Translation: Morning (Happy End)

By 1970, it wasn't just Buffalo Springfield that the guys in Happy End had in their collection of imported LPs; there was Neil Young's first solo album (1968), which proved similarly influential, and even the first Crosby, Stills & Nash (1969). So they knew the softer side of Stephen Stills. Eiichi Ohtaki used it as his model for Morning.

Who says derivative things can't also be beautiful?



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Morning leaks through

the gaps in the curtain,

enfolding you tenderly

where you lay.

Light comes to play

on the white of the wall.

You're beautiful, 

sleeping there.

Morning is moving

inside of me too.

I'd been living alone

with my face turned away,

and I couldn't see a thing,

and I couldn't hear a thing.

And it seems

so long ago now.

"You're awake?"

you say sleepily.

Your eyes are open a crack

and you're smiling.

I don't answer,

I just take a deep breath.

It's warm here,

and winter

is outside our window.

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