PARALLEL UNIVERSE

The city we shared, and the city without you.
Within the same familiar scenery, multiple worlds overlap.

The Sukiyabashi crossing, waiting to meet on a windy day,
a hotel window on a Friday night.
Beginning with ordinary moments in the city, these nine songs drift outward toward time already gone and places still unseen.

The cold touch of rain on the skin, the scent that arrives when the seasons begin to change,
an orange sky just before it turns red.
Small sensations suddenly reveal another landscape within the city in front of us.
The happiness of moving through the streets with someone, as if swimming through the city,
and the loneliness of tracing memories that are beginning to fade-
both exist here at the same time.

A heart trying to move forward from sadness still listens closely to the voice that remains beneath it.
In a world where you are no longer here, an interrupted dream continues through melody.
And in the palm of a hand gathering scattered fragments of dreams,
a light opens out like something beyond the edge of the universe.
The wish to meet again somewhere in the sky, the imagination of becoming a bird and crossing dimensions-
these things bring a sense of freedom into the most ordinary days.

Searching for a path that belongs neither to despair nor to euphoria.
Carrying the melancholy of the city and its small joys,
the time we have lost and the life still ahead of us,
these are nine songs for living through many worlds at once.