Spirited Away

We watched (actually, I watched while Rob slept in front of me on the couch, pretending to watch) the movie Spirited Away by Hayao Miyazaki. The girls and I love Our Neighbor Totoro which Miyazaki directed as well. But this one was darker and scarier so I watched it with Rob after the girls went to bed. I loved the bizarre weirdness of the story; the young girl and her family come across a bath house for ghosts and spirits. Her parents eat the food of the spirits and are turned into pigs and their daughter must save them. It was a wild imaginative ride and then this song at the end! This song really got me. Bless itunes. How amazing that I could stand up from the movie feeling transported and moved by this song and within minutes have it playing in my own kitchen. I listened to it like 40 times while I was home alone making a 7 layer dip the next day for a pot luck at work. Heaven. (The song not the potluck)

Here's the song, the translation and a story about the song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYeNNOPYElA&NR=1&feature=fvwp

The words in English:

Always with Me

Somewhere, a voice calls, in the depths of my heart
May I always be dreaming, the dreams that move my heart

So many tears of sadness, uncountable through and through
I know on the other side of them I'll find you

Everytime we fall down to the ground we look up to the blue sky above
We wake to it's blueness, as for the first time

Though the road is long and lonely and the end far away, out of sight
I can with these two arms embrace the light

As I bid farewell my heart stops, in tenderness I feel
My silent empty body begins to listen to what is real

The wonder of living, the wonder of dying
The wind, town, and flowers, we all dance one unity

Somewhere a voice calls in the depths of my heart
keep dreaming your dreams, don't ever let them part

Why speak of all your sadness or of life's painful woes
Instead let the same lips sing a gentle song for you

The whispering voice, we never want to forget,
in each passing memory always there to guide you

When a mirror has been broken, shattered pieces scattered on the ground
Glimpses of new life, reflected all around

Window of beginning, stillness, new light of the dawn
Let my silent, empty body be filled and reborn

No need to search outside, nor sail across the sea
Cause here shining inside me, it's right here inside me

I've found a brightness, it's always with me

http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/sen/song.html