Ayumi Hamasaki Sekai - [Translation] Last Minute Lyrics

Ayumi Hamasaki Sekai (http://www.ahsforum.com/forum/index.php)

- Lyrics (http://www.ahsforum.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=51)

- - [Translation] Last Minute Lyrics (http://www.ahsforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=121017)

Beautiful.

I hope we get some light shed on what these are about.

Thank you so much for translating this.

Thx for translation, the lyrics are interesting to read.

for me that's song about break up with Maro

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Originally Posted by Aderianu (Post 3109954)

for me that's song about break up with Maro

Me too... big time.

Also, some of her best lyrics in ages. Love love love them. So deep and powerful.

Thanks for the translation.

I did my own translation of this one... Some of these lines have multiple ways you could translate them, and the result is that the song is a bit vague and hard to understand, and I think how each of us interprets this song is going to be very very personal.

I read the lyrics and I got much more of a feeling that this was about Aneki. It feels like Ayu may have been considering suicide in the past - and I don't think that's out of left field; I think songs like POWDER SNOW, NEVER EVER, Secret, and a few others sort of hint at suicidal thoughts too - but having resolved not to do it, she sees Aneki's suicide as a betrayal.

Grief over something like suicide is a very, very complicated thing though and I could be completely wrong, of course. But that's the impression I got.

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One by one, parts of you take turns
going away from me, and I can feel how cold it is.
The pain is just as if, somewhere in my body,
a section has been plucked away.

I searched for someone, I hated someone, I believed in someone.
All it did was inflict wounds that I'm going to have to live with.

Are you thinking that maybe these could be last words?
I don't want to hear that sort of thing, not even for one second.
In becoming a memory, you become eternal
And there's no bigger con you could pull than that.
Give me myself back.

There was a time when two of us smiled cutely at one another,
still able to see the future.
We understood that there was no such thing as forever, but still
we had no sense of how close the end really was.

Slipping away into the night, then melting in the morning, my heart was lost.
I want to forget it all so badly
that I'm not even capable of saying goodbye.

I don't want to keep remembering your last smile
Pretending to be asleep, and then disappearing
"I want to be loved," I wished,
unable to love anyone myself. And that, I know, you...

Are you thinking that maybe these could be last words?
I don't want to hear that sort of thing, not even for one second.
In becoming a memory, you become eternal
And there's no bigger con you could pull than that.

I don't want to keep remembering your last smile
Pretending to be asleep, and then disappearing
"I want to be loved," I wished,
unable to love anyone myself. And that, I know,
you noticed.

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Originally Posted by Delirium-Zer0 (Post 3109984)

Wow, it's so poignant but making sense a lot..

Thanks for providing this ^^ really good job! can I just point out that "憎む" translates to "to hate, to detest"? So I'd translate the "人を求め人を憎み" part to "craving people, hating people" literally. Thanks again for the hard work ^^

It IS translated as "hate" in my translation, are you referring to the fact that I put it in past tense? The line ends with past tense so I went with the whole line being past tense in general, though that may or may not have been her intention.

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Originally Posted by Delirium-Zer0 (Post 3109984)

Oh, I really like your approach to the lyrics! I think it's a really good interpretation.

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Originally Posted by tsumekaze_ (Post 3110010)

Thanks for pointing that out! My brain replaced "hate" with "hurt" >.>

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Originally Posted by Delirium-Zer0 (Post 3110025)

Tsumekaze was refering to my translation. I made a stupid typo, replacing "hate" with "hurt".

beginning of Last Minute remind me of untitled for her 2
so ayu Aneki's suicide theme is also nice guess

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Originally Posted by Delirium-Zer0 (Post 3110025)

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Originally Posted by tenshi no hane (Post 3110054)

Tsumekaze was refering to my translation. I made a stupid typo, replacing "hate" with "hurt".

Yup I was referring to tenshi's one, I just read the first post and commented so I didn't read yours, Delirium-Zer0 :) haha don't worry tenshi no hane, my brain messes up every day XD

Official lyrics are out and I got everything right! Yay :laugh

The lyrics in Romanji would be nice. To someone have it?

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Originally Posted by Mari-chan (Post 3110754)

The lyrics in Romanji would be nice. To someone have it?

Here you go:

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anata no paatsu ga hitotsu hitotsu to
jun ni hanareteku tsumetasa kanjiteru
sore wa marude kono karada no dokoka
ichibu wo mogareta you na itami da wa

hito wo motome, hito wo nikumi, hito wo shinjita
kekkyoku wa kizutsuketa kizu to issho ni ikiteiku

saigo no kotoba da to ka kangaeteiru n deshou
sonna no ichi byou mo kikitakunai wa
anata ha omoide ni naru koto de eien ni naru
sore tte nani yori mo zurui koto da wa
atashi wo kaeshite

kawaiku hohoemi atteta futari
mada ashita no koto mieteita koro ne
eien ga nai no wa wakatteite mo
owari mo chikaku ni kanjitenakatta wa

yoru ni magire, asa ni tokete, kokoro nakushita
sayonara mo ienai hodo subete wasurete shimaitai

saigo no egao nante oboeteitakunai wa
nemutteru furi wo shiteru uchi ni kiete
aisaretai to negau atashi ga dare no koto mo
aisenai koto ni anata wa kitto

saigo no kotoba da to ka kangaeteiru n deshou
sonna no ichi byou mo kikitakunai wa
anata wa omoide ni naru koto de eien ni naru
sore tte nani yori mo zurui koto da wa

saigo no egao nante oboeteitakunai wa
nemutteru furi wo shiteru uchi ni kiete
aisaretai to negau atashi ga dare no koto mo
aisenai koto ni anata wa kitto
kizuita no ne

Thanks a lot...:love

Some very powerful lyrics. I love it :)

Thanks for the translation