烏 (Karasu / Raven) Lyrics (English Translation) – 米津玄師 (Kenshi Yonezu)

[Verse 1]
The worlds inside the comics that I read when I was young
Always said that saving someone mattered more than anything
Not knowing how naive I was, I kept talking way too big
And I still remember how dark the dripping blood looked then

[Pre-Chorus]
Every time we learned a star’s name, we grew a little older
One by one, the secrets no one else could have kept piling up
The stronger that our wishes grew, the more afraid I was to sleep
Hey, tell me, what is it that you see?
[Chorus]
Just for now, let’s go somewhere where no voices can be heard
Leave the farewell notes tucked gently in the desk and head toward the endless blue
Today we’ll be a single dream-filled crow taking flight
Following this road bathed in light, retracing where we’ve been

[Verse 2]
Out behind the storage room, I found an old cassette one day
The handwritten name upon it had faded almost all away
The pictures still remaining deep inside my phone somehow
Were mostly nothing but the sky

[Pre-Chorus]
That kid who hated everyone now has a child of their own
The one who dreamed the same as me slowly watched their heart give way
Without a chance to say goodbye, that person disappeared
Hey, from where you are, what do you see?

[Bridge]
From the comic book worlds I knew when I was just a child
I learned what it meant to live for somebody else
I can’t quite find the words, but the reason I was born
Was never only for someone else

[Verse 3]

Let the confetti fill the air and drift toward that empty seat
In the park that’s now an open lot, we’ll stay until the daylight fades
Not knowing how naive I was, I kept talking way too big
And I still remember how dark the dripping blood looked then (Woo)

[Chorus]
Just for now, let’s go somewhere where no voices can be heard
Leave the farewell notes tucked gently in the desk and head toward the endless blue
Today we’ll be a single dream-filled crow taking flight
Retracing all the dusty alleyways that stretch on endlessly