Lyrics
Summer holiday 1999
Introduction to the setting of the lyrics: "Summer holiday 1999."
Summer holiday 1999
Reiteration of the time frame and theme of a summer holiday in 1999.
Pine trees in the playgrounds
Visual imagery of pine trees in the playgrounds.
Around the empty school
Describing the surroundings, focusing on an empty school.
A diary full of diagrams
Mention of a diary filled with diagrams.
A boy, perhaps a girl
Reference to a person, possibly a boy or a girl.
Embarrassing confessions
Confessions that are embarrassing, related to a strange, forbidden love.
Of a strange, forbidden love
Continuation of the theme of forbidden love.
On the cliffs above the river
Location mentioned as cliffs above the river.
He asks himself forever
The person questions themselves about their feelings indefinitely.
Is there any reason not to die
Existential question about reasons for not choosing death.
If this love I feel must always be denied?
Expressing the pain of a love that is constantly denied.
Summer holiday 1999
Reiteration of the time frame and theme: "Summer holiday 1999."
This rush to live
Desire or urgency to live in the moment.
Summer holiday 1999
Repetition of the theme of a summer holiday in 1999.
This wish to die
Contrast with a wish or desire for death.
This purity, as cold as spring snow
Description of a pure, cold feeling comparable to spring snow.
In the wind on the island of Hokkaido
Geographical reference to the island of Hokkaido and its windy conditions.
Summer holiday 1999
Repetition of the time frame and theme: "Summer holiday 1999."
Summer holiday 1999
Reiteration of the theme through repetition.
Summer holiday 1999
-Summer holiday 1999
-I long to see your face
Expressing a longing to see the beloved's face from all angles.
From every angle all at once
Desire for a comprehensive view, akin to Cubist compositions.
Just like the faces in a Cubist composition
Reference to faces in Cubist art.
I remember in a film I saw they scanned somebody's brain
Recollection of a scene from a film involving brain scanning.
With a machine that let you feel all his emotion
Machine-induced emotional experience mentioned.
Well I know that that was only science fiction
Acknowledgment that the film scene is science fiction.
But I'm dying to make you feel the way I feel
Expressing a strong desire to make the beloved feel the same way.
Summer holiday 1999
Reiteration of the time frame and theme: "Summer holiday 1999."
Summer holiday 1999
Repetition emphasizing a rush to live.
Summer holiday 1999
Repetition of the theme: "Summer holiday 1999."
Summer holiday 1999
Repetition emphasizing a wish or desire for death.
Summer holiday 1999
Reiteration of the time frame and theme: "Summer holiday 1999."
This rush to live
Repetition emphasizing a rush to live.
Summer holiday 1999
Repetition of the theme: "Summer holiday 1999."
This wish to die
Repetition emphasizing a wish or desire for death.
This purity, as cold as spring snow
Description of a pure, cold feeling comparable to spring snow.
In the wind on the island of Hokkaido
Geographical reference to the island of Hokkaido and its windy conditions.
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