On Your Side – Koda Kumi

from Bon Voyage album.

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You show your usual Smile
From morning to night, we Do our thing
Keeping to your own rhythm
Each logical Day moving to the next Day
No time to think about futile things
That’s how it is, right?
But it’s not that you don’t experience
Times of impulsiveness
It’s not that you can’t

Cuz ooh, I know what you’re going through
Continuing to be tough, Everyone
Is holding in something

Because noone’s looking
Let your tears flow
Now I’ll say it loud,
Ohh baby I’m on your side
Alone Everyday
You’re so used to fighting alone
Don’t hold it in
Ohh baby I’m on your side

After a night’s sleep, you’re refreshed
Basically Living happily
Handling things well in your own way
Each logical Week moving to the next Week
You don’t want to stand out like a show-off, but
Putting up a false front is wrong too, right?
Because it’s not that you don’t feel
Emotions sometimes
It’s not that you can’t

Ooh, I know what you’re going through
Continuing to be strong, you will
Lose something, no

Because noone’s listening
Let your complaints out
Now I’ll say it loud,
Ohh baby I’m on your side
Alone Everyday
You’re so used to fighting alone
Don’t hold it in
Ohh baby I’m on your side

Baby I’m on your side
Actually, So am I
Baby I’m on your side

Because noone’s looking
Let your tears flow
Now I’ll say it loud,
Ohh baby I’m on your side
Alone Everyday
You’re so used to fighting alone
Don’t hold it in
Ohh baby I’m on your side

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Hitonatsu no hankouki – AKB48

by Next Girls.

ひと夏の反抗期 (Hitonatsu no hankouki) – One summer’s rebellious phase

from Kokoro no placard single.

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Glancing sideways at the sea at dawn
The bike drives swiftly on
My heart’s tandem

You’re saying something, but
I can’t hear your voice
Over the wind’s noise

To love someone
Is to be alright with dying like this right now
As I clung onto your waist
I wished for us to
Become one

One summer’s rebellious phase
Just where can we run to
To escape from becoming adults?
Like this
Don’t turn off the headlights
Even when the sun rises
Just shine on our future together…

Youth is always so reckless
When everything before our eyes
Seem like obstacles

As we passed the long haul trucks
It felt like the things controlling us
Had disappeared

“If you continue to dream
You’ll never come back to reality” they scolded
Even if they say
That I’ll end up destroyed
I don’t care

Youth’s rebellious phase
Until we’re satisfied
There’s nothing we can do but run
Our innocence
At this speed
Our energy surges
If we stop, the sunshine will burn us

One summer’s rebellious phase
Just where can we run to
To escape from becoming adults?
Like this
Don’t turn off the headlights
Even when the sun rises
Just shine on our future together…

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Dareka ga nageta ball – AKB48

By Undergirls.

誰かが投げたボール (Dareka ga nageta booru) – The ball someone threw

from Kokoro no placard single.

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From a faraway place in this world
I hear joyful voices
It’s the sound of all the children
Having fun

Their words, the colour of their skin
I can’t tell all these from here
But the loud laughing voices
Clear my heart

Like a single person speaking out
From within that circle
On the other side of that ocean
Telling me that there are friends looking up
At the same blue sky…

The ball someone threw
Hey, we’ll catch it
I believe we will
Can’t pretend not to know
If we don’t do anything
The ball will roll
On forever
Knowing only loneliness

Sometimes, carried on the wind
I hear sad voices
Have they met with sorrow
And are crying out?

The reason, the situation
I don’t know any of it
But I can just imagine them
Holding on alone

If there’s no way
To stop your tears
Then just face that ocean
And shout of all your feelings
With a loud voice

The words someone threw
There are people who will receive them
This world is much kinder
Than you think
No matter when, we will
Always be straining our ears
Chasing down even
The softest of voices

LOVE
Throw that ball
Please don’t
Worry so much
It won’t get lost
But first
Try to love yourself
Surely
A stranger
Will return that ball
To you
Right here

The words someone threw
There are people who will receive them
This world is much kinder
Than you think

Someone
Someone
The ball someone threw
Hey, we’ll catch it
I believe we will
Can’t pretend not to know
If we don’t do anything
The ball will roll
On forever
Knowing only loneliness

From a faraway place in this world
I hear joyful voices
It’s the sound of heartbeats of all life on earth

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