A Japanese ballad about holding onto someone's image long after they're gone.
A Japanese ballad about holding onto someone's image long after they're gone.
The lyric circles a simple, brutal truth: memory is an act of will against a world that keeps moving on.
Seasons change and colors fade, but the song insists on staying in one place, drawing the same face.
A Japanese ballad about holding onto someone's image long after they're gone.
Hitomi wo tojite kimi wo egaku yo sore dake de ii
The lyric circles a simple, brutal truth: memory is an act of will against a world that keeps moving on. Seasons change and colors fade, but the song insists on staying in one place, drawing the same face. It's less about grief and more about a kind of stubborn devotion to a ghost.
The phrase 'Hitomi wo tojite kimi wo egaku yo', 'I close my eyes and draw you', is the song's entire engine. It's not about seeing someone, but about the deliberate, private act of conjuring them from nothing. The singer needs that image to exist, so he makes it himself, over and over, because 'sore shika dekinai', that's all he can do.
It's a statement of bare-minimum survival. If all he gets to keep is this self-made picture, that has to be enough. The line accepts the limitation completely.
The quiet repetition of 'Kimi ga kureta kara' at the very end, like a final, grounding fact whispered to the self.
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Asa mezameru tabi ni kimi no nukegara ga yoko ni iru
Nukumori wo kanjita itsu mo no senaka ga tsumetai
Nigiwarai wo yamete omoi kaaten wo akeyou
Mabushi sugiru asahi boku to mainichi no oikakekko da
Ano hi miseta nakigao
Namida terasu yuuhi kata no nukumori
Keshi sarou to negau tabi ni
Kokoro ga karada ga kimi wo oboete iru
Your love forever
Hitomi wo tojite kimi wo egaku yo sore dake de ii
Tatoe kisetsu ga boku no kokoro wo okisari ni shite mo
Itsu ka wa kimi no koto nani mo kanjinaku naru no ka na
Ima no itami daite nemuru hou ga mada ii ka na
Ano hi miteta hoshizora
Negai kakete futari sagashita hikari wa
Matataku aida ni kieteku no ni
Kokoro wa karada wa kimi de kagayaiteru
I wish forever
Hitomi wo tojite kimi wo egaku yo sore shika dekinai
Tatoe sekai ga boku wo nokoshite sugisarou to shite mo
Your love forever
Hitomi wo tojite kimi wo egaku yo sore dake de ii
Tatoe kisetsu ga boku wo nokoshite iro wo kaeyou to mo
Kioku no naka ni kimi wo sagasu yo sore dake de ii
Nakushita mono wo koeru tsuyo sa wo
Kimi ga kureta kara
Kimi ga kureta kara
A Japanese ballad about holding onto someone's image long after they're gone. The lyric circles a simple, brutal truth: memory is an act of will against a world that keeps moving on. Seasons change and colors fade, but the song insists on staying in one place, drawing the same face.
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