Kunci: F major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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The year was 1944.
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World War II was raging on
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The Japanese were losing,
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but they would not give up the fight.
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They railed against the Allies
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with their collective might.
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There was a Japanese warrant officer
named Shoichi Ota
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stationed in the Naval Air Corps.
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Because he had a plan, he thought for sure
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Would end the war, restore glory to Japan
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O -Tah thought up a flying weapon
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that any pilot could steer straight
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into the heart of the enemy.
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Though the pilot would die
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that much was clear.
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The OTA superior turned him down flat
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and was appalled to think
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no matter how many ships there were to
But the war continued,
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and Japan lost so many men.
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won't you tell us about your plan again?
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So 18 large bombers took off,
with 18 manned Okas
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strapped beneath their wings.
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But the American Hellcats
shot him down
before they could harm anything.
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came up with a flying bomb.
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Recruited just the young and the single,
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They called them kamikazes,
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Most were under 20 years old
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and had no thoughts of fear.
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But there was a pilot named Hajime Fujii
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who had a wife and three young girls.
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But he wanted to be a kamikaze
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more than anything in this old world.
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So his wife drowned their daughters,
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then she drowned herself too.
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And three months later he
joined his family
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When he flew into the wild blue
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I used to think the word kamikaze
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a time when more Japanese fought and died
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A gale force they called the kamikaze,
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which meant the divine wind
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Drove the Mongols from Japan,
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it was a war they were destined to win
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But now these new kamikazes,
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for keeping dreams of victory alive.
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And in their brief reign of terror,
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368 more were badly damaged
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for our side a terrible cost, as 5 ,000
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Allied sailors died in the blood -red sea.
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but still Japan was losing,
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and still these suicide missions flew.
as they took off for the
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The wild blue, the wild blue
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This was war, this is what men do
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The wild blue, the wild blue
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This was war, this is what men do
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On a U .S. aircraft carrier,
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in the damaged part of the ship,
a young sailor finds
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He strips the meat right off it
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and makes jewelry from the bone.
But today he shakes his
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were our hearts made of stone?
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that we made sport with his remains?
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Would they think we were barbarians?
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Would they think we were insane?
He was trying to kill us.
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We were trying to kill him, too.
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When you're in this situation,
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for every mission that was sent,
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Well, that's how the story went.
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when the peace treaty ended the war,
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Otah climbed into the cockpit,
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left his comrades on the shore.
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Legend was he flew over the ocean
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and then he crashed his plane.
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He couldn't live with his anger.
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He could not deal with his pain.
More than 1 ,900
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Kamikazes, just boys and young men,
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would never get to see their homes
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or their loved ones ever again.
And it's said that at the Yasukuni Shrine
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the families come and visit them
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not with sorrow but with pride
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and some know the name of Otar
they bow their heads
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and they say their prayers
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because like their brave ancestors
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an old man lay dying on his bed
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his children gathered round
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can't believe what he's just said I am
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I hid and then I changed my name
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I could not let anybody know
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he cried in hell his children what have I done
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all those young people died
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I volunteered for every mission
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but they never called my name.
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I've lived my life in agony.
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Now his son sits quietly in the cemetery.
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It's been just three years
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since his father's been buried
we could have helped him but we never
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The reporter nods, the camera zooms into the wild blue,
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the wild blue, the wild blue.
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This was war, this is what men do,
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the wild blue, the wild blue.
The
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This was war, this is what men do.
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