米津玄師 (Yonezu Kenshi) - さよーならまたいつか/Goodbye, See You Someday!
米津玄師 (Yonezu Kenshi)


doko kara haru ga meguri kuru no ka shirazu shirazu otona ni natta
Spring comes around from somewhere unknown, and before I knew it, I had grown up

  • どこから /doko kara/：
    From where
  • 春はる /haru/：
    Spring
  • 巡めぐり来くる /meguri kuru/：
    To come around, to cycle back
  • 知しらず知しらず /shirazu shirazu/：
    Without realizing, unknowingly
  • 大人おとな /otona/：
    Adult, grown-up
  • になった /ni natta/：
    Became (past tense of 「成なる」)
miageta saki ni wa tsubame ga tonde ita ki no nai kao de
Up ahead where I looked, a swallow was flying with an indifferent expression

  • 見上みあげた /miageta/：
    Looked up (past tense of 「見上みあげる」)
  • 先さき /saki/：
    Ahead, beyond
  • 燕つばめ /tsubame/：
    Swallow (bird)
  • 飛とんでいた /tonde ita/：
    Was flying (past progressive of 「飛とぶ」)
  • 気きのない /ki no nai/：
    Indifferent, nonchalant
  • 顔かお /kao/：
    Face, expression
moshimo watashi ni tsubasa ga areba negau tabi ni kanashimi ni kureta
"If only I had wings" — each time I wished that, I was swallowed by sorrow

  • もしも /moshimo/：
    If, supposing
  • 翼つばさ /tsubasa/：
    Wings
  • あれば /areba/：
    If there is/are (conditional form of 「ある」)
  • 願ねがう /negau/：
    To wish, to pray
  • 度たびに /tabi ni/：
    Each time, whenever
  • 悲かなしみに暮くれる /kanashimi ni kureru/：
    To be consumed by sadness, to grieve endlessly (「暮くれた」is past tense)
sayonara hyakunen saki de mata aimashou shinpai shinaide
Goodbye — let's meet again in a hundred years. Don't worry about me

  • さよなら /sayonara/：
    Goodbye
  • 100年先ひゃくねんさき /hyakunen saki/：
    A hundred years from now
  • また /mata/：
    Again
  • 会あいましょう /aimashou/：
    Let's meet (volitional form of 「会あう」)
  • 心配しんぱい /shinpai/：
    Worry, concern
  • しないで /shinaide/：
    Please don't (negative form of 「する」followed by 「で」)
itsu no ma ni ka hana ga ochita dareka ga watashi ni uso wo tsuita
Before I knew it, the flowers had fallen — someone told me a lie

  • いつの間まにか /itsu no ma ni ka/：
    Before one knows it, unnoticed
  • 花はな /hana/：
    Flower
  • 落おちた /ochita/：
    Fell (past tense of 「落おちる」)
  • 誰だれか /dareka/：
    Someone, somebody
  • 嘘うそをつく /uso wo tsuku/：
    To tell a lie (「ついた」is past tense)
doshaburi demo kamawazu tonde iku sono chikara ga hoshikatta
Flying without caring about the pouring rain — I wanted that kind of strength

  • 土砂降どしゃぶり /doshaburi/：
    Downpour, torrential rain
  • 構かまわず /kamawazu/：
    Without caring, regardless (negative form of 「構かまう」)
  • 飛とんでいく /tonde iku/：
    To fly away, to fly onward
  • 力ちから /chikara/：
    Strength, power
  • 欲ほしい /hoshii/：
    To want (「欲ほしかった」is past tense)
dareka to koi ni ochite mata kudakete yagate hanarebanare
Falling in love, having my heart broken, and eventually drifting apart

  • 恋こいに落おちる /koi ni ochiru/：
    To fall in love (「落おちて」is the conjunctive form)
  • 砕くだける /kudakeru/：
    To break, to shatter (「砕くだけて」is the conjunctive form)
  • やがて /yagate/：
    Eventually, before long
  • 離はなれ離ばなれ /hanarebanare/：
    Separated, apart from each other
kuchi no naka hata to chi ga nijinde sora ni tsuba wo haku
Blood suddenly seeped from my mouth, and I spat at the sky

  • 口くち /kuchi/：
    Mouth
  • はたと /hata to/：
    Suddenly, abruptly
  • 血ち /chi/：
    Blood
  • 滲にじむ /nijimu/：
    To seep, to ooze (「滲にじんで」is the conjunctive form)
  • 空そら /sora/：
    Sky
  • 唾つばを吐はく /tsuba wo haku/：
    To spit
mabatake hane wo hiroge kimama ni tobe doko made mo yuke
Blink, spread your wings, fly free — go on, wherever it takes you

  • 瞬まばたく /mabataku/：
    To blink, to twinkle (「瞬まばたけ」is the imperative form)
  • 羽はね /hane/：
    Wings, feathers
  • 広ひろげる /hirogeru/：
    To spread, to expand (「広ひろげ」is the continuative form)
  • 気儘きまま /kimama/：
    Carefree, as one pleases
  • 飛とぶ /tobu/：
    To fly (「飛とべ」is the imperative form)
  • どこまでも /doko made mo/：
    Endlessly, wherever
  • ゆく /yuku/：
    To go (「ゆけ」is the imperative form)
hyakunen saki mo oboeteru kana shirane keredo
I wonder if you'll still remember in a hundred years — though I wouldn't know

  • 憶おぼえる /oboeru/：
    To remember (「憶おぼえてる」is the ongoing state of remembering)
  • かな /kana/：
    I wonder (expresses doubt or musing)
  • 知しらねえ /shirane/：
    Don't know (rough colloquial form of 「知しらない」)
  • けれど /keredo/：
    Although, but
sayonara mata itsuka!
If we part here — goodbye, see you someday!

  • さよーなら /sayonara/：
    Goodbye
  • いつか /itsuka/：
    Someday
shigururu ya shigururu machi e ayumiiru sokokashiko de sode fureru
Walking into a town soaked in autumn rain, brushing shoulders here and there

  • しぐるる /shigururu/：
    To drizzle (classical Japanese, attributive form of 「しぐる」, evoking an archaic tone)
  • 町まち /machi/：
    Town, street
  • 歩あゆみ入いる /ayumiiru/：
    To walk into, to step into
  • そこかしこ /sokokashiko/：
    Here and there, everywhere
  • 袖触そでふれる /sode fureru/：
    Sleeves brushing against each other (a metaphor for a fleeting encounter)
miageta saki ni wa nani mo inakatta aa inakatta
Up ahead where I looked, there was nothing — ah, there was nothing at all

  • 何なにも〜ない /nani mo ~ nai/：
    Nothing at all (complete negation)
  • 居いる /iru/：
    To be, to exist (used for living things; 「居なかった」is past negative)
shitari gao de sawaranaide senaka wo naguritsukeru matohazure
Don't touch me with that smug look — the fists pounding my back are all off the mark

  • したり顔かお /shitari gao/：
    Smug expression, self-satisfied look
  • 触さわる /sawaru/：
    To touch (「触さわらないで」is a request not to do it)
  • 背中せなか /senaka/：
    Back (of the body)
  • 殴なぐりつける /naguritsukeru/：
    To punch, to strike hard
  • 的外まとはずれ /matohazure/：
    Off the mark, beside the point
hito ga notamau jigoku no saki ni koso watashi wa haru wo miru
It is only in what others call hell that I can glimpse a hint of spring

  • 宣のたまう /notamau/：
    To say, to declare (archaic/ironic honorific)
  • 地獄じごく /jigoku/：
    Hell
  • こそ /koso/：
    Precisely, it is exactly (emphasis particle)
  • 見みる /miru/：
    To see, to look
dareka wo aishitakute demo itakute itsushika ame arare
Wanting to love someone, yet it hurts so much — before I knew it, I was caught in a storm

  • 愛あいす /aisu/：
    To love (「愛あいしたくて」means wanting to love)
  • 痛いたい /itai/：
    Painful (「痛いたくて」is the conjunctive form)
  • いつしか /itsushika/：
    Before one knows it, at some point
  • 雨霰あめあられ /ame arare/：
    Rain and hail (a metaphor for an onslaught of hardships)
tsunagarete ita nawa wo nigirishimete shikato kamichigiru
Gripping the rope that had bound me, I bit through it decisively

  • 繋つなぐ /tsunagu/：
    To tie, to connect (「繋つながれていた」is the passive progressive past form)
  • 縄なわ /nawa/：
    Rope
  • 握にぎりしめる /nigirishimeteru/：
    To grip tightly, to clench
  • しかと /shikato/：
    Firmly, resolutely
  • 噛かみちぎる /kamichigiru/：
    To bite off, to gnaw apart
tsuranuke nerai sadame kedashi tora e doko made mo yuke
Take aim and pierce through — venture boldly into the tiger's den, onward wherever you go

  • 貫つらぬく /tsuranuku/：
    To pierce through (「貫つらぬけ」is the imperative form)
  • 狙ねらい /nerai/：
    Aim, target
  • 定さだめる /sadameru/：
    To determine, to fix (「定さだめ」is the continuative form)
  • 蓋けだし /kedashi/：
    Probably, presumably (an archaic speculative word)
  • 虎とら /tora/：
    Tiger
hyakunen saki no anata ni aitai kieuseru na yo
I want to see you a hundred years from now — don't you dare disappear

  • 会あいたい /aitai/：
    Want to meet (desiderative form of 「会あう」)
  • 消きえ失うせる /kieuseru/：
    To vanish, to disappear completely
  • な /na/：
    Don't (prohibition command)
sayonara mata itsuka!
If we part here — goodbye, see you someday!

  • さよーなら /sayonara/：
    Goodbye
ima koi ni ochite mata kudakete hanarebanare
Now falling in love again, breaking again, drifting apart once more

  • 今いま /ima/：
    Now
  • 恋こいに落おちる /koi ni ochiru/：
    To fall in love
kuchi no naka hata to chi ga nijinde sora ni tsuba wo haku
Blood seeped from my mouth, and I spat at the sky

  • 滲にじむ /nijimu/：
    To seep, to ooze
  • 唾つばを吐はく /tsuba wo haku/：
    To spit
ima hane wo hiroge kimama ni tobe doko made mo yuke
Now spread your wings, fly free — go on, wherever it takes you

  • 羽はね /hane/：
    Wings, feathers
  • 気儘きまま /kimama/：
    Carefree, as one pleases
umareta hi kara watashi de ita nda shiranakatta daro
From the day I was born, I have always been myself — you wouldn't know that, would you

  • 生うまれる /umareru/：
    To be born (「生うまれた」is past tense)
  • いた /ita/：
    Was, existed (past tense of 「いる」)
  • だろ /daro/：
    Right? Probably (colloquial conjecture)
sayonara mata itsuka!
If we part here — goodbye, see you someday!

  • いつか /itsuka/：
    Someday