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SHIAWASE NO IMI
Metadata
- title
- SHIAWASE NO IMI
- meaning
- KŌAN A: Luke's first Japanese song: ignore the ringing phone, then a familiar voice says change now; come to another world, 幸せの意味, I'll show ya.
- year
- 2022
- release
- KŌAN
- releaseType
- album
- artist
- Scoobert Doobert
- artistId
- #scoobert
- credits
- Written, performed, and mixed by Luke Francis Walton. Mastered by Riley Knapp. Artwork by Grizzard Graphics.
- spotify
- https://open.spotify.com/album/2wGa9TxP1UvCn1hnfyyV6v
- youtube
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JP4KYqgHevQ
- officialVideo
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JP4KYqgHevQ
- apple
- https://music.apple.com/us/album/kōan/1618191665
- themes
- happiness
- Japan
- KŌAN
- 2022
- isrc
- QZDA42257783
- isrcSource
- soundexchange
- draft
- false
Lyrics
いつもの朝 鳴り止まない電話 出ないまま無視して イライラして、もういいや スマホを手にとって 少し考えた僕は なぜかわからないまま 君と話していたんだ 君の声は 聞き覚えのある声 どこか懐かしい声 どこか優しい声 君はこう言ったね 今何かを変える時 君の未来が君を待ってる 今何かを変える時 Come to another world with me A place where you can finally be happy 幸せの意味 見せるよ I'll show ya Come to another world with me A place where you can finally be happy 幸せの意味 見せるよ I'll show ya 平凡な日々 白黒な日々 変えるのは怖くて だからできなくて 君はこう言ったね 今何かを変える時 君の未来が君を待ってる 今何かを変える時 Come to another world with me A place where you can finally be happy 幸せの意味 見せるよ I'll show ya Come to another world with me A place where you can finally be happy 幸せの意味 見せるよ I'll show ya I'll show ya
Content
Track four on KŌAN, KŌAN A (March 2022). Luke solo. Bandcamp notes call this Scoobert's first song written in Japanese, and the title means roughly the meaning of happiness (幸せ shiawase, happiness; 意味 imi, meaning). Same Japan/Zen season as 無門関 and What Makes You You; more in The Bent Stick.
The verses move from a morning of ignoring the phone to picking it up and, without knowing why, finding a familiar voice on the other end. It tells you the same thing twice (今何かを変える時, now is the time to change something) in wellness-poster Japanese, the Don't Worry register of commands that don't land, except here it's sung sincerely. Verse two names the stuck place between ordinary, black-and-white days and the fear that keeps you in them.
The bilingual hook is the whole offer: come to another world with me, a place where you can finally be happy. 幸せの意味, 見せるよ, I'll show ya. The promise ends on I'll show ya twice, an offer, never a definition: happiness defined by whoever shows it to you. Between Think About It and Keep Calm Atomic Bomb on KŌAN A (KŌAN essay), and after Boardwalk's idle beach, another world is movement inward rather than along the sand.