(the) Road to the Deep East

Whenever I listen to LALALA feat. Wakadanna from Kato Miliyah, one question occurs to me.

'What is the man in this song doing??'

Oh, don't take me wrong. I named the male rapper Wakadanna from Shonan no kaze one of the most irritating JPOP star, but I don't mean to be mean to this big fat guy. I mean the person who appears in the lyrics of this song. And this song is the first song from her latest album 'TOKYO STAR', so whenever I listen to this album throughly, this question always agonizes me.

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In this song, it looks the man (sung and played by Wakadanna) and woman (by Miliyah) are living together. (full Japanese lyrics)

In this lyrics, the woman starts:
昨日も深夜２時　体も疲れ果てて
かまって欲しそう　でも寝させて　文句ひとつ言わない君がもういじらしい
(I got home at 2:00AM again, I got exhausted,
You looks you have something, but leave me alone
You don't complain, it's so lovely.)

She gets home at midnight, and in the next morning, she wakes up earlier than man and goes to work again while he is still sleeping. It always happens to an office worker woman working in this country, especially in Tokyo.

But what is the man doing while she is working so hard?? The man says;

あなたの背中見て　もう出かけるのかと不安気
(skip)
愛してる　一日中　さりげなく時計を見る
まだお昼かって軽く落ちる　くよくよせずに乗り切れるたぶん
生きるって大変なことだからさ　私が慰めてあげなきゃ
帰ってきたら笑顔で迎える　それが唯一のできること
(I got anxious seeing your back, “Do you left home so soon?”
(skip)
I love you.” All day long I see the clock playing it cool.
It's still noon, I'm disappointed a little. But I can do it somehow.
To make living is very hard, so I have to console you.
To welcome you all in smiles when you got home, that's only the thing I can do.)

All the thing he does in this song is waking up around noon, and checking the clock out all day long. And when she gets home at midnight, he has already fell in a sleep. ....As he says, to make living is very hard, and I don't think all he can do is not only just consoling the working girlfriend...

So, first, I thought this song is a song of working woman and helpless her boyfriend. I think this happens to the men and women in the world, and sometimes women- especially, women working in sex industry keep this kind of boyfriend.

However, when we assume this song is about this kind of couple, there appear some awkward points.

Miliyah says,
君がいなくなったらって考えると　涙とまらないよ
首をかしげて不思議そうに私の涙拭いてる
When I imagine the life without you,
my tears won't stop.
You are looking at me putting your head a little to one side, wondering why.
And you wipe my tears off.

Put his head to one side?(首をかしげる？)

Of course, I'm not well informed about human being's gesture in the world, but will the man do it when you have some question when the questionee is so near? When he is alone and have some questions, he may sometimes do, just like I'm doing now. But in this situation the person whom he have something to ask is staying close enough to wipe her tears off. In that kind of situation, we have the better function called 'language'. He can ask her directly, "what's wrong?"


Then, I thought of some hypothesis.