Hajime Chitose: Sen no Yoru to Sen no Hiru

03.06.18
Artist: Hajime Chitose
Title: Sen no Yoru to Sen no Hiru (A Thousand Days and A Thousand Nights)
Words: Ueda Gen
Music: Ueda Gen

Even if you continue your search
for your lost wings, they're nowhere to be found.
And even if you bring time to a stand still,
you see, the stars still move.

Your words, prayers, balloons and bouquets, none of it reaches.

Through a thousand days and a thousand nights,
the dream crossing the Milky Way flowing with light
is left behind, buried in the plants.
What do you see from atop the crumbling tower...

I wish you'd smile at me.
Look, I've prepared all these things. *1
I thought I could give them back to that sky
I've thought of many things.

To the forest beyond the forest
To the sea beyond the sea
We go out we gather, we gather we pray

Pray and decorate, search and wish upon...

The last thing I gave was a silver umbrella
which showed the blue of the sea.
Now, opening the umbrella in your right hand,
you take the wind and float away.
Through a thousand days and a thousand nights
crossing the Milky Way flowing with light.

Through a thousand days and a thousand nights.

Translated By: Brian Stewart & Takako Sakuma

Translator's Notes: This is the same writer songwriter (Ueda) who brought us Hajime's first big hit 'Wadatsumi no Ki'. We change the order of "nights and days" to "days and nights". It merely sounds better. On to the *.

*1 - All these thing to make you smile.

Romaji

nakushita hane wo sagashitsuzukete mo
mou doko ni mo nain da yo
anata ga jikan wo tometeshimatte mo
nee hoshi ha ugoiteru

kotoba mo inori mo fuusen mo hanataba mo todokanai>

sen no yoru to sen no hiru wo koete
afureru hikari no ginga wo wataru yume
kusagi ni umorete wasuresarareta
kuzureta tou no ue de nani wo miteru...

anata ni waratte hoshikute
hora ironna mono wo youi shita yo
ano sora ni kaesou to omotte
nee ironna koto wo kangaeta

mori no mukou no mori ni umi no mukou no umi ni
dekakete ha atsumete atsumete ha inotte

inotte kazatte sagashite negai wo kakete

watashi ga saigo ni okutta mono ha
umi no ao wo mazeta gin no kasa
migite ni kasa wo sashita anata ha
kaze wo ukete maiagaru
sen no yoru to sen no hiru wo koete
afureru hikari no ginga wo watatteyuku

sen no yoru to sen no hiru wo koete...

Romaji By: Brian Stewart