By Upcoming Girls.

チューインガムの味がなくなるまで (Chuuin gamu no aji ga naku naru made) – Until the chewing gum loses its taste

from Kokoro no placard single.

——

I used to go out every Friday night
With my comrades in a blue T-bird…
To a bowling alley near the expressway
With broken neon lights

As you aimed for the split
Your ponytail
Somehow
Seems so sweet
So sad…

Aah, the chewing gum I was chewing on that day
Had long since lost its taste
Even while you remain so fresh now
Time passes, dreams fade away
As the pins explode soundlessly

As an adult, I came back to this city
How it’s changed, such cruelty
The large family-owned furniture store
Has new neon lights

What captivated me more than the score
Was the flow of your skirt’s hem
Flutter
Just like
Love…

Aah, the bubble gum I was chewing on that day
Can’t be blown into a bubble
Where, just where can I discard it?
As long as it’s a dream, we’ll wake up someday
Though we long to continue the game…

There will come a day someday
When even youth will be discarded

Aah, the chewing gum I was chewing on that day
Had long since lost its taste
Even while you remain so fresh now
Time passes, dreams fade away
As the pins explode soundlessly

——

Continue reading →

by Future Girls.

性格が悪い女の子 (Seikaku ga warui onna no ko) – Girl with a bad personality

from Kokoro no placard single.

——

My best friend’s boyfriend
Why does that fact alone
Make me feel so nervous?
Just what is going on?

I never used to notice him
But suddenly, I’m so interested
Whenever we’re together
I sneak peeks at him

Friendship is (friendship is)
Important (important)
I’m horrible with disputes, but
I’m sorry

Girl with a bad personality
That’s surely what I am
Having desires
For other’s possessions (can’t stop it)
I can become
A wolf under sheepskin
Even I can’t take it
I’m a bad person

When the girlfriend
Goes to visit the washroom
Without speaking a word
I just stare at him…

It’s normal
To feel nervous around boys, right?
Just what do I want?
I’m searching for the answer

It’s not that I want (it’s not that I want)
To play with fire (to play with fire)
I just want to live freely
But that’s wrong

Girl with a bad personality
But ever since I was born
Everything I desire
I want them all (get my hands on them)
Maybe I’m a devil
Pretending to be an angel
The kind who gets gossiped about
I’m an evil person

When I heard from him
I was shocked
In the first place, he used to be
Her best friend’s boyfriend…

Girl with a bad personality
She’s even more skillful than me
To steal him away
So easily like that (Respect)
The world of love is always about
Survival of the fittest
That’s how all girls are
We’re bad people

——

Continue reading →

by Next Girls.

ひと夏の反抗期 (Hitonatsu no hankouki) – One summer’s rebellious phase

from Kokoro no placard single.

——

Glancing sideways at the sea at dawn
The bike drives swiftly on
My heart’s tandem

You’re saying something, but
I can’t hear your voice
Over the wind’s noise

To love someone
Is to be alright with dying like this right now
As I clung onto your waist
I wished for us to
Become one

One summer’s rebellious phase
Just where can we run to
To escape from becoming adults?
Like this
Don’t turn off the headlights
Even when the sun rises
Just shine on our future together…

Youth is always so reckless
When everything before our eyes
Seem like obstacles

As we passed the long haul trucks
It felt like the things controlling us
Had disappeared

“If you continue to dream
You’ll never come back to reality” they scolded
Even if they say
That I’ll end up destroyed
I don’t care

Youth’s rebellious phase
Until we’re satisfied
There’s nothing we can do but run
Our innocence
At this speed
Our energy surges
If we stop, the sunshine will burn us

One summer’s rebellious phase
Just where can we run to
To escape from becoming adults?
Like this
Don’t turn off the headlights
Even when the sun rises
Just shine on our future together…

——

Continue reading →

By Undergirls.

誰かが投げたボール (Dareka ga nageta booru) – The ball someone threw

from Kokoro no placard single.

——

From a faraway place in this world
I hear joyful voices
It’s the sound of all the children
Having fun

Their words, the colour of their skin
I can’t tell all these from here
But the loud laughing voices
Clear my heart

Like a single person speaking out
From within that circle
On the other side of that ocean
Telling me that there are friends looking up
At the same blue sky…

The ball someone threw
Hey, we’ll catch it
I believe we will
Can’t pretend not to know
If we don’t do anything
The ball will roll
On forever
Knowing only loneliness

Sometimes, carried on the wind
I hear sad voices
Have they met with sorrow
And are crying out?

The reason, the situation
I don’t know any of it
But I can just imagine them
Holding on alone

If there’s no way
To stop your tears
Then just face that ocean
And shout of all your feelings
With a loud voice

The words someone threw
There are people who will receive them
This world is much kinder
Than you think
No matter when, we will
Always be straining our ears
Chasing down even
The softest of voices

LOVE
Throw that ball
Please don’t
Worry so much
It won’t get lost
But first
Try to love yourself
Surely
A stranger
Will return that ball
To you
Right here

The words someone threw
There are people who will receive them
This world is much kinder
Than you think

Someone
Someone
The ball someone threw
Hey, we’ll catch it
I believe we will
Can’t pretend not to know
If we don’t do anything
The ball will roll
On forever
Knowing only loneliness

From a faraway place in this world
I hear joyful voices
It’s the sound of heartbeats of all life on earth

——

Continue reading →

心のプラカード (Kokoro no purakaado) – Heart’s placard

from Kokoro no placard single.

——

Look here
Just for a moment
Please notice
My existence
Look here
Just for 5 seconds
Please see me
Standing so nearby

But really
Even when our eyes meet
I can only look away in a hurry
Unable to speak

Heart’s placard
If you can see it
You’ll understand
My feelings, but…
“I like you”
If I can write that down
Even with a racing heart
And nervous sweating
I’ll be able to confess

Give me a chance
Just one will do
I pray alone
As I wait
Give me a chance
Even an unexpected one will do
Please turn
Towards me

“Pluck up your courage
And call out to her”
Everyone tells me to just do it
But I can’t

Heart’s placard
From my mouth to my hands
I feel the load
Taken off my chest
“I like you”
If I can let you know
Even without a reply
Even if you look undecided
I’ll be happy

Everyone
Somewhere in their hearts
Have hidden away
Precious words

Heart’s placard
If you can see it
You’ll understand
My feelings, but…
“I like you”
If I can write that down
Even with a racing heart
And nervous sweating
I’ll be able to confess

Heart’s placard
Hey, I’ll put it out
My thoughts
In all honesty…
If I can’t say it
I’ll just write it down
What I want to tell you
What I want to say
Please notice my placard

——

Continue reading →

永遠プレッシャー (Eien puresshaa) – Forever pressure

from Eien pressure single.

——

Don’t expect much from me
Your ideal girlfriend
I surely can’t be that
Pressure

Along the avenue of zelkovas in midwinter
You suddenly confessed to me
Why did you decide
To choose me?

A group of friends
On the way home from the movies
You stood next to me
“I like you” (in a whisper) you said (hearthrob)
I didn’t even see it coming

The pressure of being watched (pressure)
Because I’m not used to love (WOW WOW WOW WOW)
Don’t expect much from me (pressure)
I can’t stay like this
I want to become beautiful
Pressure

Once the signal turns green
I want us to walk together, but
Am I the person
You think I am?

Spring is finally here
And when the flowers bloom
I don’t want you to call me a flower
Feelings of love (image) misunderstood (damage)
There’s just something wrong somewhere

The pressure of being watched (pressure)
Because love is too heavy (WOW WOW WOW WOW)
I can’t be anyone but myself (pressure)
So until I become confident about the future
Please wait
Pressure

Everyone of us
Has a different colour
So don’t compare
Me with someone else
My colour may change, but
I’m still me
Even if my way of living
Is not great

The pressure of being watched (pressure)
Because I’m not used to love (WOW WOW WOW WOW)
Don’t expect much from me (pressure)
I can’t stay like this
I want to become beautiful
Pressure

Because I really love you
Love is forever pressure

——

Continue reading →

by Team B.

正義の味方じゃないヒーロー (Seigi no mikata ja nai hiiroo) – The hero who isn’t an ally of justice

from UZA single.

——

The ball game match (the ball game match)
Planning to play truant (planning to play truant)
Yes, those boys with no motivation
Are so exasperating (are so exasperating)
They planned to run away
But you cornered them in the classroom

If just one of you (if just one of you)
Had looked the other way (looked the other way)
Then they won’t be able to become one
The worst in school (the worst in school)
The weakest bunch
Can you label them as such?

Propping your legs on the desk
If you are not serious, we cannot begin
Firstly…

Come, the hero who isn’t an ally of justice
If you like me
Then hear me out at least once
How much meaning is there in fighting?
Nobody knows, but
There is noone else but you
So stand up, my hero

Just a few months more (just a few months more)
And we would graduate (and we would graduate)
I wanted to create memories with everyone
With our strengths combined (with our strengths combined)
I felt that today’s events
Could be changed in some way

You were a little brusque (you were a little brusque)
Without a smile (without a smile)
You told me “Shut up, I know”
At the very last moment (at the very last moment)
You said that we were a great class
I want to reminisce about this someday, somewhere

Standing in the middle of the school yard
You looked more dependable than ever before
So dazzling

Come, the hero who isn’t an ally of justice
You are not such a person, right?
There are times when you can’t be the model student
And have to fight for an outcome
Never for someone else
My kiss is your reward
Recklessly attractive, my hero

Come, the hero who isn’t an ally of justice
If you like me
Then hear me out at least once
How much meaning is there in fighting?
Nobody knows, but
There is noone else but you
So stand up, my hero

——

Continue reading →

by Team K.

スクラップ&ビルド (Sukurappu & Birudo) – Scrap & Build

from UZA single.

——

What has finally become one
Will someday break apart again
The dream which you have built up
Holds no satisfaction
WOW WOW

“It was completed at great pains”
The adults often say, but
Protecting everything in the present now
Yes, means throwing away the future

Across the fence in the construction site
This new building
Will also rot away someday

Baby! Scrap & build!
Baby! Destroy everything!
Let there be no restrictions
So we do whatever we want!
Baby! Scrap & build!
Baby! Build once more
There is nothing in the past
Let the ironball of reform swing down!
WOW WOW

It was undeniably a good era
The elderly will feel nostalgia, but
The ones who are starting out now
Cannot survive on memories

Like a faded poster peeling off
An as yet unseen world
Is born from beneath the rubble

Baby! There is nothing to be afraid of
Baby! We can do it
Rather than clinging on to something and surviving
Try letting your hand go
Baby! There is nothing to be afraid of
Baby! We can build it again
The things which we’ve protected
Are like the worthless past
Crush your heart with the ironball!
Rather than having the future given to you
Open it up on your own

Baby! Scrap & build!
Baby! Destroy everything!
Let there be no restrictions
So we do whatever we want!
Baby! Scrap & build!
Baby! Build once more
There is nothing in the past
Let the ironball of reform swing down!
WOW WOW
WOW WOW

——

Continue reading →

by Team A.

孤独な星空 (Kodoku na hoshizora) – The Lonely Starry Sky

from UZA single.

——

Fumbling in the darkness
Seeking for a faint light
I have been lost within my heart’s forest
Ever since the day I met you

Tell me, shooting stars
How long more should I wait at this place?
For that irreplaceable love
Now, I’m just looking up at this lonely time…

Near to the light purple dawn
I discovered hope in the sky
If you cannot embrace me
Then just staying by my side is enough

Please, shooting stars
Shine with love forever
No matter how many clouds obscure you
Your sighs change into wind that reaches me, like illusions

For that irreplaceable love
Now, I’m just looking up at this lonely time…

To love and be loved
I don’t want to call that a miracle

I can’t see anything
Your light is so far away

To love and be loved
That is always fate

Silently, the stars
Wait for that day

——

Continue reading →

by Undergirls.

次のSeason (Tsugi no Season) – The Next Season

from UZA single.

——

The autumn breeze blows
The branches sway
A single leaf falls
Slowly fluttering in dance
I quietly sent it off

What is left here
Is us
Someday
Towards the future
We will start our journey

How many more dreams will we see?
The ones who shoulder the next era
Without any regret
Let our sweat flow
How many more dreams will we see?
Hot feelings hidden in this heart
Let us run through the sparkling season
Together

As the long winter comes to an end
The sun becomes gentle
The dream which everyone saw
Should have sprouted as a sapling

That day, the seniors
Bloomed magnificently
Like flowers
This time
It’s my turn

Don’t hesitate to start your journey
Flower buds are waiting on the next branch
The seasons and chance
Yes, they always come round again
Don’t hesitate to start your journey
Be proud to be alive
Let the baton of this era connect us
More and more

How many more dreams will we see?
The ones who shoulder the next era
Without any regret
Let our sweat flow
How many more dreams will we see?
Hot feelings hidden in this heart
Let us run through the sparkling season
Together

After persevering
The blue sky
Stretches on

——

Continue reading →