少年 – Bilingual Lyrics Japanese/English

• By: GENERATIONS from EXILE TRIBE

Lyrics & Translation

[Japanese]

[English]

時は流れ 僕は僕で Time goes by Time goes by

Time goes by, I remain myself

Excuse me! 人波に逆らいながら

Excuse me! Going against the crowd

振り向かずまっすぐに 歩く（歩く）

Walking straight without looking back

スクランブル交差点 何年も変わらず

The scramble crossing hasn't changed for years

雑踏がうごめいて 苦しい（Crazy）

The bustling crowd is suffocating (Crazy)

無邪気な自由手離し 未来の欠片(かけら)拾い

Letting go of innocent freedom, picking up pieces of the future

がむしゃらに走って あれから10年経って

Running recklessly, it's been 10 years since then

いつでも夢だけを 追い続けて生きていた

I lived always chasing my dreams

あの日の少年に もしも会えたなら

If I could meet that boy from that day

伝えたいんだ 迷わなくていいよと

I want to tell him, "You don't have to hesitate"

ずっとずっと捜してた輝きを

I've been searching for that shine all along

いつの日か手にすると

Hoping to hold it someday

時は流れ 僕は僕で 決して止まらないさ

Time goes by, I remain myself, never stopping

N’ excuse me! とりたてて得意なものが

N’ excuse me! I didn't really have anything I was good at

あるわけじゃなかったよ 少年は（Yeah）

The boy didn't have that (Yeah)

生まれ変わろうなんて そんなの到底無理で

Thinking of being reborn is just impossible

くじけそうな夜は 明日の歌うたい

On nights when I feel like giving up, I sing for tomorrow

絶対負けないって ただひたすら信じていた

I believed with all my heart that I would never lose

あの日の少年は 汚(けが)れを知らずに

That boy from that day ran through without knowing dirt

駆け抜けてた 光と影の中

Dashing through the light and shadow

誰かに出会って別れてまた出会い

Meeting someone, parting, and meeting again

一歩ずつ踏み出して…

Taking one step at a time…

Don’t forget 時代が変わる瞬間に

Don’t forget, in the moment when times change

世界も変わってく Reality

The world changes too, Reality

思い出掻き集めるたび 不意に大人になる

Every time I gather memories, I suddenly become an adult

あの日の少年 今の僕を見て

That boy from that day looks at the current me

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
時 /toki/ A1	noun - time
流れ /nagare/ B1	noun - flow
僕 /boku/ A2	pronoun - I (male)
逆らい /sakarai/ B2	verb - to oppose, to go against
振り向かず /furimukazu/ C1	verb - not to look back
まっすぐに /massugu ni/ A2	adverb - straight ahead
歩く /aruku/ A1	verb - to walk
交差点 /kousaten/ A2	noun - intersection
変わらず /kawara zu/ B1	adverb - unchanged, still the same
雑踏 /zattou/ B2	noun - crowd, bustle
苦しい /kurushii/ B2	adjective - distressing, painful
自由 /jiyuu/ A2	noun - freedom
未来 /mirai/ A2	noun - future
拾い /hbriefi/ B1	verb - to pick up
夢 /yume/ A2	noun - dream
走って /hashitte/ B1	verb - to run
経つ /tatsu/ B2	verb - to pass (time)
生きていた /ikite ita/ B2	verb - was living

Key Grammar Structures

• 時は流れ 僕は僕で

  ➔ Use of 『は』 as the topic marker to indicate the subject about time and oneself.

  ➔ 『は』 marks the topic of the sentence, emphasizing 'time' and 'I' as the focus.

• 振り向かずまっすぐに 歩く

  ➔ Use of 『ず』 to indicate a negative, implying 'without turning around'.

  ➔ 『ず』 attached to the verb forms a negative adverbial expression, meaning 'without doing something'.

• 未来の欠片(かけら)拾い

  ➔ Use of 『の』 to connect nouns, showing possession or description ('fragment of the future').

  ➔ 『の』 links nouns, forming a compound noun that expresses possession, origin, or description.

• 絶対負けないって ただひたすら信じていた

  ➔ Use of 『って』 as a colloquial quoting particle, indicating reported speech or thought.

  ➔ 『って』 functions as a casual quotation marker, often used to report speech or internal thoughts.

• 誰かに出会って別れてまた出会い

  ➔ Use of 『て』 to connect multiple actions in a sequence, indicating 'meeting, parting, and meeting again'.

  ➔ 『て』 connects verbs to show actions happening in sequence or expressing cause-and-effect relationships.

• 時代が変わる瞬間に

  ➔ Use of 『に』 for time points, indicating 'at the moment when the era changes'.

  ➔ 『に』 is used to specify a particular point in time where an event occurs.