July 29, 2024

Translation: Honey Moon (Haruomi Hosono)

Honey Moon is from Side B of Tropical Dandy. 

Side B of Tropical Dandy is as good as I can imagine music getting. 

Side A is too. 

All hail the mustachioed one.

But there's also an awesome Honey Moon — with Akiko Yano  on Hosono's (as yet...!) uncelebrated 1993 album, Medicine Compilation from the Quiet Lodge.



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The setting sun is in my heart.
The honey moon is in the sky.
Angels come to earth at night.
Our dreams are their hair swaying.

A serenade like touching silk.
The honey moon is in the sky.
My chest's a trembling pegasus
and its mane, too, is swaying.

Shall I captivate you with this love song
as the full moon tiptoes closer?
We'll be heading back up there
but not so soon, don't worry.

Swaying...




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