黒百合の歌
織井茂子 Lyrics

"Kuroyuri no uta" or "The Song of the Black Lily" by Shigeko Orii is a haunting and melancholic love song that speaks about the black lily (kuroyuri), which represents love, obsession, and death. The song is sung from the perspective of a woman who is deeply in love with a man named Nishipa. She believes that if she presents him with the black lily, they will eventually be together forever. She considers herself lucky to love someone like him and wants to do everything in her power to win his affection.

The second verse of the song explains that the black lily is a cursed flower that can never be separated from those who have tied the knot under it, and the woman suggests that if she dies, Nishipa should also die with her. Finally, the last verse reveals that the black lily is also a poisonous flower that is tabooed by the Ainu gods, and the woman foreshadows her own death while longing to be with Nishipa until the end of her life.