At Takuro Yoshida's 60-year-old concert in 2006, he invited Miyuki Nakajima to sing a song.
The song pushed the whole concert to a climax.
The accompaniment sounded, a thin body, slowly approaching, she wore a white shirt with a pair of jeans, combed the iconic ponytail, simple attire, no longer young age, but has a youthful breath, which is the feeling that Miyuki Nakajima has always given me: a sense of youth.
As soon as she appeared, she was greeted by a powerful aura, which immediately caused a commotion in the audience. She walked slowly, but firmly. Her aura comes from this firmness.
The song was written by Takuro Yoshida when she was 49 years old when her inspiration dried up, and hopefully it was "a suicide note-like song". Soon, Miyuki Nakajima wrote it with a song called "Give Me An Eternal Lie."
The lyrics are as follows:
Want to hear you tell you a lie forever
Say we're still on the road
Want to hear you lie to me forever
Don't tell me the truth
Please give me the lie forever
Tell me it's all because you love me anyway
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The two stood on the same stage, Miyuki Nakajima, stiff white shirt, standing like a revolutionary fighter, singing sonorously and powerfully, agitated and firm. Obviously, she was nostalgic. After the disillusionment of ideals, she sang about youth without regret. Even if it didn't come true, at least I shouted for it and burned for it. This hot passion gave her a kind of dashing wine. At the same time, Yu Li turned her head to comfort the spiritual idol who had inspired her, Takuro Yoshida.
Takuro Yoshida, on the other hand, was much more negative. His voice was soft and low, revealing a sadness after the shattering of an ideal. He seems to be recounting a fact: in the twilight of life, looking back on the past, he is more uncertain. For the ideal he once pursued, he was not sure whether it was the direction of his heart or a kind of novelty and follow-the-flow.
In the sixties of the last century, the whole world was full of revolutions. It was a trend, and being in the trend, but it was also a kind of going with the flow, and it turned out that many of the trendsetters at that time were indeed like this. They have no idea what they're doing.
If Miyuki Nakajima's interpretation of this song, the charm comes from her firmness, Takuro Yoshida comes from his uncertainty. His vicissitudes are full of vulnerability and helplessness, but his voice is very charming. In the twilight years of life, the body and creativity are declining. For the passage of time itself, people have no choice, and they also have doubts about whether the moment that was once frozen is really meaningful.
Apparently, Miyuki Nakajima is affirming, takuro Yoshida is reflecting.
In that sense, women are much stronger than men. In the unfortunate times, they said, like Liu Xiaoqing, "live, live like cattle." In the years when the ideal is broken and the youth is no longer there, they dare to sing about youth without regret. The secret of their longevity also stems from this.
They look more optimistic than men, but this optimism has an element of self-deception because it is too simple.
That's exactly what happened. The title and lyrics of the song "Give Me an Eternal Lie" say it all.
In order to continue to walk in the future, women choose to believe lies for the past. Men, on the other hand, choose to trace the truth, even if it may shatter all the illusions of beauty.
Miyuki Nakajima and Takuro Yoshida are both singer-songwriters. The way they sing their songs is a testament to their creative attitude.
Miyuki Nakajima's lyrics are most written as hallucinations, and Takuro Yoshida narrates the truth from the beginning.
As the "father of folk songs" in Japan, his "Summer Break" once inspired Luo Dayou to write "Childhood". Inspired by his idol Bob Dylan, he also wrote "Falling Sun" and "Today", "Today までそして Tomorrow から".
In particular, the song "Today までそして Tomorrow から" first poured into the eardrums of the harmonica sound, like Bob Dylan's style. But its lyrics and song title are very different.
This song is the penultimate song of the whole concert, but it is the closing song in the true sense of the word.
After 36 years, when Takuro Yoshida sang the song again, he rearranged the music and removed the harmonica accompaniment because he had already established his own style.
Halfway throughout the nearly ten-minute singing, Takuro Yoshida and the accompanist on stage kept repeating a lyric: わたしはまで生きてみました (I have been trying to live until today). In this repetitive song, Takuro Yoshida beckoned to everyone, tears in his eyes, and his voice choked. This shy man, who is not good at words when he is not singing, he replaces words with actions to express his gratitude, and he suddenly stands still and bows deeply to the audience. In the 30-second bow, the repeated singing continued, in this short and long 30 seconds, his old partner and conductor stood on his left two meters or so of a third uncle, looked at him bent over, the usual optimistic face, tasteless and mixed expression flashed, and then continued to return to his job, directing the scene. After that, Yoshida ran off the stage, shook hands with his friends, and then disappeared backstage, while the singing on the stage was still there, and Ichizo continued to conduct, finally giving the audience a perfect curtain.
In this song, I was suddenly moved.
Am I impressed by Takuro Yoshida? No, I was struck by the repetitive singing. He sang "I have been trying to live until today" in a tone of sad hesitation and clear affirmation, and in this repeated song, I suddenly thought of my own life state, and then understood that this is the life state of many people. He hesitated not to know what tomorrow would bring, he could grasp his own attitude towards life. Every morning when you wake up is a new day, tomorrow or repeat this day, it seems that there will never be a big change, as if every day is repeated, a lifetime is not good or bad, but every day is hard.
What am I trying to say? I would like to say that in this repetitive song, I understand human nature. This is how the tragic life of mankind is repeated. Just like Sisyphus in Greek mythology, he pushed the rock up to the top of the mountain every day, and when he just pushed it up to the top, the rock slid down, and the next day he continued to push the rock to the top of the mountain, on the third day, on the fourth day, and every day after that. It seemed as if he was doing useless repetitive movements, but every day as he pushed the rock up to the top of the mountain, he thought that today was a new day. The tragedy of life is in it, and so is the will of life.
This is the life of each of us, and it is also the fate of such a poor and pathetic being as ours. You may not have heard of Sisyphus, you may not have heard of Takuro Yoshida, and at some point you will suddenly realize the trajectory of your life's continuous progress and repetition. Because it's human nature. In human nature, human beings are well thought out. And those heroic myths that have been handed down are not looked up to by us, but to let us better understand ourselves.
This song was Takuro Yoshida's first album when he debuted at the age of 24. At that time, he was so young that he should not have thought deeply about philosophy, but he could write lyrics that contained the universal truth of life.
Like Bob Dylan, who wrote The Answer in the Wind at the age of 22, intuition arrived first before reason arrived. Perhaps they did not realize it when they were creating it, but they had already insight into an eternal truth. By the time the reaction came, the climax of creation had receded like a tide.
After listening to "Today",
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