Well, did my shopping at the nearby Metro this morning. There was a line to get into the supermarket, but the 10-minute wait wasn't too bad and when I did get in, I could find just about everything that my family needed. Of course, I had the mask on. I don't really mind it but it gets annoying when my glasses fog up from the condensation through my breath popping out from the top of the mask.
Anyways, for my second City Pop tune today, I have something more whimsical and slightly bossa via Hiroaki Igarashi's（五十嵐浩晃）"Boku wa Kaze" (I am The Wind), a track from his May 1983 5th album "Soyokaze no Koro"（そよ風の頃...Season of Breeze）. Igarashi was behind the melody here and it strikes me with that nostalgic feeling of early 1980s Tokyo...perhaps doing the shopping in the fancy neighbourhoods one sunny day and then hitting the café afterwards.
For all of the high-falutin' music, though, the lyrics by Shun Taguchi（田口俊）are more bittersweet as a fellow driving a car on a darkened highway finally realizes that the passenger seat will no longer be occupied by his erstwhile girlfriend. The guy calls himself the wind and the clouds that are bombing down the horizon, while the sky that was his girlfriend goes the other way. It's probably one of the more simply metaphorical songs that I've come across.
In addition, have a look at Igarashi's biggest hit, "Pegasus no Asa"（ペガサスの朝）.
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