Blue Lyrics
Lesu messiah ut tu mea de cantus
(Latin: "Jesus Messiah to you my song")
Yeah, I can feel it reaching out
And moving closer
There's something about blue
You know the funny thing about it
I couldn't answer
No, I couldn't answer
And images that might be real
May be illusion
Keep flashing off and on
Wanna be free
Gonna be free
And move among the stars
You know, they really aren't so far
Feels so free
Gotta know free
Please
Don't wake me from the dream
It's really everything it seemed
I'm so free
No black and white in the blue
Life is just a dream, you know
That's never ending
I'm ascending
hey they are saying esu messia ut, du me decantus
As the messiah did eat, I sang.
As the messiah did eat, I sang.
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yeah, like ZidaneTribal said, its the language that yoko kanno uses in many songs. what i didnt realize is that it does in fact sound like wheres youre messiah. odd. never noticed that.
this is my favorite of the Seatbelt/Cowboy Bebop songs. Which says alot, because every CD is amazing. i love the choir solo in the beginning. Great Stuff
This is one of the most beautiful songs I ever know of, if I die tomorrow I will have this on my funeral.
This is, according to me the most profound song that has ever been composed for an anime (and the anime series being the best I've ever seen ^^).
Describing at the first person the death of the character and his ascension towards the blue sky (that is, towards Heaven), even for an atheist like me, it gives one truly powerful and beautiful impression of death ; every time I listen to it, this song makes me feel some kind of awe, by thinking how strong human being's poetry can transmit their imagination... I see myself dying, losing consciousness, and ascending to the blue skies, then to the black space. How great it would be to die, if it was like waking from a dream... And how awful at the same time, as the dream would be ending...
I was wondering what the lyrics of the choirs might be, and didn't find any right answer. But I think they could be Gabriela Robin/Yoko Kanno's imaginary language, and it seems to be some kind of mixing between japanese, portuguese, english, german, and maybe latin... It could indeed be Kanno's own translation of "Never seen a bluer sky" in her own "hanamogera" (that's how she calls that imaginary language). On the live version of the song (from the "Souvenir of Tokyo" video), the choir pronunciation is slightly different, but that might also just be the japanese accent of the choir singer replacing Gabriela Robin. I wonder what Kanno wrote as lyrics, for this substitute singer... Maybe she just told her orally. Here is what I hear (in romaji) : "Ue ju me sa ya unt du mye di kan tus". Some words among those sounds could be found...
Anyway this is one of the song I like the most singing in karaoke, and of course listening to :)
@Kamiku This official statement was released when the Bebop movie came out:
@Kamiku This official statement was released when the Bebop movie came out:
Slumber is the sister of death, just like dreams are a foretaste of Heaven.
Slumber is the sister of death, just like dreams are a foretaste of Heaven.
In the beginning of the movie, we hear Spike mutter in his sleep. He talks about his arch-rival Vicious, but it could also describe Spike himself. Spike sleeps a lot in this movie, and to borrow the words of the 19th century poet Lord Byron. "Slumber is the sister of death." Perhaps Spike's tendency to risk his life without thinking, as well as his fixation on sleep and dreams, are linked together as metaphors...
In the beginning of the movie, we hear Spike mutter in his sleep. He talks about his arch-rival Vicious, but it could also describe Spike himself. Spike sleeps a lot in this movie, and to borrow the words of the 19th century poet Lord Byron. "Slumber is the sister of death." Perhaps Spike's tendency to risk his life without thinking, as well as his fixation on sleep and dreams, are linked together as metaphors for death.
In the same vein, Vincent says, "I am not afraid of death. I'm just dreaming a dream that will go on forever." He was talking about himself, but it fits Spike so well that the line could've been written for him instead.
Spike seems to peek into the abyss of death during every action sequence. He puts himself in so much physical danger and is so unafraid of death; it’s like he’s already dead and is trying to feel something again. He doubts reality, and this is brought to the forefront in the movie more than it was in the TV series.
"Do you know what purgatory is? It's a place somewhere between Heaven and Hell where those who cannot enter Heaven do penance -in other words, Earth." This is how Vincent explains the motivations for his crimes. This theme appears in Bebop repeatedly in various forms. The movie, however, brings it clearly into focus, and in that sense, the movie represents the defining essence of Bebop.
At the end of the series, we hear this lyrics, "Please, Don't wake me from the dream. It's really everything it seemed." Spike's dream was to be with Julia. That dream comes true at the end of the series. That's why he goes from seeing her with his eye that sees his past to seeing her with his eye that sees his present.
In my opinion, one of the greatest anime end songs ever. Here's something I noticed about this song's lyrics in relation to Spike's words in the final episode:
"Please, Don't wake me from the dream. It's really everything it seemed." -These lines suggest Spike doesn't want to go. Despite struggling with his past for so long, and living in the present like a "dream," he's doesn't want to die. This runs parallel to the words Spike exchanged with Faye earlier: "I'm not going to die... I'm going to find out if I'm really alive." And what Spike ultimately finds out, is that yes, he truly was alive - his life after the syndicate was reality - and it was "dreamy" in the sense in that it turned out better than he could've imagined: he was free in that time, it just took death and coming to amends with his past to realize it.
Another quote to contextualize the lyrics, this time from the movie: "When I was younger, I wasn’t afraid of anything. I didn’t have the slightest fear of dying. No reason for it. I thought that if I die, that’s fine with me, any time at all. But then I met a certain woman and it changed. I started to think that I wanted to survive. For the first time, the idea of death began to scare me." -This is an interesting quote in relation to Blue. Going off of the interpretation I made before, this quote further shows how Spike has come to amends with his past. After Julia's death, one might say Spike was no longer afraid to die, that Julia was one of the reasons why he continued "living" (albeit "living" in a "dreamy" sort of state). I'd make the argument that this isn't true, Spike wanted to live - remember the lyrics: "Please, Don't wake me from the dream. It's really everything it seemed." The fact that Spike wants to live at the end, contradicts his past sentiment that without Julia, and shows that he's moved on - conquering his past.
@hfii32 The official guide book and the head writer disagree with you.
@hfii32 The official guide book and the head writer disagree with you.
“Vicious finally begins his coup, positioning himself to assume leadership of the Red Dragon Syndicate. Gunshots ring like the sound of a choir of angels, a premonition of damnation. Knowing that the red dragon civil war has begun, Julia breaks her long silence and tries to contact Spike, who drops everything to find her, the only woman who can complete this hollow man. At the fulcrum of a fragile balance spike is possessed by the spirits of his past. jet and fake can do nothing but watch over...
“Vicious finally begins his coup, positioning himself to assume leadership of the Red Dragon Syndicate. Gunshots ring like the sound of a choir of angels, a premonition of damnation. Knowing that the red dragon civil war has begun, Julia breaks her long silence and tries to contact Spike, who drops everything to find her, the only woman who can complete this hollow man. At the fulcrum of a fragile balance spike is possessed by the spirits of his past. jet and fake can do nothing but watch over him. Jerked awake from his nightmare, Spike needs to once again confront Vicious, and Julia, for no other reason than to convince himself that they are not merely just remnants of a bad dream.” -Cowboy Bebop Anime Guide, Book 6, Page 28 “After a long time apart, Spike and Julia reunite. But their happiness is short lived at best. That which Spike has longed for slips through his fingers as easily as it came into his embrace. This is one man’s fate, converging unto death as if it were a predestined circumstance of his young life. Having lost his future, Spike is left only with his past. He confronts Vicious in a battle that should have taken place long ago. What does the right eye, left in the wounded body, see at the very end?” -Cowboy Bebop Anime Guide, Book 6, Page 44
PS. Spike sees Julia with his eye that sees his present at the end.
Julia's death is referred to as the death of Spike's future in the official guidebook. After he leaves the Bebop, he does not look back. Instead, he thinks of being joined as one with Julia and the song that plays is about how he will still love her even after he is dead. Watanabe and Nobumoto would refer to Julia as Spike's woman even after the series was over. He loved her eternally. He dies loving her.
Julia's death is referred to as the death of Spike's future in the official guidebook. After he leaves the Bebop, he does not look back. Instead, he thinks of being joined as one with Julia and the song that plays is about how he will still love her even after he is dead. Watanabe and Nobumoto would refer to Julia as Spike's woman even after the series was over. He loved her eternally. He dies loving her.
@hfii32 "Please, Don't wake me from the dream. It's really everything it seemed." The line suggests that Spike wants to die and stay dead. Death is a chance to dream eternally. The line suggests that he doesn't want to be woken up. His dream has been achieved and it is everything he thought it would be. He is with Julia now.
@hfii32 "Please, Don't wake me from the dream. It's really everything it seemed." The line suggests that Spike wants to die and stay dead. Death is a chance to dream eternally. The line suggests that he doesn't want to be woken up. His dream has been achieved and it is everything he thought it would be. He is with Julia now.
This song is about a philosophy preached in the show Cowboy Bebop. It is that life is really just a dream. I'm pretty sure the song is supposed to be in Spike's mindset because he believes in this idea. The line 'don't wake me from the dream' then really means 'I don't want to die' because being 'woken' would bring you from the dream that is life. All in all this is a song about what life is about. In the beginning of the song, the voice doesn't really know what life is about until he's about to die (that's why he's asking not to be 'woken from the dream'.) He understands that life is a fantastic gift but for now he's free of the dream he never wakes up from and is free in the blue (or heaven) with the understanding of what exactly life is for. He never really tells us, as I'm sure this person believes life has a meaning for each individual. The voice now understands what life is to him, though, and that has set him free.
oh by the way guys, the band's name is The Seatbelts. You bunch of shmucks.
I am impressed with your insightful view of the song, Shivan550. Very nice.
Actually, it's more Yoko Kanno than the Seatbelts. The Seatbelts just perform it. She a wrote most of the music and a few of the lyrics.