[Verse 1]
As the sun began to set,
I put on a motocross shirt and jeans,
Donned a hat, and together with her
lit mosquito coils, and hooked them onto our waists.
[Pre-Chorus 1]
With hoes, buckets, and hand trowels in hand,
We headed to the small field beside the house.
[Chorus 1]
Life in a quiet corner of the countryside,
The gap between imagination and reality;
It was financially tougher than we’d expected,
Yet our days were rich and filled with small joys.
[Verse 2]
Taro leaves lined the path along the way;
We dug them up one by one with our trowels and placed them in the bucket.
We spotted tiny leaves on the field’s ridges.
[Pre-Chorus 2]
We looked up images
Checking for carrot leaves and more, one after another.
[Chorus 2]
Life in a quiet corner of the countryside,
The gap between imagination and reality;
It was financially tougher than we’d expected,
Yet our days were rich and filled with small joys.
[Instrumental Solo]
[Verse 3]
Soybeans, red shiso, okra, cabbage, rice plants and otherwise, nothing but weeds.
We gathered those seedlings, everything but the rice, and put them into the bucket.
[Pre-Chorus 3]
The bucket was full.
Triumphant, we headed toward the larger field.
[Chorus 3]
Life in a quiet corner of the countryside,
The gap between imagination and reality;
It was financially tougher than we’d expected,
Yet our days were rich and filled with small joys.
[Bridge]
We tilled the soil, weeds and all,
And raised the planting ridges.
Then, we carefully planted
The seedlings from the bucket were planted in the earth.
“I hope they grow up strong,” I said.
“If we plant them, they’ll grow,” she replied.
[Final Chorus]
Life in a quiet corner of the countryside,
The gap between imagination and reality;
It was financially tougher than we’d expected,
Yet our days were rich and filled with small joys.
[Outro]
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