Sunshine of my heart

Darling I love you
You know I love you just like you love me
We can get along if the wind is high
If the storm is coming

Even now I can’t believe it
Your hair; your voice
Your phone number; your plans for tomorrow
Somehow it’s all become mine
So happy-lucky — every day is Sunday!
Right now even my English is fluent
I could go bungee jumping like a foreigner

I was sure you’d turn me down
So with nothing to lose, I shot my shot
Already thinking of excuses with which to console myself
But when I heard your answer, your unbelievable answer
Waseda University, Keio University, Tokyo University
It’s like I’ve been accepted everywhere all at once!

Everything you’re missing in life, you just tell me
We’ll make this love exactly how you want it
Whether it works out or not — it’s all up to my capacity
And on those nights when you have nowhere to go
I will come to you
For you are the sunshine of my heart

Sometimes I’ll hear strange rumors
But I just could not care less
For now I’m the one who knows you best
That’s right: you’re perfect
We’ll be so great together, they’ll all give up!

Everything you want, we’ll go shopping for it
Though there are more important things in life
I’ll make you see — that, too, is up to my capacity
And on those afternoons when you feel dizzy
I will come to you
For you are the sunshine of my heart

Darling I love you just like you love me
We can get along if the wind is high
If the storm is coming

And on those nights when you have nowhere to go
I will come to you
For you are the sunshine of my heart

Oh, show me, lay yourself bare, let’s make love
Whether it works out or not — it’s all up to my capacity
And on those afternoons when you feel dizzy
I will come to you
For you are the sunshine of my heart

You light up my world
Sunshine of my heart

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予定どおりに偶然に
By Chance As Planned
(with ASKA)

We were dreaming
Merely following pre-learned steps
With no hesitation in our movements

We were looking
Into the faraway distance
With no clue as to what it all meant

The road ahead long and winding
My head began to spin…

Why don’t we talk a bit about the future?
If, say, the Earth was to turn upside down
Would I be able to catch you in my arms?
Just imagining it I suddenly feel uneasy

We were running
At a speed so fast there was no time to rest

Passing through each successive era
I happened to stop, and that is when I saw
The road that was supposed to be unending
Had now come to an end
And there I stood
Motionless

Conscious of a faint background sound
Like that of the great Sun setting in the sky
Holding you with both arms as tight as I can
But with no sure sign, which way are we to go?

Watching the silent Moon…
Shimmering on the water’s surface…
The trees all sneering at us…
As we shiver like a fire about to go out…

Sunlight eternally clad in the smell of the earth
Until finally a golden morning rises anew

Squatting on a strawberry field
The two of us holding hands
In the far recesses of memory
I could vaguely recall such a scene

Catching a cold by the name of “science is always right”
With you shivering in my arms, which way are we to go?

We were in love
In a stance of mutual understanding

We were looking
Into the faraway distance
From so much further before
By chance as planned

Time at last loses its axis
Sure enough, this is where we met
The road that was supposed to have ended
Now stretched ahead once more
We were dreaming

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いつもまじめに君のこと
Always Thinking of You

Tonight I’m through
Through with work
And I think of you

I phoned you
Phoned you real late
Hung up ’cause it was late

Always I think of you in earnest
So you just believe in me with sincerity

I can’t see you even once a week
And still I think of you always

Somehow it’s me
Just me alone
Doing all the talking

Feels like I don’t know
Like I don’t yet really know
All there is to know about you

Another day of thinking of you
All that happened to you today
Please share it all with me

Sometimes I can’t find the right words
And with my personality; at my age?
I can’t say it with a straight face
But I love you always

Always I think of our future in earnest
So you just believe in me with sincerity

Because surely in the end
It will be the two of us together

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OLD FASHIONED GIRL

Not the boyfriend-finding type — you’re an old-fashioned girl
Been a while since we last met, you and me
Let’s at least hold hands walking through Park Avenue
I’ll let go when it gets sticky — promise!

Look at all the boys and girls around town
Got the fun “mingling between sexes” thing down pat

Not the boyfriend-finding type — you’re an old-fashioned girl
You wouldn’t fall for someone all willy-nilly
And that’s why you’re so great
Oh, oh, oh, old-fashioned girl

Screw the curfew — you’re an old-fashioned girl
We don’t get these moonlit nights often
Let’s at least cross arms, no one’s looking
I’ll send you home on the next taxi — promise!

I do understand my position
Of course I know there’s someone else you like

I’m at fault, too, never able to make up a chummy mood
But then you don’t fit society’s mould either
And that’s why you’re so great
Oh, oh, oh, old-fashioned girl

I can’t help it — I like you, old-fashioned girl!
But it’s not like you’d ever catch on to my feelings
And that’s why you’re so great
Oh, oh, oh, old-fashioned girl

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Listen to the Music

When do you listen to music?
“Never really thought about it.”
Well, of course you haven’t
Sorry for the weird question

When do you listen to music?
“When I just want to shut myself off.”
Right on, hopefully after some rest
You find that key and you make it out

You’re lonely, so lonely, but you suppress it
You’re fine, totally fine, or so you pretend to be
But even just by the way you carry yourself
People can probably tell how you truly feel

You do your best to act the fool
When really you’re so terribly lonely
No good — tears spill out on the lyric sheet

On my rare day off
This intoxicating comfort of escapism — oh yes!
While of course I can’t actually play it
Busting out a sax solo feels so good

You love them, love them so much, you yearn for them
You imitate them, chase after them, you become them
What’s wrong with that?
Reality is all jumbled anyway

One day, one day for sure, without fail
I’ll make it, if I believe I can, obstinately
As I continue my pursuit
For that amusing, first-rate music

When do you listen to music?
Seems like nobody cares about the “when”
And why would they?

But as long as I keep eagerly, selfishly playing my music
Surely, by some coincidence, you’ll find it in your hands
And if it brings you even some small comfort?
Hey, then it’s all OK

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