向井秀徳アコースティック & エレクトリック - KARASU 4.22 2021

KARASU (Crow)
Live at Tokyo Shibuya TSUTAYA O-EAST April 22nd, 2021



All songs and lyrics by Mukai Shutoku
Movie director: Okubo Yoshiyuki
Live sound engineer: Itoga Takashi
Audio mixed by Mukai Shutoku

Lyrics translation: Leo Imai


KARASU (Crow)

On a motorway back home
I look out the car window
There’s Tokyo Tower, decrepit and old
Just standing there

Stained by sunsets
That red hue
So, so beautiful
I feel like I want to cry

A crow flies past
Over the skyscrapers
And disappears into an unfamiliar city

Jet black crow
Lying dead outside my door
Did you fall off the electric line
Or maybe have a fight with a sparrow?

Gazed at its dead body for ages
It was bigger than what you’d expect
Eyes still wide open
Staring blankly into the distance

I called the local council
Had a look two hours later
And saw a feather on the ground