suis from ヨルシカ - 星めぐる詩/Song That Travels the Stars

suis from ヨルシカ - 星めぐる詩/Song That Travels the Stars

suis from ヨルシカ


yoru wa tsuzuite machi wo tsutsunda
The night went on and enveloped the city

  • 夜よる /yoru/：
    night
  • 続つづいて /tsuzuite/：
    continuing (original form: 続く)
  • 街まち /machi/：
    city; streets
  • 包つつんだ /tsutsunda/：
    enveloped (original form: 包む)
usui haru no nioi to ondo
The faint scent and warmth of spring

  • 薄うすい /usui/：
    faint; thin
  • 春はる /haru/：
    spring
  • 匂におい /nioi/：
    scent
  • 温度おんど /ondo/：
    temperature; warmth
hyaku baisoku de sugiru kisetsu ga surinuketeku
The seasons, passing at a hundredfold speed, slip right through

  • 百ひゃく倍速ばいそく /hyaku baisoku/：
    one-hundredfold speed
  • 過すぎる /sugiru/：
    to pass; to elapse
  • 季節きせつ /kisetsu/：
    season
  • すり抜ぬけてく /surinuketeku/：
    to slip through and away (colloquial form of すり抜けていく)
kienu fuan ga shimetsukerun da
An anxiety that will not fade tightens its grip on me

  • 消きえぬ /kienu/：
    not fading (original form: 消える; ぬ is a literary negative)
  • 不安ふあん /fuan/：
    anxiety; unease
  • 締しめ付つける /shimetsukeru/：
    to constrict; to squeeze
  • んだ /n da/：
    colloquial のだ, adding explanation or emphasis
kowaresou na hodo tsuyoku
So fiercely that I feel I might break

  • 壊こわれそう /kowaresou/：
    seeming about to break (original form: 壊れる)
  • ほど /hodo/：
    to the extent that
  • 強つよく /tsuyoku/：
    strongly; fiercely (original form: 強い)
tooku de nijimu houkiboshi
A comet blurring in the distance

  • 遠とおく /tooku/：
    far away (original form: 遠い)
  • 滲にじむ /nijimu/：
    to blur; to bleed
  • 箒星ほうきぼし /houkiboshi/：
    comet; literally broom star
jiyuu to iu kei ni
To a sentence called freedom

  • 自由じゆう /jiyuu/：
    freedom
  • という /to iu/：
    called; named
  • 刑けい /kei/：
    punishment; sentence
kakerareta you da
It seems I have been sentenced to it

  • かけられた /kakerareta/：
    was subjected or sentenced (passive past of かける)
  • ようだ /you da/：
    it seems; as though
yaruse no nai mama sakebitai shoudou
The helpless urge to scream with no outlet for these feelings

  • 遣やる瀬せのない /yaruse no nai/：
    helpless; with no outlet for one's feelings
  • まま /mama/：
    remaining in that state
  • 叫さけびたい /sakebitai/：
    wanting to scream (original form: 叫ぶ)
  • 衝動しょうどう /shoudou/：
    impulse; urge
dare ni mo shirarezu
Without anyone knowing

  • 誰だれにも /dare ni mo/：
    anyone, when used with a negative
  • 知しられず /shirarezu/：
    without being known (passive negative connective of 知る)
doko ni mo yukezuni
Unable to go anywhere

  • 何処どこにも /doko ni mo/：
    anywhere, when used with a negative
  • 行ゆけずに /yukezuni/：
    unable to go (negative connective of the potential form of 行く)
tsuki e mukau ressha wa konya tabidatsu
The train bound for the moon departs tonight

  • 月つき /tsuki/：
    moon
  • 向むかう /mukau/：
    to head toward
  • 列車れっしゃ /ressha/：
    train
  • 今夜こんや /konya/：
    tonight
  • 旅立たびだつ /tabidatsu/：
    to set out on a journey
kippu wa poketto no naka ni
The ticket is in my pocket

  • 切符きっぷ /kippu/：
    ticket
  • ポケット /poketto/：
    pocket
  • 中なか /naka/：
    inside
inochi wo naderu hibi de wa
If I spend my days merely caressing life

  • 命いのち /inochi/：
    life
  • 撫なでる /naderu/：
    to stroke; to caress
  • 日々ひび /hibi/：
    days; daily life
  • では /de wa/：
    under those circumstances; if that is all
kawarazu to shitte iru noni
Even though I know that nothing will change

  • 変かわらず /kawarazu/：
    not changing (literary negative of 変わる)
  • 知しっている /shitte iru/：
    to know (continuing state of 知る)
  • のに /noni/：
    even though; despite
shiranu hana no namae mo
Both the names of flowers I do not know

  • 知しらぬ /shiranu/：
    unknown (literary negative of 知る)
  • 花はな /hana/：
    flower
  • 名前なまえ /namae/：
    name
nemutta yume mo
And the dreams that have fallen asleep

  • 眠ねむった /nemutta/：
    sleeping; dormant (original form: 眠る)
  • 夢ゆめ /yume/：
    dream
tochuu eki de dareka wo matteru
Are waiting for someone at a station along the way

  • 途中とちゅう駅えき /tochuu eki/：
    an intermediate station
  • 誰だれか /dareka/：
    someone
  • 待まってる /matteru/：
    waiting (colloquial form of 待っている)
tomoru yuuki wo
The courage beginning to glow

  • 灯ともる /tomoru/：
    to be lit; to glow
  • 勇気ゆうき /yuuki/：
    courage
hoshi meguru uta wo
And the song that travels the stars

  • 星ほし /hoshi/：
    star
  • めぐる /meguru/：
    to travel around; to circle
  • 詩うた /uta/：
    poem; song, here read as うた
kuzurekaketa chiisana heya
A small room on the verge of crumbling

  • 崩くずれかけた /kuzurekaketa/：
    on the verge of crumbling (崩れる plus かける)
  • 小ちいさな /chiisana/：
    small; used directly before a noun
  • 部屋へや /heya/：
    room
kataku tozasareta tobira ni te wo
I reached toward the firmly shut door

  • 固かたく /kataku/：
    firmly; tightly (original form: 固い)
  • 閉とざされた /tozasareta/：
    shut; sealed off (passive past of 閉ざす)
  • 扉とびら /tobira/：
    door
  • 手て /te/：
    hand
akehanatta
And flung it wide open

  • 開あけ放はなった /akehanatta/：
    flung wide open (original form: 開け放つ)
harukaze ga yobu hou e
Toward the direction where the spring breeze calls

  • 春風はるかぜ /harukaze/：
    spring breeze
  • 呼よぶ /yobu/：
    to call
  • 方ほう /hou/：
    direction; way
teikoku mae furimukazu ni
Before the appointed time, without looking back

  • 定刻ていこく /teikoku/：
    appointed or scheduled time
  • 前まえ /mae/：
    before; in front
  • 振ふり向むかずに /furimukazu ni/：
    without looking back (negative connective of 振り向く)
kokoro yori saki ni ashi wo dasu
I step forward before my heart can catch up

  • 心こころ /kokoro/：
    heart; mind
  • より先さきに /yori saki ni/：
    before; ahead of
  • 足あし /ashi/：
    foot; leg
  • 足あしを出だす /ashi wo dasu/：
    to take a step
yumeutsutsu no mama
Still caught between dream and reality

  • 夢現ゆめうつつ /yumeutsutsu/：
    half-dreaming; between dream and reality
  • まま /mama/：
    remaining as; still in that state
konya
Tonight

  • 今夜こんや /konya/：
    tonight
tsuki e mukau ressha ni boku wa norikomu
I board the train bound for the moon

  • 月つき /tsuki/：
    moon
  • 向むかう /mukau/：
    to head toward
  • 列車れっしゃ /ressha/：
    train
  • 僕ぼく /boku/：
    I; a typically masculine pronoun
  • 乗のり込こむ /norikomu/：
    to board; to get into
kippu wo kataku nigirishime
Clutching the ticket tightly

  • 切符きっぷ /kippu/：
    ticket
  • 硬かたく /kataku/：
    tightly; rigidly (original form: 硬い)
  • 握にぎりしめ /nigirishime/：
    clutching tightly (continuative form of 握りしめる)
tabi no kiteki ga naru
The journey's whistle sounds

  • 旅たび /tabi/：
    journey; trip
  • 汽笛きてき /kiteki/：
    steam whistle; train whistle
  • 鳴なる /naru/：
    to ring; to sound
dokoka tooku tsurete itte kure
Please take me somewhere far away

  • 何処どこか /dokoka/：
    somewhere
  • 遠とおく /tooku/：
    far away (original form: 遠い)
  • 連つれて行いって /tsurete itte/：
    to take someone along (original form: 連れて行く)
  • てくれ /te kure/：
    do it for me; an imperative used here as an urgent request
hikaru machi ga madobe ni
The glowing city appears beside the window

  • 光ひかる /hikaru/：
    to shine; to glow
  • 街まち /machi/：
    city; streets
  • 窓辺まどべ /madobe/：
    by the window; windowside
takaku nobotte
Climbing high

  • 高たかく /takaku/：
    high; upward (original form: 高い)
  • 登のぼって /nobotte/：
    climbing; ascending (original form: 登る)
yozora wo naderu you ni kakete yuku
Racing onward as though caressing the night sky

  • 夜空よぞら /yozora/：
    night sky
  • 撫なでる /naderu/：
    to stroke; to caress
  • ように /you ni/：
    as if; like
  • 駆かけてゆく /kakete yuku/：
    to race onward and away (駆ける plus てゆく)
tomosu akari wo
The light that we kindle

  • 灯ともす /tomosu/：
    to light; to kindle
  • 明あかり /akari/：
    light; lamp
hoshi meguru uta wo
And the song that travels the stars

  • 星ほし /hoshi/：
    star
  • めぐる /meguru/：
    to travel around; to circle
  • 詩うた /uta/：
    poem; song, here read as うた