Glay: Sotsugyou Made, Ato Sukoshi

02.03.18
Artist: Glay
Title: Sotsugyou Made, Ato Sukoshi (Just a Little Longer 'Til Graduation)
Words: Takuro
Music: Takuro

In the page of a dictionary I borrowed but never returned,
I saw in your writing a kindness which lasted through the years.
"How are you feeling? Daijyoubu?"
That familiar handwriting unique to you.

Now we're each in different places,
running biting our lips.
How are you friend?
Though we haven't had a chance to meet since that day

The passionate season went by, seperated in the crowds, we left.
Even if our smiles aren't the same as they were then,
I'd still like to call you a friend for a little longer.

We counted all the promises which never came true
on this familiar road to our graduation.
How are you darlin'?
What did we wish for as we cried?

Since then our horse voices have gone to many winds
We laughed that, no matter how strongly we hoped our dreams wouldn't come true

In that field that soaked up our sweat,
the sun shining on our backs is ablaze.

"Don't be in a hurray to find the answer,
when you seem to be slipping away from kindness"
a date from a distant past, a time when we dreamed,
from a town of days gone by.

the passionate season went by, seperated in the crowds, we left.
even if our smiles aren't the same as they were then,
I'd still like to call you a friend for a little longer.

let me call you friend for a little longer.

Translated By: Brian Stewart & Takako Sakuma

Translator's Notes: Ah... Glay. A graduation song just in time for graduation... you market saavy fellows. The lines that begin yasashisa kara haguresou..., are clearly something that was written in either a year book or a photo album from the singer's High School days. As he flips through the album/book he looks at the old date on the pictures, and remembers his old hometown etc... 'Running biting our lips' is likely a way to describe frustration in life.

Romaji

karita mama no jiten no pe-ji ni
anata kara no toki wo koeta yasashisa wo mita
'HOW ARE YOU FEELING? daijyoubu?'
kuse no aru natsukashii moji

ima, sorezore ni sorezore no basho de
kuchibiru wo kamishimete minna hashitteru darou
HOW ARE YOU, FRIEND?
ano hi kara au kikkai mo nai keredo

mune wo kogasu kisetsu ha nagare
hagureta hitogomi wo se ni
egao ha ano koro no mama jyanakutemo
mou sukoshi tomo to yobasete...

sotsugyou made nareta kono michi de
hatasarenai yakusoku bakari wo kazoeteita ne
HOW ARE YOU, DARLIN'?
bokutachi ha nani wo negai naitetarou?

nee are kara doredake no kaze ni
kasureta bokutachi no koe
dore hodo tsuyoku nozonda koto mo
kanawanu yume da to waratta

ase wo sutta guraundo no ue
sena wo terasu taiyou ga moeteiru

'yasashisa kara haguresou na toki, kotae wo aseranai de' to
hizuke ha tooi kako, yume miru koro,
sugisarishi hibi no machi kara

mune wo kogasu kisetsu ha nagare
hagureta hitogomi wo se ni
egao ha ano koro no mama jyanakutemo
mou sukoshi tomo to yobasete...

mou sukoshi tomo to yobasete...

Romaji By: Brian Stewart