バベル - いよわ / Babel - Iyowa (English Cover)

•I'm planning my tommorow, tonight•

Original Song by Iyowa:    • バベル / いよわ feat. 重音テト（BABEL / Iyowa fe...  


I see this song as another Iyowa coming-of-age track. This time though it's tied heavily to the bible story of The Tower of Babel.

Which essentially, is an explanation for why we all speak different languages. If we were all united as one we would be too powerful, is how I read that lol.

in the context of the song though I think it's more of a metaphor for the things you've built up during your own life that hold meaning or power. It touches on alot of feelings but overall seems reminiscent, nostalgic, and hopeful by the end.

perhaps a more pin pointed theory will come up but I love the song regardless it sounds very cool.


also, given the nature of the video it also just seems like a teto celebration lmao and also the lady in the video looks a little more mature. kind of like a business woman. sort of like Teto's voice provider perhaps. Teto's twin drills turn into little angel wings so maybe it's also a little ily to teto and her actress in that way.

Thanks ^^

Lyrics~

Going up that famous tower out of pace

Hope the speed I go aint showing on my face

Popped up when you turned away
Looking for an answer,
In a barren ancient place


Writing down our cultures to communicate

Laughing at the jokes but push their past away


Imitating the madonna
Spotlights on, I gotta
Go and live my own damn way.


Past the shopping district before-
That new mall just opened it's doors
So close that I can walk to the store
But they don't sell popsicles anymore

That celebrity( I had their cd's)
Has by now become a mother you see
In the next town an hour from me
I heard on the train and cried all the same


So, that is
Something just a 'little short' of miraculous.

Felt from within

Give you a name that fits.



Living with a weariness so deep inside

Meaningless wants piling up throughout all time

Was served a mountain made of papers
Shit i got pay for
Living my adult life true

It won't go away I could run anywhere

Even when i close my eyes it's standing there

Shining brightly. Couldn't stop it
Yelling in my closet.
dreaming of the world I drew

Ahh...



So, that is
Something just a little short of miraculous

I'm believing in.

Aren't I a stupid man?


Pushed together now the sky is coming down
All the sour fruit will ripen from the ground

In this tower of the future
on it's head no sooner
The shape of it resembles you

Wiping tears of happiness. I'm hiding them
Opening my parachute I fly again


Ahh~

My uniform so nice;
Like my second skin In life.
And I'm planning my tommorow, tonight.

Ahh.