Japanese has a large inventory of sound symbolic or mimetic words, known in linguistics as ideophones. Sound symbolic words are found in written as well as spoken Japanese. Known popularly as onomatopoeia, these words are not just imitative of sounds but cover a much wider range of meanings; indeed, many sound-symbolic words in Japanese are for things that don't make any noise originally, most clearly demonstrated by しいんと shiinto, meaning "silently".
The sound-symbolic words of Japanese can be classified into four main categories:
These divisions are not always drawn: sound-symbolism may be referred to generally as onomatopoeia (though strictly this refers to imitative sounds, phonomimes); phonomimes may not be distinguished as animate/inanimate, both being referred to as giseigo; and both phenomimes and psychomimes may be referred to as gitaigo.
In Japanese grammar, sound symbolic words primarily function as adverbs, though they can also function as verbs (verbal adverbs) with the auxiliary verb する (suru, "do"), often in the continuous/progressive form している (shiteiru, "doing"), and as adjectives (participle) with the perfective form of this verb した (shita, "done"). Just like ideophones in many other languages, they are often introduced by a quotative complementizer と (to). Most sound symbolic words can be applied to only a handful of verbs or adjectives. In the examples below, the classified verb or adjective is placed in square brackets.
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Spending alla my cash today
Buying clothes that make me look the way
I feel today
Cut my hair and rent a car
Take a trip with my guitar to see
a different me
I need a day to reload and restain
refrain:
So I go with the flow for a while
And salute the unknown with a smile
And I know that you know
That I'll be waiting there for you
When the world on the outside collides
With the dream that you carry inside
It's okey when you know
That I'll be waiting there for you- There for you
Paint my house, redecorate
Anything to match the state I'm in
I'll change my skin
Close my eyes and dream away
Summin'up my yesterday to find
What's on my mind
I need a day to reload and refrain
refrain
Whatever you will do and wherever you will go
You ought to know that- I'll be waiting there for you
Whatever you will do, wherever you will go
You gotta know that- I'll be waiting there for you