Afro house · TWOLODY ORIGINALS
The Soup for the New Neighbor
“The Soup for the New Neighbor” brings together English and Japanese. Its musical genre is Afro house.
Lyrics & translation ↓
English ↔ Japanese
About this song
The first paired lines are “My mother carries soup across the landing.” and “母は踊り場を渡ってスープを運ぶ。”. Read the complete lyrics in both languages below, then follow the same phrases in the player.
A family offers soup to a new neighbor and learns a different recipe in return. Afro house, 121 BPM, polyrhythmic percussion, deep rounded bass, spacious piano, intimate female lead and soaring sung hook
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Listen to each line and compare its translation. Use Twin to switch to the same phrase in the other language; use Echo to recall its meaning before revealing the translation.
Two languages. One melody.
Lyrics & translation
Verse 1
My mother carries soup across the landing.
母は踊り場を渡ってスープを運ぶ。
The new neighbor opens with a moving box.
新しい隣人は引っ越しの箱を抱えてドアを開ける。
Our cumin rises through the crowded doorway.
私たちのクミンの香りが混み合う戸口を昇る。
She clears a chair and finds another spoon.
彼女は椅子を空け、もう一本スプーンを探す。
Chorus
The borrowed pot comes back with ginger steam.
借りた鍋は生姜の湯気とともに戻る。
Two kitchens share a handle warm enough to hold.
二つの台所が握れるほど温かい取っ手を分け合う。
A recipe can carry rooms we've left behind.
レシピは離れてきた部屋を運べる。
The landing smells of somewhere we can meet.
踊り場は私たちの出会える場所の匂いがする。
Verse 2
She draws a hillside on the recipe card.
彼女はレシピのカードに丘の斜面を描く。
Her father's garden grew the ginger roots.
父親の庭で生姜の根が育っていた。
My mother adds the market near our old house.
母は私たちの昔の家のそばの市場を書き足す。
The moving boxes wait beside the table.
引っ越しの箱はテーブルのそばで待つ。
Chorus
The borrowed pot comes back with ginger steam.
借りた鍋は生姜の湯気とともに戻る。
Two kitchens share a handle warm enough to hold.
二つの台所が握れるほど温かい取っ手を分け合う。
A recipe can carry rooms we've left behind.
レシピは離れてきた部屋を運べる。
The landing smells of somewhere we can meet.
踊り場は私たちの出会える場所の匂いがする。
Outro
Next week we leave the pot upon the landing.
翌週、私たちは踊り場に鍋を置く。
A third door opens with a smell of onions.
三つ目のドアが玉ねぎの匂いとともに開く。
The card gains one more garden in the margin.
カードの余白にもう一つ庭が加わる。
Nobody asks whose pot it used to be.
誰も元は誰の鍋だったか尋ねない。
