Shima Uchina [Take Me Home]
Think of this as a Japanese version of John Denver's Take Me Home, Country Roads, but instead of West Virginia it's someone living in Tokyo pining for Okinawa Nankurunaisa "everything will be alright" ---------FU L L V I D E O + S O N G H O O K-------------------------- https://suno.com/hook/f68aa452-af09-4fa6-b488-14dce238c635 ------------------------FU L L V I D E O + S O N G H O O K----------- [genre: okinawan_roots | americana | gospel_folk | acoustic_world] [tempo: eighty-eight BPM | feel: slow_gospel | time_sig: four-four] [key: G_major | scale: Ryukyu_modal_lift] [vocal: okinawan_minyo_female_lead | american_gospel_male_harmony | call_response] [language: uchinaguchi_primary | english_secondary] [instrumentation: dobro_slide | sanshin | acoustic_guitar | upright_bass | hammond_B3 | brushed_snare] [production: muscle_shoals_warmth | tape_slapback | spring_reverb | analog_ribbon] [mood: reverent | longing | warm_nostalgia | homecoming] [reference: okinawa_americana_duo | nenes | mavis_staples | gospel_roots] [-dub -reggae -drum_machine -electronic -jpop -synth] Intro | dobro_slide_fade_in | sanshin_drone_underneath | no_percussion_yet | warm_room_ambience | key: G major] (slide resolves ..... sanshin answers .....silence holds) [Verse 1 | okinawan_minyo_female_lead | acoustic_fingerpick_enters | uchinaguchi_primary | reverent_slow_gospel | key: G major] Nankuru naisa .... it will work itself out Old ones said it standing in the cane Haisai .... I called across the water Echo came back older than my name Shima nu kuchi .... island mouth still open Singing to a sky with nobody's name Tokyo concrete holds no salt, no coral Just the ghost of tide beneath my feet [Chorus | gospel_male_harmony_joins | call_response | hammond_B3_swells | tambourine_enters | key: G major | Ryukyu_modal_lift_on_resolve] Shima .... (male harmony answers) Uchina .....(harmony answers) I carry you like a stone Shima .... (harmony answers) Uchina .... (harmony answers) And the stone remembers home [Instrumental Break | dobro_slide_lead | sanshin_countermelody | upright_bass_walks | brushed_snare_steady | eight_bars | key: G major] [Verse 2 | female_lead_stronger | male_harmony_underneath | english_drops_over_uchinaguchi | slow_build | key: G major] Ikena ....can't go back the same way The ferry doesn't run to who I was Sanshin in the closet still knows the tuning Plays the only truth this body does Uchinaa-ntchu ... Okinawan person Half my bones are limestone, half are asphalt Passport says one thing, the blood says something else One foot on coral, one on borrowed ground [Chorus | full_gospel_trio | hammond_fullest | dobro_slides_between_phrases | key: G major | Ryukyu_lift_strongest_here] Shima ... (full harmony) Uchina ...(full harmony) I carry you like a stone Shima ...(full harmony) Uchina ...(full harmony) And the stone remembers home [Outro | acoustic_guitar_alone_first | sanshin_joins | dobro_fades_in_last | female_voice_humming_minyo | no_percussion | tape_warmth_out | key: G major] Nankuru naisa... (sanshin and slide hold together fade to room tone) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ナンクルナイサ… きっとなんとかなる 昔の人は サトウキビ畑でそう語った ハイサイ… 海を越えて呼びかけた 返ってきたこだまは 私の名前よりも古かった 島の口は 今も開かれたまま 誰のものでもない空へ 歌い続けている 東京のコンクリートには 潮の香りも 珊瑚もない 足元に残るのは 潮騒の幻だけ 島… ウチナー… あなたを 石のように胸へ抱いている 島… ウチナー… その石は ふるさとを忘れない ナンクルナイサ… 同じ道では もう帰れない あの日の私へ向かう フェリーはもう来ない 押し入れの三線は 今も調弦を覚えている この身体が知る ただひとつの真実を奏でる ウチナーンチュ… 私の骨の半分は石灰岩 半分はアスファルト パスポートは ひとつのことを書いている けれど血は 別のことを語っている 片足は珊瑚の上 もう片方は 借りものの大地の上 島… ウチナー… あなたを 石のように胸へ抱いている 島… ウチナー… その石は ふるさとを忘れない ナンクルナイサ…
