ヨルシカ (Yorushika) - 八月、某、月明かり/August, Someone, Moonlight
ヨルシカ (Yorushika)


nani mo iranai
I don't need anything

  • 何なにも /nani mo/：
    anything; nothing (used with a negative)
  • いらない /iranai/：
    do not need (original form: いる／要る, to need)
shinzou ga urusakatta aruku tabi iki ga tsumatta
My heart was pounding loudly; every time I walked, I was short of breath

  • 心臓しんぞう /shinzou/：
    heart
  • 煩うるさかった /urusakatta/：
    was noisy or bothersome (original form: 煩うるさい)
  • 歩あるくたび /aruku tabi/：
    every time one walks; verb + たび means whenever
  • 息いきが詰つまった /iki ga tsumatta/：
    was short of breath (original form: 息いきが詰つまる)
hajimete baito wo nigedashita
For the first time, I ran away from my part-time job

  • 初はじめて /hajimete/：
    for the first time
  • バイト /baito/：
    part-time job (from German: Arbeit; short for アルバイト)
  • 逃にげ出だした /nigedashita/：
    ran away (original form: 逃にげ出だす, to run away)
ongaku mo seikatsu mo, mou dou demo yokatta
Music and life alike no longer mattered to me

  • 音楽おんがく /ongaku/：
    music
  • 生活せいかつ /seikatsu/：
    life; daily living
  • もう /mou/：
    already; any longer
  • どうでもよかった /dou demo yokatta/：
    did not matter (original form: どうでもいい)
tada ki ni kuwanai mono bakari ga fueta
Only the things I couldn't stand kept multiplying

  • ただ /tada/：
    only; simply
  • 気きに食くわない /ki ni kuwanai/：
    to dislike; to find disagreeable
  • もの /mono/：
    thing
  • ばかり /bakari/：
    nothing but; only
  • 増ふえた /fueta/：
    increased (original form: 増ふえる, to increase)
hachigatsu bou, tsukiakari, jitensha de tonde
One day in August, in the moonlight, I sped along on my bicycle

  • 八月はちがつ /hachigatsu/：
    August
  • 某ぼう /bou/：
    a certain; unspecified, here meaning an unspecified day in August
  • 月明つきあかり /tsukiakari/：
    moonlight
  • 自転車じてんしゃ /jitensha/：
    bicycle
  • 飛とんで /tonde/：
    sped along (original form: 飛とぶ, to fly)
higashifushimi no koukakyou, kodaira, fujimi doori to shoutengai
The overpass at Higashi-Fushimi, Kodaira, Fujimi Street, and the shopping district

  • 東伏見ひがしふしみ /higashifushimi/：
    Higashi-Fushimi, a place in Tokyo
  • 高架橋こうかきょう /koukakyou/：
    overpass; viaduct
  • 小平こだいら /kodaira/：
    Kodaira, a city in Tokyo
  • 富士見ふじみ通どおり /fujimi doori/：
    Fujimi Street; 通とおり means a street or avenue
  • 商店街しょうてんがい /shoutengai/：
    shopping street; shopping district
yokaze ga hana wo kusugutta
The night breeze tickled my nose

  • 夜風よかぜ /yokaze/：
    night breeze
  • 鼻はな /hana/：
    nose
  • 擽くすぐった /kusugutta/：
    tickled (original form: 擽くすぐる, to tickle)
kono mune no itami wa ki no sei da
This pain in my chest is only in my head

  • この /kono/：
    this (before a noun)
  • 胸むね /mune/：
    chest; heart
  • 痛いたみ /itami/：
    pain
  • 気きのせい /ki no sei/：
    one's imagination; just in one's head
wakatteta wakatta furi wo shita
I knew; I pretended I understood

  • わかってた /wakatteta/：
    knew (original form: わかる; contraction of わかっていた)
  • わかった /wakatta/：
    understood (original form: わかる)
  • 振ふりをした /furi wo shita/：
    pretended to (original form: 振ふりをする)
saitei da saitei da
It's the worst, the worst

  • 最低さいてい /saitei/：
    the lowest; the worst
boku no zenbu saitei da
Everything about me is the worst

  • 僕ぼく /boku/：
    I; me, a commonly masculine pronoun
  • 全部ぜんぶ /zenbu/：
    all; everything
  • 最低さいてい /saitei/：
    the worst
kimi wo katachi ni nokoshitakatta
I wanted to preserve you in a tangible form

  • 君きみ /kimi/：
    you
  • 形かたち /katachi/：
    shape; tangible form
  • 形かたちに残のこす /katachi ni nokosu/：
    to preserve in a tangible form
  • 残のこしたかった /nokoshitakatta/：
    wanted to leave or preserve (original form: 残のこす)
omoide ni nante shite yaru mon ka
As if I'd ever let you become nothing but a memory

  • 想おもい出で /omoide/：
    memory; an emotive spelling of 思おもい出で
  • なんて /nante/：
    something like; conveys dismissal here
  • してやる /shite yaru/：
    to do for someone; adds a forceful tone here
  • もんか /mon ka/：
    no way; absolutely will not (colloquial form of ものか)
saitei da saitei da
It's the worst, the worst

  • 最低さいてい /saitei/：
    the lowest; the worst
kimochi yokute shikata ga nai wa
It feels so good I can't help it

  • 気持きもちよくて /kimochi yokute/：
    feeling good, and... (original form: 気持きもちいい; te-form)
  • 仕方しかたがない /shikata ga nai/：
    cannot be helped; ～て仕方がない means unbearably or cannot help feeling
saitei da tte kono kashi jitai ga
These very lyrics saying 'it's the worst' are themselves...

  • 最低さいてい /saitei/：
    the worst
  • って /tte/：
    colloquial quotation marker, equivalent to と
  • 歌詞かし /kashi/：
    song lyrics
  • 自体じたい /jitai/：
    itself
jinsei, nijuunana de shineru nara
If I could die at twenty-seven

  • 人生じんせい /jinsei/：
    life; one's life
  • 二十七にじゅうなな /nijuunana/：
    twenty-seven; here, age twenty-seven
  • 死しねる /shineru/：
    can die (potential form of 死しぬ)
  • なら /nara/：
    if; if it is the case that
rokkunrooru wa boku wo sukutta
Rock and roll saved me

  • ロックンロール /rokkunrooru/：
    rock and roll (English: rock and roll)
  • 僕ぼく /boku/：
    I; me, a commonly masculine pronoun
  • 救すくった /sukutta/：
    saved (original form: 救すくう, to save)
kangaeru no mo yame da! douse shinu n dakara
Enough thinking! I'm going to die anyway

  • 考かんがえる /kangaeru/：
    to think; the following の nominalizes the action
  • 辞やめ /yame/：
    quitting; stopping (original form: 辞やめる)
  • どうせ /douse/：
    anyway; in any case
  • 死しぬ /shinu/：
    to die
  • んだから /n dakara/：
    because, after all; colloquial form of のだから emphasizing a reason
kimi mo, nani mo iranai
Not even you—I don't need anything

  • 君きみ /kimi/：
    you
  • 何なにも /nani mo/：
    anything; nothing (used with a negative)
  • いらない /iranai/：
    do not need (original form: いる／要る, to need)
shinzou ga urusakatta
My heart was pounding loudly

  • 心臓しんぞう /shinzou/：
    heart
  • 煩うるさかった /urusakatta/：
    was noisy or bothersome (original form: 煩うるさい)
warau hodo nodo ga kawaita
My throat was so dry it was laughable

  • 笑わらう /warau/：
    to laugh
  • ほど /hodo/：
    to the extent that; so much that
  • 喉のど /nodo/：
    throat
  • 渇かわいた /kawaita/：
    became dry or thirsty (original form: 渇かわく)
hajimete kokoro wo uridashita
For the first time, I put my heart up for sale

  • 初はじめて /hajimete/：
    for the first time
  • 心こころ /kokoro/：
    heart; mind
  • 売うり出だした /uridashita/：
    put up for sale (original form: 売うり出だす)
kyoushin mo puraido mo, mou dou demo yokatta
Neither my narrow-mindedness nor my pride mattered anymore

  • 狭きょう心しん /kyoushin/：
    narrow-mindedness; a narrow heart
  • プライド /puraido/：
    pride (English: pride)
  • もう /mou/：
    already; any longer
  • どうでもよかった /dou demo yokatta/：
    did not matter (original form: どうでもいい)
ki ni kuwanai yatsu ni mo atama wo sageta
I even bowed my head to people I couldn't stand

  • 気きに食くわない /ki ni kuwanai/：
    to dislike; to find disagreeable
  • 奴やつ /yatsu/：
    guy; fellow, often casual or disparaging
  • 頭あたまを下さげた /atama wo sageta/：
    bowed one's head (original form: 頭あたまを下さげる; also to humble oneself)
hachigatsu bou, ano koro no keshiki wo mataida
One day in August, I crossed over the scenery from those days

  • 八月はちがつ /hachigatsu/：
    August
  • 某ぼう /bou/：
    a certain; unspecified, here meaning an unspecified day
  • あの頃ころ /ano koro/：
    those days; back then
  • 景色けしき /keshiki/：
    scenery; view
  • 跨またいだ /mataida/：
    crossed over (original form: 跨またぐ)
sutokkuhorumu no rotenshou
A street vendor in Stockholm

  • ストックホルム /sutokkuhorumu/：
    Stockholm, the capital of Sweden (Swedish: Stockholm)
  • 露天商ろてんしょう /rotenshou/：
    street vendor; open-air merchant
kiruna, gamurasutan wa ishidatami
Kiruna, and the cobblestones of Gamla Stan

  • キルナ /kiruna/：
    Kiruna, a city in northern Sweden (Swedish: Kiruna)
  • ガムラスタン /gamurasutan/：
    Stockholm's Old Town (Swedish: Gamla stan)
  • 石畳いしだたみ /ishidatami/：
    stone paving; cobblestones
kimi dake wo mune ni shimatta
I tucked only you away in my heart

  • 君きみ /kimi/：
    you
  • だけ /dake/：
    only; just
  • 胸むね /mune/：
    chest; heart
  • 仕舞しまった /shimatta/：
    put away; tucked away (original form: 仕舞しまう)
kono sora no aosa mo ki no sei da
Even the blueness of this sky is only in my head

  • 空そら /sora/：
    sky
  • 青あおさ /aosa/：
    blueness; adjective stem + さ turns a quality into a noun
  • 気きの所為せい /ki no sei/：
    one's imagination; just in one's head
waratteta, waratta kao no mama
Smiling, still wearing that same smiling face

  • 笑わらってた /waratteta/：
    was smiling (original form: 笑わらう; contraction of 笑っていた)
  • 笑わらった /waratta/：
    smiled; smiling (original form: 笑わらう)
  • 顔かお /kao/：
    face; expression
  • まま /mama/：
    remaining as is; still in that state
saitei da gouman da kimi mo minna donyoku da
It's awful, it's arrogant—you and everyone else are greedy

  • 最低さいてい /saitei/：
    the lowest; the worst
  • 傲慢ごうまん /gouman/：
    arrogance; arrogant
  • 君きみ /kimi/：
    you
  • みんな /minna/：
    everyone
  • 貪欲どんよく /donyoku/：
    greedy; avaricious
doramachikku na uta mo ai mo saa
Dramatic songs and love alike

  • ドラマチック /doramachikku/：
    dramatic (English: dramatic)
  • 歌うた /uta/：
    song
  • 愛あい /ai/：
    love
bakarashikute shikata ga nai wa
They are so ridiculous I can't stand it

  • 馬鹿ばからしくて /bakarashikute/：
    being ridiculous (original form: 馬鹿ばからしい; te-form)
  • 仕方しかたがない /shikata ga nai/：
    cannot be helped; ～て仕方がない means unbearably or cannot help feeling
shitteita shitteita
I knew, I knew

  • 知しっていた /shitteita/：
    knew; had known (original form: 知しる; past progressive/state form)
kimi no jinsei, kimi no mono da
Your life belongs to you

  • 君きみ /kimi/：
    you
  • 人生じんせい /jinsei/：
    life; one's life
  • もの /mono/：
    thing; possession, as in something belonging to you
saitei da tte ikura sakebou ga
No matter how much I shout, 'It's the worst'

  • 最低さいてい /saitei/：
    the lowest; the worst
  • って /tte/：
    colloquial quotation marker, equivalent to と
  • いくら /ikura/：
    no matter how much; pairs with ～ようが
  • 叫さけぼうが /sakebou ga/：
    even if one shouts; no matter how one shouts (volitional + が)
sou da, kitto sou da
That's right, surely that's how it is

  • そうだ /sou da/：
    that is so; that's right
  • きっと /kitto/：
    surely; certainly
ano yo de wa rokkunrooru ga nagareteru n da
Rock and roll is playing in the afterlife

  • あの世よ /ano yo/：
    the other world; the afterlife
  • ロックンロール /rokkunrooru/：
    rock and roll (English: rock and roll)
  • 流ながれてる /nagareteru/：
    is playing or flowing (original form: 流ながれる; contraction of 流れている)
  • んだ /n da/：
    colloquial form of のだ, explanatory or emphatic
sanbika toka hayaranai
Hymns and the like aren't popular there

  • 賛美歌さんびか /sanbika/：
    hymn
  • とか /toka/：
    things like; used to give examples
  • 流行はやらない /hayaranai/：
    is not popular (original form: 流行はやる, to be popular)
kamisama ga inai n dakara
Because there is no god there

  • 神様かみさま /kamisama/：
    god; deity, with the respectful suffix 様
  • いない /inai/：
    does not exist; is not there (negative of いる for animate beings)
  • んだから /n dakara/：
    because, after all; colloquial form of のだから
tsumi mo ayamachi mo hanzai mo jisatsu mo sensou mo
Sin, mistakes, crime, suicide, and war

  • 罪つみ /tsumi/：
    sin; guilt
  • 過あやまち /ayamachi/：
    mistake; fault
  • 犯罪はんざい /hanzai/：
    crime
  • 自殺じさつ /jisatsu/：
    suicide
  • 戦争せんそう /sensou/：
    war
mainoriti mo zenbu shiranai
Minorities too—none of it is known there

  • マイノリティ /mainoriti/：
    minority; minority group (English: minority)
  • 全部ぜんぶ /zenbu/：
    all; everything
  • 知しらない /shiranai/：
    do not know (original form: 知しる); continuing the previous line, none of these things are known in the afterlife
saitei da saitei da wakare nante gouman da
It's the worst, the worst—goodbyes are arrogant

  • 最低さいてい /saitei/：
    the lowest; the worst
  • 別わかれ /wakare/：
    parting; farewell
  • なんて /nante/：
    something like; conveys dismissal or emotion
  • 傲慢ごうまん /gouman/：
    arrogance; arrogant
kimi no subete ni unazukitai n da
I want to nod in acceptance of everything about you

  • 君きみ /kimi/：
    you
  • 全すべて /subete/：
    everything; all
  • 頷うなずきたい /unazukitai/：
    want to nod or agree (original form: 頷うなずく; たい expresses desire)
  • んだ /n da/：
    colloquial form of のだ, explanatory or emphatic
sonna no giman to onaji da, eruma
That is no different from deceit, Elma

  • そんなの /sonna no/：
    that sort of thing; の stands for the thing just mentioned
  • 欺瞞ぎまん /giman/：
    deception; deceit
  • 同おなじ /onaji/：
    same; identical
  • エルマ /eruma/：
    Elma, a personal name (English: Elma)
saitei da saitei da
It's the worst, the worst

  • 最低さいてい /saitei/：
    the lowest; the worst
itooshikute shikata ga nai wa
You are so dear to me I can't help it

  • 愛いとおしくて /itooshikute/：
    being dear or beloved (original form: 愛いとおしい; te-form)
  • 仕方しかたがない /shikata ga nai/：
    cannot be helped; ～て仕方がない means unbearably or cannot help feeling
doramachikku na yoru de boku wo itamitai
I want to mourn myself on a dramatic night

  • ドラマチック /doramachikku/：
    dramatic (English: dramatic)
  • 夜よる /yoru/：
    night
  • 僕ぼく /boku/：
    I; me, a commonly masculine pronoun
  • 悼いたみたい /itamitai/：
    want to mourn (original form: 悼いたむ; たい expresses desire)
saitei da saitei da kotoba nante jouchou da
It's the worst, the worst—words are nothing but redundant

  • 最低さいてい /saitei/：
    the lowest; the worst
  • 言葉ことば /kotoba/：
    words; language
  • なんて /nante/：
    something like; conveys dismissal
  • 冗長じょうちょう /jouchou/：
    wordy; redundant
kimi no jinsei wa tsukiakari da
Your life is moonlight

  • 君きみ /kimi/：
    you
  • 人生じんせい /jinsei/：
    life; one's life
  • 月明つきあかり /tsukiakari/：
    moonlight
arigachi da nante iwaseru mono ka
I won't let anyone call it commonplace

  • 有ありがち /arigachi/：
    commonplace; がち indicates a tendency or something that often occurs
  • なんて /nante/：
    marks a disparaged quotation, like 'something such as...'
  • 言いわせる /iwaseru/：
    to make or let someone say (causative of 言いう)
  • ものか /mono ka/：
    no way; absolutely will not, a forceful rhetorical question
saitei da saitei da
It's the worst, the worst

  • 最低さいてい /saitei/：
    the lowest; the worst
warawareta tte shikata ga nai wa
Even if I'm laughed at, it can't be helped

  • 笑わらわれた /warawareta/：
    was laughed at (passive past of 笑わらう)
  • たって /tatte/：
    even if; colloquial form of ても
  • 仕方しかたがない /shikata ga nai/：
    cannot be helped; there is no choice
saitei nante goro dake no kashi da
'The worst' is only a lyric chosen for how it sounds

  • 最低さいてい /saitei/：
    the lowest; the worst
  • なんて /nante/：
    something like; downplays what precedes it
  • 語呂ごろ /goro/：
    sound or rhythm of words; verbal euphony
  • だけ /dake/：
    only; just
  • 歌詞かし /kashi/：
    song lyrics
jinsei, nijuunana de shineru nara
If I could die at twenty-seven

  • 人生じんせい /jinsei/：
    life; one's life
  • 二十七にじゅうなな /nijuunana/：
    twenty-seven; here, age twenty-seven
  • 死しねる /shineru/：
    can die (potential form of 死しぬ)
  • なら /nara/：
    if; if it is the case that
rokkunrooru wa boku wo sukutta
Rock and roll saved me

  • ロックンロール /rokkunrooru/：
    rock and roll (English: rock and roll)
  • 僕ぼく /boku/：
    I; me, a commonly masculine pronoun
  • 救すくった /sukutta/：
    saved (original form: 救すくう, to save)
kangaeru no mo yame da! douse shinu n dakara
Enough thinking! I'm going to die anyway

  • 考かんがえる /kangaeru/：
    to think; the following の nominalizes the action
  • 辞やめ /yame/：
    quitting; stopping (original form: 辞やめる)
  • どうせ /douse/：
    anyway; in any case
  • 死しぬ /shinu/：
    to die
  • んだから /n dakara/：
    because, after all; colloquial form of のだから
ima mo, ai mo, kako mo, yume mo
The present, love, the past, and dreams

  • 今いま /ima/：
    now; the present
  • 愛あい /ai/：
    love
  • 過去かこ /kako/：
    the past
  • 夢ゆめ /yume/：
    dream
omoide mo, hanauta mo, usui me mo, yogasumi mo
Memories, humming, pale eyes, and the night haze

  • 思おもい出で /omoide/：
    memory
  • 鼻歌はなうた /hanauta/：
    humming; a hummed tune
  • 薄うすい /usui/：
    thin; pale, here describing lightly colored eyes
  • 目め /me/：
    eye; eyes
  • 夜よ霞がすみ /yogasumi/：
    night haze; mist at night
yasashisa mo, kurushisa mo, hanafusa mo, yuuutsu mo
Kindness, pain, clusters of flowers, and melancholy

  • 優やさしさ /yasashisa/：
    kindness; noun formed from 優やさしい with さ
  • 苦くるしさ /kurushisa/：
    pain; distress, noun formed from 苦くるしい with さ
  • 花房はなふさ /hanafusa/：
    cluster of flowers
  • 憂鬱ゆううつ /yuuutsu/：
    melancholy; depression
ano natsu mo, kono uta mo
That summer, and this song

  • あの /ano/：
    that (before a noun, often distant or remembered)
  • 夏なつ /natsu/：
    summer
  • この /kono/：
    this (before a noun)
  • 歌うた /uta/：
    song
gizen mo, yokaze mo, uso mo, kimi mo, boku mo, aotenjou mo
Hypocrisy, the night breeze, lies, you, me, and the boundless blue sky

  • 偽善ぎぜん /gizen/：
    hypocrisy; false virtue
  • 夜風よかぜ /yokaze/：
    night breeze
  • 嘘うそ /uso/：
    lie; falsehood
  • 君きみ /kimi/：
    you
  • 僕ぼく /boku/：
    I; me, a commonly masculine pronoun
  • 青天井あおてんじょう /aotenjou/：
    the blue sky as a ceiling; the boundless sky, also figuratively no upper limit
nani mo iranai
I don't need anything

  • 何なにも /nani mo/：
    anything; nothing (used with a negative)
  • いらない /iranai/：
    do not need (original form: いる／要る, to need)