#back number

Taking it in my hand saying it's just like me

And crushing it with the emotion that I had deep inside

It's okay, it's okay

Hold me tight right now

You don't need anything else as long as you have me

Say it and kiss me

Lyrics:

"I love Winter. Whenever I speak, my words take shape and emerge into this palpable white fog."

How silly. I stood beside you, thinking.

And just like the misty cloud I breathed out, my thoughts floated up and disappeared mid-air.

With your head always bowed down, is it why my feelings never get through?

If I can hold you now and tell you that it's alright, will it make any difference?

Musing on the busy streets beneath and the starry sky above, do you think we can paint over the past?

My hand has been reaching for you. I wonder if you've noticed.

You'll probably never say that I'm extraordinary.

But I hope you'd tell me I am enough.

Even if the torrents of our lives engulf us,

Amid the flood, I will salve the tears you've cried. (1)

Let me battle against your perplexities.

That last step we couldn't take. The one we assumed to be the end

is the one that starts new beginnings.

(I love Winter.)

I hesitate as I get closer to you.

It's fine even if I am scourged.

I'll always be here.

Although I'm a bit indirect, I'll try to be as honest as possible

Even if I have to wait till the coming Spring:

I love Winter.

And I... (2)

Notes:

My favourite interpretation of this line is inspired by a dialogue in The Dream of the Red Chamber, "Of the boundless waters among the three thousand realms, I only need a ladle of it." He doesn't need to have everything. One is enough to quench all his thirst.

To put it simply, Japanese is an SOV language (subject + object + verb). This song ends with 僕は君が, with "I" as the subject, "you" as the object, and the verb is left unsaid. What is left unspoken in this song is finally expressed in Back Number's another song, Flower Bouquet 花束: 僕は君が好きだよ.