Recently I've been listening to the CD REAL again, and the lyrics from bravery has entered my head once again. I thought of bravery once, and thought it to be the most gentle of ways to convey such a truthful, unadorned feeling. Indeed, the style is truthful, and unadorned, lax of many deep metaphors that usually line Hyde's lyrics. 


  What lyrics have tetsu written when he was in L'Arc? You could tell it was his style, because whenever he writes lyrics, there is a style of simplicity and gentility, regardless of feeling expressed. If me, with my lousy Japanese, can read it, then it must be real simple indeed.

  The fact that The Little Prince, originally written in French, was supposedly simple for its language, is also profound. The original language used by Antoine de Saint Exupery, according to my French-reading Aquarian Acquaintance, is indeed very simple. This simplicity has been failed in the attempts of translation to English, and possibly, Chinese (so do not doubt that it is simple in French merely because of the translations).

  Apart from the language medium that is used to convey, there are certain similar themes that appear in Tetsu's world, too. For example, in June 99 issue of B Pass, Tetsu has said, "I'm a child; It's splendid even if I can't be an adult, it's great like this!" (hido can't find the mag... she's sure she has it, but she can't find it, so forgive her if the quotation is kinda off >_<) 

  In The Little Prince, the primary idea is the difference between an adult and a child; it generally is a satirical portrayal of adult archetypes. The difference between an adult and a child is that a child will be able to understand the meaning of a sheep eating a flower. "And no grown-up will ever understand the significance of this!" Wrote Exupery in his last line of The Little Prince.

  Tetsu said, "This is why I've been able to enjoy making music so much, with the attitude of a child" In that particular interview (ack, forgive my lax quote again). In The Little Prince, the child has dreams to dream and places to go. They do not say, "I have serious matters to attend to," unlike adults; they are able to comprehend the importance of "that which cannot be seen". The child is able to experience the joy and beauty instead of busying themselves with "a fat red-faced man's calculations". It directly shows that Tetsu's attitude towards work is that he is able to enjoy whatever he is doing simply because there is no other band out there that he thinks is the "best", and therefore, he is not an adult; he is a child. The Little Prince cared for his rose as did Tetsu for his band; it is a parallel that both of them share. They love their own unique possessions, and they are, in their ties with their possessions, of use to them. They understand the relationship between them and their possessions, and enjoy it, unlike adults who think work is simply work.

  In SUITE NOVEMBER, TETSU69 has dressed up as a "prince" (according to him, when he went to Taiwan). He called himself a "prince" instead of a "king". 

  As for why the Little Prince is THE Little Prince is this: He is not an adult, simple as that. The fact that TETSU69 calls himself a "prince" goes to show that his comment on not being an adult had been serious as a philosophical ideal.

  In that particular interview, when asked his mental age, Tetsu declared, "16". In another interview, he claimed to remember the past (I can't remember what interview, or even when) whenever things became difficult. This explains the meaning of 15 half.