Issei no Koe
(opening song for Natsume Yujincho)
by Shuhei Kita
Translation: Maureen S. O’Brien, 2/15/09
Once again, you make that face and
Bite your lip in that same place and
Hide your weakness. Do you think you’re hiding it?
Back behind your eyes, I see there
All the pain you hide from me there
That’s really where your heart ought to be.
Laughing and crying,
Lone and lonely
Burdened with hurting, but why?
I’d like to help you — let me help you —
But if you can’t do it, right now, we’ll get through it
Okay, one step at a time.
Folks like us, with no wings, are wrong to think
That we’ll never be able to get up and fly.
With all of my power, I’ll call in that hour
So don’t you get lost, meantime.
I’ll carry your heart up to ride the wind
And upon the wind, let us ride —
Our voices one!
This is another one that’s more a versification than a translation, as I’m working almost entirely off the one that seems to be on all the lyrics sites.
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