Koibito Yo - My Dear Lover

This song eat my heart out... I wish I could scream and tell the world what does it feel what is like to be left behind... this song is killing me- bbydkm

KOIBITO YO

Mayumi Itsuwa (Japan) - 1980

Kareha chiru yuugure wa

Kuruhi no samusa wo monogatari

Ame ni kowareta benchi niwa

Ai wo sasayaku uta mo nai

Koibito yo, soba ni ite

Kogoeru watashi no soba ni ite yo

Soshite hitokoto kono wakarebanashi ga

Joudan dayo to waratte hoshii

Jarimichi wo kakeashi de

Marason bito ga yuki sugiru

Marude boukyaku nozomu yoni

Tomaru watashi wo sasotteru

Koibito yo, sayonara

Kisetsu wa megutte kuru keredo

Anohi no hutari yoi no nagareboshi

Hikatte wa kieru mujou no yumeyo

Koibito yo, soba ni ite

Kogoeru watashi no soba ni ite yo

Soshite hitokoto kono wakarebanashi ga

Joudan dayo to waratte hoshii
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KOIBITO YO / MY DEAR LOVER

Mayumi Itsuwa - Japan 1980

(Transcribed & translated by Nori Iwato - September 2003)

The evening autumn leaves flowing

says the cold is coming

There are not any love songs

On a broken chair by rain

My dear lover, please stay beside me

And just tell me this divorce is kidding

With laughing
A jogging man is passing through

On a pebbles street

He induce me who stand still

As if he wanted me to forget,

My dear lover, now I say good-bye

The seasons rotate, though

Two of us of those days

A shooting star in that evening

Shine and disappear, heartless dream

My dear lover, please stay beside me

And just tell me this divorce is kidding

With laughing

MAYUMI ITSUWA
(born January 24, 1951 ) is a Japanese vocalist, composer, lyricist, and keyboardist who made her debut in 1972. Her first studio album entitled Shoujo was recorded in Los Angeles, with distinguished musicians such as David Campbell, Carole King and Charles Larkey who was King's husband at that time. Owing to her introspective compositions, Itsuwa was often nicknamed "Japanese Carole King", along with other Japanese singer-songwriters like Yumi Matsutoya (who had worked under her birth name "Yumi Arai" during the mid 1970s) and Minako Yoshida.

Itsuwa has gained moderate success on the Japanese albums chart in her early career, and received massive popularity and acclaim through a single "Koibito yo" released in 1980. A song topped the Japan's Oricon chart for three consecutive weeks, and won the 22nd Japan Record Award for "Gold Prize" in a same year. It was covered by the country's legendary singers including Hibari Misora and Noriko Awaya in later years, and became a signature song for Itsuwa. After "Koibito yo" became a hit, Itsuwa gained popularity also in non-Japanese Asian countries during the 1980s.