Monotone

I've long been, we've long been
Living in a world all alone
Each time we gently touch a neighboring world
I come to realize
I remember, ah

When we were young
Protected by innocence
Just calling each other's names and promising tomorrow
Made us believe the world was one

The things we can't understand
The things we can't forgive
Increase one by one, and each time
I even stopped hoping
That we could trust each other

I've long been, we've long been
Living in separate worlds
When you think you're close, you drift apart
Each time it's repeated
Ah, I realize I'm all alone

I, we
Still seek someone
Because we're not mature enough
To simply accept loneliness and live on, ah

In the back of the classroom
The same scenery painted in different colors
Each of us is different
Yet never perfectly overlapping

From the ideals we're painting,
Measuring how far we are from them
A one-sided love resembling love
Is excessive, a demand for the impossible
Each time I confirm it, I dislike it
Each time I seek it, I become selfish
Each time I lose it, I became timid

I don't wish for more than now
Don't go further away than now
Believing that maintaining that ambiguous distance
Is what it means to grow up

I, I
Am just running away from being hurt
But in truth, even now
I still want to believe

I've long been, we've long been
Everyone living in separate worlds
So we hold hands
Exchange words
To deceive each other that we’re not alone

Someday, someday
Wrapped in this immature loneliness
If we could become gentle from the learned loneliness and pain
If we could trust people

Forever, both I and you
Everyone is alone
Wanting to understand each other
When our hearts touch, trying to be close
For a moment, this world seemed as one.

zutto boku wa bokura wa
hitorikiri no sekai o ikite iru
tonariau sekai ni sotto fureru tabi
omoi shirun da
omoidasun da aa

osanai koro no bokura wa
mujakisa ni mamorareta mama
yobiau namae to ashita no yakusoku
sore dake de sekai wa hitotsu da to omoeta

wakari aenai koto ga
yurushiaenai koto ga
hitotsu futatsu fuete iku sono tabi ni boku wa
shinjiaeru to kitai suru koto sae mo
yamete shimatta

zutto boku wa bokura wa
sorezore betsu no sekai o ikite iru
chikazuita to omoeba hanarebanare ni
sou kurikaesu tabi
aa hitorikiri o omoi shirun da

boku ga bokura ga
soredemo dareka o motomeru no wa
kodoku o tada sunao ni ukeireta mama
ikite ikeru hodo otona ja nai kara aa

kyoushitsu no ushiro ni harareta
chigau iro de egakareta onaji keshikitachi
bokura wa daremo ga sorezore de chigau
sukoshi no zure mo naku kasanaru koto wa nai no ni

egaite iru risou kara dore dake
hanarete iru ka de hakaru you na
ai ni niseta hitori yogari wa
ikisugita nai mono nedari
tashikameru tabi iya ni natte
motomeru tabi migatte ni natte
ushinau tabi okubyou ni natta

ima yori ooku wa nozomanai kara
ima yori tooku e wa ikanai de
sou yatte aimai na kyori o tamotsu koto ga
otona ni naru koto da to omoikonda

boku wa boku wa
kizutsuku koto kara nigete iru dake de
hontou wa tada ima demo mada
shinjitainda

zutto boku wa bokura wa
daremo ga betsu no sekai o ikite iru
dakara te o tsunaide
sou kotoba o kawashite
hitorikiri de wa nai yo to
otagai ni gomakashi aun da

itsuka itsuka
kono mijuku na kodoku ni tsutsumarete
oboeta sabishisa to itami no bun dake
yasashiku naretara hito o shinjiraretara

zutto boku mo kimi mo
daremo ga hitori da
wakariaitai to
yorisoi atta kokoro ga fureru sono toki
isshun kono sekai wa hitotsu ni mieta