星野源 (Hoshino Gen) - 不思議/Wonder

星野源 (Hoshino Gen) - 不思議/Wonder

星野源 (Hoshino Gen)


kimi to deatta kono mizu no naka de
I met you here in this water

  • 君きみ /kimi/：
    you; an intimate or familiar form of address
  • 出会であった /deatta/：
    Original form: 出会う, to meet; past tense
  • この /kono/：
    this; used before a noun
  • 水みず /mizu/：
    water
  • 中なか /naka/：
    inside; ～の中で means within or inside something
te wo tsunaidara iki wo shite ita
When we held hands, I found myself breathing

  • 手て /te/：
    hand
  • 繋つないだら /tsunaidara/：
    Original form: 繋ぐ, to connect or hold; ～たら marks a when/if condition
  • 息いきをしていた /iki wo shite ita/：
    Original form: 息をする, to breathe; ～ていた marks an ongoing past state
tada sou omotta
That is simply what I thought

  • ただ /tada/：
    simply; merely
  • そう /sou/：
    so; that way, referring to what was just said
  • 思おもった /omotta/：
    Original form: 思う, to think; past tense
samayou kokoro de hitai awase
With wandering hearts, we pressed our foreheads together

  • 彷徨さまよう /samayou/：
    to wander; here it modifies 心
  • 心こころ /kokoro/：
    heart; mind
  • 額ひたいを合あわせる /hitai wo awaseru/：
    to press foreheads together; 合わせ is the continuative form of 合わせる
kuchizuke shita seiza no mama
We kissed while still sitting formally on our knees

  • 口くちづけした /kuchizuke shita/：
    Original form: 口づけする, to kiss; past tense
  • 正座せいざ /seiza/：
    formal kneeling posture
  • ～のまま /no mama/：
    while remaining in a certain state; just as it is
tada sotto waratta
I just smiled softly

  • ただ /tada/：
    simply; merely
  • そっと /sotto/：
    softly; gently
  • 笑わらった /waratta/：
    Original form: 笑う, to smile or laugh; past tense
kibou afureta kono ori no naka de
Inside this cage overflowing with hope

  • 希望きぼう /kibou/：
    hope
  • あふれた /afureta/：
    Original form: あふれる, to overflow or be full of; past form modifying 檻
  • この /kono/：
    this; used before a noun
  • 檻おり /ori/：
    cage
  • 中なか /naka/：
    inside; ～の中で means within or inside something
riyuu mo nai koi ga soko ni aru mama
A love without reason remains there as it is

  • 理由りゆう /riyuu/：
    reason
  • ない /nai/：
    not present; nonexistent
  • 恋こい /koi/：
    romantic love
  • そこ /soko/：
    there
  • あるまま /aru mama/：
    remaining as it exists; ～まま indicates an unchanged state
tada anata datta
It was simply you

  • ただ /tada/：
    simply; only
  • 貴方あなた /anata/：
    you; intimate in this lyric
  • だった /datta/：
    past form of だ, meaning was
osanai koro no kioku konya tabetai mono
Childhood memories, what we want to eat tonight

  • 幼おさない /osanai/：
    young; childish
  • 頃ころ /koro/：
    time; period
  • 記憶きおく /kioku/：
    memory
  • 今夜こんや /konya/：
    tonight
  • 食たべたい /tabetai/：
    Original form: 食べる, to eat; ～たい expresses a desire to do something
  • もの /mono/：
    thing
nani mo kamo ga chigau
Everything about us is different

  • 何なにもかも /nani mo kamo/：
    everything; all of it
  • 違ちがう /chigau/：
    to differ; to be different
nanoni naze soba ni itai no
And yet, why do I want to stay by your side?

  • なのに /nanoni/：
    and yet; even though that is so
  • なぜ /naze/：
    why
  • 側そば /soba/：
    side; nearby
  • 居いたい /itai/：
    Original form: 居る, to be or stay; ～たい expresses desire
tanin dake ni aru mono
Something found only in another person

  • 他人たにん /tanin/：
    another person; someone other than oneself
  • だけ /dake/：
    only; just
  • ある /aru/：
    to exist; to be present, for things
  • もの /mono/：
    thing
suki wo motta hibi wo ari no mama de
The days in which I carried this feeling of love, just as they were

  • 好すき /suki/：
    liking or love; here treated as a feeling one possesses
  • 持もった /motta/：
    Original form: 持つ, to have or hold; past tense
  • 日々ひび /hibi/：
    days; day after day
  • ありのまま /ari no mama/：
    as it is; true and unvarnished
moji ni dekiru nara ki ga sumu noni na
If I could put them into words, perhaps I could finally feel settled

  • 文字もじ /moji/：
    written characters; words in writing
  • 文字もじにできる /moji ni dekiru/：
    to be able to put something into words
  • なら /nara/：
    if; supposing that
  • 気きが済すむ /ki ga sumu/：
    to feel satisfied or finally at ease
  • ～のにな /noni na/：
    if only; expresses regret or a wistful wish
mada yada tooku moroi
Not yet, I do not want this—distant and fragile

  • まだ /mada/：
    still; not yet
  • やだ /yada/：
    Colloquial shortening of 嫌だ, I do not want it or I hate it
  • 遠とおく /tooku/：
    Original form: 遠い, distant; the adverbial/continuative form
  • 脆もろい /moroi/：
    fragile; vulnerable
ai ni taru omoi
A feeling worthy of being called love

  • 愛あい /ai/：
    love
  • ～に足たる /ni taru/：
    to be sufficient or worthy for; a literary expression
  • 想おもい /omoi/：
    feeling; affection; a deeply held thought
hitomi ni ima yadori dasu
Now it begins to dwell within my eyes

  • 瞳ひとみ /hitomi/：
    eyes; pupils
  • いま /ima/：
    now; at this moment
  • 宿やどり出だす /yadori dasu/：
    to begin to dwell or appear; ～出す marks the start of an action
kirakira hashagu kono jigoku no naka de
Frolicking brightly inside this hell

  • はしゃぐ /hashagu/：
    to frolic; to be boisterously cheerful
  • この /kono/：
    this; used before a noun
  • 地獄じごく /jigoku/：
    hell; here a metaphor for painful reality
  • 中なか /naka/：
    inside; ～の中で means within or inside something
shiyou no nai karada dakishime atta
With these helpless bodies, we held each other tight

  • 仕様しようのない /shiyou no nai/：
    helpless; unavoidable; equivalent to 仕方がない
  • 身体からだ /karada/：
    body
  • 抱だき締しめ合あった /dakishime atta/：
    Original form: 抱き締め合う, to hold each other tight; ～合う marks mutual action, here in the past tense
akago ni modotte
Returning to being babies

  • 赤子あかご /akago/：
    baby; infant
  • 戻もどって /modotte/：
    Original form: 戻る, to return; te-form linking to what follows
tsumazuite warau hi mo namida no kanpai mo
Both the days when we stumble and laugh, and the tearful toasts

  • 躓つまずいて /tsumazuite/：
    Original form: 躓く, to stumble or suffer a setback; te-form linking actions
  • 笑わらう /warau/：
    to laugh; to smile
  • 日ひ /hi/：
    day
  • 涙なみだ /namida/：
    tears
  • 乾杯かんぱい /kanpai/：
    toast; cheers
inochi komete mezasu
We put our lives into what we strive for

  • 命いのち /inochi/：
    life
  • 命いのちを込こめて /inochi wo komete/：
    putting one's whole life or heart into something; 込めて comes from 込める
  • 目指めざす /mezasu/：
    to aim for; to strive toward
yagate onaji basho de nemuru
Someday we will sleep in the same place

  • やがて /yagate/：
    before long; eventually; someday
  • 同おなじ /onaji/：
    same; identical
  • 場所ばしょ /basho/：
    place; location
  • 眠ねむる /nemuru/：
    to sleep; here it also suggests resting together at life's end
tanin dake no fushigi wo
The wonder that belongs to another person alone

  • 他人たにん /tanin/：
    another person; someone other than oneself
  • だけ /dake/：
    only; just
  • 不思議ふしぎ /fushigi/：
    wonder; mystery; something inexplicable
suki wo motta koto de kari no emi de
Because I came to carry this feeling of love, even with a makeshift smile

  • 好すき /suki/：
    liking or love; here treated as a feeling one possesses
  • 持もった /motta/：
    Original form: 持つ, to have or hold; past tense
  • ～ことで /koto de/：
    because of or by doing; こと nominalizes the preceding action
  • 仮かり /kari/：
    temporary; makeshift; provisional
  • 笑えみ /emi/：
    smile; a literary word
hibi wo fumishimete arukeru you ni sa
So that I can feel each day beneath my feet and keep walking

  • 日々ひび /hibi/：
    days; day after day
  • 踏ふみしめて /fumishimete/：
    Original form: 踏みしめる, to tread firmly; figuratively, to live each day fully
  • 歩あるける /arukeru/：
    Potential form of 歩く, meaning can walk or move forward
  • ～ように /you ni/：
    so that; marks a purpose or desired result
kodoku no soba ni aru
Something that rests beside loneliness

  • 孤独こどく /kodoku/：
    loneliness; solitude
  • 側そば /soba/：
    side; nearby
  • ある /aru/：
    to exist; here it modifies もの in the next line
yuuki ni taru mono
Something sufficient to give us courage

  • 勇気ゆうき /yuuki/：
    courage
  • ～に足たる /ni taru/：
    to be sufficient or worthy for; a literary expression
  • もの /mono/：
    thing; refers to what exists in the previous line
nokoranu kotoba no naka ni
Within words that will leave no trace

  • 遺のこらぬ /nokoranu/：
    Original form: 遺る, to remain; ～ぬ is a literary negative equivalent to ～ない
  • 言葉ことば /kotoba/：
    words; language
  • 中なか /naka/：
    inside; among
koboreru kioku no naka ni
Within memories that spill away

  • こぼれる /koboreru/：
    to spill; to overflow; an intransitive verb
  • 記憶きおく /kioku/：
    memory
  • 中なか /naka/：
    inside; among
bokura wa itsumo ita
We were always there

  • 僕ぼくら /bokura/：
    we; 僕 is commonly a masculine first-person pronoun and ら marks a group
  • いつも /itsumo/：
    always
  • 居いた /ita/：
    Original form: 居る, to be or stay; past tense
suki wo motta hibi wo ari no mama de
The days in which I carried this feeling of love, just as they were

  • 好すき /suki/：
    liking or love; here treated as a feeling one possesses
  • 持もった /motta/：
    Original form: 持つ, to have or hold; past tense
  • 日々ひび /hibi/：
    days; day after day
  • ありのまま /ari no mama/：
    as it is; true and unvarnished
moji ni dekiru nara ki ga sumu noni na
If I could put them into words, perhaps I could finally feel settled

  • 文字もじ /moji/：
    written characters; words in writing
  • 文字もじにできる /moji ni dekiru/：
    to be able to put something into words
  • なら /nara/：
    if; supposing that
  • 気きが済すむ /ki ga sumu/：
    to feel satisfied or finally at ease
  • ～のにな /noni na/：
    if only; expresses regret or a wistful wish
mada yada tooku moroi
Not yet, I do not want this—distant and fragile

  • まだ /mada/：
    still; not yet
  • やだ /yada/：
    Colloquial shortening of 嫌だ, I do not want it or I hate it
  • 遠とおく /tooku/：
    Original form: 遠い, distant; the adverbial/continuative form
  • 脆もろい /moroi/：
    fragile; vulnerable
ai ni nita tsuyoi
Strong, resembling love—

  • 愛あい /ai/：
    love
  • 似にた /nita/：
    Original form: 似る, to resemble; past form used attributively
  • 強つよい /tsuyoi/：
    strong; intense; the phrase continues into the next line
kimi omotta hibi wo subete
All the days I spent thinking of you

  • 君きみ /kimi/：
    you; an intimate or familiar form of address
  • 想おもった /omotta/：
    Original form: 想う, to think fondly of or long for; past tense, with を omitted in the lyric
  • 日々ひび /hibi/：
    days; day after day
  • すべて /subete/：
    all; everything
nosete todoku you ni tsumekonda uta
A song packed full of them in the hope that it will reach you

  • 乗のせて /nosete/：
    Original form: 乗せる, to carry, load, or place upon; te-form
  • 届とどく /todoku/：
    to reach; to be delivered
  • ～ように /you ni/：
    so that; in the hope that
  • 詰つめ込こんだ /tsumekonda/：
    Original form: 詰め込む, to pack or fill; past form modifying 歌
  • 歌うた /uta/：
    song
kodoku no soba ni iru
A feeling that stays beside loneliness

  • 孤独こどく /kodoku/：
    loneliness; solitude
  • 側そば /soba/：
    side; nearby
  • いる /iru/：
    to be; normally used for living beings, personifying 想い here
ai ni taru omoi
A feeling worthy of being called love

  • 愛あい /ai/：
    love
  • ～に足たる /ni taru/：
    to be sufficient or worthy for; a literary expression
  • 想おもい /omoi/：
    feeling; affection; a deeply held thought
futari wo ima aruki dasu
Now it sets the two of us walking forward

  • 二人ふたり /futari/：
    two people; the two of us
  • いま /ima/：
    now; at this moment
  • 歩あるき出だす /aruki dasu/：
    to start walking or set out; ～出す marks the beginning of an action