owarinai mukai

Samayou sekai wa uzumaku rasen
(This wandering world is a whirling spiral,)
umare kieyuku omoi no kairou
(a corridor of thoughts which are born and die,)
yurameite sadamaru koto wo shirenai mukai mukai
(fluctuating, never knowing meaning, dreaming, dreaming.)

Tsumugu ito wa tada nagarete hito wa tada umare ochiteiku
(The spinning thread just flows, people are just born to fall)
Soko ni "Nani" mo ari wa shinai
(Its true nature is nothing)
Hito ga umarete aru "Imi" ni shibarare kokkei ni
(As people are bound by the comical "meaning" of being born,)
sonna sekai ni watashi wa mamieta anata ni deau deau
(it's in such a moment between us that I met you, I met you)

Kakera atsume osoreta hibi ni
(As I gather up the pieces, in those days, I feared)
itsumo no you ni owari wo mukaeyou
(that I would end as I always do.)
anata ni obie konton ni chiru watashi ooitsuku sou
(In my fear of you, I break into chaos, and cover it all up.)




Anata ni au tabi egao ga kishimu mushibamareta hibi wa nagarete
(Every time I see you, my smile creaks—my corroded days flow by.)
Kanawanai saki wa shiranai watashi wa tada, watashi.
(I don't know what tomorrow holds for me. I'm... just me.)
Kitto, kore made no yo ni hitori hitori ikiyuku
(Just like I always have, I'm sure I'll live on, alone, alone.)

Anata no kodawaru wa dare na no ka shirenai
(I don't know who it is you're attached to,)
kara no karada ni hibiki furue yureru no wa kanjou
(but I'm sure that their empty body, which echoes, trembles, and shakes with emotion,)
sore wa kitto arishi hi no kiyaku kiyaku
(is a law from a bygone era, a law)

Anata mitsume yuragu watashi wa
(I stare at you, and I'm shaken)
fureraretara kuzure yukisou
(I feel like I'm going to fall apart if you touch me.)
shirenakatta hakanaku moroi kore wa dare?
(This fragile person I don't know—who is this?)



Sono hajimari nante wasureta
(I don't even know how this all started,)
dakara owari nante shirenai
(so maybe that's why I don't know how it ends.)
owari wa tabun, hitori yori mo kodoku ne
(Maybe the 'end' is lonelier than being alone.)

Omou tabi ni midarete kokoro kagiri ni makare oboreteiku
(Every time I think of you, my heart drowns in a deep haze.)
kowareta watashi doko ni iru no ka wakarenai
(With these broken thoughts, I don't even know where I am.)

Anata ga "Iru" to kanjiru dake de nagi hizumu sekai
(Feeling that you're "here" distorts the boundary of the world,)
na no ni "Inai" to omou dake de kono soushitsu shita garan no tai wa garan no tai wa
(and yet, feeling that you're "not here", the temple loses its shape, loses its shape)

Wakaranai watashi mo kowai subete ga bisui ni shizumi yuku
(I'm afraid that all of me will sink into sleep and pass away,)
hitori iru watashi no toi ni kotaeru koe wa dare mo naku
(all alone, never knowing, with nobody to answer my questions.)



Koko ni wa ugomeku mukai no dokai
(Here on this moving, dreaming lump of earth,)
sore wa yokotawaru dokai no mukai
(the land of the dreams of those who lie across it,)
so ni otozureru wa mugen no kaikou
(there are an infinite number of chance meetings)
yume tomadoi maboroshi
(of dreams, confusion, and illusions...)