天体観測

 天体観測

    I've been listening to this song on loop recently. Actually, the first time I heard this was when I was surfing on YouTube and found a channel called アオペラ that just uploaded a song, I thought it was their original song, I clicked it and it sounds so good!

    Yesterday I searched the real band who sing this song, it is BUMP OF CHICKEN, what a ridiculous name. I didn't know if the real song is called 天体観測 since I can't read that kanji, I copied the title and put it on search engine, it popped up, I listened to it but I still prefer the アオペラ version. As usual, every time I'm hearing a song that hooked me, I always search for the lyrics, and you know what? this song has one of the greatest lyrics out of all the songs I've heard, at least for me. The title itself makes me "hyped", it means "astronomical observation", I know that sounds a little bit too scientific and formal, the song doesn't have any scientific astronomical elements, hence the better word for it is "stargazing". 

    Next to the lyrics,

午前二時 フミキリに 望遠鏡を担いでった
ベルトに結んだラヂオ 雨は降らないらしい

From the first verse I feel this kind of warm feeling, perhaps the activity where I go outside at midnight with someone doing things that I like makes me feel relaxed for a moment , which in this case is stargazing. Some times I go outside to see the night sky with my mother or just seeing it alone from my room, it always amazes me to think that the lights that we see are from the past and some of them have become a dead star. 

Even though the lyrics, I assume, don't focus on stargazing, it still has a pretty likeable meaning. Here are some of the part of the song that I like,

気が付けばいつだって ひたすら何か探している
幸せの定義とか 哀しみの置き場とか  
僕は元気でいるよ 心配事も少ないよ 

もう一度君に会おうとして 望遠鏡をまた担いで
前と同じ 午前二時 フミキリまで駆けてくよ
始めようか 天体観測 二分後に君が来なくと
「イマ」という ほうき星 君と二人追いかけている

Overall, all of the lyrics are great, I suggest you to search for it.

From the アオペラ

Original song

アオペラ cover


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