LOVEppears
1. introduction
2. Fly high
3. Trauma
4. And Then
5. immature
6. Boys & Girls
7. TO BE
8. End roll
9. P.S II
10. WHATEVER
11. too late
12. appears
13. monochrome
14. interlude
15. LOVE〜refrain〜
16. Who...
17. kanariya
Thank you very much, Donny, for kindly proofreading all the translations in this page. (Jan 2004)
2. Fly high
I couldn't leave here for a long time
Because I was used to this scenery
When I come back here again, someday
And see the same sky in the same way
I might think too much about
Whether I can call it beautiful or not
I'll have a short sleep, and hurry again tomorrow
While I was afraid of stepping outside
There appeared a long, long road behind me
And it seemed to be too late
Meanwhile I came to think
This place wasn't so bad
I was persuading myself on one pretext or another
I've never actually understood
And I've been pretending to understand everything
I couldn't leave here for a long time
Because I was used to this scenery
Everything looked tiny somehow
Looked like small lumps
Maybe because the sky I looked up at
Was too wide and limitless
Maybe it was because I was next to you
I've sometimes looked back at someone I passed
And have envied them
Though I realize it's not good in my mind
Until when I keep on wanting the things I don't have?
Maybe I could think this because I met you
Everything is surely in my hands
I can't leave my dreams here
Everything is surely in my hands
I need no fixed future
Everything is surely in my hands
If I don't move, I can't move it
Everything is surely in my hands
If I don't start, it doesn't start
3. Trauma
A happy face today, a sad face today
A weak self yesterday, maybe a strong self tomorrow
Who do you show them to? Who can I show them to?
Time is sometimes so cruel
But the present is made by the cruelty
I seek companionship, because the momentary feeling released
Excels the fear to come before long
I've not even noticed a flower swaying at my feet
Passed them by, and I can't face a mirror
A happy face today, a sad face today
The wound healed yesterday, the wound opened deeply today
Who do you show them to? Who can I show them to?
The sanity and insanity given to me alone
Both exists, I negate neither
Futile things, overflowed things and useless things
I choose them without hesitation so that I can be myself
I have always decided the standard of happiness by my own measure
A happy face today, a sad face today
If the wound healed yesterday has opened today
Who can you show it to? I want to show it to the person
4. And Then
I don't know why I remember what I heard long ago
From someone whose face I don't even remember
It was maybe that the important things are unexpectedly nearby
And they are invisible
And he said we were born imperfect
So, in order to be perfect someday lalala...
When was I able to believe in invisible things?
Now everything is too visible, and I'm at a loss
Placing the words on a piece of paper without so much meaning
I'm feeling as if I were writing a lyrics lalala...
If I find an important thing, I don't tell everyone
I'm very strong, because I have something to protect
Don't you remember that I said I couldn't stay long in a place that remains the same?
Let's leave this city together before the sun rises
And he said we were born imperfect
So, in order to be perfect someday lalala...
They say we should share our sorrows, sufferings and everything
So easily, but if I could, I should have already done so
Don't you remember that I said I couldn't stay long in a place that remains the same?
Let's leave this city together before the sun rises
5. immature
We've never wanted so much
At any time
What is it keeping still
Hidden behind the gray building?
I looked at the scene, rubbing my eyes
It was me, the girl, and you
It was not true I could see nothing because of loneliness
It was that I didn't want to see any more
It's all right for us to sometimes think
That we were born to be happy
For sure, isn't it?
Just listen carefully, and you will hear
The cries like the prayers hidden inside
The things floating on that river once
Were the broken pieces of dream
Sometimes we got hurt consciously
When our promises were not kept
It's all right for us to sometimes think
That we live to be happy
Someday, isn't it?
Even though we come to know
All the things reflected in our eyes are not beautiful
Even without being able to cope with the tragedy before my eyes
How can I reach the tragedy that is far off?
It's all right for us to sometimes think
That we were born to be happy
For sure, isn't it?
We really want to open the door
Let's say it out loud
Let's say it out loud
6. Boys & Girls
Who can stop us starting to shine?
Who had the right to stop them starting to flap?
I often speak
I often dream
We often talk together
"I want to be happy"
How many times? I don't know
What actually I want
What I'm actually not satisfied with
What I'm actually going toward
You ask me
But I have no answer
At the moment I push you on the back
Please don't forget
The promise for this summer
You made for sure...
We start to shine, and will catch the future some day
They start to flap, and will find the bright future
I'm really expecting
I'm really doubting
Anyone is the same, aren't they?
You say I'm "a good person"
But it sounds like "a person you don't care about"
The morning glow wes dazzling
And made my eyes sting
I felt a pain in my chest
And was perplexed a little
Who can stop us starting to shine?
Who had the right to stop them starting to flap?
7. TO BE
There was useless junk everybody passed by and never noticed
You carried it up in your arms as if it were a valuable thing
People were looking at a short distance, feeling strange
But you smiled and said "This is a treasure"
Did I lose something, while I got something big?
I don't know now
Even if I get it back, it will probably be a little different
If you are here, I am always smiling
If you are here, I am always smiling, weeping, living
Without you, nothing happened
Was it myself or surroundings or merely a watch
That was about to be broken?
How much did you feel pain keeping on protecting the junk?
What have you sacrificed?
I can never be perfect, but will shine with distorted lights
You found it on the street that wasn't wide
You found it on the street that wasn't wide or narrow
You have somehow polished it up for yourself
Because you were here, I've always been smiling
Because you were here, I've always been smiling, weeping, living
Without you, nothing happened
8. End roll
I can't go back
However much I long for it
It was really fun at that time
But that time is not now
I remember I've always drawn down
The curtain in an awkward way
Where are you?
Where have you gone?
You have maybe gone on a long trip
With the most important person
If I had ever
Said something
It wouldn't have been the starting
With the ending being at sight
As I can't behave like a child crying for something
All I can do is to say good-bye
And I walk on
I try to walk alone
So that I can light my way
Without you
Being human is sorrowful
Being human is sorrowful?
Being human is joyful
Is it all right I think so?
And I walk on
And you walk on, too
So that we can light each way
Though separated
9. P.S II
If there is
A trip into the past
It should be
Such a trip as this
The only thing left is
The words written on a piece of paper
"Can I cry to my heart's content until I am tearless?"
"Can I cry to my heart's content until I am tearless?"
If there is something
I take on this trip
It should be
Memories and imagination
I searched for the fragments I had already lost
Found some and arranged them
"Can I shout aloud until my voice ceases to be"
"Can I shout aloud until my voice ceases to be"
Can you hear?
If you can't find a flower which must have been
In bloom here, it's enevitable
Even if you come to listen to this song alone
Some day, don't forget
Can I cry to my heart's content
Until I am tearless?
Can I shout aloud
Until my voice ceases to be?
Can I cry to my heart's content?
Can I shout aloud?
Time has passed...
10. WHATEVER
It has been a long while, I was freezing so much and closed my eyes
WOW WOW WOW...
How much thought is necessary
And how should I write
To send my feelings to you?
Perhaps no one knows
But please tell that person
"Here is the power of believing firmly"
It has been a long while, I was freezing so much and closed my eyes
No one noticed us, but the season I was looking forward to is passing
WOW WOW WOW...
Now I do here what I should do
And will smile if I become calm
Please tell that person
"Far or near, I'm always next to you"
It has been a long while, I can be bathed in the warm sunlight in a short time
I was actually enduring so much, so as not to yield to myself
It has been a long while, I can be bathed in the warm sunlight in a short time
If I say I wasn't lonely during the time we spent apart, it is a lie
It has been a long while, I can be bathed in the warm sunlight very soon
I was actually enduring so much, so as not to yield to myself
It has been a long while I can be bathed in the warm sunlight very soon
As I think it was not only I who wished to be together
WOW WOW WOW...
11. too late
The world is going round in reverse
Only the acceleration is increasing
When I noticed, it was dark under my feet
And I was standing at the edge of a cliff
I can't turn back
Even if I turn pale, nothing changes
With the sharpened light, the most intense light
Even if the end of this path running on and on
Is the end of the earth
Living for money, living for glory
They are trifling things
Till when do I keep on pretending not to understand?
Am I afraid of being hurt after knowing?
Though my dream at that time was
To fulfil all your wishes
Faster than anyone else, I pass even the wind
Higher than anyone else, I fly even through the clouds
Even if I live too quickly
12. appears
The lovers are walking hand in hand
Looking very happy
It appears that everything is going well
No one knows the truth but them
At the first phone call
My hand holding the receiver was trembling
At the second call
Your message was left on my answering machine
At the seventh call, you suggested to meet at once
It began in such daily life
The lovers are walking hand in hand
Looking very happy
It appears that everything is going well
No one knows the truth but them
After the tenth call
We went far away
When I wanted to walk hand in hand
You felt shy
And after several nights
We kissed in the car on our way home
I love the white, shining snow very much
But we were apart last winter
Can we see the snow this winter
Stay together, and say the "Merry Christmas"
That we couldn't say?
How many times have we tried to take off
The rings shining on our ring fingers?
The lovers are walking hand in hand
Looking very happy
It appears that everything is going well
No one knows the truth
13. monochrome
There might not have been such a thing
Since the beginning
The happy, sad
And tender story
I might be dreaming
And see illusions
I might be sleeping away
Too long
In the season of the blue sky
And the scent of summer
I remember your profile
The scenery of the city began to be distorted
I searched for sunglasses
To lose all the colours
What I wanted to be
Was not a princess
What I wanted to have
Was not glass slippers
What I wanted to be
Was me being with you
What I wanted to have
Was your heartily smiling face
A wind with the scent of summer
Passed through the sky today
I nodded and said to myself all right
If it's destiny
As we were talking about
We can meet again somewhere
la la la la la la i...
I nodded and said to myself all right
la la la la la la i...
Because I'm very strong
15. LOVE〜refrain〜
Everyone is certainly carrying something on their backs
Describing their loneliness, sad and beautiful
Still, repeating it
They meet tomorrow with purity like pain
Though the length of time we have been living is a little different
Just for having met you, just for having loved you
Even if we can't love each other
Just for that ... thank you
Everyone has sacrificed something
For getting something new
Still, if there is something I can be proud of
Constantly, it might be you
Though there have been the scenes when each of us got over the hard nights
Just for having met you, just for having loved you
For the fact we could love each other, I will always...
I will not avert my eyes from the truth and the reality
And will make it the proof of my life
Just for having met you, just for having loved you
For the fact we could love each other
I will always ... thank you
16. Who...
Uh ... la la la
Who was by my side in my hard time?
Whose shoulder did I shed tears on?
Whom have I shared pleasures with?
Whom have I come hand in hand with?
I remember
On the night we spent apart
The moon was weeping far off
On the night we spent apart
The moon was weeping far off
Who taught me true strength?
Who gave me tenderness?
Whom did I try to walk for?
Whom did I want to smooth my hair?
Who has not given up?
I'll never forget
When I lost my way
And the mark was too far
I was muttering to myself
Such is life ...
May this singing voice
Reach you forever
May this singing voice
Reach you forever
May this singing voice
Reach you forever
May this singing voice
Reach you forever
ha-a-a
17. kanariya
The city is stirring
People are irritated
The birds
Flying into the night
Are already asleep
As the dream is
Afraid of the awakening
I was afraid
That my heart might be broken
Without trying to
Give anything
Without trying to
Get anything
I was always
Seeking after the reasons
The canaries were stifling their voices
Not because they couldn't sing
But so as not to cry
The canaries were stifling their voices
Not because they couldn't sing
The canaries were stifling their voices
Not because they couldn't sing
But because they only decided not to cry
Please don't be slow to notice
That it might be so
But because they only decided not to cry
If you had noticed sooner
That it might be so, more...
(When I had nothing to lose
Even if something happened, for instance
I thought it was my strength
Now I have what I have to protect
If something happens, for instance
I've noticed I'm certainly stronger
Than in those days)
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