"Bamboo Collage" Self Liner Notes Translation

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GRADUATION

TAKUYA-san gave me a "diploma"
I really met a great number of people in the one and half year of this album's making. And irreplaceable things were gotten.
There are always important people under the same sky. I can laugh only because I think this.

CANDY LINE

I'm loved, only myself.
But, it's because there are people waiting for me that I can loved and am loved.
Because there's a place I return to.
Still! After this! I'll meet a great more number of people.
CANDY LINE is "my life".

PRIDE

"It's OK to take more pride in your feelings"
shogo-san gave me these words.
I want to convey this song to many people in various towns.

BREAKTHROUGH

A high spirits party tune! I start wanting to dance!
It's where you can finish worrying about your actions!
I was singing to face towards tomorrow.
Those of LONG SHOT PARTY participated with a sax and trumpet. I want everyone to sing the chorus of the B-said boys during lives without fail!

Yoru no MELODY

Although the words are vague, I sing my inner heart's voice.
It's a song that gives forcibleness into my thoughts, which can't be carried through.
I'm glad that this wonderful song was born in this world.
I sang with the image of grasping something that isn't visible.

Tsuyoku Nare

From now on, I will be "myself"
instead of the me of today and the me of tomorrow.
I can become stronger. I did so, and addressed myself.
Tomorrow's early rising. Today's work. Living.
When I think I can hold out just a little bit, I'm happy.

Renai Kyou no Shi

"I want you to sing a straight song"
Maeda-san said this.
It's not a sweet love song!
They're feelings that were thrown straight from my heart.

SELECTION

It's a melody that begins to run.
Your selection is not always wrong.
Even if you're wrong, you're not wrong.
Because I don't always want to carry regrets.

COMMUNICATION

Surely, everybody thinks, "I want to understand you" and "I want to know you".
Communication is important.
I very much feel that the title "COMMUNICATION" that
was made with TAKUYA-san for the first time was fate.

KOÂ·MOÂ·REÂ·BI -Bamboo Ver.-

From a 10-year-old girl to the image of an adult woman.
Never are the words taken lightly, but, with this arrangement, lovely words can be heard.
It became a song where pretty sunlight isn't felt, but fresh wind and light are.

JET BOY JET GIRL

People fall in love every day.
Breakfast is delicious. The sky is pretty. That person is lovely.
I want you to obey such feelings of falling in love without hesitation.
Because love becomes a big power.
The sound of a floating feeling gives more excitement to falling in love

STAY TUNE

Swinging sound and vocals.
They're lyrics that confirm existence.
It's a tune that protected and tied the Japanese language.
I sang it while imagining my "first kiss". (Laughs)

Kanjiru Mama

It's unexpectedly easy, though simplicity is difficult.
It's probably not possible to be able to live as one feels.
This is me everytime,
"I live as I feel - isn't just that good enough?"
I think that I will sing it with a great voice.