1.Just before I drift off into my dreams,
2.I wonder what it is I’ve left behind –
3.I don’t want to just let it slip away…
4.Every so often it floats up in the corner of my mind,
5.A dim and gentle sepia color,
6.Lying just beyond the days in which I started covering my eyes.7.
8.Why on Earth do I keep running,
9.Until I’m completely out of breath?10.
11.The more I increase my speed, the more frightening it is to stop,
12.But as I feel my heart beat rising, I find proof that I exist.
13.If I strain my ears to hear the tiny voice in the depths of my heart,
14.The world surrounding me will clear up and unfold into tomorrow!15.
16.I wave goodbye to the people I met,
17.Who’d backed away when I tried to get close;
18.Along this road that seems to repeat, I lose all pretence.
19.Laughing faces… crying faces…
20.If you overlap them, you’ll get something quite pretty.
21.The things you can rely on are always found by looking deeper.22.
23.Can I learn rapidly of love,
24.Just by the sun alighting upon my crying face?
25.I fix my eyes upon,
26.The unknown, distant future.27.
28.When the wind grazes my cheek, singing a song close by my ear,
29.I can get even closer to the sky, in tandem with my raising heart beat.
30.Carried along by what feels like lightly bounding steps,
31.I continue onward toward a tale no one has ever witnessed before!32.
33.The more I increase my speed, the more frightening it is to stop,
34.But as I feel my heart beat rising, I find proof that I exist.
35.If I strain my ears to hear the tiny voice in the depths of my heart,
36.The world surrounding me will clear up and unfold into tomorrow!37.
38.The world surrounding me will clear up and unfold into tomorrow!
Translated by:
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