lyrics translation. 'Give a reason' by Megumi Hayashibara

Put a gun to my forehead and ask me what I'd like to hear in my last minutes - this will be it.

 

Japanese

目まぐるしい時間の群れが
走り抜ける都市(まち)はサバンナ
かわるがわるシュールなニュース
明日になれば誰も忘れてる
生きている　今、生きている
そんな中で何かを求め
もがくように、抜け出すように
この力を試してみたくて

きっとどこかに「答」ある
生まれてきた答が
人は皆それを求め
やるせない、のがせない
夢に向かうの

傷つく事は恐くない
だけどけして強くない
ただ何もしないままで
悔やんだりはしたくない
Here we go! go!　走り続ける
誰にも止められはしない
未来の自分へと
Give a reason for life　届けたい

計り知れない大きな闇が
音を立てて向かって来ても
朝が来れば、誰かが居れば
心にある絶望は消せる

もっと強くイメージして
微笑んでる自分を
信じてる思い、それが
何よりも誰よりも
夢に近づく

ゴールにもたれたりしない
たとえ辿り着いたって
新しい夢がきっと
私の背中押すから
Here we go! go!　走り続ける
誰にも止められはしない
未来の自分へと
Give a reason for life　届けたい

きっとどこかに「答」ある
生まれてきた答が
人は皆それを求め
やるせない、のがせない
夢に向かうの

傷つく事は恐くない
だけどけして強くない
ただ何もしないままで
悔やんだりはしたくない
Here we go! go!　走り続ける
誰にも止められはしない
未来の自分へと
Give a reason for life　届けたい


Translation

Hectic clusters of time
Run through the streets, making them look like savanna
Surreal news come one by one
But everyone will have forgotten it by tomorrow
I’m alive, I’m living this moment
In this world I seek for something
Struggling, trying to break free
I want to test my powers

I know somewhere exists an ‘answer’
To why we have been born
People search for it
And pursue a dream which is hopeless
But they just can’t let it go

I’m not afraid of getting hurt
But that doesn’t mean I’m strong at all
It’s just that I don’t want
To regret doing nothing
Here we go! Go! I keep running
And nobody will stop me
To the future me I want to convey –
Give a reason for life

Unfathomable great darkness
May come your way, making sound,
But if morning comes, if someone is by your side
You can erase the despair in your heart

Imagine more strongly
Yourself smiling
If you believe, then
It will better than anything, better than anyone
Take you closer to your dream

I won’t be stopped by my goal
When I reach it
Because I know a new dream
Will push me in the back
Here we go! Go! I keep running
And nobody will stop me
To the future me I want to convey –
Give a reason for life

I know somewhere exists an ‘answer’
To why we have been born
People search for it
And pursue a dream which is hopeless
But they just can’t let it go

I’m not afraid of getting hurt
But that doesn’t mean I’m strong at all
It’s just that I don’t want
To regret doing nothing
Here we go! Go! I keep running
And nobody will stop me
To the future me I want to convey –
Give a reason for life