A song about cross-cultural love (with a Japanese girl)
Stan loves music, is published (EMI/Capitol), and has experience performing on radio and TV when it was live in the good old days. These days he's just writing
Songwriter of pop, country, inspirational songs. I like to write. I travel a lot to Asia...so my music may have an Asian influence.
Story behind the song
White guy falls in love with a Japanese girl, but has a language problem.
Lyrics
Say It In Katakana
Copyright Stanley Loh, June 12, 2002
D Bb C A D Bb C A
Verse 1
D Bm
Too many trials I’ve been through,
A
Too many till I found you.
G Gm D
Though our worlds are miles apart,
E E7 A
I feel no boundaries in our hearts.
G Gm
Well I wish to say, in a different way,
D Am
How I am feeling, I’m revealing,
G Gm D Bb C D
Oh tell me how do I say it in Katakana?
Verse 2
D Bm
How do I tell you “I love you”?
A
From the sincerest point of view?
G Gm D
Though I’m only just learning lines,
E E7 A
This foolish heart begins to find,
G Gm
Well I wish to say, in a different way,
D Am
How I am feeling, I’m revealing,
G Gm D Bb C D
Oh tell me how do I say it in Katakana?
BRIDGE
G Gm D
Katakana, Hiragana, Kanji … are foreign to me.
G Gm
But I don’t care, if the words are strange,
D
They sound good to me!
G Gm D
Katakana, Hiragana, Kanji … are foreign to me.
G Gm
But I don’t care, if the words are strange,
D
They sound good to me!
Verse 3
D Bm
I wanna learn much more ‘bout you,
A
Your culture, beliefs, and wooden shoes,
G Gm D
I’m praying that there’ll come a time,
E E7 A
For our stars to connect all in line.
G Gm
Though we live afar, in different stars,
D Am
Our love will grow, I know it so!
G Gm D
Oh tell me, how do I say it in Katakana?
G Gm D
And teach me, how do I show it in Katakana?
G Gm D
Oh tell me, how do I say it in Katakana?
G Gm D
And teach me, how do I show it in Katakana?
