TORINTO MORI

Remember death.
But don't spend your life living like you're already dead.

Birds fly. Forests stand. Flowers bloom.
Nobody has to clap for them. They just do it.

Humans, meanwhile, keep dragging yesterday around,
worrying about tomorrow before it even gets here,

and somehow putting today off.

That's the kind of thing Takanasi WASHI thinks about.

And somehow, as W.A.S.H.I, that became the 3rd single:

"TORINTO MORI."

Makes no sense, right?

Torintooo... Mori????

Yeah. lol

Memento Mori.
Remember that you will die.

Carpe Diem.
Seize the day.
Pick today while it's here.

Mix the two together and...

Memento Mori + Carpe Diem = TORINTO MORI

TORINTO MORI.

In Japanese:

tori = bird
mori = forest

tori to mori.

Bird and forest.

So yeah.

Philosophy or a dad joke?

Probably both.

There's a line in the song:

"Kareru mae ni, kare."

Kareru means "to wither."

Kare means "hunt it."

So basically:

Hunt it before it withers.

Stupid?

Maybe.

But flowers don't wait for your schedule.

...and now this is starting to sound way too serious.

So...

Heart. Still here.

Hatsu.
Hatsu.
HATSURATSU!!!

There it is.

Hatsu is heart.
As in, the thing you can actually order and eat in Japan.

Hatsuratsu means lively. Full of life.

Yes, the song really goes from death to that.

That's Takanasi WASHI.

That's W.A.S.H.I.


A song about death.

With birds.
A forest.
A dying flower.
And a terrible joke.

I could explain the rest.

But at that point, just play the damn thing.

W.A.S.H.I 3rd Single
"TORINTO MORI"