I:dn - New Dreaming Japanese Ver. Lyrics + Translation

um, hello

it's been a looooong while. how are you guys? 

I hope everyone is fine. I'm fine too c:
I'm coming back to school in less than a week. ugh, at first i thought this holiday is not gonna end. but after all, when it's time, it ends :/
SO ABOUT THIS SONG. I'm terribly sorry that I don't post for a long time and when I post, I come back with an old song :/ It's just that I haven't updated my anime song list for God knows how long.
As some of you guys probably know already, this is the OST for 2012 Korean drama Dream High 2. Wait, Korean? Yup, but this song is Japanese. I stumbled across this when looking at some BTS videos of Dream High 2 in YouTube. I almost screamed when I heard this song for the first time because HOLY SHIT MY KOREAN CELEBRITY CRUSH SINGS IN JAPANESE.
But that's not the only reason for me to translate this song tho. I have other reasons. First, I haven't done quick translations for ages and when I listened to this song, I could immediately write down the lyrics and translate. That's a good feeling. (psst. the order is translate first then write lyrics). Second, this song talks about dreams. I like it. Hence, here you have it~
ps. KBS subtitles said that the group name was Eden but in the drama the group name on the album and merch was spelled as I:dn so I decided to follow the drama spelling
pss. kudos to whoever can guess who my celebrity crush is. lol real easy tho XD

Japanese Lyrics

Tooku iroaseru

Boku no yume mitsume mo nanimo nai to

Akirameyou demo 

Doushitemo yaritakute mou ichido

Donna ni kewashii donna ni kurushii

Michi nante kankei nai sa

Donna ni takai kabe demo koeru

Koeru sa, koerareru sa

Fumidasu kono ippo

Fuan to kibou ga irimajiri mata ippo

Nanika ni yuraitemo tomerarenai ippo

Yume wo tsukamu tame

Oikakeru koto mo dekinai kurai ni

Tsurakatta mirai

Hitosuji no hikari mieta kono shunkan

Mou ichido

Donna ni kewashii donna ni kurushii

Michi nante kankei nai sa

Donna ni takai kabe demo koeru

Koeru sa, koerareru sa

Fumidasu kono ippo

Fuan to kibou ga irimajiri mata ippo

Nanika ni yuraitemo tomerarenai ippo

Yume wo tsukamu tame

Yume wa yume no mama de owaru kamo shirenai

Kowasa kakaenagara mo

Mune no oku de hibiku tomaranai shoudou de

Boku wa susumu dake

Fumidasu kono ippo

Fuan to kibou ga irimajiri mata ippo

Nanika ni yuraitemo tomerarenai ippo

Yume wo tsukamu tame

English Translation

Even if I see nothing as I look at
My distant, fading dream
I thought about giving up, but after all,
I still want to do it once again

No matter how steep, no matter how painful
The road will be, it doesn't matter

No matter how high the wall is, I'll pass it for sure
It'll be passed

Setting forth with this one step

With abundant uneasiness and hope, one more step

Even if we’re swayed by something, this one step is unstoppable

For the sake of seizing our dream

My future looks bitter and dark
That I couldn't even chase it

The moment I see a single strand of light

One more time

No matter how steep, no matter how painful
The road will be, it doesn't matter

No matter how high the wall is, I'll pass it for sure
It'll be passed

Setting forth with this one step

With abundant uneasiness and hope, one more step

Even if we’re swayed by something, this one step is unstoppable

For the sake of seizing our dream

Even if I'm carrying the fear
That dreams might end as it is

With the unstoppable impulse that echoes within my chest

I’ll only move forward

Setting forth with this one step

With abundant uneasiness and hope, one more step

Even if we’re swayed by something, this one step is unstoppable

For the sake of seizing our dream

The best feeling in the world

To my heroes, this song is for you

When you ask different people about what is the best feeling in the world according to their own view, you would definitely get a bazillion of different answers.

To me, one of my favorite moments is looking through my blog dash and my posts.

I started off this blog in 2008 out of boredom. When I created this blog, I didn’t even know what I wanted to do with it. I simply thought that it would be cool to have a blog because at that time, everybody had it. Unfortunately, though, since back then I was a mere kid who didn’t have any idea what to post in a blog, not to mention that I also didn’t have as much internet access as now, I abandoned this blog for months, maybe years.

It wasn’t before 2010 that I finally remembered that I had a blog which I hadn’t updated since ages ago. Then I began taking care of it, I posted several meaningless stuffs only to delete them again a few days later, I changed the URL for a hundred times (okay that was exaggerated… XD) before finally setting on my current one, and I also changed the layout only to delete it and return my blog to its default setting. At that time, I haven’t had an idea about what I wanted to do with this blog.

When my craziness about Hey! Say! JUMP bloomed in late 2010; I finally posted a decent something in the blog. I wrote about my craziness and how I felt about JUMP like I would do in my diary. My love for JUMP also led me to my first lyrics post. I found out that JUMP’s Hitomi no Screen lyric in JPopAsia was inaccurate; in fact, it had so many mistakes that even an amateur would notice. Then I decided to post the lyrics I wrote down from listening. My post wasn’t popular, but I liked how it felt. So I decided to post more JUMP lyrics.

At that time, I already began some translation attempts for a few simple songs. I gathered enough courage to post my first translation a few months later, more precisely in February 2011. My first translation that I ever posted anywhere was the opening soundtrack of Ultraman Cosmos, titled Spirit. The song had some personal connection to me, seeing that Ultraman Cosmos was a legendary series back in my childhood. Besides, it was the first time I wrote down lyrics entirely from listening and with very little mistakes. I guess I got a bit confident from that… XD

Then my journey in translating songs began. For some people, I might seem really lazy and unproductive for posting less than a hundred translations in three years. But I like having some kind of connection to the songs I post, and I have a reason for that. It relates to the heroes of my childhood, the ones I never knew, but constantly encouraged me to write and write more translation.

I mentioned in Ijime, Dame, Zettai that I was a victim of bully once. Well, it was true. Though it was not as severe as other bully attacks, it was still a form of bullying that I never noticed until I was older. It all began in elementary school when a quiet me had almost no friends and was constantly being avoided by my classmates. Some of them even directly called me names and say bad things behind my back.

When I got to middle school, I thought things would change. It did, for a few months. Then the indirect bullying happened again. I was avoided like a plague. Maybe it was because I was naturally a quiet person that didn’t talk much and had, well, different interests with people around me. That was when the heroes stepped in.

I’ve always loved manga, anime and Japanese music since my younger days. In elementary school, I read a lot of manga and listened to anime soundtracks on TV. When I got to middle school, my love for Japanese music exploded. I never spent a whole day without listening to at least one track. At home, in between classes, during recess, I listened to Japanese music the whole time. Then as time went by, listening became not enough for me. I wanted to learn how to sing. The only friend I had at that time told me that her sister knew a bunch of Japanese song lyrics, and that kind of encouraged me to remember the lyrics of the songs I loved most.

Then after remembering became too easy, I wanted to know what each song meant.

The translators that put song translations in their sites; they were my heroes.

I would never forget the happiness that bubbled inside my chest when I found the translations of the songs that meant so much to me. Reading the lyrics and translations one by one and learning what each and every word meant while listening to the melody was like an injection of strength I definitely needed. When I understood the meaning of the song, I could feel what the songwriter and singer was trying to convey.

Back then, it was the best feeling in the world.

Years have passed since then, and now here I am. I didn’t know how to thank the heroes of my childhood, the translators; because it’s thanks to them that I could learn Japanese without any professional help. It took me very long to be able to get to this level (which I am pretty sure is still really bad… won’t even qualify for Level-5 JLPT), but it was worth every second.

Somewhere else in this world, someone might be dying to find an English translation of a song that means so much for them. I had been there too. During these moments, I was saved by my heroes. Now I wanted to do the same.

I know I sound overly dramatic; but that’s what I felt.

Right now, the best feeling I ever get is when I open my blog and saw somebody comments about what the song meant to them. It was a small gesture, but to me it was warming. The songs touched me; and I’m always more than glad to see how they touch other people around the world.

Knowing that my translations help someone to feel better is the biggest joy in my life; I could only imagine how it feels for the people who wrote the lyrics and sang the song.

Therefore, right here in this post, I want to thank each and every one of you my readers, followers and passersby. This blog started off as a small invisible site in the ocean of internet. Years later, it had grown into a site with thousands of readers every month. True, it was still very tiny compared with other blogs, but every view counts. It is pretty unbelievable that I, a weirdo, a socially awkward girl, am honored with this kind of achievement: getting to know thousands of people all over the world that share the same kind of love with me.

You, my readers, are my heroes now.

Thank you.

I love all of you.

-mihoshi-

The Sketchbook - Birthday Lyrics + Translation

To my heroes, this song is for you

This is a special OST of Sket Dance! It's amazing that a lot of Sket Dance OSTs are able to make me cry...

Japanese Lyrics

Ima boku ga koko de waraeteru no wa
Hitori ja nakatta kara
Me ni wa mienakute mo kotoba ni sureba
Tsunagatte iru kimochi ga wakaru hazu sa

Kokoro no dokoka de kanjite ita
Itsudatte kienakatta samishisa mo
Afureru namida ni kawatte iku yo
Saa kokokara arukidasou

Boku ga umareta sono shunkan kara zutto
Tsunagatte ita yo itsudemo hitori ja nai
Hajimari no hi ga kono basho de yokatta na
Kyou dakara tsutaetai arigatou

Moshi boku ni umareta imi ga aru nara
Kono te ga atatakai no mo
Dareka no samishiku tsumetai te wo totte
Tsunagu tame ni aru no kamo shirenai na…

Dare datte aishitakute aisaretai to
Omou kara uso datte tsuichau kedo
Hontou wa sunao na kimochi dake wo
Tsutaeraretara ii no ni na

Kazoekirenai guuzen ga kasanatte
Ai ni tsutsumarete mamorarete boku ga umareta
Donna koto yori kiseki no you na sono hi ga ichiban shiawase to omou nda

Boku ga umareta sono shunkan kara zutto
Tsunagatte ita yo itsudemo hitori ja nai
Hajimari no hi ga kono basho de yokatta na
Kyou dakara nando mo kotoba ni shiyou

Arigatou arigatou todoku you ni
Arigatou
Koko ni umareta
Shiawase wo kanjiteru kara

English Translation

Right now, I am here and laughing,

Because I am not alone

Even those things which are invisible to the eye, if we turn it into words,

We would definitely understand the connected feelings

The loneliness which never disappears

That we feel somewhere inside our hearts

Will change into overflowing tears

Now, let’s run from our hearts

Right from the moment when I was born,

I was always connected with someone, I was never alone

It was good to be right here at the day of beginning

Because today, I want to tell you, thank you

If perchance my birth has a meaning

This warm hand of mine, too

Is able to grip someone’s cold, lonely hand

It might be there in order to connect us

Since each and every person wants to love and be loved,

They tell a lie after another

Although it would be nice to

Only say our honest feelings

Countless coincidences are piling up

I was born, enveloped and protected by love

For me, that miracle-like day is the best, over anything else

Right from the moment when I was born,

I was always connected with someone, I was never alone

It was good to be right here at the day of beginning

Because today, no matter how many times, I’ll turn it into words

Thank you, thank you, I hope it arrives

Thank you

I was born because I feel happiness