Hikaru Utada 宇多田ヒカル
Face My Fears (Japanese version) lyrics with English translation
- Language
- Japanese
- Level
- Intermediate
- Genre
- Pop
- Length
- 3:39
ねえ どれくらい
Hey, how long has it been?
ねえ 笑えばいい?
Hey, should I just smile?
今伝えたいことよそに
What I want to convey now is elsewhere
Let me face, let me face, let me face my fears
Let me confront, let me confront, let me confront my fears
Oh, let me face, let me face, let me face my fears
私の地図に載っていない
You're not marked on my map
道に立ちたい
I want to stand on the road
ねえ 生まれつき
Hey, from the day I was born
Learn languages through musicJapanese and 10+ more. Quizzes, karaoke, vocabulary bookmarks. Free.Getねえ 臆病な人なんていない
Hey, there's no one who's cowardly.
初めてのように歩きたい
I want to walk as if it’s my first time
Let me face, let me face, let me face my fears
Oh, let me face, let me face, let me face my fears
私の地図に載っていない
It’s not marked on my map
海は 遠くない
The sea isn’t far away
海は 遠くない
The sea isn’t far away
Let me face, let me face, let me face my fears
Oh, let me face, let me face, let me face my fears
私の知らない私に
I want to meet the me I don’t know yet
早く会いたい
I want to see you soon
Key vocabulary
- ねえ
- hey
- こと
- thingN3
- 臆病おくびょう
- cowardiceN1
- なんて
- like
- よう
- like
- いい
- goodN5
- 今いま
- nowN5
- よそ
- elsewhere
- 私わたし
- IN5
- 地図ちず
- mapN5
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About this song
Hikaru Utada is a Japanese singer-songwriter born in New York whose work blends J-pop with American R&B, trip-hop, and dance-pop, and who is known for redefining late-1990s J-pop and for the best-selling 1999 album First Love. Raised partly in the United States and writing and producing much of their own material, Utada gained major acclaim with a string of hit singles and albums including First Love and Exodus.