Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6192846-20150613141203/@comment-6192846-20150819225221

23.122.217.39 wrote: Ah, my bad. I misunderstood what you were saying.

Glad that was cleared up then. XD No problem.

By your own account, any native Japanese speaker would be approaching The Song She Kept Waiting For's title and assume it's "The Song I Kept Waiting For" until they actually listen to the song and can infer a possible another pronoun, whether that be "she" or "you" or whatever the context of the lyrics has them think, correct?

I understand Japanese is often vague and left to context and inference of interpretation, but I'm not sure if it's necessarily always a specific pronoun assumed.

This is what leads me to believe there's more flexibility when translating the meaning and why I believe "The Song Heard Somewhere" might be adequate; in my mind, it allows the user to take the same approach as the Japanese and get an accurate meaning for the title but still be able to determing for themselves whether said title's speaker is the singer herself, someone talking about (or to) the singer, etc.