Walk Translation
 

I had to listen by ear because the official lyrics aren't out yet, but I'm pretty sure I got it right.
edit: Official lyrics are out.

Japanese lyrics

Thank you very much! So touching...

P.S. SO touching...

Thanks a lot for the translation!

Those are very powerful lyrics. Ayu really knows how to do it. WOW...

So sad and painful. Feels like she has a lot of things to say but she has to hide them in a way within these lyrics

thank you!

Incredible... Best lyrics in a long while.
Thanks a lot for the translation !

Thank you! Those are great too!

sort feels like an answer to A Song for xx's lyrics:

Like she wasn't quite sure who she was before but now she's at a place in her life where she doesn't care what anyone else thinks.

wow the lyric is the best!
thanks for the translation!

if you think really deep, its really sad and beautiful ><

thanks for the lyric translation! i am sorry to say this again that the lyric reminds me of Winding Road.

Thank you

Well, I wonder if part of this is just her looking back at her life since her marriage to Manny. The marriage honestly brought out this part of her that really wanted a companion in life, and it seems by the lyrics she is talking about a sense of regret but inability to change what has happened. I mean, she followed her heart at the time, and looking back, she clearly feels she could have saved herself as well as others some pain by having continued to pretend it didn't matter?

So, maybe she's coming to terms with how she's had to give up parts of her passion to fulfill this want in her life? My thoughts on the indecisiveness is that she seems to be all about her career every few months and then she disappears to her marriage again for awhile.

This song starts to sound better after reading these lyrics. Thank you for the translation. :)

I like this lyrics!! It's really good!!

wasn't expecting this from the song.. thank you for the translation

This song is really growing on me. YESSS

Actually when you couple these lyrics with the melody, it doesn't seem like she's confident at all, you know?

You know how in monochrome she says "because I'm so strong" but is then interrupted, and you can kinda tell that she's not ACTUALLY strong, she's just telling herself that?

I get that feeling from this song too. I had complained in another thread that the chorus & verse melodies seem to be switched - as a result, the song seemed just kinda off or wrong to me, and when I heard the full song it sounded like it was building up to a climax that never really came. The song doesn't end on a tonic, at least the vocal line doesn't ever really come to a "proper" end - the result is that Ayu sounds like she's thinking or hoping or wondering the ENTIRE time, without ever coming to an answer. This song sounds very insecure to me as a result. It sounds like even now she's musing about whether or not she's gone the right way... this to me sounds like the more mature version of "What is forever love," or the romance-related version of "crossroad" (where that one seemed to be more about her career).

Yet another song I liked better as soon as I read the lyrics, haha. :)

I thought this song and maybe even Last Minute are her thoughts on Manny now that she has been able to find love again and she's thinking back to why things didn't work last time? They seem more reflective than the lyrics following the divorce. I think she wanted to make it work with Manny at the time but found it too hard in the end and you can hear that regret in the songs and maybe those times are highlighted and make more sense to her now by having found someone else. Either way, some good lyrics on this single. They feel Ayu and touch on Ayu themes but still feel new and with a real connection.

I really love the chorus and how it builds and wonder how it would have sounded with two choruses repeated at the end in a standard song structure way? I'm torn between thinking it would be too much or super awesome...

I love reading the different interpretations here. I have to admit I never even considered this song from the perspective of Ayu's love life, I just jumped right into viewing it through my own lens. I can easily relate to many of her lyrics, but this is the only song I can recall that just seems to be all my own thoughts the whole way through. The whole questioning your place in the world, wondering about the future, trying to understand yourself and simultaneously doubting everything you feel, and trying to push on and cope with everything else in your life even with all this on your mind -- that's EXACTLY how I've felt very often lately. It's most certainly not what she set out to do, but I think it's a testament to her writing skills that she can keep penning songs that can hit so close to home to people over 10 years younger than her living on the other side of the world.

With all that said... I 100% agree with Zer0, she does not sound confident, to me she sounds like she's trying to convince herself. The doubt-and-question-filled choruses are clearly more powerful than the verses, which only reinforces the feeling of doubt and insecurity being the reigning emotions. However, the end of the song is even stronger, and I think this gives the song a lingering hopeful feeling; she might be feeling insecure and torn, but she knows she can find some determination to keep pushing on even though everything seems confusing and difficult at the moment. I'm not sure if anyone would agree with me, but I think everything clicks in this song: the lyrics, melody, and arrangement play really well together, and her singing only improves the song and reinforces its sentiments. I didn't even have to stretch for these interpretations, which is definitely a good sign!

Also, this doesn't happen to me a lot, but listening to this song gives me some strong mental images. I can see Ayu, or myself, or just someone, walking around town where the sky is grey and some snow is falling, melting into the crowds, absorbed in their thoughts, recalling various positive, negative, and strong memories, getting caught up in them and the whole inner turmoil going on, ending up in a deserted place (perhaps a particular bridge in my home town, or some park) towards the end of the song, the sky is grey and the snow keeps on coming, and at the end, the person looks up, still conflicted and lost but not pained, and keeps on walking alone. I don't expect anyone to have all these similar images, but just... that feels cool.

Also also, this is definitely my favourite song off the single, all these layers, man!

@stepYOU: You pose an interesting question about the choruses at the end. After some thinking, I'm leaning towards this one final chorus being fine: adding an additional one could be kinda overkill and make the song drag a little... but on the other hand, it might make the song easier to grasp, since it's not really the catchiest one out thee as it is.