Looking for Tenchi stuff on YouTube tonight, I found a video to my favorite song of all. This is the number one, the one I sing most and my signature song in karaoke. I can not even begin to tell you how much this song means to me.

I have been lucky enough to sing the Japanese version ( Tsuki no Tragedy ) with Ai Orikasa ( the voice actor for Ryoko ) whom this song is about and I will never, never forget that few moments in time. It was truly one of the most special things I have ever experienced.

Please take a couple minutes out of your busy day and listen to this song. It is, in my opinion, the greatest song of love I have ever sung or heard. It brings tears every time I hear it.

I am lonely like the Moon, you are far away as the Earth
Though you say I light your thoughts night after night
Soon you forget

We are drifting in this dance, I can feel you circle my heart
Keeping such a graceful distance, So close but somehow apart

Sometimes I cry for you, Knowing you don’t want me to
Sometimes I whisper to the stars up in the sky

That I want to find the way to your soul
Kiss in the sun when morning comes
You don’t seem to count the hours when we are not together

I’ve seen a tender fire in your eyes, yet when I’m gone, you carry on
I float in this emptiness ’til at last, love returns
With the night and the lonely Moon

I am lonely like the Moon always wanting you to be near
I embrace you ’til the dawn then with a smile you disappear

We continue in our dance there are times I think it should end
But I lose myself in rapture and we start all over again

Sometimes I cry for you knowing you don’t want me to
Sometimes I whisper to the stars up in the sky

That I want to find the way to your soul
Kiss in the sun when morning comes
You don’t seem to count the hours when we are not together

I’ve seen a tender fire in your eyes yet when I’m gone you carry on
I float in this emptiness ’til at last love returns
With the night and the lonely Moon

I love the warm emotion you bring
Though there is pain I don’t complain
How you can inspire me whenever we’re together

Every time it’s like a new song
You move me so, I think you know
I won’t even say a word
In your arms or far from sight
I’ll be your light
Like the lonely Moon

While I am at it, let me share a wallpaper with you all as well based on this song and a bit of a story about it as well:
Ryoko Wallpaper
It has been resized dynamically, right click and save if you want and it will be in its full size of 1024×768.

Now the story or description; however you wish to call it :)

This picture is an actual mural in Pioneer world headquarters. It depicts Ryoko toasting the Moon as her friend RyoOhki looks on. Ryoko shares a kinship with the Moon as she sees herself the Moon and Tenchi the Earth, always together, yet eternally apart.

I have met and interviewed the gentleman who painted this picture and found him to be a wonderful person who really wanted to capture the love story and sadness of Ryoko and Tenchi’s relationship. Truly befitting the title The Tragedy of the Moon, it seems never will Ryoko’s love be returned and yet, in the midst of hopelessness, something shines and perhaps our heroine will one day realize her dream. There is a line in the Japanese version of the song that really hits this on the head.

Itsuka kitto sasayaku kotoba
Kizukanai furi de aruide

Someday, surely, whispering words
I walk, pretending not to notice

This painting is depicted in Spring as denoted by the sakura blossoms floating in the wind. Sakura blossoms also show love or beginning of love and this is also quite fitting. It is set on the lake upon which the Masaki shrine is located and also the lake where Tenchi and Ryoko first met. In fact on the right hand side of that tree is the place where they met. She is also wearing the same outfit she was wearing when she met him. She is drinking/toasting with sake another of her favorite things and of course Ryo Ohki her best friend and spaceship ( long story ) sits upon her legs holding a carrot which is her favorite thing :)

This scene is painted at night for this also goes with the song, as in the lyrics you can find above.

Perhaps it is fitting that the season for which this song was the ending theme has for its final image in each of the shows Ryo Ohki shedding a tear for her friend and hoping, that one day, she will have her wish come true and win Tenchi’s heart.

Ryo Ohki sheds a tear for her friend Ryoko

I have a version of this painting done by the artist and signed for me and it is truly one of my most treasured possessions. It is not worth as much as some of my other things, it is not especially beautiful to anyone but me, but it is a touchable, seeable, real world link to the most beautiful love story I have ever in all my years had the pleasure to enjoy.

Enjoy one of my most treasured memories…Jim

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