New Beginning – Bilingual Lyrics Japanese/English

• By: 伊藤千晃

Lyrics & Translation

[Japanese]

[English]

これ以上どこまで　痛みを感じたら

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

出口は見つかるの　Uh…

The way out will be found, uh...

ここから抜け出せる　術を知らないなら

If I don't know how to escape from here

もう一度信じて　Uh…

Then I’ll believe once more, uh...

微かな光を探し出して　わずかな奇跡はそこにあって

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

暗闇の中でしか気付けなかった

I only realized it in the darkness

There’s nothing that can hold me back

There’s nothing that can hold me back

Hello my new beginning, beginning

Hello my new beginning, beginning

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

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

この手で開くべき ドアがあることだけを信じていこう

Believing only in the door I should open with these hands

New Beginning

New Beginning

消えてしまったような　感覚に怯えて

Fearing a feeling as if it’s disappeared

瞼を閉じたまま　Uh…

With my eyes closed, uh...

愛されたいわけじゃ 守られたいわけじゃ

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

無いことに気づいた　Uh…

Realizing that those things don’t exist, 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

What I really wanted was to find out myself

そのために終わりから始めて行く

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

There’s nothing that can hold me back

There’s nothing that can hold me back

I’ll never stop believing, believing

I’ll never stop believing, believing

I have nothing left to lose だから　歩き出すよ

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

この手で掴むべき　夢があることだけを信じて行こう

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

終わらせる勇気と　向かい合う孤独を

Facing the courage to end it and the loneliness it brings

幾つも乗り越えて来た　だから今ならわかるよ

Overcoming many obstacles, which is why I understand now

振り向かない強さと　信じ抜く覚悟を

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

私は手に入れたくて　ここからまた歩き出す Now…

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

There’s nothing that can hold me back

There’s nothing that can hold me back

Hello my new beginning, beginning

Hello my new beginning, beginning

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

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

There’s nothing that can hold me back

There’s nothing that can hold me back

I’ll never stop believing, believing

I’ll never stop believing, believing

I have nothing left to lose だから　歩き出すよ

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

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

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

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."