Thank You Song
I hold a single light and look towards the darkness. It can only illuminate a small area.
This is a farewell song. It's mostly humming, with only two words at the end: "Thank you" and "It's okay." It's sung by a single child's voice. Accompanied by an accordion waltz, it sings about the time after someone has seen someone else off.
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lyrics
I'm still standing here
Holding a single light
Looking towards the dark
It can only be illuminated a little
That's all.
After you left
I'm still standing here
One footprint, two footprints
The shape left behind by your steps
It disappears outside the light
The sound of the wind
It was still dark on the way home.
I can't say "be careful."
Just humming
After you left
I'm still standing here
Thank you
All right
How this song came to be
The one holding the light is the rabbit that guided us through the forest in the background music album.
On the surface, it's a song about someone seeing someone else off. It could be a lover, family member, or a customer leaving a shop.
Behind that, there's another picture of the rabbit holding a light and looking towards the darkness. That rabbit is the one that guided "me" deep into the forest in the album " The Rabbit and I, Into the Depths of the Forest ."
The words "forest" and "rabbit" never appear in the lyrics. Yet, if you know that story, you might think that the person holding a light and looking into the darkness is a rabbit.
I didn't include a single proper noun.
I haven't included words like "nagaya" (traditional row houses), "Showa-cho" (a district in Tokyo), "coffee," or "coffee shop" in the title. I hope that anyone who has ever said goodbye to someone will be able to use this sound from Instagram's sound library and embed it in their own posts.
It all started when we wanted a song we could play as a thank you when customers tagged us in their posts about visiting our store.
I don't say "Be careful."
The person this song sees off is not the same person who came in. It represents someone who was lost in the forest, has taken a breather, and is now able to return home on their own two feet. I decided not to use the word "worry" here because it treats the other person as still weak.
Instead, the final "It's alright" conveys the same message in a less worrying way. It's kept in hiragana because using kanji would make it sound too encouraging.
Why are there so few words?
Without words, there's no conflict with any post. Musette and chanson are originally sung in a "la-la-la" style.
The way the unspoken gratitude arrives a beat late, and the way the lyrics consist of only the last two words, directly overlap. The reason for focusing the voice on just one child is the same. Since only one person is seeing them off, if the voices overlapped, it would no longer sound like a monologue.
Regarding use on social media
You can use this song in your Instagram Reels and Stories, TikTok, and other social media posts. Please search for "Usagi to Boku" (Rabbit and Me) in each music library.
No credit attribution is required. Please feel free to use it.