君が好き胸が痛い
I Love You So Much It Hurts

Even after spotting you in a crowd of people
I still pretend like I don’t see you
I just want to see your smile first
For no reason in particular

So many things I want to talk to you about
I don’t even know where to start
I’m just glad I got to see you
You must be so busy

Ah, I love you so much it hurts
I want to be closer to you
I might be joking around
But you don’t know
The crushing loneliness I feel

Walking with you in the evening
It feels awkward somehow
I have almost everything I want
The only thing missing is you

Ah, I love you so much it hurts
I want to see you closer
I might be acting cool
But you don’t know
I’m so lonely I could cry

Time in this city will undoubtedly keep passing
Everyone around us will keep getting older
But the one thing that won’t change
Is the fact that I’ll still love you
As I alone remain in place
Just marking time

Ah, I love you so much it hurts
In the end it’s you I want to be with
I might be acting cool
But you don’t know
You still don’t know
I’m so lonely I could cry

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カレーライス
Curry Rice

Once again I made you angry
And before long you started to cry
Escaping into the slight coldness of the evening

Guess there’s no helping it
Tonight I’ll heat up the leftover curry
And wait for you in silence

Searching for a good way of putting it
Something that sounds trivial yet somehow meaningful…

It’s like eating leftover curry in the morning
It cooled down once but you warm it up again, it’s okay
It cooled down once but you warm it up again, it’s okay

I guess I’ll head out to look for you soon — it’s getting dark
And there you were, waiting for me at the usual river bed

If you were to truly disappear forever
I wonder what I would do?
For now let’s just get back home, holding hands

No matter what happens
We’ll keep living in this house together
For decades to come

Heating up the curry, seeing there was less of it than we thought
Pretending like we’re sharing it equally
Yet hoarding it for ourselves, that’s okay, too

So, around next week, please make more
Curry rice for me, for me

It’s like eating leftover curry in the morning
It cooled down once but you just warm it up again, it’s okay
It cooled down once but you just warm it up again, it’s okay

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プロポーズ
Proposal

Near my place there’s this big park
With green grass, a baseball field, even a water fountain
On a sunny day, let’s ride our bicycles there
I’m a little bit faster than you
But it’s not like I would leave you behind
I like cycling behind you, your hair blowing in the wind
We don’t even have to talk, it’ll be fun anyway
So just come over to my place

Even if something sad had happened to you
Let’s go to the park anyway, holding hands
We’ll find some bench in the shade
Here, I’ll play my alto saxophone for you
I’m no good at it, as always
So the people, even the dogs, can’t stand being around us
And then it’s just the two of us
I’ll listen to everything you have to say, even if it’s all out of order
You can take your time
See, don’t you feel a bit better already?
Let’s sing your favorite song together — it’s fine, no one’s around, remember?
I’m the better singer, but your voice is nicer
I really do think so

You don’t have to give me an answer right away, but give it some real thought
And then come to me

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50年後も
Even After 50 Years

“If tomorrow morning I was dead, what would you do?”
“Why are you being weird again? Why don’t you just sleep?”
Is how you’d answer me, laughing

But like cherry trees blossoming on a spring day
Will the two of us be laughing like always
Even after 50 years, just like today?

Let’s gather up our love and merge our dreams
As we keep slowly flowing onwards

I will never leave you alone
No matter what happens
I won’t let you escape hearing those little words
That keep our fate sealed

Eventually, after the both of us have died
I don’t know what the world is going to look like
But take my hand so we don’t stray from one another

“Our love is eternal and you are my courage”
Is what I’ll forever insist on telling you

And I will never leave you alone
No matter what happens
Like great wings enveloping us
That keep our fate sealed

“If tomorrow morning I was dead, what would you do?”
“You’re still going on with that? Would you just sleep already!”
Is how you’d answer me, laughing

But like fallen leaves fluttering on an autumn evening
Will the two of us wither away as beautifully?
Even after 50 years, will we be gently laughing just like today?

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Note: This song is a duet with Tane Tomoko, and the parts in quotations are her lines. The “Akiyama-san” mentioned in the lyrics is astronaut Akiyama Toyohiro.

信じられない人
Unbelievable Person

Sorry to suddenly break into a latin groove like this
“Surely you’ve got some ulterior motive.”
Just thought I’d keep it light — it’s a serious topic
“So what was it you wanted to talk about?”

Walking the tracks after the trains have stopped
Watch your step
It’s a feeling one seldom gets to enjoy
Times like these

Let’s walk until that crossing to sober up
“I haven’t had that much to drink”
The stars look bigger than usual tonight
“Gee, what a romantic you are…”

Okay, try this then
If you close your eyes for ten seconds
The stars will look twice as big
Come on now, close your eyes

“Unbelievable, you’re really just unbelievable!
What do you think you’re doing?!”

Just because our lips bumped into each other a little
Doesn’t mean you suddenly need to start running
You’ll fall over

“Unbelievable, you’re really just unbelievable!”
Is what you keep telling me
But I just told you, you should’ve watched your step
You need to have more faith in me

It’s my well-planned strategy
If she still doesn’t get how I feel…
Maybe I’ll try it once more

“Unbelievable, you’re really just unbelievable!
Would you give it a rest already?!”

In an era when even Mr. Akiyama’s going to space
What’s so unbelievable about me when I’m standing right here?

“Unbelievable, you’re really just unbelievable!”
Is what you keep telling me
But I love you, I really love you
At least believe that much

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