Hyde and L-arc en Ciel were my first love affair with Japanese pop-rock music. You don-t forget small things like that.
I have problems remembering my first kiss and my first time because I didn-t care and because it was ugly, but I-ll always remember listening to Niji, then, later on, falling asleep listening to Unexpected, dreaming of winter on White Song, all his solo songs fascinated me for some reason.
Hyde-s voice makes me think of endless highways and green fields over clear, deep, deep blue skies. Of calm winter landscapes.
Reminds me of moments in my life I engraved, burned, in my memory, the sun piercing through my eyes some summer afternoon when the world seemed to have died and I was walking down the street wondering if I-ll ever see the cherry blossoms in Kyoto. Smoking late at night, watching the city lights die out, one by one, hoping for change.
Waiting for the snow.
Dim lit streets come and go. People go. Seasons pass. I grow older and wrinkles set in the corner of my eyes, I smoke a million cigarettes and drink countless cups of coffee. Lovers will never stay. Trends will change, people in my life will go, others will die. Walking streets I-ll never step on again, meeting people I will never see again.
In the middle of it all, I still have this. The long wait lived through the calmness offered by someone else-s voice, lyric by lyric, possessed,
embraced,
let go.
Then it happens.
Unexpected, unexpected....
You know....thanks for the memories you-ll never know about.
I've only memories of happiness
Such pleasure we have shared
I'd do it all again
This scenery is evergreen
As buds turn into leaves
The colors live and breathe
This scenery is evergreen
Your tears are falling silently
So full of joy you are a child of spring
With a beauty that is pure
An innocence endures.. - Hyde - Evergreen
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