Lyric
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,
Awai, Umi Ogimi
あ、次の角を右に......はい
あんな風にライトアップするんですね
ああ、スカイツリー
はい
でかいなあ
ほんとでかいですよ
やっぱりなんというか、すこし浮きますね
そりゃあね
馴染みませんね
そうですね
僕はいつも蝋燭みたいだなって思うんです
蝋燭ですか
はい、巨大な
かなり巨大ですね
そうです
馴染むのにどれくらいかかりますかね
まだ十年も経ちませんよね？
そうだと思います
何十年かすれば
そうですね
そして更に何百年もして崩れ去ります
はい
時間は流れますよ
……
すべてを連れ去っていく
はい
- Lyricist
Kentaro Otsuka
- Composer
Umi Ogimi
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Awai, Umi Ogimi
- 1
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Awai, Umi Ogimi
- 2
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Awai, Umi Ogimi
- 3
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
Awai, Umi Ogimi
- 4
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Awai, Umi Ogimi
- 5
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
Awai, Umi Ogimi
- 6
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd,
Awai, Umi Ogimi
- 7
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
Awai, Umi Ogimi
- 8
By chance, or nature's changing course untrimm'd:
Awai, Umi Ogimi
- 9
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Awai, Umi Ogimi
- ⚫︎
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,
Awai, Umi Ogimi
- 11
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
Awai, Umi Ogimi
- 12
When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st:
Awai, Umi Ogimi
- 13
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
Awai, Umi Ogimi
- 14
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
Awai, Umi Ogimi
The members of Gekidan-Awai, an up-and-coming theatre and art collective from Japan, formed a musical group to create their first "music" work. In 2019 Gekidan-Awai performed their theatrical play called "Sonnet," which was based on Shakespeare's poetry collection with the same title and its Japanese translated version done by Kenichi Yoshida. They recreated the play and turned it into a collection of songs. Umi Ogimi, who was in charge of music in the theatrical version, worked as a composer and opened up a new way of musical expression.
