カレーライス
Curry Rice

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

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

I’m looking for a good way of putting it
Something trivial yet somehow meaningful…

Right, it’s like having leftover curry in the morning
It cooled down once but you just warm it up again, and that’s fine
It cooled down once but you just warm it up again, and that’s fine

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 truly to go away forever
I wonder what I would do then?
Let’s just go home for now, holding hands

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

Heating up the curry, realizing there was less of it than we thought
Pretending like we’re sharing it equally
Yet hoarding it for ourselves — that’s fine, 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, and that’s fine
It cooled down once but you just warm it up again, and that’s fine

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プロポーズ
Proposal

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

Even if something sad were to happen that day
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, never was
So the people, even the dogs, can’t stand being around us
And then it’ll be just you and me
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 little 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 answer me right away
But give it some real thought
And then come to me

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50年後も
After 50 Years

“If tomorrow morning I was dead, what would you do?”
“Why are you being weird again? Go to 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?

Love accumulating and dreams merging
As we keep slowly flowing onward

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
Keeping 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 “Mr. Akiyama” mentioned in the lyrics is astronaut Akiyama Toyohiro.

信じられない人
Unbelievable Guy

Sorry to suddenly break into a latin groove like this
“You’ve got some ulterior motive, don’t you?”
Just wanted to keep it light — it’s a serious topic
“…And what was it you wanted to talk about?”

Walking the tracks after the trains have stopped
Do 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
Go on, 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 run away
You’re going to fall over

“Unbelievable, you’re really just unbelievable!”
So you keep telling me
Told you, should’ve watched your step
You need to have more faith in me

It’s my well thought out strategy
If she still doesn’t get how I feel
Maybe I’ll try it one more time

“Unbelievable, you’re really just unbelievable!
Would you cut it out 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!”
So you keep telling me
But I love you, I really do love you
At least believe that much

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恋人
Lovers

“Let’s live apart for a while”
In the end I could not soothe you

I’ll be waiting for you
Waiting forever
Always

As you were buying the ticket
I watched your delicate fingers
Not saying a word

I wonder if all lovers feel this way?
I just don’t want to think we won’t meet again

I’ll be waiting for you
Waiting forever
Always

On the other side of the ticket gate
I forced myself to smile

It’s what I decided
With you whom I love the most
So I’ll be going now
Though I really don’t want to

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