[Translation] Survivor (lyrics)

[tenshi no hane]

Originally Posted by SayukiChoco

Oh yes I agree so much! I tried to translate Summer Love for myself today and I was so frustrated when I wasn't able to understand one word or translate it correctly.

So, really thank you tenshi no hane for giving us more strength to continue our studying! Your translations are so wonderful!

Thank you for your sweet message. Good luck with your studies. Japanese is difficult to learn, but it's rewarding at the same time. It's like slowly learning to solve a puzzle

[SayukiChoco]

Originally Posted by Aga-chan

And Japanese people do indeed use "machi" when they talk about Tokyo etc. Though they usually use 街 instead of 町.

Ah yes, there are two different Kanji for machi! Completely forgot that. Thank you!

Originally Posted by tenshi no hane

Thank you for your sweet message. Good luck with your studies. Japanese is difficult to learn, but it's rewarding at the same time. It's like slowly learning to solve a puzzle

Thank you again. Yeah that's a good way to describe studying Japanese

[Aderianu]

That is nice that she believe that can survive through this time no matter what. And have someone near

[oaristos]

I was really curious about these lyrics! Thank you very much

[Party_King]

Originally Posted by tenshi no hane

Survivor

Far, fly away
With you, try again
If it’s us, we can make it happen
The days when we were ablaze with dreams
are now long past
Nowadays we’re only attracted to what’s realistic
So, you and me, we’ll survive

Further, fly away
And try again
If it’s us, I feel we can save something
I don’t mean something overambitious
like saving the whole earth,
but, for example, the person next door
So, you and me, we’ll survive

Sorry, I'd might be wrong, but everytime I understand FIND A WAY instead of FLY AWAY...
And for myself it would also make more sense, because why should you fly away to try again?

[rainbow_smile]

^ good point, because I kept hearing "fight" and well, it would sound pretty similar to find...

But she sings "tooku" before "fly away" in the first chorus, which means "far". So I don't think it would make sense with "find a way"?

Also, "fly away then try again" would make sense from Ayu's perspective, because she ran away to LA, and then came back to Japan to "try again", so maybe it's related?

[tenshi no hane]

Updated with the official lyrics.

More line-breaks to fit the original lyrics, but no changes to the wording of the translation.

[kotora]

Far, fly away
With you, try again

With her accent it sounds very odd...

Like..


Far, fly fly fly fly away
With you, DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE again...