Ivy – ayumi hamasaki

from again mini-album + LOVE again album.

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So many things have happened
So many mornings I’ve welcomed
So many loves I’ve met
So many forms they had

So many sins I’ve committed
So many people I’ve hurt
So many mistakes I’ve made
So many things I’ve learnt

Through that, I’m here now

Ahh, now I look back briefly at the past
Then, nodding, I waved it goodbye heartily
Ahh, I face forward again, looking at the future
Looking straight only at the future with you

Am I still being hated?
Am I still not forgiven?
Am I still misunderstood?
Will I be trusted again?

I just wish for you to understand

Ahh, I saw that dear girl today
Looking for her own path, she moved onward
Ahh, I sent a cheer with all my might
At her retreating back, until I couldn’t see her anymore

So many smiles I’ve seen
So many tears too
So many crossroads

So many things, so many things

Ahh, unable to achieve happiness myself
Just who can I bring happiness to?
Ahh, beside me, looking in the same direction
This publicized love with you fills my heart

Ahh, in this limited time we have
I don’t wish to regret a single moment of it
Ahh, in this short span we call life
Just how much can we really smile from the bottom of our hearts?

In the end, I just wish to see your smile

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snowy kiss – ayumi hamasaki

from again mini-album + LOVE again album.

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Goodbye to the one who loved me, the one I loved
Goodbye to the one who loved me, the one I loved

Gazing at the sinking Sun
“Please somehow don’t leave me
In the night’s darkness just yet”
But the more I prayed, the faster it sunk

It will go to shine on the next lost soul
So that girl could at least give a smile
And because the moonlight is too beautiful
I’m afraid it will reveal our wounds

Because I don’t need gentle lies
So if you are going to lie, then tell me a true lie

After being embraced by your words
Your actions sliced sharply into my heart
We’ve embraced, held hands, walked together, but
Hey, today we walk separated, without exchanging a word

I reached out a hand at your crying back
Yet you donned a smiling mask and turned around
Just until when and where will we keep repeating this
Time after time again as we stop moving on?

The Sun is shining on us again
As if nothing had happened
I’ve always seen the Sun there with you
But in the end, there is nothing nowhere

To continue to send out these feelings
Means to continue feeling them
I know, I know, but
I can’t stop it, I don’t know how

Because I don’t need gentle lies
So if you are going to lie, then tell me a true lie

Goodbye to the one who loved me, the one I loved
Goodbye to the one who loved me, the one I loved

Just looking at your eyes, I know that you can’t speak
So I kiss your cheek as you sleep
After that, I will leave without leaving even footprints
And when this snow melts, forget everything about us

Goodbye to the you who loved me, the you I loved
Goodbye to the me whom you loved, the me who loved you
Snow, don’t stop, just continue to fall and pile up
Until the path we’ve walked together can’t be seen anymore

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Sweet scar – ayumi hamasaki

from again mini-album + LOVE again album.

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I want to become gentle and strong as I hold you tight

Before we knew it, the colours of the city had changed
That dazzling season had already passed us by

We’ve been through lots of nights
We’ve cried and we’ve laughed

Just like that, we’ve somehow pulled through, but
We’ve continued walking to this day

I want to become gentle and strong as I hold you tight
I want to keep telling you that “It’s alright” until you smile

The cold wind has brought us closer
We’ve been smiling so much more since that time

Because we can say “Good morning” everyday
And “Goodnight” is no longer sorrowful

Even now, we’re somehow pulling through, but
We’ve lived through today together

When I felt the separation of our hands, which used to be connected
I came to understand the meaning of “I love you” just a little

I want to become gentle and strong as I hold you tight
I want to keep telling you that “It’s alright” until you smile

When I felt the separation of our hands, which used to be connected
I came to understand the meaning of “I love you” just a little

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Wake me up – ayumi hamasaki

from again mini-album + LOVE again album.

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With a thirsty throat
The vacant memories
Remain like yesterday, yet crumble even more
Like my hair and make-up
As I collect the scattered pieces
And within my calm cold mind
Finish up the puzzle

I gotta let you go
I gotta let you go go go

There is everything, yet there is nothing
That is the law of this sandcastle
Now wake up wake up
Yes wake up wake up
oh wake up wake up
I can still be in time
wake up wake up
Look wake up wake up
While the wounds still remain shallow

That girl and that guy (and you too)
Are saying whatever they like
But because every single one of them
Make a point, I cannot make a rebuttal

I gotta let you go
I gotta let you go go go

Anyone can enter, yet nobody can enter
That is the fate of the sandcastle
I know get up get up
Just get up get up
oh get up get up
I’m not crying
get up get up
yeah get up get up
This is my castle of sand

Hey, so just leave it alone
I gotta let you go go go go go

wake up wake up
yeah wake up wake up
yeah wake up wake up
get up get up
yeah get up get up
yeah get up get up

wake up wake up
yeah wake up wake up
yeah wake up wake up
get up get up
yeah get up get up
yeah get up get up

There is everything, yet there is nothing
That is the law of this sandcastle

Anyone can enter, yet nobody can enter
That is the fate of the sandcastle

Now wake up wake up
Yes wake up wake up
oh wake up wake up
I can still be in time
wake up wake up
Look wake up wake up
While the wounds still remain shallow

get up get up
Just get up get up
oh get up get up
I’m not crying
get up get up
yeah get up get up
This is my castle of sand

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