Abe Asami: Mizutamari no Naka no Tsuki

04.01.18
Artist: Abe Asami
Title: Mizutamari no Naka no Tsuki
Words: 326
Music: Tsutsumi Kyouhei

when I can't sleep at night, I slip out the window
and climb onto the roof.
The sky I see from the roof,
the city looks somehow different than it usually does.

You were there. Hidden in my heart.
you followed my SOS back to me, and took me away.

You said with a laugh,
that you "caught hold of" the glowing moon in the puddle.
to you, I swear eternal love.

When was it they started calling us adults?
I guess we can't be kids forever after all huh?
I see, that may be a problem.

I wonder if my teacher could decide my dream for me?
I'm so free that now I've chosen freely to be restrained.

rather than believe the fears howling in the distance,
I've chosen to believe the words,
you speak laughing right aside of me.

when I was young I was scared of the night, I feared falling.
I always, always clung to Mama's skirt and hid
so I wouldn't fall into the sky,
The sky I saw, that sky I saw, now it's kindest to me.

'There's no reality which feels real'
what came out of my mouth was only a contradictory right answer.
you, so like a phantom, are more real than anything else.

You said with a laugh,
that you "caught hold of" the glowing moon in the puddle.
to you, I swear eternal love.

a moon that will be dry by tomorrow.

Translated By: Brian Stewart & Takako Sakuma

Translator's Notes: None

Romaji

nemurenai yoru ni ha mado wo kugutte yane nobotta
yane kara mieru sora machi ha itsumo dokka chigatteta

soko ni kimi ha ita kokoron naka ni himeteita
boku no SOS wo tadori, mitsuke, tsuredashitekureta

mizutamari no naka hikaru tsuki wo 'tsukamaeta' to
iiwarau kimi ni eien no ai wo chikau

itsugoro kara boku ha otona to yobaredasu no darou?
dokomademo kodomo jya yappa dame ka naa?
sokka komatta na.

yume mo sensei ga kimetari shite kurenai no ka na?
jiyuu sugite ima jiyuu ni sokuibaku sareteru yo

tooku de unatteru fuan yori mo tonari de waratteru
kimi no kotoba shinjiru koto ni shita

osanai koro yoru ga kowakute ochisou de obieta
sou itsumo mou itsumo mama no suka-to wo
tsukande ha kakurete ha sora ni ochinai yo ni
miteta sora wo miteta sonna sora ga ima ha
ichiban boku ni yasashii

'riaru ni kanjirareru genjitsu ga nan mo nakute'
kuchi wo tsuitederu no ha mujyun shita seikai dake
maboroshi no yo na kimi ga donna itami yori mo riaru...

mizutamari no naka no hikaru tsuki to
'tsukamaeta' to iiwarau kimi ni
eien no ai wo chikau

ashita ni ha kawaku tsuki

Romaji By: Brian Stewart