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When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st:

Awai, Umi Ogimi

なんで隅田川なんですか?

なんで

からっと晴れてるような日と、雨が降ってる日、どっちが酒が旨いですか

自分は雨の方が

自分もです

はあ

河があれば、雨がなくても落ち着いてゆっくり飲めますよ

はい

それに、夜になればもう水の色はわからない

まあ、そうですね

やっぱり隅田川は美しいですよ

まあ、そうですね

さっき思い出したこと、やっぱり話してみてもいいですか?

はい

僕なんですけど

二人恋人がいて

一人が天使で、一人が悪魔なんですね

美しい二人なんです

誰よりもね

ただし月や太陽ほどではない美しさ

  • 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

  • 10

    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

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    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.

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  • Awai

    A unit formed mainly by members of the up-and-coming artist group Gekidan-Awai. Attention is focused on its practice of melting the boundaries between theater and music.

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