November last year, I posted Soulja’s Koko Ni Iru Yo (I’m here) but I’d never thought that I’d post a follow-up song 6 months later.

These two songs are really unique, as if Soulja and Aoyama Thelma are having a conversation through their songs, in which they’re featured in each other’s album. These two songs remind me a lot of the “Gi Chan said”/”Dang Ja said” featured songs in the drama “Bad Couple” (read about it here)

*lyrics by: kiwi-musume.com*

Soulja said, “I’m here” (Koko Ni Iru Yo) [DL LINK] – from the guy’s point of view, this song starts off with a conversation between Soulja and Aoyama Thelma. The rapped lyrics expresses a heartfelt feelings from Soulja’s point of view. And though this song is supposed to be Soulja’s song, as Aoyama is featured in this song, her voice highlights the entire song, as if Soulja is really making it special for her to say that “I’m here”

Baby boy, I’m here, I won’t go anywhere, I’ll be waiting for you
You know that I love you, and that’s why you don’t need to worry
No matter how far apart we are, my love won’t change
You know what I mean?
I’m waiting for you (waiting for you)

Me, so clumsy, and you, far away
With me still unable to tell you how I felt, you went away
Now you remain only in my album
These days we can only meet via the airwaves, but I can’t see your smile
Your warmth, the smell of your hair; as the days went by
My thirst for you was unquenched, and I searched desperately for a trace of you
On the road I often walked down with you, the only sound now was my footsteps
But enough of that, how are you? Are you eating properly?
Dammit, I just can’t say it
I’ll send you another letter from me soon

Baby boy, I’m here, I won’t go anywhere, I’ll be waiting for you
You know that I love you, and that’s why you don’t need to worry
No matter how far apart we are, my love won’t change
You know what I mean?
I’m waiting for you (waiting for you)

I saw you on the sand dunes in Kamakura; the words I wanted to say were swallowed up in the waves
This is really painful; I’m a guy…so why won’t the words come?
Do you remember? When I was at karaoke with you
The words to the song I picked were on the screen
The truth was, I wanted to tell you
The day we got together, just the two of us, for the first time
We played around like we met by chance
I wanted to say “I can’t forget your smile”
But I got pretty off-topic, huh? You get what I want to say, right?
Shit, I’ve run out of space to write
Sorry, next time I’ll definitely send it

Baby boy, I’m here, I won’t go anywhere, I’ll be waiting for you
You know that I love you, and that’s why you don’t need to worry
No matter how far apart we are, my love won’t change
You know what I mean?
I’m waiting for you (waiting for you)

If I was richer, if I had a more serious job
If I’d been able to suffer through everything, I know I could…
But please, don’t get the wrong idea, I don’t want to make you lonely, but
I’m busy so I can’t really talk, but
Baby believe kore wa all for our future
But to be honest, I want to see you right now, I want to hold you right now
Now there’s nobody sitting in that seat where you used to sit next to me…
Well, that’s no biggie, that wasn’t what I wanted to say
It’s probably too late, but I’ll pour out the words I’ve been wanting to say all this time, and send it to you, my unsent letter

Baby girl, I’m here, I won’t go anywhere, I’ll be waiting for you
You know that I love you, and that’s why you don’t need to worry
No matter how far apart we are, my love won’t change
You know what I mean?
I’m waiting for you (waiting for you)

Baby boy, I’m here, I won’t go anywhere, I’ll be waiting for you
You know I love you, and that’s why you don’t need to worry
No matter how far apart we are, my love won’t change
Now I can come out and say it
I don’t eva wanna let you go

Then, Aoyama Thelma said, “I’m by your side” (Soba ni Iru ne) [DL LINK] - as to correspond to Soulja’s song, Soba ni Iru ne tells it from a girl’s point of view. And it was told that the additional lyrics were written by both of them as to strengthen the love story that was first introduced in Koko ni Iru yo.

I still
Love you, even now
No matter how much time goes by
I’m by your side baby, always
So, no matter how far apart we are
You’re always with me
In my heart, but I’m lonely
So baby please just hurry back home

Baby boy, I’m here
I won’t go anywhere, I’ll be waiting for you
You know that I love you, and that’s why
You don’t need to worry
No matter how far apart we are, my love won’t change
You know what I mean?
I’m waiting for you (waiting for you)

But enough of that, how are you?
Are you eating properly?
Dammit, I just can’t say it
I’ll send you another letter from me soon

I can’t take back the time that’s gone by
But I miss you, you were so close to me
But the more our distance grew
The more I acted busy
I was running away
But when I close my eyes, when I try to sleep
I can’t run away from you
When I thought of you, I cried alone

I still
Love you, even now
No matter how much time goes by
I’m by your side baby, always
So, no matter how far apart we are
You’re always with me
In my heart, but I’m lonely
So baby please just hurry back home

Baby boy, I’m here
I won’t go anywhere, I’ll be waiting for you
You know that I love you, and that’s why
You don’t need to worry
No matter how far apart we are, my love won’t change
You know what I mean?
I’m waiting for you (waiting for you)

Me, so clumsy, and you, far away
With me unable to tell you how I felt
You went away
Now you remain only in my album

More than the days whose memories are stored in my album
I miss those little moments
And now, waiting for you to call
I fell asleep still holding my cellphone
I’m won’t go anywhere, I’ll be here
But I want to look into your eyes
Know what I mean? I’m waiting for you

Baby boy, I’m here
I won’t go anywhere, I’ll be waiting for you
You know that I love you, and that’s why
You don’t need to worry
No matter how far apart we are, my love won’t change
You know what I mean?
I’m waiting for you (waiting for you)

I’m won’t go anywhere, I’ll be here
But I’ll keep searching for your face
When I reach out, feeling like I can still touch your smile
You…

I still
Love you, even now
No matter how much time goes by
I’m by your side baby, always
So, no matter how far apart we are
You’re always with me
In my heart, but I’m lonely
So baby please just hurry back home

I still
Love you, even now
No matter how much time goes by
I’m by your side baby, always
So, no matter how far apart we are
You’re always with me
In my heart, but I’m lonely
So baby please just hurry back home

credits: translation by: http://www.kiwi-musume.com

When I first heard Soulja’s track, the sounding intro lured me in and I was attracted to Soulja’s rapping right away. And now, months later, after finding out more about the lyrics, and listening to both tracks, WOW. Very impressive! There’s not a lot of songs like these, so I’d always like to mention those special, rare ones.