Shabon – ASKA

しゃぼん (Shabon) – Bubbles

from Too many people album.

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Surely, I’m too cowardly, with my brave yet sad cheerfulness
Just like a bubble, reaching near the roof, then disappearing

Unless there’s someone always looking up at me
I can’t cross that line
Circling the rainbow, a bubble that can’t fix on a color

Are there angels above me? A light that makes my heart dance?
Are you right beside me? Are you watching me?

Are you happy now? Or are you sad?
I ask myself again and again, cast away

Where did this loneliness come from?
Even so, even so, aah, even so

So beautiful, the flowers are so beautiful
Just looking at them with these emotions
Even if I don’t speak, my feelings alone will reach out

Are there lies in my love? Is there a scenery that can heal my heart?
Is there a song beside you? Are you glittering?

Are you happy now? Or are you sad?
I ask myself again and again, cast away

Bad at saying goodbye, I just can’t move
Even so, even so, aah, even so

Burst and gone, gone without a sound
Slowly, it gets brighter. It’s morning, is that the answer?

Are you happy now? Or are you sad?
I ask myself again and again, cast away

Where did this loneliness come from?
Even so, even so, aah, even so

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Sore de iinda ima wa – ASKA

それでいいんだ今は (Sore de iinda ima wa) – That’s enough for now

from Too many people album.

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It’s a new, new beginning
I hold a mouthful of wind-colored cider in my mouth

Running down the dusty, dusty road
Running with my fists clenched, almost hitting

There’s something I can’t lose, something I can’t give up
I kiss my dream

Even if my guitar breaks, I’ll sound out to the sky

Everyone, everyone is afraid
Until the moment they hear the light’s applause

Empty, empty, on the verge of emptiness
But I won’t give up, won’t let go

If I go, there may be a future, there may be pain
I confess to love

Just enduring and overcoming, that’s enough for now

Across the desert, crossing the field, I want to say I did well
Sometimes, jet planes and destiny are pushovers
Trailing melancholy, into that precious someone’s arms

If I go, there may be a future, there may be pain
I confess to love

Just enduring and overcoming, that’s enough for now
Just enduring and overcoming, that’s enough for now

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Mirai no kunshou – ASKA

未来の勲章 (Mirai no kunshou) – Future medal

from Too many people album.

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Upon the thin paper on the table, I draw a single thin line
When tomorrow comes, something will change
It’s a really, really wavery path

The future medal I’ve affixed to my chest
Embraces all lies, truths, pain, gentleness

Protecting the cute dream with cool and surrealism
Believing, loving, embracing, so we can get through the present

Raising the flag, morning falls, I look at the deep reality sometimes
It’s not cold, everyone’s surviving
Someday, someday, the season will come

A screaming voice running on the music score
I place my palms together, praying, singing, bathing in the given destiny

Protecting the cute dream with cool and surrealism
Far or near, the grasped heart makes the rest of the journey

The sun makes my shadow
There’s no way to eat sorrow

Protecting the cute dream with cool and surrealism
Believing, loving, embracing, so we can get through the present

Protecting the cute dream with cool and surrealism
Far or near, the grasped heart makes the rest of the journey

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To, iu hanashi sa – ASKA

と、いう話さ (To, iu hanashi sa) – That’s, the story

from Too many people album.

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I scream in the dry urban jungle, in the desert sunken beneath the sea
About love, about sin, things we can’t see, but do exist

Even the largest bird can’t fly higher than my imagination
Empty ambition, beautiful despair, surrounded by love, that’s the story

People like other people, hate other people, while tears like love
As the clock hands progress, time passes

Even the tiniest bug can’t be smaller than my imagination
Placing a shell against my ear, I can hear the sea roar, that’s the story

So that the papers won’t fly away in the wind
I placed a pebble on them, and dreamed
The growing shadows under the sunset burn into these summer stone steps
Slowly growing faint and light

There’s a woman, growing quiet as I hold her in my arms
The words slip in my mouth, swimming

She gazes lovingly at me, despite my undesirable phrases
As if making an X-ray of my heart, what is she thinking? That’s the story

There’s something, broken and melted, gone from my mind
Like a comet’s trajectory, it draws a familiar loop and returns
A playful paper airplane dancing in the sky

So that the papers won’t fly away in the wind
I placed a pebble on them, and dreamed
The growing shadows under the sunset burn into these summer stone steps
Slowly growing faint and light

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Hana wa saita ka – ASKA

花は咲いたか (Hana wa saita ka) – Have the flowers bloomed?

from Girl single.

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In that case, it’s his problem
It’s nothing to do with me

Because touching it is extremely loathsome
Let’s pretend it doesn’t exist

My place isn’t where he is
The weather, time, even the secrets are different
I don’t care for that

If I push open the door with one hand now
He’ll be scratching his head, a sleepy expression on his face

Have the flowers bloomed? Did you dream?

It’s nothing important
In the morning, say ‘Good morning’

The power of loneliness pulling together
After all, we’re humans

Searching for the fragments of the fallen cup
Let’s stop it already

Offering me a story in a small voice
Just makes my back, my ear, my tomorrow itch
I’ll pull away

If I just look puzzled
You’ll take the wheel with confidence, right?

Which is the moon? Has the wind stopped?

It’s nothing important
In the morning, say ‘Good morning’

If I push open the door with one hand now
He’ll be scratching his head, a sleepy expression on his face

Have the flowers bloomed? Did you dream?

It’s nothing important
In the morning, say ‘Good morning’

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UNI-VERSE – ASKA

from Scramble album.

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Me and you and everyone, yes everyone
Them and him and everyone, yes everyone

Surely, we are surely bringing sorrow to ourselves
Even though we try to move towards joy

Standing like the future atop bundled newspapers
If tomorrow’s a sunny day, let’s set the rocket off

Something may be living in the unreachable universe
And within us is the same universe…

The plastic bottle rocket flew, disappearing with a dazzle into the blue sky
Disappeared into the summer sun, like Astro Boy that day

Me and you and everyone, yes everyone
Them and him and everyone, yes everyone
We are connected in our hearts, UNI-VERSE

Always, we are always walking on ourselves
Everything connected by a line, determined by us

I like it when people can say “I like this” when they like something
But if everyone speaks so plainly of their desires…

I feel myself through my song, a song that will someday go far far away
That person is the “morning relay”, we are the “prayer relay”

Me and you and everyone, yes everyone
Them and him and everyone, yes everyone
Looking up at the sky, we become alone

The things ancient men saw…

The plastic bottle rocket flew, disappearing with a dazzle into the blue sky
Disappeared into the summer sun, like Astro Boy that day

Me and you and everyone, yes everyone
Them and him and everyone, yes everyone
We are connected in our hearts, UNI-VERSE

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