25コ目の染色体 (25kome No Senshokutai) Lyrics (English Translation) – 上白石萌音 (Mone Kamishiraishi)

[Verse 1]
I have so many things you’ve given me.
I’m counting them one by one.
The first, second, third ones knock my tear ducts.
The 131st one has fallen onto my eyelids.

[Pre-Chorus]
I’d forgotten how to cry, but
I feel like something here and now will spill even if I close my eyes.

[Chorus]
I will die for you and I will live for you.
I will die for you, there’s nothing more I could really say to you.

[Verse 2]
Just one day before you die,
Please hold my breath.
This is my lifelong wish.
On the last day you live,
I want to guess from the sky what color this world will be.

[Pre-Chorus]
This place.
[Here] and heaven, exactly halfway between them.
I feel like I can see the view from there even if I close my eyes.

[Chorus]
I will die for you and I will live for you.
I will die for you, well, you never ever told me to

[Bridge]
What should we do in the next life? Reincarnating and meeting again?
It’s too much trouble, so let’s forget about it. Let’s be born as one life.
That way we won’t fight, and neither of us will die first.
And we’ll have the same friends, and we’ll all celebrate our birthdays.
I’ve prepared two cakes here, shortcake and chocolate. There’s no particular meaning to it.
When you’re happy, laugh twice as hard, and leave twice as many wrinkles on your face.

This is my second wish, my second lifelong wish, yeah.

Oh

[Chorus]
I will die for you and I will live for you.
I will cry for you because you’re the one who told me how.

[Post-Chorus]
Someday, our two lives will be born. When that time comes, I hope you (I will die for you)
I hope that our baby will be just like you. I know it’s impossible, but 100% your genes (And I will live for you)
I hope it will be conveyed. I hope that I’m not even a little bit like you.
Every night before I go to sleep, I pray.
Whenever I say that, You say you want me to be like you (I will die for you)
I absolutely don’t want that. If I had to say, I’d like you to carry all my luck and happiness
into each of your chromosomes.