HIGHER GROUND – Bilingual Lyrics Japanese/English

• By: EXILE TRIBE, Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike
• Album: HiGH & LOW ORIGINAL BEST ALBUM

Lyrics & Translation

[Japanese]

[English]

鮮烈に連なる記憶 呼び起こす through my soul

Vivid memories connect, summoned through my soul

幾度と無く繰り返す葛藤

Conflicts that repeat countless times

ピンと張り詰めてる空気 切り裂き through the storm

The tense, sharp air cuts through the storm

覚悟決め 飛び込んでいく battle

Deciding to go all in, charging into the battle

このPRIDE(おもい)かたち作るヒストリー

This PRIDE (feeling) creating history

誰にも譲れない

I won’t give this up to anyone

運命を信じて 踏み出してゆく

Believing in fate, stepping forward

higher　更にもっと高みへ

Higher, aiming for even greater heights

higher　鼓動もっと響かして

Higher, let my beat ring out louder

higher　we’re gonna take you

Higher, we're gonna take you

higher　we’re gonna take you higher…

Higher, we're gonna take you higher...

壁 破って 起(た)ち上がれ

Break down the walls and rise up

翔(か)け上がる like a phoenix rising

Fly high like a phoenix rising

自分次第で すべて変わる

Everything changes depending on yourself

呼び覚ませ gonna make it louder

Awaken the spirit, gonna make it louder

抱え込んだ one wish 繋いでゆけ one love

Hold onto that one wish, connect that one love

every day, every night

Every day, every night

書き換えてくlimit

Rewrite the limits

偽りのない

Without lies

揺るがぬ意志で

With unwavering will

届くまで gonna take you higher

Until it reaches you, gonna take you higher

見渡せば残像だけ 流れてく現実(リアル)

All I see are residual images flowing in this real world

魂(いのち)さえ 純然と瞬(またた)く

Even my soul glimmers pure and bright

こんな場所に生きる意味 見出（みいだ）す all for one

Finding the meaning of living in such a place, all for one

行きつく果てまで go all the way

To the end of the journey, go all the way

傷を負う誰もが気付く

Everyone who gets hurt realizes it

桁外(けたはず)れの願いも

Even the grandest wishes

共に抱けば強く輝く

Shine brighter when we hold them together

壁 破って 起(た)ち上がれ

Break down the walls and rise up

翔(か)け上がる like a phoenix rising

Fly high like a phoenix rising

自分次第で すべて変わる

Everything changes depending on yourself

呼び覚ませ gonna make it louder

Awaken the spirit, gonna make it louder

抱え込んだ one wish 繋いでゆけ one love

Hold onto that one wish, connect that one love

every day, every night

Every day, every night

書き換えてくlimit

Rewrite the limits

偽りのない

Without lies

揺るがぬ意志で

With unwavering will

届くまで gonna take you higher

Until it reaches you, gonna take you higher

痛みを知るからこそ

Because I know pain

優しくなれる

I can become gentle

まだ見ぬ地へ行けるhigher

Travel still unseen, higher

目 見れば一目瞭然

When you see, it’s obvious at a glance

輝く 琥珀のようだ

Shining like amber

turn my music high high

Turn my music high high

このまま fly high

Keep flying high just like this

kingとking ぶつかり合う

Kings clash with kings

痛みよりも 愛が勝る

Love wins over pain

新世界 生き抜く王者

Living as a king in a new world

勝者は持つ この∞無限のFire

The winner carries this endless fire

抗争に歪むスカーフェイス

A crooked face from conflict

修羅場だらけのWe dem boyz

We dem boyz in a battlefield full of chaos

想像を超えたストーリー さながらWe makin' noise

An unbelievable story, just like we makin’ noise

映る誰かの眼にも

Even in someone’s eyes who sees us

Fakeをリアルに Changing back (Breaking bad)

Turning fake into real, breaking bad again

けど 痛みを知り胸に刻む理念を

But knowing pain, carving out principles in our hearts

Higher...

Higher...

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
記憶 /kioku/ B1	noun - memory
葛藤 /kattou/ B2	noun - conflict
空気 /kuuki/ A2	noun - air
運命 /unmei/ B1	noun - destiny
高み /takami/ B2	noun - height
壁 /kabe/ A2	noun - wall
痛み /itami/ B1	noun - pain
愛 /ai/ A1	noun - love
願い /negai/ B1	noun - wish
意志 /ishi/ B2	noun - will
現実 /genjitsu/ B1	noun - reality
意味 /imi/ A2	noun - meaning
光 /hikari/ A1	noun - light
生きる /ikiru/ A2	verb - to live
変わる /kawaru/ B1	verb - to change
強く /tsuyoku/ B2	adverb - strongly
輝く /kagayaku/ B2	verb - to shine

Key Grammar Structures

• 呼び覚ませ gonna make it louder

  ➔ Imperative form used with '呼び覚ませ' (yobisamesu) to give a command or encouragement.

  ➔ '呼び覚ませ' is an imperative verb meaning 'awaken' or 'rouse', here used as an encouragement.

• 壁 破って 起(た)ち上がれ

  ➔ Imperative form with '破って' (yatotte) and '起ち上がれ' (tachiagare) to command breaking down walls and rising up.

  ➔ '破って' is the te-form of '破る' (yaburu), meaning 'to break', used here as part of a command to break through walls.

• 自分次第で すべて変わる

  ➔ Using '次第で' (shidai de) to indicate that everything depends on oneself.

  ➔ '次第で' is a phrase meaning 'depending on' or 'based on', indicating that the outcome varies according to one's own actions or decisions.

• 傷を負う誰もが気付く

  ➔ Using '傷を負う' (kizu wo ou) in nominal form to describe 'those who get wounds' and how 'everyone notices'.

  ➔ '傷を負う' means 'to get wounded' or 'to sustain injuries', here referring to people who suffer wounds and are noticed by others.

• 痛みを知り胸に刻む理念を

  ➔ Using '痛みを知り' (itami wo shiri) with '胸に刻む' (mune ni kizamu) to mean 'knowing pain' and 'carving' principles into the heart.

  ➔ '痛みを知り' means 'knowing pain', implying experience of hardship, and '胸に刻む' means 'to carve into the heart', symbolizing deeply ingraining principles.