lyrics translation! ~ 'seijaku wa heddohon no naka' by See-Saw

this time I would like to present

Seijaku wa HEDDOHON no Naka (Silence Is in the Headphones) by See-Saw

this song is from 'Kimi wa Boku ni Nite Iru' single. the strange thing, I dislike the title song itself, as well as most of other songs which were written during the period. however this is just a masterpiece which makes me cry every time. every singe line of the lyrics is beautiful and the last one simply kills me

Romaji 

daiji na koto kara dandan usureteku

shizen na koto da yo to dare ka ni sou iwareta

seijaku ga hitori no HEDDOHON o tsutsunde

kimi no koe sagasu yo

massugu nagete kuru kimi no sunao na kotoba ni

boku wa yoku aru koto da to hitokoto de katazuketa

kimi no kakaeteru mono o hanbun kudasai to

naze ienakatta n darou

ano koro boku no ashimoto wa itsu mo

nukarunda tsuchi ni tatteru you de

yasashisa o kuchi ni suru ni wa tabun

mada hayasugita n da yo

kimochi o hadaka ni sureba suru hodo

yasuragi ni aeta no ka mo shirenai

nani ga kowakute kirei na keshiki o

kowashita no ka wakaranai

kimi wa doushite iru no darou

Japanese 

大事なことから段々薄れてく

自然なことだよと誰かにそう言われた

静寂が一人のヘッドホンを包んで

君の声探すよ

まっすぐ投げてくる君の素直な言葉に

僕は「よくあることだ」と一言で片付けた

「君の抱えてるものを半分ください」と

なぜ言えなかったんだろう

あのころ僕の足元はいつも

泥濘んだ土に立ってるようで

優しさを口にするにはたぶん

まだ早すぎたんだよ

気持ちを裸にすればするほど

安らぎに会えたのかも知れない

何が怖くて綺麗な景色を

壊したのか分からない

君はどうしているのだろう

Translation

Gradually parting with what is precious to you

Is just a natural thing, somebody told me

When silence wraps the headphones

I search for your voice

The frank words you threw at me,

I settled them with only one phrase – ‘it’s just a common thing’

But ‘give me half of what you have to carry’ –

Why wasn’t I able to say this?

My underfoot of that time was always

As if I stood on a muddy ground

Putting the tenderness into words

Was perhaps too early

While unsheathing my feelings,

Maybe, I could meet with peace

What I was afraid of to destroy the beautiful scenery

I do not know

I wonder what you are doing now

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well, the lyrics were a bit hard to understand even for me. shall I try to explain?

the first two lines are there to show that though the thing described is considered to be natural, the  author is assumed to disagree

silence wrapping the headphones is a thing that not everybody can understand. I personally think I do and I know there are people who do too. for me, this particular silence does not mean the absolute silence, 'tis the phenomenon that when you have headphones (earphones in my case) on, they block all the sounds from the outer world and while you still see what is around you, you move as if in a different dimension. here, the author searches for the voice of his/her beloved

the next paragraph is a flashback. it stated that he or she did not care much about the complaints of the partner. while the Jap-Rus dictionary did not provide a good variant for the word 'kakaeru', jisho.org has a more accurate definition - 'to have (esp. problems, debts, etc.)'. this means, the other person was really in trouble, which explains his/her 'frank words'. the main idea is simple - we don't value a thing until after it's lost

the order of sentences in the last two chorus parts is a bit confusing, so let me rearrange them

the last chorus states the fact that opening one's feelings is the way to retain peace

but this was prevented by the 'muddy ground' which means the unstable position that made the author hesitating

however this particular fear was that what led to the catastrophe

for me this is just a wonderful song, and I think I would like to make an AMV with it. well, a different one from that which already exists, because I did not like it very much. well, I do not like when no attention is paid to the lyrics. I do not care that most of the MV makers cannot understand Japanese, 'tis their own problem