mimosa – Bilingual Lyrics Japanese/English

• By: 浜崎あゆみ

Lyrics & Translation

[Japanese]

[English]

「ひとつだけ昔の自分にかけてあげられる

If you could say just one thing

としたならどんな言葉にしますか？」

to your past self, what would it be?"

そんな質問よくあるよね

You hear questions like that often, don't you?

お決まりの台詞に聴こえるかも知れないけど

It might sound like a cliché line, but

「努力は報われるから大丈夫だよ」って

I'd say, "Your efforts will pay off, so it'll be alright."

きっとあの涙の苦さを忘れずにいるから

Because I'm sure I won't forget the bitterness of those tears,

大人になったからって全てがうまく

and because I've learned that just because you become an adult

いく訳じゃないと知れたから歩いてるんだろう

doesn't mean everything goes smoothly, I guess I keep walking.

傷は時間と共に癒えるんじゃなくて

Wounds don't heal with time;

笑顔をどれだけ上書き出来るかじゃないかな

it's about how many smiles you can overlay them with, isn't it?

その為に今日も諦めずに生きてんじゃないかな

And for that, I guess I'm living today without giving up.

最後から数えることなんて大袈裟すぎるし

Counting from the end is too dramatic,

実感が湧かないしってあっけらかんと

and the days I used to say "I can't really grasp it"

言っていた日々は遠くなってシュールさに

so nonchalantly have become distant, and now I feel a pang

ぎゅっとなる

of surrealism.

人を心の底から信じるだなんて

Trusting someone from the bottom of your heart,

何かに本気で人生賭けるだなんて

or genuinely betting your life on something,

今の時代にまるで合ってないことはさぁ

those things just don't fit in with today's world, you know?

わかってんだけどそれでもねぇ

I know that, but still,

やっていくんだよ

I'll keep doing it.

だって 此処が君の居る世界なんだから

Because this is the world where you are.

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知らない人ほど言う

The less people know you, the more they say,

「大変ですね」って「わかりますよ」って

"That must be tough," or "I understand."

言葉が虚無感の輪になって割れた

Those words formed a ring of emptiness and shattered.

大人になったからって全てがうまく

And because I've learned that just because you become an adult

いく訳じゃないと知れたから歩いてるんだろう

doesn't mean everything goes smoothly, I guess I keep walking.

傷は時間と共に癒えるんじゃなくて

Wounds don't heal with time;

笑顔をどれだけ上書き出来るかじゃないかな

it's about how many smiles you can overlay them with, isn't it?

その為に今日も諦めずに生きてんじゃないかな

And for that, I guess I'm living today without giving up.

人を心の底から信じるだなんて

Trusting someone from the bottom of your heart,

何かに本気で人生賭けるだなんて

or genuinely betting your life on something,

今の時代にまるで合ってないことはさぁ

those things just don't fit in with today's world, you know?

わかってんだけどそれでもねぇ

I know that, but still,

やっていくんだよ

I'll keep doing it.

だって此処が君の居る世界なんだから

Because this is the world where you are.

...

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Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
努力 /doʊ.ɾjoʊ.kɯ/ B1	noun - effort, exertion, striving
報われる /mɯ.kɯ.wa.ɾe.ɾɯ/ B2	verb - to be rewarded, to be recompensed, to pay off
涙 /na.mi.da/ A2	noun - tear (from eye)
苦さ /ni.ɡa.sa/ B1	noun - bitterness, tartness (taste); harshness, pain (emotion)
大人 /o.to.na/ A2	noun - adult, grown-up
傷 /ki.zɯ/ B1	noun - wound, injury, scratch; emotional hurt, damage
癒える /i.e.ɾɯ/ B2	verb - to heal (of a wound, illness); to be cured; to be comforted (of a heart)
笑顔 /e.ɡa.o/ A2	noun - smile, smiling face
上書き /ɯ.wa.ɡa.ki/ B2	noun - overwrite (esp. data), writing over verb - to overwrite, to write over
諦める /a.ki.ɾa.me.ɾɯ/ B1	verb - to give up, to abandon, to resign oneself
実感 /d͡ʑik.kaɴ/ B2	noun - real feeling, actual sensation, concrete understanding
遠い /to.o.i/ A1	adjective - far, distant, remote (in space or time)
信じる /ɕin.d͡ʑi.ɾɯ/ A2	verb - to believe, to trust
人生 /d͡ʑin.se.e/ B1	noun - (human) life, human existence
賭ける /ka.ke.ɾɯ/ B1	verb - to bet, to gamble, to stake (one's life, reputation, etc.)
時代 /d͡ʑi.da.i/ B1	noun - era, period, age, times
虚無感 /kjo.mɯ.kaɴ/ C1	noun - sense of emptiness, nihilistic feeling, futility
割れる /wa.ɾe.ɾɯ/ A2	verb - to break, to crack, to split (intransitive); to be divided
歩く /a.ɾɯ.kɯ/ A1	verb - to walk
心 /ko.ko.ɾo/ A1	noun - heart, mind, spirit, inner being; feelings, emotion