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Entenka (​炎​天​下 Under A Scorching Sun)

from Sparkle Then Vanish LP by vii-pii

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Entenka (炎天下) means Under A Scorching Sun in Japanese. This song tells about the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, seen from the perspective of a child who thinks the sun has come closer to the earth and burns everything.
I wrote the song after visiting the heart-wrenching Atomic Bomb Museum in Nagasaki, where you can read that the atomic bomb created a 3,900 °C fireball over the city: just like bringing the surface of the sun half a km from the ground.
Just like bringing the surface of the sun half a km from a city and the people living in it. Like this child and this mother.

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Mother, don’t lay the blame on me
I just didn’t go to school today
Mother I was thinking for myself
What a gloomy weather
Is it gonna rain today?

Yeah it rained today, mother
Yeah it rained and rained
What a weird rain mother
Aching and dark under the sun

Oh the sun…

A scorching sun that burnt, mother, under the scorching sun it burnt
A scorching sun that burnt, mother, under the scorching sun all burnt
A scorching sun that burnt, mother, under the scorching sun I burnt
A scorching sun that burnt, mother, under that scorching sun mother burnt

Mother, don’t send me away
I just didn’t make it to school to today
Mother, I was down on my way
And today seemed to be just an ordinary day

But it rained today…

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from Sparkle Then Vanish LP, released September 8, 2017

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vii-pii Paris, France

Vii-Pii (so named by fellow musicians after his initials) is a Paris-based alt-rock songwriter by night, and an exec big corp by day. Describing himself as a "believer in beauty, tribes, cosmic waves and in the dark side of rock'n roll to save us all", Vii-Pii is a guitarist who also sings and plays keyboards on his solo projects. ... more

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