More songs by Kenshi Yonezu
Description
The song smells like lemon, but not the kind in lemonade, but the kind that makes your tongue tingle and leaves a bitter taste on your fingers. Here, love and pain are inseparable: they are stored in memory like old letters with rain stains, like a smell that has not faded from the wardrobe. Each line is like walking down a wet street without an umbrella, when home seems infinitely far away, and the heart is still searching for light where there is none.
The music sounds like an admission that even the darkest memories can be precious if someone truly important was in them. This is not an attempt to forget - rather, it is a quiet request to leave the traces of the past alone in order to move on, but not to erase them. And amid the rain, loss, and bitterness of lemon, a light still flickers - the very one that once warmed you and seems unlikely to go out.
Lyrics and translation
Original
夢ならばどれほど良かったでしょう。
いまだにあ なたのことを夢に見る。
忘れたものを取り に帰るように。
古びた思い出の埃を払う。
戻らない幸せがあることを。
最後に あなたが教えてくれた。
言えずに隠してた暗い過去も。
あなたが いなきゃ永遠に暗いまま。
きっともうこれ以上傷つくことなどありはし ないとわかっている。 あの日の悲しみさえ。
あの日 の苦しみさえ。
その全てを愛してたあなたと 共に。
胸に残り離れない苦いレモンの匂 い。 雨が降り止むまでは帰れない。
今でもあなたは私の光。
暗闇 で あなたの背中が震った。
その輪郭を 鮮明に覚えている。
受け止めきれないものと出 会う度。
溢れて止まないのは涙だけ。
何をしていたの？ 何を見ていたの？
私の知 らない横顔で。 どこかであなたが今。
私 と同じような涙に暮れ寂しさの中にいるな ら。 私のことなどどうか忘れてください。
そ んなことを心から願うほどに。
今でもあな たは私の光。
自 分が思うより。
恋をしていたあなたに。
あれから思うように。
息ができない。
あんなにそ ばにいたのに。
まるで 嘘みたい。
とても忘れられ ない。
それだけが確か。
あの日の悲しみさえ。 あの日の苦しみさえ。
その全てを 愛してたあなたと共に。
胸に残り離れな い苦いレモンの匂い。
雨が降り止むまでは帰れない。
切り分けた 果実の片方のように。
今でもあなたは 私の光。
English translation
How good would it have been if it were a dream?
I still dream about you.
Like going home to get something you forgot.
Dust off old memories.
That there is happiness that will never return.
Finally you taught me.
The dark past that I hid without being able to tell.
Without you, it will remain dark forever.
I know that I can't possibly get hurt any more. Even the sadness of that day.
Even the pain of that day.
With you who loved all of it.
The bitter lemon scent that lingers in your chest. I can't go home until the rain stops.
You are still my light.
Your spine trembled in the darkness.
I remember its outline clearly.
Every time I encounter something I can't accept.
The only thing that doesn't stop flowing is tears.
What were you doing? What were you looking at?
With a profile I don't know. Somewhere you are now.
If you are feeling tearful and lonely like I am. Please forget about me.
I sincerely hope for that.
You are still my light.
More than I think.
To you who was in love.
As I have thought since then.
I can't breathe.
Even though I was by your side like that.
It's like a lie.
I'll never forget it.
That's all for sure.
Even the sadness of that day. Even the pain of that day.
With you, who loved all of it.
The bitter lemon scent that lingers in your chest.
I can't go home until the rain stops.
Like one half of a cut fruit.
You are still my light.