely forgotten)
(about us)
(As if it never existed in the first place)

Child: "Mom, I want to eat donuts."
Mother: “You just ate bamboo dumplings, right?”
Child: “Eh, more, more!”
Mother: “Please take it easy.”

(···welcome!)

Irasshaimase!(Welcome!)

A lill tune - thank you for listening 
Music and words by Netta&McGill

-
Awesomely Swell

Didn’t see right from left
Surely the sweetest theft 
Many feelings inside
But in tune with my mind

Didn’t know left from right
Hidden in plain sight
Unaware, eveun naivety 
Caught up eventually 
                      
With patience, my dear                             
We’ll be good, very clear 
Speaking out, listen well
Sometimes awesomely swell
Sometimes awesomely swell

Much in need of a guide
Right there by my side
Now trust without fear
What’s true in my ear

Didn’t see right from left
Surely the sweetest theft 
Didn’t know left from right
But now in plain sight

Yeah with patience, my dear
We’re good, it’s so clear 
Speaking out, even tell

Sometimes awesomely swell
Sometimes awesomely swell
Sometimes awesomely swell

Awesomely Swell

This is the Synline Mix.The original version by Lemon Muzik is here.
on.soundcloud.com/1UGz7

When Lemon initially approached me to collaborate on this song, which was still in its unfinished stage, I, for some reason, recalled memories with my family. Today is my birthday. Birthdays might be a great opportunity to reminisce about each precious memory with family.

Original Composition and Arrangement by Lemon Muzik
Supplementary Composition, Arrangement and Mixed by Synline
Photo by bise else

'Family Memories' Lemon=Synline

original..All for you

Rodolfo Planes - Music composition, instrumentation, arrangement, production and mix and mastering. @rplanes
Mark J. Bennett - Vocals and lyrics @markjbennett
Ce Mastro - Backing vocals and chorus vocal arrangement - @cemastro
Georg Boehme - Sax solo and fills - @georg-boehme

Career Liars (by Rodolfo Planes & Mark J Bennett)

How are you ever able to live with yourself? 
What do you really care about? 
You can cope just as long as you’re not left on the shelf, 
Hear me out.

Are you ever conscious of the harm that you do?
Or is all fair in love and in war?
And there is no depth that you and your crew won’t sink to. 
We’re done for.

Career liars, 
Truth deniers,
Big high flyers,
Falsifiers.

Making all of your deals with your old cronies,
I think that is all that you’re good for. 
Nothing is ever sincere coz you’re real phoneys.
Show them the door.

Lying for a living, as long as we’re forgiving,
We’ve been truly hood-winked this time for sure. We’re learning a lesson about the true cost of living 
Now we’re all poor.

Career liars, 
Truth deniers,
Big high flyers, 
Falsifiers.

Career Liars

The colorful symbols are my message to everyone... 🌍 ☮︎ 👍 🍀 2024 for a better world...!

Still Alive

Yutaka composed an amazing instrumental a few months ago, and asked me to write and play on it. I was immediately captivated by the grandeur of his musical composition, and of course was delighted to collaborate. When I asked Yutaka what he was thinking of as he composed the music, he said "a holy tree". I then researched the beliefs and traditions and mythology of holy trees from both our cultural backgrounds - Japanese and Anglo-Celtic, and had a bash at a bit of haiku! 

Instrumental composition & instrumentation ~ Yutaka Hirai 
Lyrics, vocal composition & vocals ~ Chris Okunbor
Audio engineering ~  Yutaka and Chris
Copyright 2015
Listen to more of Yutaka's music https://soundcloud.com/yutaka-hirai

Photo taken last year - the woods in Scotland


Kodama

Lonely, alone, roams the land
Leaves only faint traces in the sand
Lovers and friends fade into grey
"One" can be such heavy company.

Listen Kodama!
The leaves rustle
I'm so lonely.

Gossip of the wrens
The icy boughs are ringing
brittle whispered rhymes.

Scribe earth circles with a hazel wand
Mountain spirits echo ancient songs.
Flute of alder calling up the wind,
Forgo all to take Kodama's hand.

O sorrowful heart
shimenawa rope will bind
the desolate ones.

Listen Kodama!
The leaves rustle.
A lonely human cries.

Lonely one, clinging to the ground.
Eyes shut tight, three times spin around.
Turn around, begin the journey home
A human spirit can't endure alone

Ah Kodama!
I'll bind you with a shimenawa rope
then I'll leave you.
I will not stay alone.

Listen Kodama!
I'm going to leave you now.

Listen Kodama!
I'm going to leave you now.
I don't want to stay alone.

ああ、木霊よ
あなたにしめ縄を巻いたら
私は行くわ
私は一人じゃない
(Oh , Kodama
Once you are wound with a shimenawa
I 'll go. I'm not alone)








Kodama (Holy Tree) ~ Yutaka Hirai & Chris O ...see description for lyrics.

Chris, hailing  from North West  Tasmania in Australia, is a singer-songwriter who pens originals, and  plays vintage music the way it used to be.  Her mashup of  Folk, Blues,  &  Americana  draws on a lifetime of  encounters with places, people, and the magic of nature;  echoing  a multitude of  global grassroots traditions. 
Traveling around carrying her “band” like a pack pony ~ lap-slide, banjo, uke, as well as a few plain ole guitars, she  regularly performs in Australia and Europe.
Growing up in Merseyside, England, Chris was exposed to the vibrant music scene of the late 60’s and 70’s,  and her music is has been influenced by  traditional folk, country blues, and  world music .
In 2016 she represented her State at the International Blues Challenge & National Women in Blues Showcase in Memphis,  and her second album,  “Wailin’ & Raggin’ the Blues” was  a   finalist for “Best Self-produced CD with the Blues Foundation , USA.  Her third album, “Twisted Roots & Twisted Highways” was  a finalist for Blues & Roots Radio Album of the Year in 2018.
www.chrisokunbor.net

Kodama (Holy Tree) ~ Yutaka Hirai & Chris O ...see description for lyrics.

Chris O (2)