Ayumi Hamasaki
Japanese pop singer.
If people will listen, I will go anywhere in the world!
Remember, once more
how our world should be.
And please, don't forget,
please, please don't forget.
No matter how far apart we are,
don't forget that we're
still under the same sky,
both traveling to the place
we once dreamed of.
My job is simply to be myself, to be Ayumi Hamasaki.
By your faith in people, you will someday be betrayed.
I thought it was the same as being rejected.
At the time I didn't have that kind of strength.
Certainly, I knew too much.
It was said that I was a strong child.
I was praised, saying "you must have strength not to cry"
The more things like that were said,
the more even laughing was painful.
In a city [world] as dirty as this,
You gather up, save, and show me
Purely beautiful things.
I don't want a weak heart that can't cry
or the strength not to cry.
I'll search for a shooting
Star to cast my wishes on, but
Daybreak will come too soon
And I won't be able to find one.
Today was very sad,
and even if tomorrow, I cry,
someday I will be able to laugh
and remember our time together.
How many seasons must pass,
in this, our finite existence?
If we live in the "now",
what will we find?
But I escaped from reality
Escaped from the pain
I said to myself
"Some day, I'll be as I should be
Though I'm far from there now"
After such excuses, my eyes were opened
All I could do was to live in the present time.
I thought Mommy's life was strange, not mine.
The lovers, appearing happy,
walk, holding hands.
Though it appears everything is perfect,
only they know the truth.
Why are you ashamed of yourself?
What happens after that?
But I really like your way of walking
In which you head straight and always hit a wall.
Because we want the same happiness
We keep carving the same wounds onto our hearts.
Forever, forever
So I won't forget you
I call you over and over again
Please don't cry any more
I won't leave you alone.
An interested stranger asked me
How do I see the scenery from here?
I reply
It's how you think it would be.
It's useless to explain
Everybody GO! Everybody JUMP!
In times when I encounter sad things
I have a habit of saying "I'm all right".
On that day, something had stopped for me
And no matter
how much I pray,
I can't find a single star.
It is necessary that I am viewed as a product. I am a product.
I feel that
these glass shoes are too fragile
for running through this era.
If you don't need it, then
it is useless to be compassionate.
If it's important then
it will probably be followed with pain.
Loneliness that you feel with someone is worse
than one you feel
alone.
Surely, no one hoped for so many things.
Hold the flowers close to your heart;
they may someday bloom.
When I woke up, I found
by my pillow a teddy bear
instead of you.