Ayase - 飽和/Saturation

Ayase - 飽和/Saturation

Ayase


zuibun to nagai yume wo
A very long dream

  • 随分ずいぶんと /zuibun to/：
    considerably; very
  • 長ながい /nagai/：
    long
  • 夢ゆめ /yume/：
    dream
kokochiyoi yume wo
A pleasant dream

  • 心地良ここちよい /kokochiyoi/：
    pleasant; comfortable
  • 夢ゆめ /yume/：
    dream
mite ita you na
As though I had been dreaming it

  • 見みていた /mite ita/：
    original form: 見る; 〜ていた marks an ongoing past state, and 夢を見る means to dream
  • 様ような /you na/：
    as if; seeming like
sonna awai kioku no saigo
At the end of that faint memory

  • そんな /sonna/：
    such; that kind of
  • 淡あわい /awai/：
    faint; pale
  • 記憶きおく /kioku/：
    memory
  • 最後さいご /saigo/：
    the end; the last
bana no tayori ga machi ni todoku koro
When news of the blossoms reaches the town

  • 花ばなの便たより /bana no tayori/：
    news of blossoms; tidings of flowering
  • 町まち /machi/：
    town
  • 届とどく /todoku/：
    to reach; to be delivered
  • 頃ころ /koro/：
    around the time; when
konna hi ga kuru nante ne
To think a day like this would come

  • こんな /konna/：
    this kind of; such
  • 日ひ /hi/：
    day
  • 来くる /kuru/：
    to come
  • なんて /nante/：
    to think that; expresses surprise or emotion
tte odoketa kimi wa
You said, putting on a joking air

  • って /tte/：
    colloquial quotation marker, equivalent to と
  • おどけた /odoketa/：
    original form: おどける; joked or acted playfully
  • 君きみ /kimi/：
    you
shizuka ni iki wo suikonda ato
After quietly drawing a breath

  • 静しずかに /shizuka ni/：
    quietly; original form: 静かだ
  • 息いき /iki/：
    breath
  • 吸すい込こんだ /suikonda/：
    original form: 吸い込む; drew in; inhaled
  • 後あと /ato/：
    after; following an action
teinei ni kotoba wo tsumugu
You carefully weave your words

  • 丁寧ていねいに /teinei ni/：
    carefully; politely
  • 言葉ことば /kotoba/：
    words; language
  • 紡つむぐ /tsumugu/：
    to spin; figuratively, to weave words
sono naka ni chiribamerareta
Scattered throughout those words

  • その中なか /sono naka/：
    within that; among those words
  • 散ちりばめられた /chiribamerareta/：
    original form: 散りばめる; were scattered or studded throughout (past passive)
gomen ne dake ga chuu ni nokotta
Only the words 'I'm sorry' remained hanging in the air

  • ごめんね /gomen ne/：
    I'm sorry; a soft, familiar apology
  • だけ /dake/：
    only; just
  • 宙ちゅう /chuu/：
    midair; the open air
  • 残のこった /nokotta/：
    original form: 残る; remained
shiranai uchi ni bokura wa kitto
Before we knew it, we surely

  • 知しらない /shiranai/：
    original form: 知る; not know; be unaware
  • うちに /uchi ni/：
    while; 知らないうちに means before one realizes it
  • 僕ぼくら /bokura/：
    we; us
  • きっと /kitto/：
    surely; certainly
hitotsu no ikimono ni natte
Became a single living being

  • 一ひとつ /hitotsu/：
    one; a single whole
  • 生いき物もの /ikimono/：
    living being; creature
  • になって /ni natte/：
    original form: になる; became, linking to the next line
kore ijou nani mo iranaku natta
And came to need nothing more

  • これ以上いじょう /kore ijou/：
    any more; beyond this point
  • 何なにも〜ない /nani mo nai/：
    nothing; not anything
  • 要いらなくなった /iranaku natta/：
    original form: 要る; came to no longer need
kansei wo mukaetan da yo
We had reached completion

  • 完成かんせい /kansei/：
    completion; perfection
  • 迎むかえた /mukaeta/：
    original form: 迎える; reached; welcomed
  • んだ /n da/：
    colloquial のだ, adding explanation or emphasis
dakara tarinai mama no dareka wo
So each of us should love someone still incomplete

  • だから /dakara/：
    so; therefore
  • 足たりない /tarinai/：
    original form: 足りる; lacking; incomplete
  • まま /mama/：
    remaining in a state; still incomplete
  • 誰だれか /dareka/：
    someone
sorezore aishite agete to
And give that person our love, each in our own way

  • それぞれ /sorezore/：
    each; respectively
  • 愛あいして /aishite/：
    original form: 愛する; love; cherish
  • 〜てあげて /te agete/：
    do something for someone; here, give someone love
kamisama ga kimetan da yo kitto
Surely, that is what God decided

  • 神様かみさま /kamisama/：
    God; a deity
  • 決きめた /kimeta/：
    original form: 決める; decided
  • んだ /n da/：
    colloquial のだ, explanatory or emphatic
  • きっと /kitto/：
    surely; certainly
dare no sei demo nain da yo kitto
Surely, it is no one's fault

  • 誰だれ /dare/：
    who
  • せい /sei/：
    fault; cause, usually of a negative result
  • 〜でもない /demo nai/：
    is not; with an interrogative, not any/no one
  • んだ /n da/：
    colloquial のだ, adding explanation or emphasis
  • きっと /kitto/：
    surely; certainly
kanashii koto ja nain da yo kitto
Surely, it is not something sad

  • 悲かなしい /kanashii/：
    sad; sorrowful
  • こと /koto/：
    thing; matter; nominalizer
  • じゃない /ja nai/：
    is not; colloquial form of ではない
  • んだ /n da/：
    colloquial のだ, adding explanation or emphasis
  • きっと /kitto/：
    surely; certainly
kimi ga eranda kotae wa hora
The answer you chose, you see

  • 君きみ /kimi/：
    you
  • 選えらんだ /eranda/：
    original form: 選ぶ; chose
  • 答こたえ /kotae/：
    answer; decision
boku ga erande kita kotae no
Lies at the end of all the answers I have chosen

  • 僕ぼく /boku/：
    I; a commonly masculine first-person pronoun
  • 選えらんできた /erande kita/：
    original form: 選ぶ; 〜てくる shows choices continuing from the past to now
  • 答こたえ /kotae/：
    answer; outcome of a choice
hate ni tadoritsuita ketsumatsu da
The ending reached at the very end

  • 果はて /hate/：
    end; limit
  • 辿たどり着ついた /tadoritsuita/：
    original form: 辿り着く; finally arrived at after a journey
  • 結末けつまつ /ketsumatsu/：
    ending; outcome
dakara sonna kao wa yoshite yo
So please don't make that face

  • だから /dakara/：
    so; therefore
  • そんな /sonna/：
    that kind of; such
  • 顔かお /kao/：
    face; facial expression
  • よして /yoshite/：
    original form: よす; stop; don't do that
anna ni itoshikatta hibi ga
Those days that were so dear to us

  • あんなに /anna ni/：
    that much; so
  • 愛いとしかった /itoshikatta/：
    original form: 愛しい; was dear; was beloved
  • 日々ひび /hibi/：
    days; daily life
maku wo tojiru konna toki sae
Even at a moment like this, as the curtain falls

  • 幕まくを閉とじる /maku wo tojiru/：
    to close the curtain; to come to an end
  • こんな /konna/：
    this kind of; such
  • 時とき /toki/：
    time; moment
  • さえ /sae/：
    even; emphasizing an extreme case
deaete hontou ni yokatta na
I'm truly glad that I met you

  • 出会であえて /deaete/：
    original form: 出会う; potential form, to be able to meet
  • 本当ほんとうに /hontou ni/：
    truly; really
  • 良よかった /yokatta/：
    original form: 良い; was good; am glad
nante omoeru koi wo shitan da yo
Ours was a love that lets me feel that way

  • なんて /nante/：
    something like; quoting the previous thought with emotion
  • 思おもえる /omoeru/：
    original form: 思う; can feel or naturally come to think
  • 恋こい /koi/：
    love; romance
  • した /shita/：
    original form: する; had; 恋をする means to fall in love or have a romance
  • んだ /n da/：
    colloquial のだ, adding reflective emphasis
sonna rippa na koi wo shitan da yo
We had a love as admirable as that

  • そんな /sonna/：
    such; that kind of
  • 立派りっぱな /rippa na/：
    splendid; admirable
  • 恋こい /koi/：
    love; romance
  • した /shita/：
    original form: する; 恋をする means to have a romance
  • んだ /n da/：
    colloquial のだ, adding explanation and emphasis
futari de nagai jikan wo kakete
The two of us, over a long span of time

  • 二人ふたり /futari/：
    two people; the two of us
  • 長ながい /nagai/：
    long
  • 時間じかん /jikan/：
    time
  • 時間じかんをかけて /jikan wo kakete/：
    taking time; spending time on something
tsumiageta kaidan wo futte iku
We descend the staircase we built up together

  • 積つみ上あげた /tsumiageta/：
    original form: 積み上げる; piled up; built up gradually
  • 階段かいだん /kaidan/：
    stairs; here, a metaphor for the relationship they built
  • 降ふっていく /futte iku/：
    original form: 降る; here, depicts going down and away along the stairs; read ふっていく in the lyric source
ima ni mo kuzuresou na hodo ni
So fragile it looks ready to collapse at any moment

  • 今いまにも /ima ni mo/：
    at any moment; on the verge of
  • 崩くずれそう /kuzuresou/：
    original form: 崩れる; looks about to collapse
  • ほどに /hodo ni/：
    to the extent that; so much that
morokute hidoi deki datta
It was a fragile, poorly made thing

  • 脆もろくて /morokute/：
    original form: 脆い; fragile, with 〜くて linking descriptions
  • 酷ひどい /hidoi/：
    awful; poor
  • 出来でき /deki/：
    workmanship; quality of the finished result
  • だった /datta/：
    past form of だ; was
hanarenai you ni hanasanai you ni
So we would not part, so we would not let go

  • 離はなれない /hanarenai/：
    original form: 離れる; not separate or move apart (intransitive)
  • ように /you ni/：
    so that; when following a negative, in order not to
  • 離はなさない /hanasanai/：
    original form: 離す; not let go (transitive)
tsunaide ita tenohira wo
The palms we had kept joined

  • 繋つないでいた /tsunaide ita/：
    original form: 繋ぐ; had kept connected or held
  • 掌てのひら /tenohira/：
    palm; here, the hands held together
koronde shimawanai you ni
So that I would not stumble and fall

  • 転ころんで /koronde/：
    original form: 転ぶ; fall down; stumble
  • 〜てしまわない /te shimawanai/：
    negative of 〜てしまう; avoid an unfortunate or complete outcome
  • ように /you ni/：
    so that; in order not to
nigirishimete kurete ita no wa
The one who had held on tightly for me

  • 握にぎりしめて /nigirishimete/：
    original form: 握りしめる; grip tightly
  • 〜てくれていた /te kurete ita/：
    had been doing something for me; くれる marks a favor to the speaker
  • のは /no wa/：
    nominalizes the preceding action and makes it the topic
kimi no hou dattan da ne
It was you all along

  • 君きみ /kimi/：
    you
  • 〜の方ほう /no hou/：
    the one on that side; the one who, contrasting two parties
  • だった /datta/：
    past form of だ; was
  • んだ /n da/：
    colloquial のだ; here, conveys realization
shiranai uchi ni boku wa kitto
Before I knew it, I surely

  • 知しらない /shiranai/：
    original form: 知る; not know; be unaware
  • うちに /uchi ni/：
    while; 知らないうちに means before one realizes it
  • 僕ぼく /boku/：
    I; a commonly masculine first-person pronoun
  • きっと /kitto/：
    surely; certainly
kagami no naka no kimi wo miteta
Was looking at you inside the mirror

  • 鏡かがみ /kagami/：
    mirror
  • 中なか /naka/：
    inside; within
  • 君きみ /kimi/：
    you
  • 見みてた /miteta/：
    original form: 見る; contraction of 見ていた, was looking
midari ni yume wo katatte bakari de
I did nothing but talk recklessly about my dreams

  • みだりに /midari ni/：
    recklessly; indiscriminately
  • 夢ゆめ /yume/：
    dream; aspiration
  • 語かたって /katatte/：
    original form: 語る; talk about; recount
  • 〜てばかりで /te bakari de/：
    doing nothing but; often critical, linking to the following result
kizuku koto mo dekinakatta
I could not even notice

  • 気付きづく /kizuku/：
    to notice; realize
  • こと /koto/：
    nominalizer turning the preceding verb into an act
  • 〜ことも出来できない /koto mo dekinai/：
    cannot even do; も emphasizes the negative
  • 出来できなかった /dekinakatta/：
    original form: 出来る; could not, negative past
kore wa kimi no sei demo nakute
This is not your fault either

  • これ /kore/：
    this; here, the outcome of their separation
  • 君きみ /kimi/：
    you
  • せい /sei/：
    fault; cause, usually of a negative result
  • 〜でもなくて /demo nakute/：
    not ... either; links forward in a neither A nor B structure
kamisama no sei demo nai kara
Nor is it God's fault

  • 神様かみさま /kamisama/：
    God; a deity
  • せい /sei/：
    fault; cause, usually of a negative result
  • 〜でもない /demo nai/：
    is not ... either
  • から /kara/：
    because; since
boku ga ubatta bun yori zutto
Far more than the share I took from you

  • 僕ぼく /boku/：
    I; a commonly masculine first-person pronoun
  • 奪うばった /ubatta/：
    original form: 奪う; took away; deprived
  • 分ぶん /bun/：
    amount; share; the portion taken away
  • より /yori/：
    than; compared with
  • ずっと /zutto/：
    far; much, intensifying a comparison
nagaku takusan aisarete ite
May you be loved much and for a long time

  • 長ながく /nagaku/：
    for a long time; original form: 長い
  • 沢山たくさん /takusan/：
    a lot; plenty
  • 愛あいされていて /aisarete ite/：
    original form: 愛する; passive form meaning to be loved, with an ongoing state
nante omoeru koi dattan da yo
It was a love that lets me wish that for you

  • なんて /nante/：
    something like; quoting the preceding wish with emotion
  • 想おもえる /omoeru/：
    original form: 想う; can sincerely feel or wish, with emotional nuance
  • 恋こい /koi/：
    love; romance
  • だった /datta/：
    past form of だ; was
  • んだ /n da/：
    colloquial のだ, adding reflective emphasis
kakegae nai koi dattan da yo
It was an irreplaceable love

  • かけがえない /kakegae nai/：
    irreplaceable; precious
  • 恋こい /koi/：
    love; romance
  • だった /datta/：
    past form of だ; was
  • んだ /n da/：
    colloquial のだ, adding explanation and emphasis
arigato ne no ato ni tsuzuku
The words that follow 'thank you'

  • ありがとね /arigato ne/：
    thank you; a familiar contraction of ありがとうね
  • 後あと /ato/：
    after; behind
  • 続つづく /tsuzuku/：
    to follow; continue
tsutaesobireta sayonara wo kimi ni
To you, the goodbye I missed the chance to say

  • 伝つたえそびれた /tsutaesobireta/：
    original form: 伝えそびれる; failed or missed the chance to convey
  • さよなら /sayonara/：
    goodbye; farewell
  • 君きみ /kimi/：
    you; 君に marks the recipient of the farewell