2021.03.20.
Saké and Tears and Men and Women
Versions: #1When enveloped by things he’d like to forget,
or by hopeless loneliness,
what a man will do is drink.
He’ll drink and drink, until it swallows him up, drink,
drink, drink himself into oblivion, until sleep comes.
After a time, a man will drop peacefully off to sleep.
When enveloped by things she’d like to forget,
or by hopeless sadness,
what a woman will do is show her tears.
She’ll weep and weep, all alone, weep,
weep, weep herself into exhaustion, until sleep comes, weep.
After a time, a woman will drop peacefully off to sleep.
Yet again I am convinced of the superiority of women.
Yet again I’ve come to see the unfairness of men.
I am a man