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I Couldn't Become a Dekunobō (English Ver.)

Liminal Reverie

I lost to the rain

I lost

I lost

And even so

I am still here

My body came undone

Beneath the rain

The wind blew through me

Scattered every piece

So one by one

I gathered them again

And slowly

I am making me again

Is it all right

To lose to the rain?

Is it all right

To break in the wind?

And still

To remain here

And still

To remain here

I could not live

For someone else

Another person's happiness

Still shakes my heart

I swallow down

The envy inside me

And even so

I smile

I could not become

A Dekunobō

I could not

I could not

As long as there is

Something that I want

I could not

I could not

I say

I need no name

And yet there are nights

I long to hear it called

That voice

That never becomes a voice

The rain

Is listening

I stand here

Beneath the rain

Little by little

I am disappearing

And even so

I am

Still here

  • Lyricist

    Liminal Reverie, shintaro

  • Composer

    Liminal Reverie

  • Producer

    shintaro

  • Co-Producer

    Liminal Reverie

  • Programming

    Liminal Reverie

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    I Couldn't Become a Dekunobō (English Ver.)

    Liminal Reverie

Kenji Miyazawa's poem Ame ni mo Makezu portrays the figure of the "Dekunobō."

It is someone who asks for nothing in return and continues to exist for the sake of others. Yet even while admiring that ideal, there is a part of ourselves that knows we may never fully become it.

I Couldn't Become a Dekunobō is a song about the weakness of being unable to live up to that ideal-and about continuing to live, even so.

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