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The text of this song is all public domain haiku poetry.

lyrics

あたたかに
冬の陽の
寒き哉

A warm day,
But there's a chill
In the Winter sun

-Ueshima Onitsura (1661-1738)

見し夢の
さめても色の
燕子花

Even after waking
From the dream
I'll see the colors of irises

-Ogawa Shushiki (1669-1725)

忘れ草は
避けど忘れぬ
昔かな

The "forget-me" has bloomed, but ah!
I can not forget old days together.

-Yagi Shokyu-ni (1713-1781)

青柳の
眉かく岸の
額かな

The green willow tree
Paints an eyebrow on the face
Of an embankment.

-Arakida Moritake (1473-1549)

秋風に
折れて悲しき
桑の杖

in the autumn wind
it lies, sadly broken—
a mulberry stick

-Matsuo Basho (1644-1694)

なでしこの
なぜ折たぞよ
おれたぞよ

Why did the pink break, oh why did it break?

-Kobayashi Issa (1763-1828)

染かねて
片山紅葉
かたおもひ

one mountain-slope retinged
with maple leaves;
unilateral love

-Fukuda Chiyo-ni (1703-1775)

苦の娑婆や
花が開けば
ひらくとて

world of pain—
and blossoms blooming add to it!

-Kobayashi Issa (1763-1828)

麦の穂を
力につかむ
別れ哉

clutching wheat ears
to support myself, I bid
farewell

-Matsuo Basho (1644-1694)

蕣や
是も又我が
友ならず

the morning glory—
that, too, now turns out to be
no friend of mine

-Matsuo Basho (1644-1694)

牡丹散って
心もおかず
別れけり

The peony flowers having fallen,
We part without regrets

-Tachibana Hokushi (1665-1718)

物事に
老いは心の
後も無し

everything that was
has vanished from my aged heart
leaving not a trace

-Iio Sogi (1421-1502)

落書に
恋しき君が
名もありて

Among the graffiti
The name of
Beloved you

-Matsuo Basho (1644-1694)

数ならぬ
身とな思ひそ
玉祭

do not think
you did not count:
Festival of Spirits

-Matsuo Basho (1644-1694)

旅に病で
夢は枯野を
かけ廻る

Taken ill on a journey
my dreams wander
over withered moors.

-Matsuo Basho (1644-1694)

草臥れて
宿借るころや
藤の花

just as I am so tired
and look for a lodging -
wisteria flowers

-Matsuo Basho (1644-1694)

我と来て
あそべよおやの
ない雀

Come! With each other
let's play—little sparrow
without any mother!

-Kobayashi Issa (1763-1828)

こいこいと
いえどほたるが
飛んでゆく

Even though I say "come, come!"
the firefly
flies away

-Ueshima Onitsura (1661-1738)

こちらむけ
我も寂しき
秋の暮

Turn to me
this autumn eve:
I, too, am a stranger

-Matsuo Basho (1644-1694)

うき我を
さびしがらせよ
閑古鳥

Not this human sadness,
cuckoo,
but your solitary cry.

-Matsuo Basho (1644-1694)

そのあとは
途できかん
郭公

Ah, hototogisu !
I will hear the rest of the song
In the land of the dead.

-Anonymous (of Basho's era)

行く年や
親に白髪を
かくしけり 越人

year's end--
I hide my gray hair
from my parents.

-Ochi Etsujin (1655-1739)

いなづまや
きのふは東
けふは西

lightning –
flashing in the east yesterday
and today in the west

-Takarai Kikaku (1661-1707)

時雨るや
我も古人の
夜に似たる

overcome by this cold falling rain:
how very similar, my life
to my old friend

-Yosa Buson (1716-1784)

そこもとは涼しそうなり峰の松

Even though afar
a feeling of coolness comes
from those mountain pines

-Kagami Shiko (1665-1731)

死にもせぬ
旅寝の果てよ
秋の暮

not dead yet
at journey's end -
autumn evening

-Matsuo Basho (1644-1694)

credits

from Outside on the Inside, released May 11, 2014
Yoko Hasegawa (vocals)

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