WHAT I SAW – Maia Hirasawa
He picked me up in his blue old Volvo
With a calm face and his girlfriend on his left side
She went back to her own apartment
Wasn’t she afraid like I was
We watched the news on your black and white TV
I learnt some new words, like genpatsu and fire
I felt safer than I did in twenty hours
While we saw the, we saw the whole world explode
And you were always on my mind
You were always on my mind
When the world explode
I tried to call once in an hour
While I saw the lights moving side to side
I didn’t have any clean clothes to put on
So I went through the park and home
I didn’t speak about my friends at all
I didn’t know if you were alive at all
There was no gas left in his blue old car
And it felt like I was running from a war
When the whole world explode
And you were always in my mind
When the world explode
Standing on the airport finally
Leaving everything that has been me
The ground was suddenly, our biggest enemy
Oh our country
The ground was suddenly, our biggest enemy
I was too afraid to see