Mood:  lyrical
Now Playing: By the Japanese group SMAP
Here is a quote before SMAP performed their song at the end of 2003: "Everyone please close your eyes and think back over the year 2003. This year, too, many precious lives were lost around the world. And many things hideous to behold took place. What can each of us do in such times? We believe that a happy future awaits us all if we can all learn to be kind to one another." Here is just one single line to this song: "You don't have to be Number 1. You've always been the one and only one."

Please take the time to read all the words by clicking on this link SMAP
Peace, my brothers and sisters!

The link isn't very reliable so here are the words:

"I was looking at the flowers lined up in front of the florists
We all have our favorite perhaps, but aren't they all beautiful?
Never vying with each other over which is the best
They all stand tall and proud in their buckets

Why are we human beings always trying so hard to compare ourselves?
Trying so hard to be number 1 even though we're each unique and different?

It's true--we are each the one and only flower in the world
Each of us holds the seed of something different
It is enough to give everything we have
To bring that flower into bloom

Smiling with indecision, one customer hesitated a long while
She couldn't help it, I'm sure--any flower that struggles into bloom is beautiful
When she finally came out of the shop, she held in her arms
A bouquet of every color, her face beaming with delight

I did not even know her name, but she smiled at me that day
Like a flower blooming in some forgotten corner

It's true--we are each the one and only flower in the world
Each of us holds the seed of something different
It is enough to give everything we have
To bring that flower into bloom

Small flowers and big flowers
Not one is identical to another
So, you don't have to be Number 1
You've always been the one and only one"