This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
恋をして 終わりを告げ
誓うことは これが最後の heartbreak
桜さえ 風の中で
揺れて やがて花を咲かすよ
降り出した 夏の雨が涙の横を通った すーっと
思い出とダブる映像 秋のドラマ再放送
どうして同じような
パンチ何度もくらっちゃうんだ
それでもまた戦うんだろう
それが命の不思議
恋をして 全て捧げ
願うことは これが最後の heartbreak
桜さえ 時の中で
揺れて やがて花を咲かすよ
繰り返す 季節の中で くつが擦り減ってく
もっと 肩の力抜いて
過去はどこかにしまっておけ
ここからそう遠くないだろう
観たこともない景色
止まらない 胸の痛み
超えて もっと君に近づきたいよ
一周り しては戻り
青い空をずっと手探り
恋をして 終わりを告げ
誓うことは 今日が最初の good day
桜まで 風の中で
揺れて そっと君に手を伸ばすよ
好きで好きでどうしようもない それとこれとは関係無い
誓うことは これが最後の heartbreak
桜さえ 風の中で
揺れて やがて花を咲かすよ
降り出した 夏の雨が涙の横を通った すーっと
思い出とダブる映像 秋のドラマ再放送
どうして同じような
パンチ何度もくらっちゃうんだ
それでもまた戦うんだろう
それが命の不思議
恋をして 全て捧げ
願うことは これが最後の heartbreak
桜さえ 時の中で
揺れて やがて花を咲かすよ
繰り返す 季節の中で くつが擦り減ってく
もっと 肩の力抜いて
過去はどこかにしまっておけ
ここからそう遠くないだろう
観たこともない景色
止まらない 胸の痛み
超えて もっと君に近づきたいよ
一周り しては戻り
青い空をずっと手探り
恋をして 終わりを告げ
誓うことは 今日が最初の good day
桜まで 風の中で
揺れて そっと君に手を伸ばすよ
好きで好きでどうしようもない それとこれとは関係無い
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Doushite onaji youna panchiI Nandomo kurachaunda Soredemo mata tatakaun darou Sore ga inochi no fushigi
Her voice is at its best at that verse IMO.
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A really good song. Very pretty. I think it's Utada's 2nd best song, after Simple and Clean. The video is pretty weird though..
Beautiful song. Awsome video. Amazing lyrics. End of story.
I love this song. Its so pretty.
This song is really pretty and I like it a lot. I think that if you understand Japanese, the meaning should be pretty clear to you, as it is very straight forward. Well, long live Hikki! -Rin
Her voice is so serene, As a predominantly english speaking person, listening to her voice is enough to make me love her songs, and make me want to look up the english lyrics. This is the first song I ever heard of her's. and is also my favourite. =]
This song is beautiful. I mean absalutly sereane, it gives me chills. I listen to it alot on my ipod and people think Im crazy cause it Japaneese, but the truth is, Utada does beautiful creations with her music and it has real meaning.
I love the words to it too. Especally how she still says Heatbreak and Goodday in english.