I’m a 70 year old woman in the a small town in Washington State. I still have the single 45rpm! I love this song❤️❤️❤️ The lyrics are really beautiful. It was a tragic loss when he passed💔
the 戦後の曲って感じ。戦争で悲しいこと、つらいこと、いっぱいあったけどそれでくよくよしてられない怒涛の時代。戦後復興に必死だった当時の日本人の心を体現してるのよ。 「空の上」には死んだ人の顔が浮かぶのよ。上を向いて吹っ切ろうとしてるけど、でも死んだ人のことも忘れられない。だけどそれを「幸せ」と表現してる美しい歌詞だと思う。
I was born and raised here in East Tennessee in the USA the song came out when I was a little girl I am 70 now and I still love this song I always called it the Japanese love song. Such a beautiful song
In my book, the lyrics of this song are written from a Buddhist point of view. In our life, there have been various kinds of events, and are now happening one after another. Sometimes they are sorrowful, and other times they are joyful.. Events that occur in life can be likened to clouds in the sky, They are ever-changing, as if kaleidoscopic. Sadly, we tend to be at the mercy of them, not realizing that there is always the blue sky stretching above the clouds.
He looks up as he walks to avoid thinking sad thoughts. It's complicated. The lyrics are a reaction to the loss of a referendum to ask the American occupation to cease. I love the sadness in the song. I was 10 years old in 1962 when the song was played in heavy rotation on AM radio