Whatever opinions you have about Japanese people, you got to admire their attention to details:
In the television series of Densha Otoko, an anime short was used for the opening. This opening contains a number of references to Daicon IV, an animated short produced by university students Hideaki Anno, Yoshiyuki Sadamoto, Takami Akai, and Shinji Higuchi, who formed Gainax. Accompanying the opening is the song “Twilight” by the 1970s Birmingham rock group Electric Light Orchestra (ELO), which was the same song used in Daicon IV. (source: Wikipedia: Densha Otoko)
I don’t know why but ever since I first listened to this song, this line keep proping up in my mind:
Twilight, I only meant to stay a while
And another line that I like:
It’s either real or it’s a dream
There’s nothing that is in between
And the full lyrics:
The visions dancing in my mind,
The early dawn the shades of time.
Twilight crawling through my window pane.
Am I awake or do I dream,
The strangest pictures I have seen,
Night is day and twilight’s gone away.
With your head held high and your scarlet lies,
You came down to me from the open skies,
It’s either real or it’s a dream
There’s nothing that is in between
Twilight, I only meant to stay a while
Twilight, I gave you time to steal my mind
Away from me.
Across the night I saw your face
You disappeared without a trace
You brought me here but can you take me back.
Inside the image of your light
That now is day and once was night
You leave me here and then you go away.
Twilight, I only meant to stay a while
Twilight, I gave you time to steal my mind
Away from me.
You brought me here but can you take me back again.
With your head held high and your scarlet lies,
You came down to me from the open skies,
It’s either real or it’s a dream
There’s nothing that is in between
Twilight, I only meant to stay a while
Twilight, I gave you time to steal my mind
Away from me.