
Yurie Kokubu 国分友里恵
リフレイン lyrics with English translation
- Language
- Japanese
- Level
- Advanced
- Released
- 1986
- Genre
- City Pop
- Length
- 4:22
蒼い夜明けを
Leave me the blue dawn,
私に残して
just for me to keep.
タイヤ軋ませ
The tires squeal,
クラクションひとつ
one honk of the horn.
あぁ あなたらしい
Ah, so typical of you,
別れ方ね
the way you part.
涙を誘わない
It doesn’t pull at my tears,
リフレイン
a refrain.
あの頃のふたりに
To the two of us back then,
さよならを joke に代えさせて
let's turn goodbye into a joke.
リフレイン
Refrain
微笑をもいちど
I want to see your smile once more
さりげなく見送りたい
Casually, I wish to see you off
いつの日も愛の痛みの
Always, the pain of love is
くり返し
A repetition
サングラスの中
Behind my sunglasses
瞳を隠して
Hiding my eyes
テールの行方
The direction of the tail
ぼんやり見ていた
I was watching absently
あぁ 止めるタイミング
Ah, the timing to stop
外したから
I took it off,
今さら言えないわ
Now it's too late to say.
リフレイン
Refrain,
友達でいたなら
If we had stayed as friends,
迷わずに話し合えたふたり
We could have talked without hesitation,
リフレイン
Refrain,
思い出にしないで
Don't turn it into a memory,
またいつか恋をしたら
If we fall in love again someday,
言い訳はキスでしたい
I want my excuses to be sealed with a kiss,
その時は
At that moment,
リフレイン
Refrain
あの頃のふたりに
To the two of us back then
さよならを joke に代えさせて
Let me swap goodbye for a joke
リフレイン
Refrain
微笑をもいちど
I want to see your smile once more
さりげなく見送りたい
Casually, I want to send you off
いつの日も愛の痛みの
For all days, the pain of love's
くり返し
Repeating
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Key vocabulary
- あぁ
- ah
- あなた
- youN5
- さりげ
- casual
- いちど
- once
- いつか
- someday
- から
- from
- キス
- kiss
- くり返しくりかえし
- repeat
- さよなら
- goodbye
- サングラス
- sunglassesN3
About this song
Yurie Kokubu is a Japanese singer, songwriter, and lyricist whose early-1980s work, produced by Tetsuji Hayashi, has returned to attention through the city pop revival; she has focused on Christian music since the 1990s.