Category Archives: Lyrics

Takahashi Yuichi – Aki (English Lyrics)

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秋
Autumn

Even now, I can’t put that love behind me
Once more, I look back
Even now, unable to forget about you and that sky
Once more, I remember

Driving along the side of the river, after that gentle curve
A chilly gust of wind blew through the opened window

But even though the love is now gone
I alone remain within that wind

Even now, I can’t put that love behind me
Once more, I look back
Even now, unable to forget about you and that sky
Once more, I remember

Promising each other how one day we’d live by that lake
You were a bit younger — like my little sister

“I look forward to it”
You said with a smile
So then why…?

Even now, I can’t forget about your kindness that day
Once more, I look back
Even now, I just can’t put that love behind me
Once more, I remember

“The dead leaves of the autumn sky feel so sad to me”
You told me with sorrow on your face
Even now, unable to forget your profile as you spoke
It remains forever etched into my heart

Once more, I reminisce about your smile that day
As I look up at the autumn sky
While the cassette we listened to in the setting sun
Keeps repeating forever

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Takahashi Yuichi – Tahiti no Yoru (English Lyrics)

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タヒチの夜
Night of Tahiti

Do you remember?
Talking as we watched the sea
I said I’d take time off
And we’d visit that Southern island

Neither of us ever thought
That would be the day we break up

Wind blowing against the evening sea
Lights of ships sailing in the horizon
They must’ve looked so beautiful

Waves breaking against the pier
Just the two of us in the night of Tahiti
My memory of never getting to go there with you

As the sandy beach becomes chilly
Even the waves start to sound lonely
If only I could’ve won you over that day
It would be just me and you

Wind blowing against the evening sea
Lights of ships sailing in the horizon
They must’ve looked so beautiful

Waves breaking against the pier
Just the two of us in the night of Tahiti
My memory of never getting to go there with you

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Takahashi Yuichi – Bourbon (English Lyrics)

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バーボン
Bourbon

Day after day, I work until the deep of the night
In this bar with bottles of Western liquor lined up side-by-side

Each time as I polish the dishes, I swear to myself:
“I’ll drink as many of these guys as I possibly can”

One day I’ll save up the cash and start my own bar
My chance will surely come
Until then, I’ll save my strength

My dream will surely come true
That’s what I keep telling myself
I’ll believe only in myself and I’ll show them

On the rare day off, I bring over a nice girl
Taking some liquor from the bar without their permission

Doesn’t matter what anyone says — bourbon is the best
I love this stuff more than anything else

Already decided long ago where I’m going to build my bar:
The best residential coast area in town
Couldn’t care less if it gets covered in rust

My dream will surely come true
I keep picturing the moment
I’ll believe only in myself and I’ll show them

My dream will surely come true
That’s what I keep telling myself
I’ll believe only in myself and I’ll show them

My dream will surely come true
I keep picturing the moment
I’ll believe only in myself and I’ll show them

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Lamp – Sachiko (English Lyrics)

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さち子
Sachiko

The horizon and the sweet late-summer ocean breeze
Blowing through the girl’s newly cut short hair

Melancholy carried by a freight train running across the seashore
Tears and the prologue to a kiss hidden inside a seashell
Summer bluer than the sea…

Memories now flowing from the car stereo
Sounds of the waves and your singing

In the vast loneliness of a late-summer sunset beach
Chasing after the shadow of her straw hat blowing in the wind

Running across the shore with her toenails painted red
Creating ripples in the water
Epilogue to a nearly forgotten mermaid fairytale
Summer deeper than the sea…

Ah, resounding from the far corners of my memory
Sounds of the waves and your singing

I always knew it would one day end like this
Our brief time together
Like bubbles fading into the bottom of the ocean

Even if you were a fish I would still find you
Endlessly I keep calling out your name
Where are you singing now?

Lamp – Symphony (English Lyrics)

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シンフォニー
Symphony

Shadows of the night strike against the window
Filling this city covered in stardust
To return by your side
I begin to doze off

Rainbow-colored neon lights; a town parade
Two lovers waiting for a love that would never return
As if in search for a continuation of their dream
They silently close their eyes

A pleasant dizziness
The lights shivering
Writing down a near-forgotten melody
And its abstract lyrics

Shadows of the night strike against the window
Filling this city covered in stardust
In complete stillness
A single fragment of a solitary cloud separates from the rest

Sitting down on a chair that feels like a memory
Through my fingers I look up at the indigo blue sky
When a flower quietly swaying by the waterside
Suddenly blooms as if in a dream

Sounds of bossa nova leaking out
The distant roar of the sea
Ah, the night is so thick
It hides you within the seasons

A hundred miles of moonlight
Throwing off the hands of my watch
“Nostalgia”

Like mist on the surface of a broken street light
You begin to fade away
As serenity descends upon my shoulders