Remastered the 2014 song to make it's sound clearer. The festival scene in the video is the 2010 Suwa Taisha Shrine Pillar Festival (Ombashira/Mihashira), and the highlight is the "Ki otoshi" (Tree Sliding) where a gigantic tree with a person on it.
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Story behind the song
Remastered the 2014 song to make it's sound clearer.
The festival scene in the video is the 2010 Suwa Taisha Shrine Pillar Festival (Ombashira/Mihashira), and the highlight is the "Ki otoshi" (Tree Sliding) where a gigantic tree with a person on it slides down a slope.
The Shimosha Ki otoshi is famous, which sometimes causes deaths, but this Kamisha tree is also quite good! After all, it takes place place right next to the JR's central main line (as you can see in the video).
Lyrics
Walking deep into the steeps
Through the forest trails a mist
Birds live in the leaves
Spirits stay on the sprays
Of the limbs of trees of green
Trees make food, harvest of wood
Holding water, block the flood
Supplier of air, no rough but tough
Trees, the life of peace itself
Fire may burn you down
Then you rise up from ground
Show us your way
Trees of peace we pray
Having watched my father and mother
Having watched our ancestors
Going to watch children and grandchildren's
disease and health, lives and death
Songs of peace, songs of the pleasure
Songs in praise of great future
Tears of sadness, tears of sufferings
Massacre of human beings
Gaze on those who are born
Gaze on those who are gone
Show us your way, Trees of peace we pray
The static power, the silent flare
Strong enough to crack even rocks
Fire may burn you down
Then you rise up from ground
Show us your way
Trees of peace we pray
Gaze on those who are born
Gaze on those who are gone
Show us your way
Trees of peace we pray
Show us your way
Trees of peace we pray