perfect for the ending of CB, I love this song. especially the last stanza

well I love this song too, and yes it was perfect. But I think the whole meaning thing behind it is that Spike basically wants to die so that he can be free. Free from Vicious, the syndicate, and even free from living in a world without Julia. And that after the fight while he's laying there dying he sees it all clearly. Or at least that's what I think. I think that by then he would have realized that the whole thing between him, Vicious, and Julia was just stupid and now they were all gonna die from it. He was wondering what it was all for. And of coarse he said himself before, to Faye, that he was just living a dream.

So I guess that's my take on it and btw, I believe Spike is still alive ^_^. I mean he's been through worse, being blown out of a church window and stuff. He'd defently live through Vicious. Also, Yoko Kanno arranged, wrote, and composed the song, but did not sing it. Mai Yamane did.

OMG YOKO KANNO LYRICS!!! Hehehe ^.^ That's awesome!!!! I take it you guys also Love CB? Have you seen the movie? I love it sooo much :)

i love this song, hence my screename. ^^;

This song is possibly one of the best songs I've ever heard. The first time of course was when I saw the final epsiode, the view titls sky ward as the song begins and actually started to cry when the first lines of it came on.

i think this song is about happiness, and i feel that "blue" is the equivalent to the meaning of "happiness". Maybe she was just dumfounded by a blue sky one day and it just made her happy.
"never seen a bluer sky" meaning she's never been happier.
"Yeah I can feel it reaching out" she feels her happiness reaching out to her and feels it overcome her.
"and moving closer" her happiness is increasing.
"There's something 'bout blue" she is talking about how a blue sky can do this to her. make her so happy. i think she is just reffering back to the blue sky that made her feel like this.
"ask myself what its all for" what life is all for.
"I couldnt answer" like, 'i couldnt come up with a reason.'
"things have turned a deeper shade of blue" She has gotten happier or things have gotten better.
"and images that might be real
may be illusion" events in her life seem so good that they are almost like a dream, or illusion.
"Keep flashing off and on" and those events keep happening before her eyes.
"Free..." her happiness and a blue sky are like freedom from the sadness she had before. we all know what it feels like to be free. im sure you've all gotten it once, even if it was for like, getting out of school early or something. and it feels good. very good.
"and move among the stars" like be among and accomplish her goals, dreams, and desires in her life that she has been striving for.
"You know they really aren't so far" she is saying that dreams can come true and your goal actually can be reached.
"Don't wake me from the dream" dont take her away from the things and events that make her happy in her new, better life.
"It's really everything it seemed" basically she is saying that life IS what it was all cracked up to be.
"No black and white in the blue" meaning that there is no discrimination in happiness. this is not only discussing discrimination as in people's ethnicity, but by there ways, choices, lifestyles, etc.
"Everything is clearer now" just that. life is much clearer to her now.
"Life is just a dream, you know" saying that her life is like one big dream or illusion, like its really just so incredibly great, that its like a dream, and she seems to refer to a dream as a very happy thing.
"that's never ending" it is like one huge dream, and she seems to tie dreams to happiness with a very tight knot.
"I'm ascending" ascending means basically 'to go up', and she is saying that her life in general, is rising and getting much much better.

I was lying in my sleeping bag at night at a friends house when this song just popped into my head. i was thinking deeply about the lyrics (while i aws laying there, i was looking out a window, seeing dark rainclouds as it was pouring, as a matter of fact) and i got this explanation as a result.

this song seems so sad to me, like it's about death and suicide. here's my explanation:

"Asked myself what it's all for
You know the funny thing about it
I couldn't answer
No, I couldn't answer"

when you're depressed and suicidal, things don't have meaning anymore

"Things have turned a deeper shade of blue
and images that might be real
may be illusion
Keep flashing off and on"

what's real? what's illusion?

"Free...
Wanna be free, Gonna be free
and move among the stars
You know they really aren't so far

Feels so free...
Gotta know free..."

i have to be free from this life.

"Please...
Don't wake me from the dream
It's really everything it seemed"

somehow, this seems to me like a plea not to bring her back

"Everything is clearer now
Life is just a dream, you know
that's never ending
I'm ascending"

i'm on my way to heaven, i'm ascending, and all the illusions of the dream of life have been stripped away.

that's what i get, anyway

Lol I love all cowboy bebop songs and will tell ya what I think of it

I think this song is about the time after julia dies, till the end of the show
now this song is for the ending of cowboy bebop! keep that in mind
now, blue, is a color of cool, laid back, and also the color of sorrow "are you feeling blue? " keep that in mind too

"Never seen a bluer sky
Yeah I can feel it reaching out
and moving closer
There's something 'bout blue"

There never was a more perfect time, and I can feel the time getting closer... there's something bout blue, something bout what she/he is bout to do"

Asked myself what it's all for
You know the funny thing about it
I couldn't answer
No, I couldn't answer

I've done this many times, Ask yourself why live? whats the point of it all, what is it all for, again this would imply that she (the singer) is depressed, sad, blue. But she is unable to come up with a anwser, and its "ironic" kinda funny, the poetic type... maybe if she could just figure it out.... but she can't anwser...

Things have turned a deeper shade of blue
and images that might be real
may be illusion
Keep flashing off and on

Things have gotten more "blue" more sad, more free. (Julia dies, spike's old friends die, things basically get alot more complicated).
"Images that might be real may be illusions, keep flashing off and on."
Vicious's butterfly's could the what these images represent, or Spike's flashbacks, or Faye's flashbacks,

Free...
Wanna be free, Gonna be free
and move among the stars
You know they really aren't so far

She (the singer) or spike wants to be free from it all, wants to be among the stars, in heaven, basically doesn't want to live anymore. when she says "you know they really aren't so far" when you are depressed, you start to weight being dead with being alive, and when your down enough, it seems that there wouldn't be much difference. "it wouldn't matter if i died"... so she's saying that death isn't so far from living.

Feels so free...
Gotta know free... Please...

She's made up her mind to be free, to be free from all the stuff she has to deal with in life, all the pain, all the restrictions, all the lies... or in spike's case, living without Julia.

Remember all the stuff he survives when julia is alive, being blown out of an apartment, etc, well thats because he wants to live, but when julia dies... he doesn't he just wants to be free from it all. I think that when julia was alive, he was "free" with her, and now that she's dead, he wants to be "free" with her still...

Don't wake me from the dream
It's really everything it seemed

Shes fading (the singer) or spike... and things are becoming so much more "free", and so the singer/spike dont want you to try to save them, they want to die and be let go from the worries of life... this is why I believe spike didn't tell tank or faye to come with him. He didn't want to live through it.

I'm so free...
No black and white in the blue

There are no extremes in the blue, in death you don't have to worry bout good or evil, right and wrong, you are freed from all of this... or better put, all are equal in death. Also, death/freedom doesn't care how good or bad, rich or poor you are, its the ultimate equalizer

Everything is clearer now
Life is just a dream, you know
that's never ending
I'm ascending

Now she/spike understands it all, now that she(the singer) / spike are bout to die, they "get it". Life is just what you make of it you know, and it really doesn't matter, this is kinda the whole theme of the laid-back amine of Cowboy bebop... kinda like the song "dont matter none".

I'm Ascending.... I'm being freed, birds "ascend" I'm being let go of my chains, in spike's case, his chains of life... and so he dies...


All in all, I love this song, its real in a lot of ways and unreal too, just depends on your mood, I wish I could understand the chant at the beginning of the song, but I'm sure its a funeral chant or something...

Oh and btw, yeah she is talking about being happy, but to her, death is the ultimate happiness (same with spike after julia dies)

Great song, and yeah, perfect for the ending of Bebop. I get a lump in my throat when I watch the final sequence...but it's perfect

KawaiiAyu, he's definitely dead. That's the intention of the ending, which we know at the end of the credits when Spike's 'warrior star' blinks out in the middle of the screen. Also, I've heard that in interviews the show's creators talked about the possibility of doing a prequel show, but never one set after (why? cos their main character's dead). Besides, if he isn't dead, the ending isn't half as good, and I say that as one of Spike's (if not no. 1) top ten fans...it would be a letdown if he wasn't dead

I think of this song in a 1st-Person perspective with the possibility of being in a subconscious state ("Don't wake me from the dream. It's really everything it seemed), about freedom or balance ("I'm so free. No black and white in the blue").

It's just the right song with the right lyrics for the final eps. of Cowboy Bebop, with Spike (ironically) meeting his fate and all... It's one of those songs that limns a psychological thought to people when they listen to it. ^^

Does anyone know where I can find the lyrics to Osanpo Tachikoma (Tachikoma taking a walk) from the Ghost in the shell album, "Be Human"? I have looked EVERYWHERE and I still cannot find it!!!!

Anybody know what the first few lines of the song are?

It sounds like they're saying "Where's your messiah?", but I can't figure out the rest.

InSaneWeTrust--It sounds a bit like latin, but I'm not sure by any means.

Unique song, and quite deep for that of an OST.
It's obviously about wanting freedom, contemplating all the issues of life and eventually tiring of it. Everything here is complicated, but the sky is just blue.. blank, and endless. Nothing else. There is peace in that.

Soon, they realize that the oddity of the sky and its endlessness may apply to life, and it's own seemingly endless cycle. But they still prefer the sky, and it's simplicity. In the end, they go to it and let go of the world we know now, whether subconsciously or physically.

Amazing explanations everyone! I really liked ready every single one:)

And i do agree with most. It's about death, about being free. Spike wasn't afraid of death, he welcomed it. But after meeting Julia it changed..he wanted to stay alive for her..for love. This is confirmed in Cowboy Bebop the movie when he is talking to electra.

Without Julia, he retreated into a dream state...what could've been. Spike left his past alone and there was still the possibility he would meet julia again. And it happened..but when Annie was shot he started to awaken and he finally awoke when julia was shot. Life is not a dream..it's cruel,hard,ugly.

After the showdown with Vicious, he died. He was free, no more dreams, no more life, no more BLACK(ugly) AND WHITE(beauty).

It's a song about being tired of life, and wanting the pain to end. It's one of the best song i've ever heard, she is a freaking genius. Also Cowboy Bebop,=masterpiece.

Peace

dorkamunda: it's a sample of the made-up language that Yoko uses for a lot of her songs that she credits to "Gabriela Robin". You can hear it in other songs from Cowboy Bebop; 'Green Bird' and 'Cats on Mars' for example. mostly its just gibberish but gabrielarobin.com has a translating database, and this is what the opening of 'Blue' is listed as:
" Were shuel messaia unt
dubie di cantus
Were shuel messaia unt
dubie di cantus......."

Sorry, but the lyrics dosnt mean that at all (most of everithins that its writen), the bad things its that i can't tell you :P but you could find for yourselves. just put "gnosis" in google or other search engine, and read, try to UNDERSTAND. yoko kanno believe in this "way of think". also the director of cowboy bebop. sorry for my write errors im from argentina and don't know write good :P


i hope you guys been interesed in this "way of think" its gonna open your eyes. and gonna understand also others movies IE: The Matrix.

the words in this song aren't really cryptic. its pretty self explanatory. luixvayo, gnosticism isn't anything new or mind blowing, man. read simulacra and simulation by baudrillard. but that's neither here nor there. Marty256, thats an interesting theory. according to her site, however, 'blue', 'green bird', and 'cats on mars' are all fan transcribed so i don't know if i can rely on the legitimacy of it. It's not that far fetched, what with bands like sigur ros doing entire albums in made up languages, but still, it sounds a lot like latin to me.