A Cage It Falls Into

I know Japanese and English and it seems to me like the first stanza would have been better translated:

wind against my back/my face against the sky/I'm falling/falling... picking up feathers one by one/I'm drifting/drifting (or maybe flowing is better, I dunno)

The Japanese lyrics for the first stanza are: 空に向かい、風を受けながら (sora ni mukai, kaza wo ukenagara) 落ちて行く (ochite yuku) 落ちて行く (ochite yuku)

羽を一つ一つ拾い集め (hane wo hitotsu hitotsu hiroi atsume) 流れ行く (nagare yuku) 流れ行く (nagare yuku)