Welcome to Nostalgic Lavender, home to my lyrics & translations for my favorite jpop artists, including Maaya Sakamoto, Rie Fu, Bonnie Pink, Chihiro Onitsuka, and Ringo Shiina. Other genres covered are anime (Cardcaptor Sakura) and other foreign music (Shakira only, at the moment). This site was created primarily to host lyrics and translations that I have done myself, but will also include translations by other people, with proper credit given of course. Please don't take these lyrics without my permission. If you want to host them on your own site, feel free to email me and ask; generally, I will let you. If I catch you using my lyrics without permission, I will ask you to either credit properly or take them down. I keep this site up-to-date on an artist's most recent releases, so I hope this will be the best place to find current lyrics in the genres I cover. I hope to eventually be the authority on lyrics/translations for each of the artists/categories I do. :3 Nostalgic Lavender also has forums! I co-admin them with sora-kara and together we maintain forums for Bonnie Pink, Rie fu, Chihiro Onitsuka, Hajime Chitose, and HALCALI (so far). Please come check it out!! As for me, I'm Sarah, online alias Frecklegirl, and I've been studying Japanese since 2004 (and, for the Shakira lyrics, have been studying Spanish since 1998). During fall 2006 I studied abroad in the Tokyo area of Japan (you can read my blog about it here) and was really able to increase my Japanese language skills exponentially. I love Japanese (and all foreign languages) and I love translating and I'd like to have a career in it one day. I really work on honing and perfecting my translations so they are not only as accurate as possible but as natural-sounding in English as possible. Some of the older translations may contain a few mistakes, but every so often I go through and correct them, and the newer translations are radical improvements. This site looks best in Mozilla Firefox at 1024x768 or higher resolution. It looks okay in Internet Explorer, but the text is bigger so lyrics and translations don't line up right. If you can use Firefox instead of IE to view this site, I STRONGLY urge you to do so. (And maybe use it for everything as well... because IE sucks and Firefox is just better overall.) Regarding any fine print (i.e., please don't sue, I have no money!), the original lyrics of all the songs belong to the respective writers and composers--but my own specific romanization & translation are copyright to me. If you like what you see here, please sign the tagboard and let me know!! Thanks :D To navigate, click on the buttons on the left. A T next to the song title indicates translation. Enjoy! :)
Site design and graphics and all lyrics and translations not specified otherwise © Sarah/Frecklegirl 2005