Discovered this song while watching the trailer for Hayao Miyazaki's new movie. Yumi Arai is a J-pop artist back in 1973. Very reminiscent of Procto Harum's "A Whiter Shade of Pale". I suppose Japanese were already influenced by the Western. Both songs were released during the 60s/70s period.. Simple song, yet it packs so much meaning.
Lyrics (Taken from Susan Boyle's version)
There's a road, a misty road
Leading up to heaven
She was walking, all alone
Not a soul was around.
There came a little wispy cloud out of the blue
And it carried her away
She's not afraid of anything
And she goes without a sound.
(Chorus)
She would gaze up at the sky
Dreaming that she's flying so high
Then she was gone, disappearing
Like a vapor trail.
Yesterday, she lay in bed
In that lonely little room
From the window up above
All she would see were the clouds.
She was so very, so very young
Such a long, long road ahead of her
But she heard that voice a calling
And I guess she's happy now.
(Chorus)x2
Daughter - Winter
"Drifting apart like two sheets of ice, my love
Frozen hearts growing colder with time
There's no heat from our mouths
Please take me back to my refuge
And we were in flames, I needed, I needed you
To run through my veins, like disease, disease
And now we are strange, strangers"
Of Monsters and Men - King and Lionheart
I hope I don't become a cynical douchebag at the end of these two years in here.
