progress – ayumi hamasaki

From FIVE album. Theme Song for PS3 Game 『Tales of Xillia』.

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Fearing a simple life is a thing of the past
Because I know the sorrow of a complicated life.

I don’t wish to return
My heart wishes to believe, and look, it’s shouting out
That “this is no mistake”

Two of us, passing the same time, believing in the same future
Yesterday’s tears and today’s smiles are all real

Knowing the same pain, gathering the same gentleness
To change it into the strength to live on tomorrow

If in that time, at that place, I was fighting
And my reason for doing so was because I chose to be here now

I used to avoid facing my past, not referring to it, leaving it behind
Did I then forgive such a past because I wished to be forgiven myself?

That time when we were free to be ourselves, is far gone
And though we can’t live through this time with just innocent smiles

Let us progress. Even so, we can continue to progress
Because we still have hearts that can believe in something

Hey, since the past and into the future
We have never wished for much

Two of us, passing the same time, believing in the same future
Yesterday’s tears and today’s smiles are all real

Knowing the same pain, gathering the same gentleness
Surely, as long as it can change into strength that lets us live on tomorrow

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