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Old 23rd January 2007, 05:07 PM
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It's about love taking you by surprise. Like you're suddenly more interested in a guy than you ever expected to be, but at the same time, it makes sense. Lemme grab masa's lyrics and "translate" them XD

Who can stop us starting to shine?
Who had the right to stop them starting to flap?

-I think she means wings flapping here... the japanese tend to leave out anything that's obvious from context, and both shining & wings flapping have that meaning of taking off, being happy, taking to the sky, being proud of oneself.

I often speak
I often dream
We often talk together
"I want to be happy"
How many times? I don't know
What actually I want
What I'm actually not satisfied with
What I'm actually going toward
You ask me
But I have no answer

-Pretty obvious, the two of them are really good friends who talk all the time about their dreams & their futures, but the girl singing doesn't really know what WOULD make her happy.

At the moment I push you on the back
Please don't forget
The promise for this summer
You made for sure...

-More about how close they are. Playful, flirty, committed to each other. But not really in love yet.

We start to shine, and will catch the future some day
They start to flap, and will find the bright future

-The "we" in the chorus seems to be her and this guy, and the "they" is "kanojotachi", specifically a group of girls, which seems to allude to her friends all finding relationships and her still being single. She's kinda saying that maybe if they're all happy with boyfriends, maybe she can be too.

I'm really expecting
I'm really doubting
Anyone is the same, aren't they?
You say I'm "a good person"
But it sounds like "a person you don't care about"

-This is where she starts to really realize she's got feelings for her best guy friend, but she's worried the feeling isn't mutual, or that she SHOULDN'T have feelings for him at all because of their relationship.

The morning glow was dazzling
And made my eyes sting
I felt a pain in my chest
And was perplexed a little

-This is exactly how I feel every time I fall in love... the world seems brighter, but at the same time, being worried about rejection, you have that awful butterfly feeling in your stomach.

Who can stop us starting to shine?
Who had the right to stop them starting to flap?

-The repetition of the first chorus works here because it sounds like she's decided to tell him how she feels.

I'd like to conclude that unlike masa, I don't feel like it's fiction. Maybe "kanojotachi" is the other aidoru girls, maybe they had boyfriends or seemed to be happy in whatever relationships they had, and she didn't have anybody. But then she met Tomoya while making Twins Teacher and this is how she felt. *shrug*
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