#isana

霧の中 きみは方舟のようで

kiri no naka kimi wa hakobune no you de

amidst the fog, you're like an ark —

まほろばを求め 産声をあげた

mahoroba wo motome ubugoe wo ageta

a baby cries, seeking a heaven [2]

クオークの海を 歩くように泳ぐ

kuooku no umi wo aruku you ni oyogu

as if swimming, walking on a sea of quarks [3]

こもりうた 吸い込まれていったね

komori uta suikomarete itta ne

swallowed into the lullaby

フラクタル どこか 似たもの同士で

furakutaru dokoka nita mono doushi de

fractals [4], where similar things lay together

刻まれた地層 化石の思い出

kizamareta chisou kaseki no omoide

in carved out layers of fossil and feelings

きみはだれ? 問いかけるように

kimi wa dare? toikakeru you ni

it's like asking, 'who are you?'

きみは そのままでいいよ

kimi wa sono mama de ii yo

you're okay as you are, you know?

ゆーあーいんぶるーむ

you are in bloom [5]

あいしてるってことだよ

aishiteru [6] tte koto dayo

i'm telling you 'i love you'

ゆーあーいんぶるーむ

you are in bloom

あいしてるってことだよ

aishiteru tte koto dayo

i'm telling you 'i love you'

たとえれば それは ながい映画のよう

tatoereba sore wa nagai eiga no you

for example, it's just like a long film

いつかどこかで すれ違ったのかも

itsuka dokoka de surechigatta no kamo

somewhere, at some point, maybe we passed by each other

花に雨 いまならわかる

hana ni ame ima nara wakaru

seeing that flower in the rain, you'll understand —

意味は この中にあるよ

imi wa kono naka ni aru yo

the meaning of all this, it's right here

ゆーあーいんぶるーむ

you are in bloom

あいしてるってことだよ

aishiteru tte koto dayo

i'm telling you 'i love you'

ゆーあーいんぶるーむ

you are in bloom

あいしてるってことだよ

aishiteru tte koto dayo

i'm telling you 'i love you'

言葉のないうたが

kotoba no nai uta ga

a song with no words

共鳴しているよ

kyoumei shiteiru no

is resonating;

種はいま 芽吹いて

tane wa ima mebuite

now, seeds are sprouting

ほら 呼吸をはじめた

hora kokyuu wo hajimeta

look, it begins to breathe

ゆーあーいんぶるーむ

you are in bloom

あいしてるってことだよ

aishiteru tte koto dayo

i'm telling you 'i love you'

ゆーあーいんぶるーむ

you are in bloom

あいしてるってことだよ

aishiteru tte koto dayo

i'm telling you 'i love you'

ゆーあーいんぶるーむ

you are in bloom

こわれそうになっても

koware sou ni natte mo

even if we look so scared and fragile

ゆーあーいんぶるーむ

you are in bloom

ああ いさなのように

aa isana no you ni

aa, just like a whale

ゆーあーいんぶるーむ

you are in bloom

あいしてるってことだよ

aishiteru tte koto dayo

i'm telling you 'i love you'

ゆーあーいんぶるーむ

you are in bloom

あいしてるってことだよ

aishiteru tte koto dayo

i'm telling you 'i love you'

ゆーあーいんぶるーむ

you are in bloom

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1. usually 勇魚 meaning 'whale'

2. まほろば is like. a really ancient word basically meaning 'peaceful happy safe haven land'. i just think the word is really cool since it's only written in hiragana & its origins are largely unknown and i just had to footnote it

3. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quark — linking a wiki page here because.... i'm not your physics teacher, read about quarks yourself. to simplify, they're basically just subatomic particles or something? i failed physics dont ask me

4. fractals are really cool shapes that represent repeated patterns and stuff idk i failed math too. here's another wiki page - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractal

5. from the structuring of this line, i'm inclined to believe that 'you are in bloom' is a way of saying 'i love you'. try it on those special people, be weak, i dare you

6. yes, everyone already knows, but 愛してる, in japanese, is a way of expressing the strongest forms of love. it's rarely ever said, mostly reserved for really important or special moments i guess. it's like a deathbed kind of love, in a sense

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when i first heard this song, it made me cry... now it's making me cry again, because i hate physics. i think it's just proving soma's intelligence~

i miss the life i was living when i first heard this song. i think, through all the convoluted word order and scientific vocabulary, that my experiences with the song call back to it so nicely — the message, though obscured, seems to describe life going on and coming back to bury us. soma knows the human mind so well.