Farewell Song

Anime: Air

Artist: Lia

Type: Ending

Romaji:

shiroku togireta yume no kirehashi o tsukamaete
shonen wa hashiru
te o hanashitara dokomademo tooku kaze no ne ni kieteyuku

hitotsu dake no omoi o tobashite

mabuta no ura ni egaki hajimeta e wa kasunde
tenohira de kosuttemo
itsuka mieta yasashisa wa mou nai
hitori fumidasu ashidake miteru

asa niwa kieta ano utakoe o itsumademo kiiteta

nomichi no saki de akaku naru houzuki segande
kodomo ga hashaideru
itsuka shitta yasashisa no naka ni mo
onaji fuukei aru nara ii ne

asa ni wa kieta ano uta koe o itsumademo kiiteta
bokura ga nokoshita ano ashiato o itsumademo otteta

asa ni wa kieta ano utagoe o itsumademo itsumademo
bokura ga nokoshita ano ashiato o dokomademo otteta
sou owari wa wakare to aru mono dakara subete oiteyuku
asa ni wa hizashi no naka atarashii uta kuchizusanderu

Kanji:

白く途切れた夢の切れ端をつかまえて
少年は走る
手を放したらどこまでも遠く風の音に消えてゆく

ひとつだけの思いを飛ばして

まぶたの裏に描きはじめた絵は霞んで
手のひらでこすっても
いつか見えた優しさはもうない
ひとり踏み出す足だけ見てる

朝には消えたあの歌声をいつまでも聞いてた

野道の先で赤く生るほうずきせがんで
子供がはしゃいでる
いつか知った優しさの中にも
同じ風景　あるならいいね

朝には消えたあの歌声をいつまでも聞いてた
僕らが残したあの足跡をいつまでも追ってた

朝には消えたあの歌声をいつまでもいつまでも
僕らが残したあの足跡をどこまでも追ってた
そう終わりは別れとあるものだから　すべて置いてゆく
朝には日差しの中　新しい歌、口ずさんでる

English:

A young boy catches a fragment of a dream interrupted and away he runs
If he lets go, it will vanish to the strains of a distant wind
One single memory floating away

The scene half-drawn behind my eyelids is fading
Even when I rub them with my palm
The tenderness I once glimpsed is no longer there
I look only at the foot falling in front of me

I'd been forever listening to the singing of a voice that vanished in the morning.

Ahead on the path through the field, a child is frolicking snatching at the red Hoozuki plants
In the midst of the gentleness I once knew
I hope the scenery remains the same

I'd been forever listening to the singing of a voice that vanished in the morning
Forever chasing after the foot prints we left behind

I'd been forever listening to the singing of a voice that vanished in the morning
Forever chasing after the foot prints we left behind

Such an ending is the stuff of farewells, and so I leave everything behind
In the sunlight of morning, I sing a new song to myself

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