1.What do I believe in?
2.Pressing down on my chest that feels like it might burst,
3.Today again, ah, I am alone.
4.Why should I believe in?
5.Pain piles up and becomes chains,
6.I don’t even have the time to cry.7.
8.Nights without salvation, mornings of surrender,
9.Pass by again and again.
10.The remains of crushed, pitiful hopes,
11.A trembling, leftover flame.12.
13.Still breathing.
14.Nothing lasts forever.
15.No tears of rain fall forever.
16.The justice someone wields cuts deeply,
17.And even when someone cries, my chest aches again.
18.Even if we’re hurt by each of our own truths,
19.I have no choice but to forgive it all.20.
21.What am I looking for?
22.The carefree blue of the sky
23.Pushes me away again today.
24.Why does light birth shadow?
25.Knowing there is no salvation,
26.Even so, I carve out my footsteps.27.
28.I’ve grown used to sadness,
29.Even tired of running away.
30.Though my heart hurts, I can’t cry.
31.If I reach somewhere,
32.Will I someday be able to laugh?
33.Still breathing.34.
35.Again and again,
36.Ah, here it comes—I’m breaking again.
37.In the endless repetition, I breathe today as well.38.
39.Still breathing.
40.Nothing lasts forever.
41.Even swallowed by a cold fate,
42.I hold onto this faint, flickering flame.43.
44.Even on nights when I feel like I’ll collapse, I won’t stop moving forward.
45.At the end of each of our truths and pain,
46.Even if everything someday falls apart—47.
48.“For what? For whom?”
49.With no answer, the ark traces its final path.
50.At the very least, let this small flame be carried forward.
51.I sing softly, like a whisper, like a prayer—
52.I sing “Ark Song.”
Translated by:
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