Living My Life – Bilingual Lyrics Japanese/English

• By: milet
• Album: 5am

Lyrics & Translation

[Japanese]

[English]

飲み込んだ いつも

Swallowed it all, always

鋭い声を ぎゅっと

Holding onto sharp words tightly

吐き出す My God it's 5am

Spitting them out, My God it's 5 am

鏡に問うよ what I am

I ask myself in the mirror, who am I?

流し委ねた未来 misfortune

Surrendered my future to the flow, misfortune

朝がくれば変われるように

Hoping I can change when morning comes

また 気付けば神頼みの途中

Again, notice I’m half praying to the gods

I realise

I realize

When I realise

When I realize

ほら

Look

泣けない日も笑えない日も

On days I can't cry or even laugh

負けない日を重ねながら

While stacking up days I won't give up

ここにいる 私はここにいる

I am here, I am right here

いつか

Someday

嵐の奥 虹がかかる

Beyond the storm, a rainbow appears

泥だらけの世界の一番真ん中で笑う

Smiling in the middle of a muddy world

Yeah I'm living my life

Yeah, I'm living my life

I'm living my life

I'm living my life

飛び込んだ きっと

Jumped in, surely

未来はミラーボールだった

The future was a mirror ball

誰かの明日を照らして 自分は迷子のままで

Lighting someone’s tomorrow, while I remain lost

胸が詰まる空っぽの cartoons

Empty cartoons that make my chest tighten

もう刺さらないよあなたの new tunes

Your new tunes no longer cut through

踏み込む足がわかればもうすぐ

If I understand the steps I need to take, soon

I realise

I realize

Now I realise

Now I realize

ほら

Look

泣けない日も笑えない日も

On days I can't cry or even laugh

負けない日を重ねながら

While stacking up days I won’t give up

ここにいる 私はここにいる

I am here, I am right here

...

...

誰かのためじゃないあなたの今を

It's not for someone else, but for your present

The world looks so beautiful now

The world looks so beautiful now

まだ

Still

明けないでと願った夜も

Night I wished wouldn’t dawn,

救えないような日々も超えて

Overcoming days that seemed unsalvageable,

ここにいる 私はここにいる

I am here, I am right here

いつか

Someday

鏡の中 虹がかかる

Inside the mirror, a rainbow appears

泥だらけの世界の一番真ん中で笑う

Laughing in the middle of a muddy world

Yeah I'm living my life

Yeah, I'm living my life

I'm living my life

I'm living my life

...

...

誰かのためじゃないあなたの今を

It's not for someone else, but for your present

The world looks so beautiful now

The world looks so beautiful now

...

...

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
飲み込む /nomikomu/ B1	verb - to swallow
鋭い /surudoi/ B1	adjective - sharp
ぎゅっと /gyutto/ A2	adverb - tightly
流し /nagashi/ B1	verb - to flow
委ねる /makaseru/ B2	verb - to entrust
嵐 /arashi/ B1	noun - storm
虹 /niji/ A2	noun - rainbow
泥 /doro/ B1	noun - mud
世界 /sekai/ A1	noun - world
ミラーボール /mirābōru/ B2	noun - mirror ball
迷子 /maigo/ B1	noun - lost child
胸 /mune/ A2	noun - chest
空っぽ /karappo/ A2	adjective - empty
cartoons /kātūnz/ B2	noun - cartoons
刺さる /sasaru/ B1	verb - to pierce
踏み込む /fumikomu/ B2	verb - to step into

Key Grammar Structures

• 流し委ねた未来 misfortune

  ➔ Past tense of 'entrust' (委ねた)

  ➔ The verb "委ねた" is the past tense, meaning 'entrusted' or 'deferred,' indicating an action completed in the past.

• 泣けない日も笑えない日も

  ➔ Negative potential form of 泣く (to cry) and 笑う (to laugh)

  ➔ The pattern "〜ない" indicates the negative form of potential capability, meaning "cannot" do something.

• Here I am

  ➔ Subject + linking verb 'am' to express existence

  ➔ The phrase "Here I am" uses the very common construction of subject + 'am' to signify presence or being.

• The world looks so beautiful now

  ➔ Present tense of 'look' + adjective phrase

  ➔ The verb "look" in present tense describes the current appearance or perception of "the world".

• 負けない日を重ねながら

  ➔ The phrase "負けない日" uses the negative potential form of 'to lose' (負けない).

  ➔ The phrase "負けない" is the negative potential form of "負ける" (to lose), meaning 'cannot lose'.

• 虹がかかる

  ➔ Subject + verb in plain present tense indicating occurrence

  ➔ The verb "かかる" in plain present tense indicates that "a rainbow appears" or "is cast" over the sky.