海中の月を掬う [Kaichuu no tsuki o sukuu] [English translation]

My body is sinking, as I look up from the standing water

Tying all my worn-out feelings together, I’ll come and see you

I roamed the bottom of the sea with no light, wishing to see you

I can’t recall your face by now, but no doubt it looks lovely to me

My rusted heart

Still my heartbeat has a fever

Listen, I’ll be always singing the song you gave me right here

I just want you, just want you to take it

Let me hold you tight before I get frozen in the cold sea

Stop my tear from flowing or it will leave me to drown

I had no courage to seize the moon reflected into the sea

For fear that it will ever fall apart even in my light grasp

The smiling you and a fading memory, swaying transiently

I’m trying to hold out my hand – cruel beauty, so far away

Listen, I’ll be singing a song right here, gazing up at the moon

Hoping that it will, it will someday reach you

I need no promises; let the moon shine down on me

I’ll run barefoot, keeping a memory alive, toward the morning scent

The bustling of the waves, on the surface of the water that I looked down on

I felt like the palely shimmering moon was grinning at me