New Beginning – Bilingual Lyrics Japanese/English

• By: 伊藤千晃

Lyrics & Translation

Embark on a linguistic journey with Chiaki Ito's "New Beginning." This poignant J-Pop track, crafted during a significant turning point in the artist's life, offers a unique opportunity to explore authentic Japanese expressions related to personal growth and fresh starts. Its comfortable melody and sincere lyrics provide an accessible and meaningful way to connect with the language through the universal themes of hope and resilience.

[English]

How much more pain do I have to feel before I find the exit?

The way out will be found, uh...

If I don't know how to escape from here

Then I’ll believe once more, uh...

Searching for a faint light, and there, a tiny miracle exists

I only realized it in the darkness

There’s nothing that can hold me back

Hello my new beginning, beginning

I have nothing left to lose, so I always believe here

Believing only in the door I should open with these hands

New Beginning

Fearing a feeling as if it’s disappeared

With my eyes closed, uh...

It’s not that I want to be loved or protected

Realizing that those things don’t exist, uh...

What I really wanted was to find out myself

I started again from the end, to see how far I could go

There’s nothing that can hold me back

I’ll never stop believing, believing

I have nothing left to lose, so I’ll start walking again

Believing only that there’s a dream to grasp with these hands

Facing the courage to end it and the loneliness it brings

Overcoming many obstacles, which is why I understand now

The strength to not look back and the resolve to believe completely

I want to have those, and I will start walking from here again, now...

There’s nothing that can hold me back

Hello my new beginning, beginning

I have nothing left to lose, so I always believe here

There’s nothing that can hold me back

I’ll never stop believing, believing

I have nothing left to lose, so I’ll start walking again

What I want to see with my own eyes is a world no one has ever seen before

[Japanese]

これ以上どこまで　痛みを感じたら

出口は見つかるの　Uh…

ここから抜け出せる　術を知らないなら

もう一度信じて　Uh…

微かな光を探し出して　わずかな奇跡はそこにあって

暗闇の中でしか気付けなかった

There’s nothing that can hold me back

Hello my new beginning, beginning

I have nothing left to lose だから　いつもここに

この手で開くべき ドアがあることだけを信じていこう

New Beginning

消えてしまったような　感覚に怯えて

瞼を閉じたまま　Uh…

愛されたいわけじゃ 守られたいわけじゃ

無いことに気づいた　Uh…

確かめたいのは私だった どこまで行けるか知りたかった

そのために終わりから始めて行く

There’s nothing that can hold me back

I’ll never stop believing, believing

I have nothing left to lose だから　歩き出すよ

この手で掴むべき　夢があることだけを信じて行こう

終わらせる勇気と　向かい合う孤独を

幾つも乗り越えて来た　だから今ならわかるよ

振り向かない強さと　信じ抜く覚悟を

私は手に入れたくて　ここからまた歩き出す Now…

There’s nothing that can hold me back

Hello my new beginning, beginning

I have nothing left to lose だから　いつもここに

There’s nothing that can hold me back

I’ll never stop believing, believing

I have nothing left to lose だから　歩き出すよ

この目で見たいのは まだ誰も見たことのないような世界

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
痛み /いたみ/ B1	noun - pain
光 /ひかり/ A2	noun - light
夢 /ゆめ/ A2	noun - dream
信じる /しんじる/ B1	verb - to believe
始める /はじめる/ B1	verb - to begin
強さ /つよさ/ B2	noun - strength
孤独 /こどく/ B2	noun - loneliness
勇気 /ゆうき/ B1	noun - courage
世界 /せかい/ A2	noun - world
手 /て/ A1	noun - hand
ドア /どあ/ A1	noun - door
気づく /きづく/ B1	verb - to notice
消える /きえる/ B1	verb - to disappear
終わり /おわり/ B1	noun - end
始まり /はじまり/ B1	noun - beginning
気持ち /きもち/ B1	noun - feeling

Key Grammar Structures

• 出口は見つかるの

  ➔ Potential form + の (nominalizer)

  ➔ The phrase uses the "potential form" to indicate the possibility of finding an "exit".

• 信じて

  ➔ Te-form of a verb + て, used to connect clauses or make a request

  ➔ The te-form connects the verb "信じる" (to believe) with the following clause, expressing an ongoing action or intention.

• 歩き出すよ

  ➔ Verb stem + 出す (to start doing something)

  ➔ The verb stem combined with 出す indicates the beginning of an action, in this case, "to walk out" or "to start walking."

• 気付けなかった

  ➔ Potential form negative past (気付く + なかった)

  ➔ The phrase uses the potential form in its negative past tense to express that "I could not notice" or "did not realize."

• 乗り越えて来た

  ➔ Te-form + 來る, meaning "to have overcome" or "have been overcoming"

  ➔ The te-form combined with 来る expresses an action that has been completed or ongoing, such as "have overcome" challenges.

• 信じ抜く

  ➔ Verb stem + 抜く (to do something completely, to the end)

  ➔ The verb stem plus 抜く emphasizes doing something thoroughly or to the very end, such as "believing completely."