Lyrics & Translations: Kokuhaku by Hirai Ken
One of the songs I'm addicted too, recently. Here, the download.
It even has the coolest of PV.
告白 - Kokuhaku
Artist: Hirai Ken
Track no.: 1
Album: Kokuhaku (Single)
Lyrics & Music: Hirai Ken
Arrangement: Kameda Seiji
Kanji
私の中のあなたをいつも殺して生きてきた
誰もが知るあの歌が私には響かない
笑いたい時ではなく笑うべき時に笑って
狭い水槽の中を真四角に泳いだ
あなたが私をすくいあげてくれるなら
それを運命と呼ぼう 叶わないけれど
もがき あがき 泣き喚き叫べど
あなたに届かない芝居
愛が欲しい ただそれだけなのに
巡れど巡れど闇は闇
痛みに気づかぬフリで更に傷口は広がり
張りつめた街の中で逃げ道を探した
明日を願うと何故か悲しみが襲う
群れをなす同じ顔が飛び出せずにいる
騙し騙し あなたに近付けば
心が血を流す悲劇
愛か嫌い 醜い嘘をつき 廻せど廻せど裏は裏
もがき あがき 泣き喚き叫べど
あなたに届かない芝居
愛が欲しい ただそれだけなのに巡れど巡れど同じ
脚本の無い人生の舞台で 誰もが泣き笑い芝居
「愛をください」 台詞が首を絞め
もがけどあがけど幕は開く
English translation
Confession
Killing you who live inside me
That is how I have survived
There is a melody everyone knows by heart
Of which I cannot catch a sound
Swimming
In the confined square of this fish tank
There is no time for wanting to laugh,
We shall laugh whenever we must
If you have come to save me, let us call it fate,
Though it is simply something that cannot be
Struggling, agonizing, crying, screaming,
A futile act that would never reach you
Seeking for love,
As plain as can be,
Turning round and round,
Darkness is still darkness
Putting on an act, ignoring the pain,
Ending up with a deeper wound
Clinging to one place, so desperately,
Ending up searching for an escape
A crowd
Made of the same faces flocking together
I am trapped inside
One prayer said for the future,
One more visit of sorrow,
Why?
Lying, deceiving,
Drawing closer to you
Awakening a bloodstained tragedy
Resenting love
Telling ugly lies
Turning and turning,
Still the same backstage
Struggling, agonizing, crying, screaming,
A futile act that would never reach you
Seeking for love,
As plain as can be,
Turning round and round,
Nothing ever changes
Life
A play without script
A stage for people to act out their laugh, their cry
"Please give me love", one single line strangles us all
Never ending suffering
Since the curtain would keep rising
It even has the coolest of PV.
告白 - Kokuhaku
Artist: Hirai Ken
Track no.: 1
Album: Kokuhaku (Single)
Lyrics & Music: Hirai Ken
Arrangement: Kameda Seiji
Kanji
私の中のあなたをいつも殺して生きてきた
誰もが知るあの歌が私には響かない
笑いたい時ではなく笑うべき時に笑って
狭い水槽の中を真四角に泳いだ
あなたが私をすくいあげてくれるなら
それを運命と呼ぼう 叶わないけれど
もがき あがき 泣き喚き叫べど
あなたに届かない芝居
愛が欲しい ただそれだけなのに
巡れど巡れど闇は闇
痛みに気づかぬフリで更に傷口は広がり
張りつめた街の中で逃げ道を探した
明日を願うと何故か悲しみが襲う
群れをなす同じ顔が飛び出せずにいる
騙し騙し あなたに近付けば
心が血を流す悲劇
愛か嫌い 醜い嘘をつき 廻せど廻せど裏は裏
もがき あがき 泣き喚き叫べど
あなたに届かない芝居
愛が欲しい ただそれだけなのに巡れど巡れど同じ
脚本の無い人生の舞台で 誰もが泣き笑い芝居
「愛をください」 台詞が首を絞め
もがけどあがけど幕は開く
English translation
Confession
Killing you who live inside me
That is how I have survived
There is a melody everyone knows by heart
Of which I cannot catch a sound
Swimming
In the confined square of this fish tank
There is no time for wanting to laugh,
We shall laugh whenever we must
If you have come to save me, let us call it fate,
Though it is simply something that cannot be
Struggling, agonizing, crying, screaming,
A futile act that would never reach you
Seeking for love,
As plain as can be,
Turning round and round,
Darkness is still darkness
Putting on an act, ignoring the pain,
Ending up with a deeper wound
Clinging to one place, so desperately,
Ending up searching for an escape
A crowd
Made of the same faces flocking together
I am trapped inside
One prayer said for the future,
One more visit of sorrow,
Why?
Lying, deceiving,
Drawing closer to you
Awakening a bloodstained tragedy
Resenting love
Telling ugly lies
Turning and turning,
Still the same backstage
Struggling, agonizing, crying, screaming,
A futile act that would never reach you
Seeking for love,
As plain as can be,
Turning round and round,
Nothing ever changes
Life
A play without script
A stage for people to act out their laugh, their cry
"Please give me love", one single line strangles us all
Never ending suffering
Since the curtain would keep rising