Kuraki Mai: Like a Star in the Night

02.9.21
Artist: Kuraki Mai
Title: Like a Star in the Night
Words: Kuraki Mai
Music: Ohno Aika

The sound of the waves echo through the dark night
The wind is cold, a deserted beach
Like a shining star
We'll find the light no matter how far away
we awaited the dawn together by the guardrail
watching the stars quietly for a long time.

Like a star in the night
wipe out my uneasiness, fulfill my wish.
Like a star in my mind
hold me, just as I am.

I'll believe everything I see now
and gently touch the place we were together *1
Like a shining star
I was looking for the southern cross in the deep colored sky
and then I felt the rush of the time we first met
really I always looking at you. *2

Like a star in the night
I believe everything will change
I'll walk the road,
Like a star in my mind
these twinkling tears shake
shining in the night sky.

No need to know
No need to tell me what you've done
if tomorrow, if tomorrow you're with me... then
you will change my darkest fear to the light
Don't be afraid Walk in the dark

Into the sky
You will shine thru the night
Lead me to the way when I walk in the night
Starlight is in you
Like a star in the night.

Translated By: Brian Stewart & Takako Sakuma

Translator's Notes: On to the *'s

*1 - Mai has gone back to the place where she and the other person in the song had spent time together, and she is touching the spot fondly, remembering that time.

*2 - When Mai is searching the sky for the Southern Cross, what she is really looking for is to relive that night with (you) again. This song seems to be about trying to get back to that moment.

Romaji

kurayami no naka nami no oto ga hibiku
kaze ga tsumetai daremo inai umi
LIKE A SHINING STAR
donna ni tookutemo hikari wo mitsukedashi
futari ga-dore-ru de yoake wo matteita yo ne
damatte zutto hoshi wo miteita ne

LIKE A STAR IN THE NIGHT
fuan na kimochi wo keshite kono negai wo kanaete
LIKE A STAR IN MY MIND
kazaranai ari no mama no watashi wo dakishimete

ima utsuru mono subete shinjitemiru
kimi to ita basho sotto furetemiru
LIKE A SHINING STAR
fukai sora no iro sagasu sazankurosu
soshite deatta koro no ano tokimeki kanjiteru
hontou ha zutto kimi wo mitsumeteta

LIKE A STAR IN THE NIGHT
subete ga kawaru to shinji
houdou arukidasu yo
LIKE A STAR IN MY MIND
kirakira namida ga yure
yozora ni kagayaku yo

NO NEED TO KNOW
NO NEED TO TELL ME WHAT YOU"VE DONE
ashita ni... ashita ni kimi ga ireba sore de
YOU WILL CHANGE MY DARKNESS FEAR TO THE LIGHT
DON'T BE AFRAID WALK IN THE DARK

INTO THE SKY
YOU WILL SHINE THRU THE NIGHT
LEAD ME TO THE WAY WHEN I WALK IN THE NIGHT
STARLIGHT IS IN YOU
LIKE A STAR IN THE NIGHT

Romaji By: Brian Stewart