MMMiii!

Does the title make sense?

It’s a name of a Japanese band, one of my favorites (X-JAPAN is still my #1). I can’t decide on a #2 … EVERY LITTLE THING or Mr.Children…I don’t know.

I discovered Mr.Children while looking for a Korean Drama’s OST (Autumn’ s Tale/Autumn in My Heart .. depending on who translated it). Don’t ask me how. This happened over four years ago.

The first song I heard from them was “Surrender”. The first time I heard it, it reached my heart. I couldn’t even understand most of what the guy was singing. He was singing weirdly, not like the usual Japanese songs where each mora was enunciated. Until now I can’t sing it like the vocalist (Sakurai is his name, by the way). I can’t play it either (I’ve TRIED…)

For over a month, it was practically the only song I listened to, and later on it never left my playlist. Even now that I have a ton of songs, whenever my player randomly plays this, I tend to put it on repeat for a couple of hours or days.

It begins with a cool guitar-strumming which made my fingers itch to play it, an instrument I later found out to be a Cello, and a somewhat off-key whistle. The voice of the vocalist made my knees weak. It wasn’t smooth or husky or very deep, but a little scratchy that sounds like it’ll go out of tune but it doesn’t. When he reaches those high notes, or sing “Ah~Ha~ah Haah~”, I can’t describe it exactly but it is just utterly sublime.

It had me… It had me with the guitar.

I NEED SOMEONE TO TRANSCRIBE THE CHORDS FOR ME!!! (/T_T)/ Someone help meeeee

Here are the lyrics:

Mr.Children - Surrender

ko-hi- gurai de yakedo shita no ga
douyou shiteru shouko nan dakedo
sayonara wo kimi ga kyuu ni iu kara sa

waraitobasu koto ga dekita nara
donna ni ka gureito na yatsu to omowareru darou?
demo boku ha chigau

mou dotanba
saredo mou hitooshi
keredo I Surrender
bunatsui sekiranun ga mune no naka ni tachikomeru

aijyou nante douse iryu-jyon da to
wake shiri kao de kurashita hibi ha
kimi ga hakuchi ni omoe mo shita kedo

mou kotenpan
tada no ohitoyoshi
mohaya I Surrender
daikirai na fyu-jyon de nakesou na jibun ga iya iya

kurayami wo terashite yo ano koro no you ni
kimi nashi jya fuantei nanda yo
issaigassai wo nakushite mo kamawanai to omoeta no ni
sou shinjireta no ni

mune ni mujyou no ame ga furu
futari de sugoshita hibi ha rojyou no chiri no you
nagare kiete The End sa

Translation:

Burning my self on coffee is an indication
of how upset I am.
It’s cause you go and spring ‘goodbye’ on me suddenly.

If I could just laugh it off,
how great a guy would you think I was.
but that’s not me.

It’s last minute but
I give it one more try,
but, I Surrender
the thick thunder clouds are gathering in my heart.

I believed love was just an illusion anyway,
back when I lived my life thinking I knew everything
I thought you foolish but,

I’m beaten ragged, here
just some sap,
no more, I Surrender
that the fusion I so despise could make me cry,
makes me despise myself, despise.

light up the darkness, the way you used to
without you I feel insecure
I used to think I could lose it all and not give a shit
I had myself convinced of it…

a merciless rain falls in my heart
the days we were together, wash by and disappear
like trash in the street. The End.

Translated By: Brian Stewart & Takako Sakuma

Translator’s Notes: Devastating.

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Another one of their emotional songs:

I’ll talk about this some other time, but this NEVER fails to bring tears in my eyes or make my heart move.

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