「いつか生まれる君に」

5月後半、カリフォルニアからの33名のお客様を南房総～東京～北日本にご案内しました。途中立ち寄った石巻市は震災から4年、まだまだ復興半ばの様子でした。石巻市役所に立ち寄り義援金の寄付を行った際、復興支援の想いをこめて、みんなでこっそり練習していた「花は咲く」を日本語で歌いました。市役所職員のみなさんは、突然やってきたアメリカ人歌う日本語の歌に驚き、とても感動した、と言ってくださいました！歌の力は偉大です。今回ご紹介するのは、Il Divoという英国の男性コーラスグループによる英語バージョン。日本語でも英語でも、みんなで歌ってこれからも被災地を応援していきましょう！

Flowers Will Bloom
words by Shunji Iwai, music by Yoko Kanno

My heart goes out to you
When the winter snows give way to spring
My heart is longing now
Longing for the town where the happiness had been.

Been a place of hope and of dreaming too
Been a home when my heart always went back to you
But for now I only dream
Of the people who I loved and knew.

Someone is singing I can hear singing now
Someone is weeping I can feel their tears
Someone is smiling showing me why and how to go on living for years and years

Flowers will bloom, yes they will yes they will
For you who are here or yet to be born.
They’ll bloom, yes they will and they bloom again until
There’s no missing sorrow and no reason left to mourn

My heart goes out to you
Goes out to you
When the morning sun lightsup the pale blue sky
The pale blue sky

My heart is heavy now
With the grief I tried so often to deny
I regret mistake that I sometimes made
But I know our love will never fade

And that you’ll life on instead of me
Instead of me
And that you will have whatever love can be

Someone is thinking I can read ev’ry thought
Someone is shedding tears for all that was lost
Someone is leading you to love that they sought asking you to love all that you love the most

Flowers will bloom, yes they will yes they will
For you who are here or yet to be born.
They’ll bloom, yes they will and they bloom again until
There’s no missing sorrow and no reason left to mourn

Flowers will bloom, yes they will yes they will
For you who are here or yet to be born.
They’ll bloom, yes they will and they bloom again until
There’s no missing sorrow and no reason left to mourn

Yes they will
They’ll bloom yes they will and they bloom again until…
You’ll life and remember and love us forever more
And love us forever more…