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タワーレコードで殿下の写真集を発見。それもイン・ハワイ。日付は 2003年12月とあるから、Tomotubby が Big Island、つまりハワイ島に遠征していたときではない!?。オアフ島ホノルルでコンサートしていた生殿下を拝めず涙を呑んだのでした。(そしてどうでもいいですが、その頃、松浦亜弥がファンを引き連れてオアフ島を訪れていたのでした)


AN INTIMATE PORTRAIT OF AN ARTIST

そういえば、プリンスは、Tomotubby のスーツケースが一泊していたミネアポリスの出身。ペイズリーパーク・スタジオもこの街にありました。アルバム「Parade」の中に「Sometimes It Snows In April」というバラードがあり、ミネアポリスでは時々４月に雪が降るようですが、今年は5/1日、５月になっても雪が降っていました。

こんな歌詞です。

Tracy died soon after a long fought civil war,
just after I'd wiped away his last tear
I guess he's better off than he was before,
A whole lot better off than the fools he left here
I used 2 cry 4 Tracy because he was my only friend
Those kind of cars don't pass u every day
I used 2 cry 4 Tracy because I wanted to see him again,
But sometimes sometimes life ain't always the way...

Sometimes it snows in April
Sometimes I feel so bad, so bad
Sometimes I wish life was never ending,
and all good things, they say, never last

Springtime was always my favorite time of year,
A time 4 lovers holding hands in the rain
Now springtime only reminds me of Tracy's tears
Always cry 4 love, never cry 4 pain
He used 2 say so strong unafraid to die
Unafraid of the death that left me hypnotized
No, staring at his picture I realized
No one could cry the way my Tracy cried

Sometimes it snows in April
Sometimes I feel so bad
Sometimes, sometimes I wish that life was never ending,
And all good things, they say, never last

I often dream of heaven and I know that Tracy's there
I know that he has found another friend
Maybe he's found the answer 2 all the April snow
Maybe one day I'll see my Tracy again

Sometimes it snows in April
Sometimes I feel so bad, so bad
Sometimes I wish that life was never ending,
But all good things, they say, never last

All good things that say, never last
And love, it isn't love until it's past