Shake My Days – Lyrics (English Translations)
Waiting At Triangle Park
If a painful morning comes
When your heart feels like breaking,
Please remember me
I’ll always be waiting.
On sweaty summer evenings,
Until the stars appeared,
We’d walk, counting distant dreams
That seemed too far to reach.
At last, the moon grows faint, dreams blur away.
Everyone loses something in the dark.
Staring into the deep blue stars,
Toward the cold night beyond.
If you can’t trust anyone,
And tremble all alone,
Please remember me
No matter how far, I’ll wait.
On the path back to the park,
Carried away by the crowd,
Since then I’ve been lost,
But I’m still here waiting for you.
At last, the moon grows faint, dreams blur away.
Everyone loses something in the dark.
Staring into the deep blue stars,
Toward the cold night beyond.
If a painful morning comes
When your heart feels like breaking,
Please remember me
I’ll always be waiting.
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Cider At Dusk
After too much teasing,
I tried to throw away my wounded longing.
That’s always how the day would end
On the way back home.
The little things I want to call happiness,
I feel them in the coins inside my pocket.
Cider at dusk
I swallow a dry sigh
And watch the bus
Disappearing into the haze.
If beyond this twilight I hate,
There really are dreams and sparkle,
Then teach me that strength.
A bird with a brave face
Owns both the sky and the city.
Between buildings in the crimson sky,
A bowed crowd flows by.
If the fleeting moments I believed in as happiness
Can turn into courage for tomorrow
Cider at dusk
I gulp down a dry sigh
And leap onto the hazy bus.
Even these reckless desires
Blooming in my chest,
If I hold them tight,
I can say they’ll lead me
To the city of adolescence.
Even a small bottle
Shines with the future, fizzing bright.
Cider at dusk
I gulp down a dry sigh
And leap onto the hazy bus.
Even these reckless desires
Blooming in my chest,
If I hold them tight,
I can say they’ll lead me
To the city of adolescence.
Believing in that strength.
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Cherry Blossom Front
In the chilly hallway
We all stood in line.
From the too-familiar window
The wind suddenly blew in.
When I closed the classroom door,
The wind gently stopped.
Adjusting my uniform sleeve,
I whispered, “So this is goodbye.”
Someday, even this very day
Will be forgotten.
But if we wait for the warm spring wind,
I suppose that will be fine.
By the budding cherry tree
We said, “Let’s meet again.”
If it were now, I feel
I could finally say it aloud.
The one I liked, the ones I disliked
Will they all change too?
Just the feeling of being pushed forward
Almost makes me forget my sadness.
Someday we’ll laugh together
About this very day.
But the great cherry tree
Only waits quietly for the wind.
Someday, even this very day
Will be forgotten.
But if we wait for the warm spring wind,
I suppose that will be fine.
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Blue Sky Is Imitation
Fooled into thinking rain would fall,
I decided to walk instead.
Though it was afternoon,
The sky was still blue.
Told not to dream,
I nearly cried.
From that day on,
You felt so far away.
Even if it was just a joke,
I couldn’t laugh.
Your voice is imitation.
Rather than counting what I’ll lose,
I want to gather what I can believe in.
Rushed, told I’d be too late,
I ran until breathless.
Isn’t that what everyone does?
The walls we leapt together
Have vanished since that day.
Even if it’s only an illusion,
I’ll chase it still.
The blue sky is imitation.
Rather than counting what I’ll lose,
I want to gather what I can believe in.
The single tear you shed
Brought clouds, turned to rain.
Even if it’s only an illusion,
I’ll chase it still.
The blue sky is imitation.
Rather than counting what I’ll lose,
I want to gather what I can believe in.
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Without Knowing Anything?
Even a hidden moon
Is only unseen, right?
Without knowing anything.
I know too well
That I’m still immature.
But I didn’t want to let
Even a miracle escape.
In the corner of my room I hummed a tune,
Trying to grow this burning feeling.
In the sea of hesitation,
My voice drifts, struggling on.
Someday, in a warm sunlit place,
It will ride the wind forever.
Even if people know,
They won’t care.
Everyone convinces themselves
That it’s just the way it is.
Curled up in the corner of my room,
I fell asleep in a strange dream,
Drenched in sweat.
In a land of adventure,
When I’m all alone, nearly defeated,
I hope someone comes,
With a warm and gallant gaze.
In the corner of my room I hummed a tune,
Trying to grow this burning feeling.
In the sea of hesitation,
My voice drifts, struggling on.
Someday, in a warm sunlit place,
It will ride the wind forever.
In a land of adventure,
When I’m all alone, nearly defeated,
I hope someone comes,
With a warm and gallant gaze.
Even a hidden moon
Is only unseen, right?
No one knows anything.
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You Have Changed
I suddenly knew
You had changed.
It hurt so much I almost cried.
At least before the light turns red,
Run!
If we crossed paths, it wasn’t your fault.
If we passed each other, I’d look back.
But I never noticed
You’d disappear from sight.
The hand I tried to hold
Turned into wind.
No matter where I strayed,
No matter who called me,
I believed you’d still be there.
Even if I sang of dreams,
Even if I slept alone,
It was all so painful I almost cried.
At least before night swallows everything,
Laugh it off!
Even if I counted every promise,
Your heart only grew more distant.
Like a cold gaze
That blocks out the sun.
No matter where you strayed,
No matter who called you,
I believed you’d still be there.
I suddenly knew
You had changed.
It hurt so much I almost cried.
At least before the light turns red,
Run!
Even if I sang of dreams,
Even if I slept alone,
It was all so painful I almost cried.
At least before night swallows everything,
Laugh it off!
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I Found You
At the station in the damp evening wind,
Beyond the crowd flowing by,
The curve of a slightly rounded shoulder
I’m sure I found you.
No guitar on your back,
Hair undone,
Staring at something,
Carrying some unseen weight.
Your bitter expression fell,
I’m sure I found you.
Even your profile when you were angry
Never felt this far away.
Like a memory that can’t be real,
I’m sure I found you.
Like a memory that can’t be real,
I’m sure I found you.
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all songs written by Showky Saezawa
