Cimorene

okay, i just suddenly realised that kräm means cream, not hug (hug is kram. shut up! it was an easy mistake to make back when i first listened to it, and i don't really listen to the early albums much). so then i read the lyrics for the first time and whoa is this song not about what i thought.

cim: it starts about a hug, so i just thought it was about one. but it isn't, it's about, um, oral sex, i think.
perhael: that's a great mistake to make!
cim: okay, now that i translate it to english i realise it's not even really that subtle.

( kräm (så nära får ingen gå) )

wait. wait. whoa. i really, REALLY need to know what these lyrics mean. i'm just torturing myself right now by recognising like one word in six.

i also keep noticing, as i listen to tezuka's and ryoma's albums and singles mixed together in a playlist, that the repetition of phrases and words from song to song extends past just the duets and dedications. some of them are even fairly innocuous, like "higher, stronger" and "everyone is here". i should start making notes.

!!!ETA: translation posted in comments by kyuuketsukirui reveals this to be as strong a tezuryo song as the dedications and duets, i think--and about as romantic as "futari" or "dakishimete shimai sou sa" except ANGSTY and also explicitly about ryomaryomaryoma in like every single line.

i know nobody cares about this because everybody who cares about kent already knows the lyrics better than i do. however, translating from swedish is a good exercise for me, and i've been having so many urges to translate kent songs that i decided to just go ahead and do it.

( pärlor )