Unpublished lyrics

[cyyong29]

Hello,May I know that why some of ayumi's song didn't published the lyrics in her album or her DVD such as:

1.Present (A Song for XX - album)
2.girlish (Duty - album)
3.flower garden (ARENA TOUR 2005 - DVD)

Although they have wrote some note for the lyric,but may I know the real reason for these?
Thank you very much!! ^_^

[Raiu-Ayu]

Well, flower garden does have lyrics in the Arena Tour 2005 booklet. It'a about 4 lines only cuz she just repeats it again the second time around I think

[immel]

That's weird... I also want to know the cause of this, never knew that she didn't publish the lyrics of all her songs officially.

[huyuhuyu]

i found the italian (but there's also roomaji and kanji) translations in a website that's pretty famous here ^^; but i was thinking she published lyrics for those songs O_O

[JesA]

yea, i wondered that too...all thats there is like 2-4 lines, but i dont know what they say...

[truehappiness]

In the case of Present, this was said.

Originally Posted by evolusean

The complete lyrics to "Present" weren't printed either. In the "A Song for XX" booklet, it says: "Kono kyoku wa, seisakusha no ito ni yori, kashi no ichi bubun nomi wo hyouki shite orimasu."

It means "In accordance with the intentions of the creator, only one portion of the lyrics of this song are written."

http://www.ahsforum.com/forum/showth...address+lyrics

[chocopockymaster]

The lyrics to "Memorial address" were also never printed...it said the same thing it said for "Present", I think.

[~Matt~]

Also the lyrics of "ever free" were never officially shown

[Ryoko]

Ever free was shown in the "vogue" booklet I believe.

[truehappiness]

It seems that it doesn't.
It says the same thing that the not-included album tracks say I think.

[Delirium-Zer0]

I don't know for sure why they're not published, as I've never heard or read a quote from ayu explaining why. I have my hypotheses though... Other artists decide not to do this, and the only one I ever heard a reason from was the singer Seal. He said in the booklet for his second album that he didn't want to disillusion people who were really touched by a certain lyric, because what if it turned out they had the lyric wrong the whole time? He wanted people to hear what they wanted to hear. Ayu could be thinking the same thing in the cases of those songs.

[waltz#2]

Originally Posted by Delirium-Zer0

He said in the booklet for his second album that he didn't want to disillusion people who were really touched by a certain lyric, because what if it turned out they had the lyric wrong the whole time? He wanted people to hear what they wanted to hear.

That's really interesting! I would have never thought of that.

I always thought Ayu's reason was the lyrics were attached to something very personal and she just choose not to publish them.

[paperbag]

Originally Posted by cyyong29

Hello,May I know that why some of ayumi's song didn't published the lyrics in her album or her DVD such as:

1.Present (A Song for XX - album)
2.girlish (Duty - album)
3.flower garden (ARENA TOUR 2005 - DVD)

Although they have wrote some note for the lyric,but may I know the real reason for these?
Thank you very much!! ^_^

I actually never knew they weren't published. That's a good question. I guess the lyrics are personal to her and she doesn't want to share them on text because she might feel...embarassed maybe?

[alt.total-loser]

Doesn't want to share them in text? People can hear them plain as day when she sings. >__>

I don't really know the reason of course. But I rather like what Delirium-Zer0 posted.

[LacusClyne]

well, in those oversea version. the chinese translation says something like 'due to the writer's work intention, the lyrics aren't included, please excuse"

[DA1SUK1DAY01691]

Originally Posted by LacusClyne

well, in those oversea version. the chinese translation says something like 'due to the writer's work intention, the lyrics aren't included, please excuse"

Yeah, I know that happened with Memorial Address and ever free.

But I think the purpose is like how Deli mentioned the Seal scenario; let fans hear what they wanna hear, and translate it their own way. I know Memorial Address would be hard to catch on to the first crack, so i don't know.

[truehappiness]

It's not that big of a deal since some of the songs performed have lyrics in the tour booklets anyway [Memorial address.. etc]~ :X

[Alessia_Tateno]

I dont remember but also Memorial Address lyrics werent released if I remember well...

That's scary. I knew nothing about this. Why in the world didn't she want to publish the lyrics? Sounds stupid.

[truehappiness]

You must not understand what 'letting the listener decide for themselves' means.. :p

I'm sure someone explained it in a previous post why she did it. Perhaps it was possibly too personal?