{"id":227,"date":"2003-09-03T21:21:00","date_gmt":"2003-09-04T04:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/?p=227"},"modified":"2005-10-07T18:40:29","modified_gmt":"2005-10-08T01:40:29","slug":"kiss-me-in-japanese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/2003\/09\/03\/kiss-me-in-japanese\/","title":{"rendered":"Kiss Me&#8230; in Japanese?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found a version of Sixpence None the Richer&#8217;s &#8220;Kiss Me&#8221; in Japanese. ^_^ Since I can&#8217;t find the lyrics online, I think I&#8217;ll try to transliterate it by ear.<\/p>\n<p>I shall post the results later xD<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not very good at transliterating, but if the song is slow enough, then I can catch most of it. I tested myself on &#8220;ARUBAMU&#8221; a while ago, and I managed to get through the first verse almost error-free! Amazing!<\/p>\n<p>Oh yes, then comes the problem of translating the thing, because I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s a direct translation. Those tend to be very difficult.<\/p>\n<p>Although I do wonder why they recorded a Japanese version in the first place&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This is what I have so far:<\/p>\n<p><i>Kiss me<\/i><br \/>\nfugiho no hodori <i>lightly<\/i><br \/>\nkusa na nari (wa?)<br \/>\nfutari hane iroge(i?)<br \/>\name ka shioshite odoro(u?)<\/p>\n<p><i>Oh, kiss me<\/i><br \/>\nAwai yami yori <i>lead me<\/i><br \/>\ntsuki wo (matte? maite?) yo<br \/>\nhora hora (u?)<br \/>\nkaze ga uta a(t?)te hoshi kao tori hajimete<br \/>\n<i>So kiss me<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Kiss me<\/i><br \/>\nHimitsu no shirode<br \/>\n???????<br \/>\n???????<br \/>\nAnata no PAPA no yume e<\/p>\n<p><i>Oh, kiss me<\/i><br \/>\nAwai yami yori <i>lead me<\/i><br \/>\ntsuki wo (matte? maite?) yo<br \/>\nhora hora (u?)<br \/>\nkaze ga uta a(t?)te hoshi kao tori hajimete<br \/>\n<i>So kiss me<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Oh, kiss me<\/i><br \/>\nAwai yami yori <i>lead me<\/i><br \/>\ntsuki wo (matte? maite?) yo<br \/>\nhora hora (u?)<br \/>\nkaze ga uta a(t?)te hoshi kao tori hajimete<br \/>\n<i>So kiss me<\/i><\/p>\n<p>>>;; At least I got &#8220;Awai yami yori, lead me&#8221; (Lead me from the fleeting darkness?)<\/p>\n<h2><b>UPDATE: <a href=\"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/index.php?p=228\">Correct (hopefully) lyrics are here<\/a>.<\/b><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found a version of Sixpence None the Richer&#8217;s &#8220;Kiss Me&#8221; in Japanese. ^_^ Since I can&#8217;t find the lyrics online, I think I&#8217;ll try to transliterate it by ear. I shall post the results later xD I&#8217;m not very good at transliterating, but if the song is slow enough, then I can catch most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}