Ohayo! ^_^First of all that's for all the support you've been giving to us! Second... well, many of those that have been supporting us don't understand Japanese.
We won't want them to miss the meaning of our first recorded music, especially because we believe it has a strong concept.
Shibire is not a "pretty song", it was never meant to be. The lyrics portrait a very serious and worrying theme from our society and it was born after reading a press news that - unfortunately - was soon forgotten: a mother that, for reasons unknown (or consciously ignored by others, we don't know), took the life of her own 4 children and in the end, killed herself.
The news stook to my mind. It wasn't explained why it happen in the news but, at the same time I ask myself: what can make a mother, that conceives and sacrifices herself with love to raise 4 new lives, reach the conclusion that death is more acceptable?... Perhaps even worse is the complete stillness and conscious ignorance that we feel when facing this and other situations around us.
I could stay here and talk about this for ever without reaching a conclusion (or perhaps many of them). We took the theme to professionals of different areas of communication, sociology and phycology and it a never ending story filled with grays...
We just didn't want to let this reality pass by us. It was the difference between what's socially acceptable and what makes a person "flip" that we tried to create a song that transmits the insecurity and doubt/chaos that leads someones mind to the verge of this act.
... well, we're not professional musicians, we just try to transmit what we feel. We don't think we hold the truth or have a unique vision of the world, we just have our senses and, as any one of us, we see the world through our own eyes.
We hope it makes more sense now to those who listen and don't understand Japanese. We'll post the lyrics soon.
...it could even be today but I don't have it here x_x
Long post XD, better go!
Tai deshita! ^_^
