I feel most of this album deals with romantic nostalgia. I believe this song is about a lover sharing a simple, intimate childhood memory of chasing dragonflies. The present day is dark and cold, so Mark is feeling nostalgic through her warm anecdote. She didn't think it was that important to share, but to Mark, it means a lot in the moment.. "This is the first you spoke of it"
The song appears to reference a haiku by the eighteenth-century Japanese poet Kaga no Chiyo on the death of her young son: 'tonbo-tori, kyo wa doko made itta yara' (which translates more or less as: 'chaser of dragonflies, to what distant place have you gone today?'). Here they have taken some poetic licence and changed it to a girl. I really like their rhymed version in these lyrics.
The song appears to reference a haiku by the eighteenth-century Japanese poet Kaga no Chiyo on the death of her young son: 'tonbo-tori, kyo wa doko made itta yara' (which translates more or less as: 'chaser of dragonflies, to what distant place have you gone today?'). Here they have taken some poetic licence and changed it to a girl. I really like their rhymed version in these lyrics.
I feel most of this album deals with romantic nostalgia. I believe this song is about a lover sharing a simple, intimate childhood memory of chasing dragonflies. The present day is dark and cold, so Mark is feeling nostalgic through her warm anecdote. She didn't think it was that important to share, but to Mark, it means a lot in the moment.. "This is the first you spoke of it"
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The song appears to reference a haiku by the eighteenth-century Japanese poet Kaga no Chiyo on the death of her young son: 'tonbo-tori, kyo wa doko made itta yara' (which translates more or less as: 'chaser of dragonflies, to what distant place have you gone today?'). Here they have taken some poetic licence and changed it to a girl. I really like their rhymed version in these lyrics.
The song appears to reference a haiku by the eighteenth-century Japanese poet Kaga no Chiyo on the death of her young son: 'tonbo-tori, kyo wa doko made itta yara' (which translates more or less as: 'chaser of dragonflies, to what distant place have you gone today?'). Here they have taken some poetic licence and changed it to a girl. I really like their rhymed version in these lyrics.