kasuka na hikari ni yobisamasarete
hakanai yume no kioku to kiesou na koe
toozakaru kako no zawameki wa
ima de wa mienai ano keshiki wo utsushidashite yuku
soba de warau... kimi ga iru
sou... maru de kinou no koto no you ni oboeteiru yo
dare yori mo f**aku boku ni fureta sono manazashi wo
wakachiau koto no yorokobi mo...
kiseki no you na ano deai mo...
futari no omokage sae mo okizari ni s**** kiete yuku
usurete yuku kioku no naka de
mou ichido dake dakishimetakute
setsunai kurai sakebitsuzukeru kimi no na wo
koe ga nakunaru made
hito wa ittai doko kara kite doko e iku no darou
taisetsu na yasashii hito wa kimi dake ga inai...
utsumuite furueru kimi wo
kono ude de dakishimetakute
kono sekai no dare yori mo kimi wo
mamoritai to kizuita kara
mou sukoshi de boku wa kieru kedo...
soredemo kimi dake wa hanashitaku wa nai
setsunai kurai kimi ni tsutsumareta ano hibi wo
boku wa wasurenai
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Called back to consciousness by a faint light,
by the memory of a fleeting dream and the fading remnant of your voice,
the vivid stirring of that far-distant past
keeps reflecting a scene that now I can no longer see:
Ah... clear as though it were but yesterday, I still remember it!
That one glance which touched me more deeply than anyone else ever had...
The joy of what we shared
and that near-miraculous encounter
and even the last traces of what we were together -- all of it, deserted, vanishing away...
From within those vanishing memories,
I yearn to hold you just one more time.
To the verge of pain, I keep crying out your name
until my voice is worn to silence.
"Where is it that people come from, and where do they go?
My precious, gentle one--
you alone are no longer here..."*
I want to hold you in my arms
as you stand there trembling, head downcast.
Because I've realized that what I want
is to protect you, more than anyone else in all this world.
Soon now, very soon, I too will disappear, yet...
even so... you are the one last thing I cannot bear to let go.
Those days when you held me to the verge of pain--
I will never forget...
hakanai yume no kioku to kiesou na koe
toozakaru kako no zawameki wa
ima de wa mienai ano keshiki wo utsushidashite yuku
soba de warau... kimi ga iru
sou... maru de kinou no koto no you ni oboeteiru yo
dare yori mo f**aku boku ni fureta sono manazashi wo
wakachiau koto no yorokobi mo...
kiseki no you na ano deai mo...
futari no omokage sae mo okizari ni s**** kiete yuku
usurete yuku kioku no naka de
mou ichido dake dakishimetakute
setsunai kurai sakebitsuzukeru kimi no na wo
koe ga nakunaru made
hito wa ittai doko kara kite doko e iku no darou
taisetsu na yasashii hito wa kimi dake ga inai...
utsumuite furueru kimi wo
kono ude de dakishimetakute
kono sekai no dare yori mo kimi wo
mamoritai to kizuita kara
mou sukoshi de boku wa kieru kedo...
soredemo kimi dake wa hanashitaku wa nai
setsunai kurai kimi ni tsutsumareta ano hibi wo
boku wa wasurenai
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Called back to consciousness by a faint light,
by the memory of a fleeting dream and the fading remnant of your voice,
the vivid stirring of that far-distant past
keeps reflecting a scene that now I can no longer see:
Ah... clear as though it were but yesterday, I still remember it!
That one glance which touched me more deeply than anyone else ever had...
The joy of what we shared
and that near-miraculous encounter
and even the last traces of what we were together -- all of it, deserted, vanishing away...
From within those vanishing memories,
I yearn to hold you just one more time.
To the verge of pain, I keep crying out your name
until my voice is worn to silence.
"Where is it that people come from, and where do they go?
My precious, gentle one--
you alone are no longer here..."*
I want to hold you in my arms
as you stand there trembling, head downcast.
Because I've realized that what I want
is to protect you, more than anyone else in all this world.
Soon now, very soon, I too will disappear, yet...
even so... you are the one last thing I cannot bear to let go.
Those days when you held me to the verge of pain--
I will never forget...