Michael "Mike" Royko (September 19, 1932 – April 29, 1997) was a Chicago newspaper columnist, winner of the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for commentary. Over his 30-year career, he wrote over 7,500 daily columns for three newspapers, the Chicago Daily News, the Chicago Sun-Times, and the Chicago Tribune.
Mike Royko grew up in Chicago, living in an apartment above a bar. His mother, Helen (née Zak), was Polish, and his father, Michael Royko, Ukrainian (born in Dolyna). He briefly attended Wright Junior College and then enlisted in the U.S. Air Force in 1952.
On becoming a columnist, he drew on experiences from his childhood. He began his newsman's career as a columnist in 1955 for The O'Hare News (Air Force base newspaper), the City News Bureau of Chicago and Lerner Newspapers' Lincoln-Belmont Booster before working at the Chicago Daily News as a reporter, becoming an irritant to the City's politicians with penetrating and skeptical questions and reports.
Reporter Mike Royko covered Cook County politics and government in a weekly political column, soon supplemented with a second, weekly column reporting about Chicago's folk music scene. The success of those columns earned him a daily column in 1964, writing about all topics for the Daily News, a liberal afternoon newspaper. His column appeared five days a week until 1992, when he cut back to four days a week.Studs Terkel explained Royko's incredible productivity and longevity by simply saying, "He is possessed by a demon." In 1972, Royko received the Pulitzer Prize for commentary as a Daily News man.
You are not the only one
Subete unmei no deai ni kawatteku
Can you stop? Can you touch?
Show me, feel my love
I'm lost in time aru hi totsuzen
Kaze ni fukarete iki o nomu
Tada aitai tsunagaranai denwa o mitsumeteru
Anata to deai shireba shiru hodo
Nazeka fuan ga chiratsuiteku
Anata no buraibeeto song
Kumori sora kara hitoshizuku ame ga hoho o nurasu oh
Hitotsu dake oshiete "honki datta?"
You are not the only one
Subete unmei no deai ni kawatteku
Can you stop? Can you touch?
Show me, feel my love
Sore nara kitto wakari aeru hazu ne
Mou ichido yari naoseru
Can you stop? Can you touch?
Show me, feel my love
I'm lost in time ikiru no ga bukiyou na watashi ni wa
Te ni fureru mono dake o shinjiyou toshite kita
Biru no mado ni utsuru machi saemo kieteiku youde
Yari kirenai
Me o sorasu buraibeeto song
Kataku nigiri shimeta kono ryoute sae ima oh
Anata no nukumori o sagashiteru
You are not the only one
Kizu tsuki yurushi ai futari o chikazukeru
Can you stop? Can you touch?
Show me, feel my love
Ima nara kitto yuutsu na ame no naka mo
Mayowazu ai ni iku
Can you stop? Can you touch?
Show me, feel my love
I can't stop my feeling
Can you touch inside of me?
Feel my love but I know
Baby I can't live without you
You're my destiny
You are not the only one
Can you stop? Can you touch?
Show me, feel my love
Umarete kita riyuu ga kanarazu
Wakaru toki ga itsuka kuru hazu sa
Dare ni datte kanjirareru yo
Can you stop? Can you touch?