浜崎あゆみ – A Song for XX

Ayumi Hamasaki – A Song for XX     

Why are you crying?  

Why are you wavering?  

Why do you stop walking?  

Tell me  

When I will become an adult

Until when I can remain a child

From where I have run, and

Where is my goal

There has been no place where I belong

I couldn’t find it

I don’t know whether I can expect from the future

I’ve been told that I am strong

They praised, “You don’t cry. You are a good child”

I never wanted such words, so

I pretended to be ignorant

Why do you have a smile?

Why are you by my side?

Why are you going to leave?

Tell me

When I became strong

When I felt my weakness

How long I have to wait until the day we understand each other

The sun is about to rise

I have to go now

I cannot stay at the same place forever

I thought trusting someone is equal to getting destined to be betrayed and rejected

Those days, I was unable to trust anyone

Probably, I had gotten to know too many things

I’ve been told that I am strong

They praised, “You don’t cry. You are a good child”

Every time they said such words,

I felt it’s hard to even have a smile

Everyone is born alone, and lives alone

I used to take such day-to-day life for granted

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裏切る [uragiru]: betray