HAPPY ENDING – ayumi hamasaki

from MY STORY album.

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Weaving their way through crevices between the enveloping clouds
The stars battle each other
Their sparkle, like prayers resembling screams
Tightens my heart

Morning, please somehow come soon to get me
Before I lose the ability to hide my weakness

Just because you aren’t here
The night becomes so lonely, it’s a mystery

Just how many more similar
Sins must I continue to commit

Before I stop being human
Before I stop being reflected in anyone’s eyes

Falling over, in my place of refuge
There is nothing I want
Tearing out the emotions within my heart
Pasting a smile onto my mask

Please somehow take me away from this place
Before everything turns into memories

Meeting you, I learnt a little
Of what it’s like to love someone

If someday, I can stop making amends
If the day I can be forgiven finally comes

But by then, I will no longer be qualified
To talk about the definition of happiness

Just because you aren’t here
The night becomes so lonely, it’s a mystery

Meeting you, I learnt a little
Of what it’s like to love someone

That’s right, things like happy endings
More than anyone else, I know that they are not for me

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Watashitachi – Nishino Kana

私たち (Watashitachi) – The two of us

from Watashitachi single + Love Place album.

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Memories, sparkling with light,
Can be of days filled with tears too
Even as we become adults, let’s stay the same
Always laughing together

Notice how we’ve always been together
Even when we did nothing, it was just fun
We had long phone calls full of complaints
But we never got tired of being together

When things don’t go well
I often give up easily
So why does a single word from you
Make me strong again?

You are the only one who knows me
Even more than I know myself
On nights when I want to cry, days when I feel weak
Just being together with you made me hang on
Someday, when we become adults
Let’s still laugh together like always
From now on
Even if we walk down different paths
No matter where you go
You are the one

The dress you’ll wear during a date
The present you’ll bring, we picked those together
Diets which ended in an instant
How many of those did we go through together?

When you are in love, you’re always
Going to look for your boyfriend
But whenever you get into a fight
You always return to me

I am the only one who knows you
Even more than you know yourself
On lonely nights, anxious days
Just being together with you made me strong
Love may come to an end someday
But we are forever
From now on
Even if we walk down different paths
No matter where you go
You are the one

In three years’ time, will the two of us
Lead even more brilliant lives?
Your dreams come true
My dreams come true
Future days, sparkling with light
In ten years’ time, will the two of us
Meet with someone and tie the knot?
The tears and failures now
Will become funny stories one day

You are the only one who knows me
Even more than I know myself
On nights when I want to cry, days when I feel weak
Just being together with you made me hang on
Someday, when we become adults
Let’s still laugh together like always
From now on
Even if we walk down different paths
No matter where you go
You are the one

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STEP you – ayumi hamasaki

from STEP you/is this LOVE? single + (miss)understood album.

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Conversations about nothing in particular
Your behavior during an unexpected moment
Though I never thought I’d remember them
Somewhere inside me, I clearly
wow oh oh oh oh no no no no
Remember YOU and ME

※SO 1.2.3.4 One by one
1.2 STEP you Just like that
I want to know more about you※

△1.2.3.4 One by one
1.2 STEP you Just like that
Nobody can stop me now△

WOW WOW SO WOW WOW
oh WOW WOW SO WOW WOW

1.2.3.4 YOU and ME?

Where are you now, what are you doing?
Immediately after wondering about you
“Even if it’s just a little
Do think about me too”
wow oh oh oh oh no no no no
I wished YOU and ME

□SO 1.2.3.4 When did this start?
1.2 STEP you Just then
I started to become greedy□

☆1.2.3.4 When did this start?
1.2 STEP you Just then
I want to possess your smile☆

WOW WOW SO WOW WOW
oh WOW WOW SO WOW WOW

The gap between ideals and reality
Is just a little too intense
And ceaselessly getting wider
oh yeah yeah yeah

Should I give up now?
Or should I hang on?
oh yeah yeah yeah yeah
yeah yeah yeah yeah

SO 1.2.3.4 YOU and ME?

(Repeat ※)
(Repeat △)
(Repeat □)
(Repeat ☆)

WOW WOW SO WOW WOW
oh WOW WOW SO WOW WOW
WOW WOW SO WOW WOW
oh WOW WOW SO WOW WOW

1.2.3.4 YOU and ME?

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