Eien (song)

"Eien"
Single by Zard
from the album Eien
Released August 20, 1997
Genre J-pop
Label B-Gram Records
Writer(s) Izumi Sakai, Akihito Tokunaga
Zard singles chronology
Kaze ga Tōri Nukeru Machi e
(1997)
Eien
(1997)
My Baby Grand -Nukumori ga Hoshikute-
(1997)

"Eien" (永遠 Eternity?) is Zard's 22nd single released on August 20, 1997. The song "Eien" was composed by Akihito Tokunaga with the lyrics written by Izumi Sakai. The song was used as the main theme of Japanese television drama adaptation of the novel A Lost Paradise. Junichi Watanabe, the writer of the novel, wrote the title word "Eien" of the CD cover. The single debuted at number 1 on Oricon weekly charts. When Izumi Sakai died in 2007, it was elected as her fifth best song on the Oricon polls.[1]

Track list

  1. Eien
  2. I can't let go
  3. Eien (Original karaoke)
  4. I can't let go (Original karaoke)

References

  1. ^ (Japanese) "心に残るZARDの名曲、1位は「負けないで」". Oricon. 2007-06-26. http://www.oricon.co.jp/news/music/45838/. Retrieved 2008-12-06.