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"White Summer and Green Bicycle, Red Hair with Black Guitar." is based on Sawao Yamanaka's lonely adolescence growing up in Hokkaidō. [1] This viewpoint is most clearly reflected in the third verse.
I've long been accustomed
To the loneliness
I don't really feel sorrow
These tears are only a pretense
Despite this, Yamanaka has stated that he wrote "White Summer" for the group and not as a personal song for himself, saying, "I just make music for life." [2]
Out of about four songs from the demo album The Pillows was working on at the time, [b] "Babylon Verses of Angel" was Yamanaka's choice for the single release. [2] However, the director, producer, and others pushed for "White Summer". [2] Since the original version has a minute and a half intro, it had to be cut down for its single release. [2] It was for this reason that Yamanaka was initially opposed to "White Summer" as a single, as "Babylon Verses of Angel" would not have required editing. [2]
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