Suna wo Kamu You ni...NAMIDA (Bitter...Tears) 砂を噛むように… NAMIDA

taken from projecthello

"Suna wo Kamu You ni...NAMIDA" was Aya's 18th single, the 11th track on her fifth album "Naked Songs", the seventh track on her sixth album "Double Rainbow"
and the third track on her eighth album "Click You Link Me"

Music: Joey Carbone & Kyoko Nitta, Lyrics : Mera Morimura (森村メラ), Arr: Taisei ( たいせー) & Takao Konishi (小西貴雄)

"Suna wo kamu you ni" literally means "like chewing sand." It sounds really weird in the context of the translation, so I just translated it as meaning "bitter."

 

Kanji

 

雨が 明日に向かって
急ぐ足 ひきとめる
忘れ物なら 忘れたままと
置いてきたのに

空が流すなみだが
時計の針と日付を
あなたと出会い過ごした日々に 
心だけ還した

約束ならまだ覚えてる
去り行くモノは何故 いつも愛しい

早すぎた恋でした 傷つけあってばっかりで
涙は雨の様に 激しく止まない
あの日が手の平から遠く離れ 
気付きました

現在を尋ねないでよ
ほかの誰かのことも
知っているでしょ? 
嘘をつくのはあまり上手じゃない

話しの合う人はいるけど
胸を動かすような気持ちになれない

早すぎた恋でした 
確かめられないものが
あるから不思議なの 今は愛おしい
記憶の中を調べ なくしたのは 貴方でした

鮮やかだった 記憶の色は
時の経過と 共に 淡く

大好きな恋でした 大好きな人でした
だけど砂をかむように 目覚めのベルがなる
戻らなくちゃ わたしは今を歩いてるの
あなたのこと胸に抱き 笑いながら

Romaji

 

ame ga asu ni mukatte
isogu ashi hikitomeru
wasuremono nara wasureta mama to
oite kita no ni

sora ga nagasu namida ga
tokei no hari to hizuke wo
anata to deai sugoshita hibi ni
kokoro dake kaeshita

yakusoku nara mada oboeteru
sariyuku MONO wa naze itsumo itoshii

hayasugita koi deshita kizutsuke atte bakkari de
namida wa ame no you ni hageshiku yamanai
ano hi ga te no hira kara tooku hanare
kizukimashita

ima wo tazunenaide yo
hoka no dare ka no koto mo
shitteiru desho?
uso wo tsuku no wa amari jouzu ja nai

hanashi no au hito wa iru kedo
mune wo ugokasu you na kimochi ni narenai

hayasugita koi deshita
tashikamerarenai mono ga
aru kara fushigi na no ima wa itooshii
kioku no naka wo shirabe nakushita no wa
anata deshita

azayaka datta kioku no iro wa
toki no keika to tomo ni awaku

daisuki na koi deshita daisuki na hito deshita
dakedo suna wo kamu you ni mezame no BERU ga naru
modoranakucha watashi wa ima wo aruiteru no
anata no koto mune ni idaki warai nagara

Translation

 

As the rain faces tomorrow
I hold back from the fast pace
The things I'd forgotten
I left behind as forgotten

The tears that the sky shed
return the hands of time and the date
only in my heart
to the days that I met and spent with you

I still remember that promise at least
Why are the things we leave behind always the most beloved?

It was a love that went too fast,
and all it did was hurt
Like the rain, my tears are strong and won't stop
I realized that that day went far away from my grasp

Don't ask me about now
Or even about anyone else
You know, don't you?
I'm not very good at lying

There's people I can talk to
But they don't make my heart move

It was a love that went too fast
Because there are still things I can't confirm
It's strange, but I still hold you close
Searching inside my memories
The thing I lost was you

The vivid color of my memories
fades with the passing of time

It was my favorite love, he was the one I loved
But bitterly, my alarm clock rings
I've got to go back, I'm walking in the present
Holding you close to my heart as I laugh