SONNET Front Cover

Lyric

But thy eternal summer shall not fade,

Awai

誰？

そっちこそ

みんなのほう戻らないの？

うーん

あ、そう

うん

なんかね

ん？

久しぶりに会ったらなんか、すごいなって、みんな、頑張ってて

あー

すごいよねー

そうだね

すごいなあ

そうだねえ

みんな演じてるだけじゃない？

そうかなあ

いつ以来だろ？

うーん、たいていは卒業式か……あ、成人式はあったか

以来か

そうだねだから、うん

経つもんだね意外と

ね

会ってる？

まあそりゃね、時々だけど

そっか

会ってる？

時々ね

そっか

ちゃんと働いてんの？

俺？

うん

働いてるよ

そっか

何だと思ってんだよ

いや、えらいじゃん

なんだそれ

そっちこそ、どうなのよ

ええ？

こっちねえ

……微妙？

なんか、あれなんだよね

ブラックなの？

いや、まあブラックっていうかそれは別に、このご時世みんなでしょ

まあ

それはいいんだけど、なんというか、そう

来るまでは今日、そんな思ってたつもりなくて、でもなんか、みんな揚々と会社のこととか話してんの聞いてたらなんかね

……

イラついてきた

イラついたんだ

うん

やめちゃえば？

仕事？

うん

前触れもなく？

うん

いやそれは無理だよ前兆がないと

前兆？

うん

どんな？

派手なネイルしてくとか

そんなこと？

わかんない、違うかな

前兆なんてどうでもいいでしょ

うーん、まあね

いずれは起きるならさ

まあね

生きていくか、死を選ぶか。それが問題なのだ

……でしょ？

……まあね

  • Lyricist

    Kentaro Otsuka

  • Composer

    Umi Ogimi

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  • 1

    Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

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    Lyric

  • 2

    Thou art more lovely and more temperate:

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    Lyric

  • 3

    Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,

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    Lyric

  • 4

    And summer's lease hath all too short a date;

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    Lyric

  • 5

    Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,

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    Lyric

  • 6

    And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;

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  • 7

    And every fair from fair sometime declines,

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  • 8

    By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;

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  • ⚫︎

    But thy eternal summer shall not fade,

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  • 10

    Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st;

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  • 11

    Nor shall death brag thou wander'st in his shade,

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    Lyric

  • 12

    When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st:

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  • 13

    So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,

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  • 14

    So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

    Awai

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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    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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