Ishida Yoko – FOOLISH DREAM [Japanese lyrics with English translation]

artist: Ishida Yoko
title: FOOLISH DREAM
disc: all of me (album)

lyrics, music, arrangement: Rebecca Kneubuhl, Jeannie Lurie
additional lyric translation: Yoko Ishida

Romanization

yozora miage     kyou mo ano hoshi wa mienai
toki wa mujou ni     kokoro     midashite sugite yuku

Anata wa ima doko de     watashi wo miteiru no?
kurayami no naka     nandomo     yobitsuzukeru
FOOLISH DREAM

mune ga itamu you na     ano natsukashii kioku-tachi [1]

fui ni kanjiru no wa     anata no SAIN na no?
hashirisaru maboroshii demo ii     dakishimetai
FOOLISH DREAM [2]

itsuka sono te de tsutsunde hoshi
anata no nukumori     dakishimetai

kowarekaketa yume ni     tsumoru genjitsu no kage
sayonara nande ienai kara
miteitai     FOOLISH DREAM

English translation

Lifting my eyes to the night sky,     Once again I can’t see that star tonight
Time heartlessly passes,     disturbing the heart     in its wake

Where are you now, watching me from somewhere far away?
It is the foolish dream which I will call out for, again and again,
From out of the darkness

Those bittersweet nostalgic memories [1]

Is that sudden feeling     a sign from you?
Even if it is just a fleeting foolish dream that keeps escaping,
It’s enough for me to hold onto [2]

Someday I want to be surrounded by your arms
I want to embrace your warmth

As the shadow of reality piles up on this broken dream
I want to have this foolish dream
Because I can’t just say good bye

Japanese

夜空見上げ 今日もあの星は見えない
時は無情に 心 乱して 過ぎてゆく

あなたは今どこで わたしを見ているの?
暗闇の中 何度も 呼び続ける
FOOLISH DREAM

胸が痛むような あのなつかしい記憶たち

ふいに感じるのは あなたのサインなの?
走り去る幻でもいい 抱きしめたい
FOOLISH DREAM

いつか その手で 包んでほしい
あなたの温もり 感じたいだけ

こわれかけた夢に 積もる現実の影
サヨナラなんて言えないから
見ていたい FOOLISH DREAM

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[1] mune ga itamu you na     ano natsukashii kioku-tachi, lit: “Those nostalgic memories, like chest pain”
[2] hashirisaru maboroshii demo ii     dakishimetai, lit: “Even if it is an illusion that keeps disappearing, I am okay with that–I want to embrace it”

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