[romaji & translation] BRILLANTE
 

Anata o omotte tsuzuru no wa kore de
Saigo ni suru koto ni shita wa

Riyuu o tsuge nai sore ga saidai no
Atashi kara no okurimono

Omotta yori mo hito wa zutto tsuyoi mono ne
Sukoshi nagaku yami no naka ni ita kedo
Sorosoro iku wa

Nani mo mie naku natta sono ato de
Subete mieta
Tsuzuku michi wa sema sugite hitori kiri de
Aruku shika hoka ni nai no

Itami ga souzou no hani o amari ni
Koete shimatta toki ni hito wa

Naite mi tari sakende mi tari
Dekiru chikara wa nokotte nanka mou nai no ne
Hitasura mu ni osowa reru no ne

Futatsu datta mono ga hitotsu ni natte
Futatsu ni natta tada sore dake no koto ne
Tada moto ni modotta dake no koto yo ne

Nani mo mie naku natta sono ato de
Subete mieta
Tsuzuku michi wa sema sugite nou narande
Aruite wa ike nai no yo ...
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I decided that this is my last time to write
Thinking of you

I don't tell you the reason
This is the biggest present from me

A human is much stronger than I thought, isn't he?
I've stayed in the darkness a little longer
But it's time to go

I couldn't see anything
After that, I saw everything
The road ahead is too narrow
And I have no choice but to walk alone

When the pain becomes
Far beyond the reach of imagination

There is no more energy left
To be able to cry or shout
A human is entirely caught in nothingness, isn't he?

What had been two became one, and became two
It's no more than that
We've just come full circle, haven't we?

I couldn't see anything
After that, I saw everything
The road ahead is too narrow
And I can no longer walk on, side by side with you ...

Thx a lot masa!!!
My favorite song in FIVE by far...

it seems to be epic both in PV lyrics & music
great
please make more!!!
I've missed ayuhits like this :luv2

thank U! Amazing lyrics!

The lyrics are truly amazing. I absolutely LOVE this song!

Love the lyrics, thank you masa.

Thank you!

i wonder what the corelation between the title and the lyrics

Thank you!!
I love this song!! :heart

You are welcome.
I change one line like this

I came to see nothing --> I coundn't see anything

Amazing lyrics!

Thanks for sharing!

what's good with the chanting in the PV?

By the way, I can't catch the chorus part at all. What language is it and what is the meaning? Could someone translate it into English?

it seems to be latin, but I can't get more

Thanks for the lyrics and translation! Someone should add some electric guitars and the song would be taking a step in the direction of symphonic metal.

Still haven't heard this either but I know I will like the song because of the lyrics eventually. <3 Thank you for the translation :)

to me the chanting part is like a few languages in one....

beautiful lyrics! Thanks, masa!

Beautiful and sad... I wonder who it is she's breaking off from?

Such a beautiful song ~ Very haunting

Thanks masa for translating ^-^

There are two typos in the translations atm~

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When the pain becomes far beyond the reach of imagination

And the phrases:
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I couldn't see anything... after that, I saw everything

Also, I'm not sure if this line makes sense?
Is it supposed to be more like "I won't tell you the reason" or something else?

Thanks again as usual for these!

To: truehappiness

Thanks for your advice. I corrected the spelling mistakes.

I don't tell you the reason -- Riyuu o tsuge nai
I won't tell you the reason -- Riyuu o tsuge nai darou

I feel that the English lines on the left correspond to the Japanese lines on the right. But I'm not sure of that because I'm not a native speaker of English.
Would you tell me the reason why "I don't tell you the reason" sounds unnatural to you?

The video and the song seem to allude to her tapering off in the industry...? I know she wrote a lot about love for her fans on Ls, and talked a lot about the end of the road on RnRC, but BRILLANTE reads and views as though Ayu is expressing grief for the great love she and her fans once shared.

The PV feels the same way. Especially the scenes of her on the throne with Leslie Kee, who seems to reassure her that she is still very much here but that this is fate.

I also think the chanting is Latin.

Also, beautiful lyrics.

Beautiuful lyrics~
thx masa :)

Seems to me this is about coming together after great hardship, and to find strength in pain. It seems pretty clear what it may be alluding to.

You are welcome.
I changed the line arrangement, according to the original lyrics.

hi masa..

i think the "tha pain" and "coundn't" should be corrected again..
and would the last line sound more appropriate in
"And I can no longer walk on, side by side with you ..."??

just my two cents :)

this is one of her darkest lyric ever. Love it so much. Thanks Masa

I corrected the parts. Thank you.

Wow, this is intense. o_o Thanks, masa for posting the lyrics.

the chorus is not latin, from what we can guess it's a made-up language.

The ending chant is actually saying "goodbye" in many languages
Geia sas (Greek)
Lah korn (Thai)
Adiós (Spanish)
Alvida (Hindi) ?
Auf wiedersehen (German)
Do svidania (Russian)
Au revoir (French)
(+ do svidania again?)

Wow! I heard this one but thought that it would be too good to be true :-)) I'm glad it was correct :-)))

We heard 3 "goodbyes" our first few listens: Adios, Au revoir, and Do svidania. I't scool to have them cataloged because I'm sure it will become a FAQ.

Since you quoted me on that it's not necessarily correct, I suggest everyone to check out the thread in Enquiries for more discussion about it.

Touching song, the lyrics are truly amazing!
Thanks for the translation.

I think there's a mistake here :

In the booklet of the album, the last line is :
I don't know if it changes anything in the meaning, but i noticed it when i read the lyrics with the song.

My mistake. I correct the part. The translation doesn't change. Thank you.

!!! This is absolutely depressing!

Before I looked at the lyrics, I thought that BRILLANTE was a song about how 'brilliant' humans progressed through the years. ~I KNOW weird, weird! I never knew it was this dark...

And the chanting at the end adds to the end of ayu's dialogue. I like how thoroughly well-thought they made this. I have to be honest, when I first heared that girl or guy chant I thought that he was talking in a self-invented language. The beginning is a bit complicated for me though.

Thank you!!!

Could it be about the dog she lost? Crea?

nice idea

Looks like Timmy revealed what he sang in BRILLANTE via Twitter! I thought he was going to keep it a secret.

Somehow I honestly don't think that lyrics as intense as this would be written about a dog.

I don't think the song was about CREA but I'm not dismissing the idea. CREA was her pet, not just a dog.

Also, can someone translate that part of the song? (Lansa, tuliansa. Elumerra, tuliensaro matirue...)

^^I understand that completely, about CREA being a pet. Even so, the lyrics are too intense.

Maybe the best song of FIVE

They don't even make sense if it was about her dog :laugh

I don't think it's about CREA because the line:

CREA and ayu didn't split. Personally I think it's about divorce, "the road is too narrow" - the virgin road didn't give her the freedom she thought it'd maintain? "I have to walk it alone" - the partner wasn't there with her. "I didn't see anything" - she had no expectations in such a relationship when they met. "I saw everything" - she discovered all the paint and hurt, the dark side of an undevoted marriage.

I dislike interpreting this song, I feel like I'm judging somebody else's personal life. But ayu has always opened up her personal baggage in her music which I think may be quite healthy.

Ok, I was very bored today and I started to use google translator and I found out that:

Lansa, tuliansa. is translated from the Finnish to English as: Adjust their premises, came to her.

But I couldn't find what does the other part mean. Someone who can help? Did you know it? XD

Not true at all. WTH, google :laugh I'm pretty convinced it's a made-up language in the song. :/

^Timmy confirmed it's an invented language... I don't know why people keep trying to translate it after the composer himself said some of the worlds can be find on a dictionary and some can't...

^Right, I forgot he already confirmed it. :/

I re-read the lyrics a few times after Ayu announced the divorce with Manny. This song sounds like it was entirely about the divorce. And I think we'll hear the final part of this experience on "Return Road". I know the marriage was extremely special to Ayu. She wrote "November" for Manny, and the Love songs album was wrapped around this time when she felt she had found someone to complete her life's story. FIVE was several months after the tsunami, and Ayu said during an interview that she felt she needed to stay in Japan after this to help uplift the nation's spirits.

I feel that Party Queen will reflect a lot on Ayu's marriage with Manny. Titles like "how beautiful you are", "Letter", "call", "reminds me", "the next LOVE", "Tell me why", and "Serenade in A minor" give off the immediate sense that Ayumi is using her music to reconnect with fans.

I think "BRILLANTE" is an amazing song, and I love that there is so much depth to the lyrics which we are just now coming to realize. If I could give Ayu a standing ovation for both "progress" and "BRILLANTE", I would be applauding her for at least 5 minutes. There really are intense emotions and unbelievable depths to these two songs, things fans can connect to like her early days again, which makes me feel like Ayumi has so many words left to share with us.

I'm pretty sure except for progress, all of FIVE can be intepreted as written about her eventual divorce.

I got the russian line right, than :)

MAybe FIVE is the number of months she enjoyed her marriage... XD

I wonder when it was that Ayu had decided to divorce Mannie? It would make it easier to know if FIVE is really about him, I think.

Given the way Ayu treats her dogs, I would totally understand if she wrote a song with very intense feelings for one of them. But I don't think that's the case in BRILLANTE too :P

^^Yeah, it just doesn't fit, imo :)

It's Greek, Thai, Spanish, Hindi, German, Russian, French, Arabic ;) ;)

And how do you say it exactly ?

Geia sas, lah korn, adios, alvida, auf wiedersehen, do svidanya, au revoir, ma'a as-salaama

Thx ;)

Sure thing :D

ahhh I love knowing all the goodbyes. Thanks!

Timmy just told me there's a goodbye before Greek as well, so I'll go investigate again~

Edit: And it seems it was Portuguese 'Adeus' and not Spanish ^^

Great! It was frustrating not knowing the last "goodbye". I've been scratching my head on that one for a long time on that one.

Timmy hinted another "goodbye", and with the help of Aura-chan, we got it!
The order now is: Irish Gaelic, Greek, Thai, Portuguese, Hindi, German, Russian, French, Arabic
Slán, Geia sas, Lah korn, Adeus, Alavidā, Auf Wiedersehen, Do svidania, Au revoir, Ma'a as-salaama

finally =) thanks

Didn't he deny it being actual languages at once...? lol

^ I think he said it about beginning of a song? lansa~ etc