SONIC BOOM
artist: 坂本真綾 Sakamoto Maaya
disc: Kazeyomi (album)

lyrics: Sakamoto Maaya
music, arrangement: Ichikawa Yuuichi

translation by iconoclastiac @ gmail.com
http://melodycafe.iconoclastiac.net/lyrics/

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覚えている？
陽のひかりで　小鳥のように目覚めた日を
未来なんてあたりまえに来るものだと思っていた

好きな人とずっといっしょにいたい
そんな単純な夢も叶えられずに　僕らはここで離れてしまうの

早く　いちばん大切な人のところへ
このまま　きみをほんとうに失う　その前に
答えはとっくに決まってる
想いをかたちに変えるんだ

そばにいても気づけなくて　今になってわかったこと
もしかしたら　あの頃より僕はきみの近くにいる

力まかせにただ抱きしめたって　守ることはできなくて
僕は大事なものをいくつも壊してきたけど

走れ　いま自由になる僕の意識
届け　原色の羽根に乗って舞い上がれ
きっと間に合う　最果ての向こうで必ず会えるんだ

早く　いちばん大切な人のところへ
このまま　きみをほんとうに失う　その前に
答えはずっと決まってた
僕たちは知っていた
想いをかたちに変えるんだ
僕らはそれを未来と呼ぶんだ

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oboeteiru?
hi no hikari de   kotori no you ni mezameta hi wo
mirai nante atarimae ni kuru mono da to omotteita
	Do you remember?
	Those sunlit days when we awakened like little birds
	thinking the future would just come to us naturally

suki na hito to zutto issho ni itai
sonna tanjun na yume mo kanaerarezu ni   bokura wa koko de hanarete shimau no
	Wanting to be with the people we love
	Unable to make even that simple dream come true   we are separated here, now

hayaku   ichiban taisetsu na hito no tokoro e
kono mama   kimi wo hontou ni ushinau   sono mae ni
kotae wo tokku ni kimatteru
omoi wo katachi ni kaerunda
	Quickly,   to the most important person in the world to me
	I might really lose you   if things continue on like this   So before that happens
	I will bring you the answer that I had decided from a long time ago
	And change my feelings into reality [1]

soba ni itemo kizukenakute   ima ni natte wakatta koto
moshikashitara   ano koro yori boku wa kimi no chikaku ni iru
	I didn't notice that you were always by my side   But I understand now
	Perhaps   I am closer to you now than I was back then

chikara-makase ni tada dakishimetatte   mamoru koto wa dekinakute
boku wa daiji na mono wo ikutsumo kowashitekita kedo
	Although I hug you as tightly as I can   I can't protect you
	I've lost things that were important to me

hashire   ima jiyuu ni naru boku no ishiki
todoke   genshoku no hane ni notte maiagare
kitto maniau   saihate no mukou de kanarazu aerunda
	Let my freed consciousness run
	Let me take off on vibrant wings and reach you [2]
	We will surely meet   We will meet, even if we must go to the ends of the earth

hayaku   ichiban taisetsu na hito no tokoro e
kono mama   kimi wo hontou ni ushinau   sono mae ni
kotae wa zutto kimatteta
boku-tachi wa shitteita
omoi wo katachi ni kaerunda
bokura wa sore wo mirai to yobunda
	Quickly,   to the most important person in the world to me
	I might really lose you   if things continue on like this   So before that happens
	The answer that has always been decided
	The answer we've known all along
	I will bring it and change our feelings into reality [1]
	We call this the future

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[1] omoi wo katachi ni kaeru. lit. "give [our] feelings a form." This phrase is about giving substance to something (feelings) which have no form or shape...in other words, making into reality something that existed previously only in the mind.
[2] genshoku [no hane]. lit. [wings of] primary colors. Specifying the primary colors seemed unnecessarily awkward. I went with the imagery of vibrancy which is suggested by primary colors.