If you try to stand still, you’re still going 1400km/h
You can’t run against the earth’s rotation

“You can’t stand still to avoid standing still”
I don’t understand why
I stand still because I’m helpless either way; I guess it doesn’t matter what I do

I, trying not to lose hope, now face a future where I don’t know how much I’ll be walking backwards
Because even if I tried again to throw away that thing which I made myself hand over
I’ll give the next future to that hand that has become empty

In the future where I was worried in my place of refuge
I made it in advance, because I knew I’d be helpless
When I accidentally saw myself
I could see myself in my bloodshot eyes

In the corner of my room I hid away in
Even in the bed I wrapped myself in
With all my might I clung to what was near

“Are you okay?” “No, I’m still not”
“well are you okay now?” “You’re quite insistent”
Do you not know how to give up?
What do you call a plan like yours?

How much will I soon discover in the future if I try to walk covering my head? How far will I be taken?
Even If I get angry again at getting overtaken, I’ll never try to pass again
Like the moon floating in the night

I won’t go in front or behind for you
I’ll just have to move in a small box
Because there’s nothing further than in front or behind*

“I will never be an influence on anyone”
“Give up already, it’s been so long”
“But in the end, please clear your ears”

From somewhere, I hear a voice
“If it’s a future where you are going to throw everything away
Please give it to me, I’ll make you use it carefully”

And I finally realized, softly, you strongly held me
Because when I was born, it was something I took

Far away, I shout to you
“From now on, wait before you go”
You, who has tears floating in your eyes
Was the thing in my future

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This is actually one of my favourite songs. Really nice intro, melody, instrumentals, solo, lyrics

*I’m not sure at all about this section. I can’t figure out where to put the pronouns, so it’s hard to determine what’s actually being said.
But other than that, I’m pretty sure about the rest of the song.

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On a side note, I recently purchased the latest radwimps live dvd, and I have to say it’s pretty awesome. Maybe even worth the $130 i ended up paying for it…

From the moment that cord to the stomach is cut, a lost child is created
Figuratively speaking, it’s as if a kite with a torn cord is fluttering in the sky

Recent days, I want to return to you
I want to return to the birth canal
I want to return so much

I searched for where I came from, but I couldn’t find it
You can’t find a thing like that anywhere
All that is here is a limited universe that is looked on upon

In the middle of this vast world
In this small corner of society
There is no way to know what the place of this deserted person’s is

When lost children pass by
One by one the paths increase
someone accidentally tried to name that complicated maze “earth”

“Let’s go there”, “Let’s go here”
“Go there, don’t come here”
“If that’s so, let’s go there. Come on, let’s go!”

The dead end of “let’s go somewhere”
A wide street that was never found
If you look back, you’ll see an infinite history

It’s at the head of the years that have piled up
At the back of time that rots
There’s no way to know the future of this abandoned body

All these roads have given has been the number of answers put forth by lost children
Dispute was born in the place where the paths mixed
The words left by the victor have always been what has become history
Yes, and the left over words of a loser like me
Are entwined in smoke, flowing, being buried

Everyday before I eat, in this clinging world
The meaning and worth that corresponds with the murdered life
I shouldn’t be able to think that such a thing could exist

When the days we’ve passed over now sway,
And promises we made will be locked tomorrow,
Is it comforting? Is it punishment?
The flow of time quickens

How to speak, what to say,
How to tie those arms and legs,
The way those feet face,
All came before everything else

Following before – how to speak,
And if you realize, how to fall to last place,
Is to attempt to look back
Which is to stand at the front, having won the race by a large margin

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Another great song off RADWIMPS’s latest album (though I guess it’s been out for a year now).

The only parts I’m not sure about would be the part “A wide street that was never found” and the last two paragraphs. I spent a long time trying to get a translation that made sense with them and I think I’ve finally got something. It’s probably still be a little off though.

Strangely enough, the guitar at the beginning of 空につづく道 sounds a lot like a guitar intro I wrote about a year ago.