The Back Horn: Hanabira

03.12.25
Artist: The Back Horn
Title: Hanabira (Flower Petal)
Words: The Back Horn
Music: The Back Horn

The flower petal falls,
the season moves on
Took off on a journey with no destination.

step off onto the train platform
plop my gainly body down heavilly on a rusted bench

The afternoon light is so bright
a single sigh into the sky I gaze up at

This long rail called life
Where could the goal be?
I'm so afraid of stopping
that I've kept running all this time but

The clouds the color of dusk
The world is slowly moving.

ah we just went on by
There're things we didn't notice when we were too focused.

See off the train, wrapped in the sunset
Let's go on along our own path, if need be we'll take it slow

Ah we took the long way around,
Sometimes we should have taken a moment to stop.

Feeling the world so strongly
A new season arrived right with us.

Translated By: Brian Stewart & Takako Sakuma

Translator's Notes: None

Romaji

hanabira ga ochite kisetsu ga sugite
ikuate mo nai mama tabi ni deta yo
tochuugesha no ho-mu sabita benchi
omoi karada fukaku koshi wo orosu

gogo no hikari ga mabushikute
miageta sora ni tameiki hitotsu

jinsei to iu na no nagai re-ru
go-ru nante doko ni aru no darou
tachidomaru koto ga totemo kowakute
itsumo hashiritsuzuketekita keredo

tasogareiro ni somaru kumo
sekai ha yukkuri to ugoiterun da na

aa bokura tada toorisugiteta
muchuu na toki ni ha kizukanai mono ga aru

yuuyami ni tsutsumare densha wo miokuru
yukkuri demo ii aruiteikou jibun no tabiji wo

aa bokura toomawari shita tte
toki ni ha tachitomareba ii sa

konna ni mo sekai wo kanjiteru
atarashii kisetsu ga sugu soko ni kiteita

Romaji By: Brian Stewart