I Like You, I Like You, I Love You

Jun Togawa titled this song after the R. D. Laing poem "Do You Love Me?" (好き？　好き？　大好き？), the 64th and final on his 1976 poetry book Do You Love Me?: An Entertainment in Conversation and Verse (好き？好き？大好き？ 対話と詩のあそび), and wrote the lyrics inspired by its cloying verbosity. Although she set out to write a fun song with lyrics to laugh about, her feelings from being happily in love for the first time in her life influenced her output, and she could not turn it into a fundamentally fun song.

Originally released as a studio recording and title track on her 1985 second solo album. Susumu Hirasawa made a bold techno rearrangement for The Dying Year of the Showa Era Tour of early 1990, where he and his solo backing band keyboardists (Hikaru Kotobuki and Kitune Akimoto) accompanied Togawa.

Lyrics

 * 1 Togawa tweaks that line in live performances and re-recordings to reflect the current era, both Heisei and Reiwa.
 * 2 Due to an error by Alfa Records, official printings of the lyrics have "intuitive" (直感) in that line. Togawa's intent was always for "insightful" (直観), a Japanese term derived from a transliteration of the Buddhist term "prajñā" (般若).

Connections

 * The theme of intense love manifesting in violence was tackled by a different lyricist in "Art Mania".