First to Keitaro, you have no idea how badly I can relate to you. As well as Mare and Utsesuru and everyone else.
The very idea that we all feel the same way with Saowa's songs makes me smile.
I don't really know all of you personally, or have seen you except for Mare and Taffy at Slims one time.
I can really feel comfortable talking to each and every one of you.
The Pillows have done something with our lives. And that really makes my point more clear.
The idea that music can bring strangers together and
even help to bring peace and understanding.
Every time I hear Saowas voice in Hybrid Rainbow, Shiroi natsu, Thank you my twilight, etc...
The list really goes on and on, I've cried many times in my life. There the pillows have helped
me in some way. Picking me up and telling me that its going to be alright.
In a way every time I had a hard time in my life, whether from my parents "almost" divorce, or
when me and my father almost never spoke to each other again after a fight, or when
I felt as though my life had no point without my girl.
No band has ever hit me this hard before. The Pillows have hit me to the point where I have bruises all over.
No matter who you are or where you come from, the music that Saowa has created from his own heart has in a way touched ours.
We feel what he feels, we share what he shares, we see how he sees. I can feel that his song is my song.
Just for the sake of relative connection.
Heres my top 10 (Not In Order)
1.Shiroi Natsu to midori no jitensha, akai kami to kuroi gitaa
(It gave me a lullaby)
2.Hybrid Rainbow (When I just felt like ripping my entire world)
3.Skeleton Liar
4.Thank you my twilight
5.Fool on the Planet (When I felt like nothing, it gave me hope)
6.PLease Mr. Lostman + Intro (916/15th)
7.One Life
8.Swanky Street (We'll remember everything)
9.Strange Chameleon (Original Story)
10.Good Dreams (the very first 7 times w/ head down on keyboard)
And many more... So much more that it pains me that I only posted 10 T.T
My only wishes when I was 11 years old were to see The Pillows live.
Every tunnel I held my breathe in, every candle I blew away with my hopes were for one single moment.
On March 17, 2008 At around 10:00 pm I met Saowa for a brief second, as well as Manabe.
There were no words to describe that moment. I was with my girlfriend and I seriously almost forgot she was there.
My smile never cracked or budged. I never felt more happy in my entire life at that moment.
As they marched on the stage ready for what could of been the end of the world,
preparing to rock so that every bone in my body would shatter as they began the first chords to I Think I Can,
my heart stopped beating for a while. After the show I still felt the raw noise of guitars and drums, the "warm feeling" in my hand from
gripping too hard during solos. The smile ever lasting, never fading.
I never slept that night, wondering if my dream really did come true. Did I really witness my favorite and most adored band of all time?
Have I finally been given the one present that took 7 long years to reach me?
Everything felt "real" as well as an "illusion". No matter whether illusion or reality, it happened.
Dreams can come true. I never thought in a optimistic way before that. Now I'm a completley different person.
I feel the rainbow above me, I sing the songs given to me, I take joy to the music played to me.
I now feel complete.
I haven't contributed a lot to this website.
To all of you who have worked so hard on "Instant Music Website", whether Moderators, tabbers, translators, or just good fans.
You have all helped to shape and form the outline of The Pillows.
Thank you very much, I like you busters!
