ヨルシカ (Yorushika) - 月光浴/Moonbath

ヨルシカ (Yorushika) - 月光浴/Moonbath

ヨルシカ (Yorushika)


anata no ashi ga tsuki wo ketta
Your foot kicked the moon

  • 貴方あなた /anata/：
    you
  • 足あし /ashi/：
    foot, leg
  • 月つき /tsuki/：
    moon
  • 蹴けった /ketta/：
    kicked (dictionary form: 蹴る, past tense)
shiroi suna ga yatou mitai da
The white sand looks like a night light

  • 白しろい /shiroi/：
    white
  • 砂すな /suna/：
    sand
  • 夜や灯とう /yatou/：
    night light, lamp in the night
  • みたいだ /mitai da/：
    to be like; used for comparison or conjecture
anata wa kizuite iru n darou ka
I wonder if you have noticed

  • 貴方あなた /anata/：
    you
  • 気付きづいている /kizuite iru/：
    to have noticed (dictionary form: 気付く; 〜ている marks a continuing state)
  • んだろうか /n darou ka/：
    a colloquial form of のだろうか, expressing an explanatory, uncertain question
nami no mukou ni nanika atta
There was something beyond the waves

  • 波なみ /nami/：
    wave
  • 向むこう /mukou/：
    the other side, beyond
  • 何なにか /nanika/：
    something
  • あった /atta/：
    there was, existed (dictionary form: ある, past tense)
sore ga nanika wakaranakatta
I did not know what it was

  • それ /sore/：
    that, it
  • 何なにか /nanika/：
    what; か marks an embedded question here
  • わからなかった /wakaranakatta/：
    did not know or understand (dictionary form: わかる, past negative)
sukoshi sabishii
It feels a little lonely

  • 少すこし /sukoshi/：
    a little, slightly
  • 寂さびしい /sabishii/：
    lonely, desolate
tashite, tashite, afurete
Adding and adding until it overflows

  • 足たして /tashite/：
    adding (dictionary form: 足す, て-form linking actions)
  • 溢あふれて /afurete/：
    overflowing (dictionary form: 溢れる, て-form)
tashite, tashite iru bun dake sugite
Adding on, while time passes by just as much as we add

  • 足たして /tashite/：
    adding (dictionary form: 足す, て-form)
  • 足たしている /tashite iru/：
    to be adding (dictionary form: 足す; 〜ている marks an ongoing or repeated action)
  • 分ぶんだけ /bun dake/：
    to the extent or amount that; as much as
  • 過すぎて /sugite/：
    passing by (dictionary form: 過ぎる, て-form; here referring to time)
yoru no umi wo futari aruita
The two of us walked by the sea at night

  • 夜よる /yoru/：
    night
  • 海うみ /umi/：
    sea, ocean
  • 二人ふたり /futari/：
    two people; the two of us here
  • 歩あるいた /aruita/：
    walked (dictionary form: 歩く, past tense)
tsuki no taba ga hisame mitai da
The bundles of moonlight look like icy rain

  • 月つき /tsuki/：
    moon; here, moonlight
  • 束たば /taba/：
    bundle, bunch; here describing beams of moonlight
  • 氷雨ひさめ /hisame/：
    icy rain, cold late-autumn or early-winter rain
  • みたいだ /mitai da/：
    to be like; expressing a comparison
anata wa kizuite iru n darou ka
I wonder if you have noticed

  • 貴方あなた /anata/：
    you
  • 気付きづいている /kizuite iru/：
    to have noticed (dictionary form: 気付く; 〜ている marks a continuing state)
  • んだろうか /n darou ka/：
    a colloquial form of のだろうか, expressing an explanatory, uncertain question
iwa no sukima ni nanika atta
There was something in a gap between the rocks

  • 岩いわ /iwa/：
    rock, crag
  • 隙間すきま /sukima/：
    gap, crevice
  • 何なにか /nanika/：
    something
  • あった /atta/：
    there was, existed (dictionary form: ある, past tense)
sore ga nanika wakaranakatta
I did not know what it was

  • それ /sore/：
    that, it
  • 何なにか /nanika/：
    what; か marks an embedded question here
  • わからなかった /wakaranakatta/：
    did not know or understand (dictionary form: わかる, past negative)
sukoshi kurushii
It feels a little painful

  • 少すこし /sukoshi/：
    a little, slightly
  • 苦くるしい /kurushii/：
    painful, distressing; also short of breath
tashite, tashite kasanete
Adding and adding, piling one layer upon another

  • 足たして /tashite/：
    adding (dictionary form: 足す, て-form)
  • 重かさねて /kasanete/：
    layering, accumulating (dictionary form: 重ねる, て-form)
tashite, tashite iru bun dake sugite
Adding on, while time passes by just as much as we add

  • 足たして /tashite/：
    adding (dictionary form: 足す, て-form)
  • 足たしている /tashite iru/：
    to be adding (dictionary form: 足す; 〜ている marks an ongoing or repeated action)
  • 分ぶんだけ /bun dake/：
    to the extent or amount that; as much as
  • 過すぎて /sugite/：
    passing by (dictionary form: 過ぎる, て-form; here referring to time)
tsuki no naka wo ikiru hibi wo
The days we live within the moon

  • 月つき /tsuki/：
    moon
  • 中なか /naka/：
    inside, within
  • 生いきる /ikiru/：
    to live; in 月の中を生きる, を marks the space through which life unfolds
  • 日々ひび /hibi/：
    days, day after day
tsukihi to dareka ga itta
Someone called them the passing months and days

  • 月日つきひ /tsukihi/：
    months and days, passing time; literally moon/month and sun/day, forming a wordplay with the previous line
  • 誰だれか /dareka/：
    someone
  • 言いった /itta/：
    said, called (dictionary form: 言う, past tense); AをBと言う means to call A B
tsuki no naka de sugosu bokura
We who spend our days within the moon

  • 月つき /tsuki/：
    moon
  • 中なか /naka/：
    inside, within
  • 過すごす /sugosu/：
    to spend time, to pass one's days
  • 僕ぼくら /bokura/：
    we, us; ら marks a group
iwaba gekkouyoku darou ka
Could you call it moonlight bathing?

  • 言いわば /iwaba/：
    so to speak, as it were
  • 月光浴げっこうよく /gekkouyoku/：
    moonlight bathing; a term modeled on 日光浴, sunbathing
  • だろうか /darou ka/：
    expresses an uncertain question or conjecture: could it be, I wonder whether
nami wo matsu tsuki wo matagu
Waiting for a wave, striding across the moon

  • 波なみ /nami/：
    wave
  • 待まつ /matsu/：
    to wait
  • 月つき /tsuki/：
    moon; it may also evoke the moon's reflection on the water
  • 跨またぐ /matagu/：
    to straddle, step across, span
karada wa yatou mitai ni shiroku
Our bodies white like night lights

  • 身体からだ /karada/：
    body
  • 夜や灯とう /yatou/：
    night light, lamp in the night
  • みたいに /mitai ni/：
    like, in the manner of; the adverbial form of みたいだ
  • 白しろく /shiroku/：
    white (dictionary form: 白い; adverbial or continuative form)
tashite, tashite, wasurete
Adding and adding, then forgetting

  • 足たして /tashite/：
    adding (dictionary form: 足す, て-form)
  • 忘わすれて /wasurete/：
    forgetting (dictionary form: 忘れる, て-form)
tashite
Keep adding—

  • 足たして /tashite/：
    adding (dictionary form: 足す, て-form; the phrase continues into the next line)
tashite iru bun dake fueru tsukihi no ue de
Upon the months and days that grow by however much we add

  • 足たしている /tashite iru/：
    to be adding (dictionary form: 足す; 〜ている marks an ongoing or repeated action)
  • 分ぶんだけ /bun dake/：
    to the extent or amount that; as much as
  • 増ふえる /fueru/：
    to increase, grow
  • 月日つきひ /tsukihi/：
    months and days, passing time
  • 上うえで /ue de/：
    on, upon; here continuing the image of time piling up in layers
bokura no ashi ga mizu wo ketta
Our feet kicked through the water

  • 僕ぼくら /bokura/：
    we, us; ら marks a group
  • 足あし /ashi/：
    foot, leg
  • 水みず /mizu/：
    water
  • 蹴けった /ketta/：
    kicked (dictionary form: 蹴る, past tense)
sebire ga hikatte yurameita
A dorsal fin gleamed and shimmered

  • 背せびれ /sebire/：
    dorsal fin
  • 光ひかって /hikatte/：
    shining (dictionary form: 光る, て-form)
  • 揺ゆらめいた /yurameita/：
    flickered, shimmered (dictionary form: 揺らめく, past tense)
bokura wa oyoide iru n darou ka
I wonder if we are swimming

  • 僕ぼくら /bokura/：
    we, us; ら marks a group
  • 泳およいでいる /oyoide iru/：
    to be swimming (dictionary form: 泳ぐ; 〜ている marks an ongoing action)
  • んだろうか /n darou ka/：
    a colloquial form of のだろうか, expressing an explanatory, uncertain question
sakana no boku wa iki wo sutta
I, now a fish, drew a breath

  • 魚さかな /sakana/：
    fish; 魚の僕 means I as a fish
  • 僕ぼく /boku/：
    I, me; commonly used by male speakers
  • 息いき /iki/：
    breath
  • 吸すった /sutta/：
    inhaled, drew in (dictionary form: 吸う, past tense)
anata mo youyaku ki ga tsuita
At last, you noticed too

  • 貴方あなた /anata/：
    you
  • ようやく /youyaku/：
    finally, at last
  • 気きが付ついた /ki ga tsuita/：
    noticed, realized (dictionary form: 気が付く, past tense)
tsuki ga mabushii
The moon is dazzling

  • 月つき /tsuki/：
    moon
  • 眩まぶしい /mabushii/：
    dazzling, glaringly bright