Cover art for Meidai by RADWIMPS
Meidai Song by RADWIMPS

RADWIMPS - Meidai Lyrics (Romaji)

Romanized Lyrics

Bokutachi wa mienai ashita wo ichinichi mo yasumazu
Ukeirenagara hibiwarenagara mizukara tsugihagi de naoshite

Moshikashite asu ni nareba nanika kawaru kamo nante
Nante kenage de nante taida de nante itaikena ikimono
Toki ni oroka de mare ni kyouki ni okasareru no mo shikata ga nai

Dakedo bokura wa “akiramenai” wo kono idenshi ni kizamarete
Kokyuu no tabi ni kibou sagashimotomeru you katachizukurare
Konna chippoke na jibun dakedomo dareka no tame no nanika ni, nareru you
Negattanda

Hajimete umarete kita no migi mo hidari mo shiru wake nai darou
Kanashimi to konna toko de machiawaseta tsumori nado nai kedo

Dore dake michi mayotta ka yori dore dake machigaenakatta ka
Sore ga ikita akashi naraba sonna sekai ni you nado kochitoranai kara

Kono yo ni umareochite ikuraka toki ga nagareta ga
Sekai wa boku wo mishiranu soburi yobidashitoite sorya nai darou

Temee no inchiki ga barerya yoso ni goman to iru to
Hikari no hayasa hirakinaori de jiko hinan kawasu suruu pasu

Jinsei joukyuusha tachi ga marude haba kikasujidai
“Shiro” ka “kuro” ka no nigenron ga oukou yurameki sae yurusazu
Genkokuseki ni afurekaeru hito, hikokuseki wa monuke no kara

Kotoba ni yaiba tsukitatete bunmawasu you na kono jidai ni
“Heiki na kao ga umai senshuken” kyousei sanka no jidai ni
Soredemo kimi ga itekureru nara ashita mo ikite mitai to, sou kokoro kara
Negattanda

Akiramekata, inashikata akirekata to dareka no kusashikata
Sore ga jidai no soubi datte shinjiru kimi no sono waraikata

Itsuka kiete shimau no wa nikushimi mo itoshisa mo onaji darou
Sono koe no nushi ni boku wa ima donna kotoba wo kakerarerun darou

Kanashimi no saki ni mo
Kimi no koe wa
Tuururu tuttu tuururu tuttu
Kikoete kuru yo
Tuururu tuttu tuururu tuttu
Kikoete kuru yo

Daremo ga shiawase ni nareru wake de wa nai kono sekai
Kore wo koeru shinjitsu ga dou ni mo miataranakute memai ga suru

Sekai ni afureru hotondo no yume nanka kanawanai
Sore wo nande nyuugaku shite ichiban saisho no jugyou de oshienai

Hajimete umarete kita no migi mo hidari mo shiru wake nai darou
Kanashimi to konna toko de machiawaseta tsumori nado nai kedo

“Kimi ga muda ni shita kyou wa dareka ga ikitagatteta kyou da” to
Iwareta toko de biku tomo shinai yoru datte zara ni aru kedo

Hiroi umi ni itteki no megusuri hodo no chigai da to shitemo
Boku ga koko ni umarete kita imi no hitoshizuku wo sagashite samayou you na hibi

“Kimi ja nai to” ga kikitai no kimi to boku no (kusuguttai yo) kibou gokko

English Lyrics

We face the unseen tomorrow, never resting for a day
Accepting our fate, we start to crack, then patch ourselves up along the way

"Maybe tomorrow, something will finally change," we pray
What a noble, yet what a lazy, what a childlike kind of being
Sometimes we’re foolish, on rare days driven mad—it's just the way of things

But we have "never give up" carved into our very DNA
With every breath, we’re built to search for hope along the way
And though I'm nothing more than this, I pray to be a "something" for someone else's day
That's what I wished for

I was just born for the first time, how could I know my left from my right?
I never planned on having a rendezvous with sorrow here tonight

It’s not "how lost you got," but "how many times you didn’t stray"
If that’s the mark of a life well-lived, I’ve got no use for that world anyway

I was born and fell into this world, and some time has drifted by
But the world acts like a stranger, after calling me here—that’s just not right

When your own cheap tricks are exposed, you claim there are thousands just like you
At the speed of light, defiant, you pass the blame right on through

An age where life's "expert players" seem to run the whole damn show
Where "black or white" is the only choice, not letting a single grey area grow
The prosecutors' seats are overflowing, while the defendant's box is bare

In an age where words are wielded like blades and swung around without a care
An age where we’re forced to compete in the "Best at Faking 'I'm Okay'" game
But even so, if you are here with me, I want to live tomorrow all the same, from my heart...
That's what I wished for

How to give up, and how to deflect, how to be jaded, and how to slander and reject
The way you laugh, believing that’s the armor this new era requires

One day it will all fade away, both our hatred and our fondest desires
To the owner of that voice, I wonder now, what words could I possibly offer?

Even past the sorrow
Your voice…
Tururu, tuttut, tururu, tuttut
I can still hear it
Tururu, tuttut, tururu, tuttut
I can still hear it

In this world where not everyone is allowed to find happiness
I can't find a single truth to top that, and the thought just makes a dizzying mess

Most of the dreams that fill this world will never see the light of day
So why don’t they teach that in the very first lesson, on the very first day?

I was just born for the first time, how could I know my left from my right?
I never planned on having a rendezvous with sorrow here tonight

"The today that you have wasted," they say, "is a day someone else longed to live"
And yet, there are so many nights when words like that have nothing left to give

Even if it only makes a difference like one single drop of eyedrops in the sea
I spend my days just wandering, for one drop of meaning for why I came to be

I just want to hear you say "It has to be you," in our (I know it's silly) little game of hope

Japanese Lyrics

僕たちは見えない明日を一日も休まず
受け入れながらヒビ割れながら 自らツギハギで直して

もしかして明日になれば何か変わるかもなんて
なんて健気でなんて怠惰で なんて幼気な生き物
時に愚かで 稀に狂気に犯されるのも仕方がない

だけど僕らは「諦めない」をこの遺伝子に刻まれて
呼吸のたびに希望探し求めるよう形作られ
こんなちっぽけな自分だけども誰かのための何かに、なれるよう
願ったんだ

はじめて産まれてきたの 右も左も知るわけないだろう
悲しみとこんなとこで 待ち合わせたつもりなどないけど

どれだけ道迷ったか よりどれだけ間違えなかったか
それが生きた証ならば そんな世界に用などこちとらないから

この世に産まれ堕ちていくらか時が流れたが
世界は僕を見知らぬそぶり 呼び出しといてそりゃないだろう

てめぇのインチキがバレりゃ他所に五万といると
光の速さ 開き直りで自己避難かわすスルーパス

人生上級者たちがまるで幅利かす時代
「白」か「黒」かの二元論が横行 ゆらめきさえ許さず
原告席に溢れ返る人、被告席はもぬけの殻

言葉に刃つき立ててぶん回すようなこの時代に
「平気な顔が上手い選手権」 強制参加の時代に
それでも君がいてくれるなら 明日も生きてみたいと、そう心から
願ったんだ

諦め方、いなし方 呆れ方と誰かのくさし方
それが時代の装備だって信じる君のその笑い方

いつか消えてしまうのは 憎しみも愛しさも同じだろう
その声の主に僕は今 どんな言葉をかけられるんだろう

悲しみの 先にも
君の声は
トゥールル トゥットゥ トゥールル トゥットゥ
聞こえてくるよ
トゥールル トゥットゥ トゥールル トゥットゥ
聞こえてくるよ

誰もが幸せになれるわけではないこの世界
これを超える真実がどうにも見当たらなくて目眩がする

世界に溢れるほとんどの夢なんか叶わない
それをなんで入学して一番最初の授業で教えない

はじめて産まれてきたの 右も左も知るわけないだろう
悲しみとこんなとこで 待ち合わせたつもりなどないけど

「君が無駄にした今日は 誰かが生きたがってた今日だ」と
言われたとこでビクとも しない夜だってザラにあるけど

広い海に一滴の 目薬ほどの違いだとしても
僕がここに生まれてきた意味の 一雫を探して彷徨うような日々

「君じゃないと」が聞きたいの 君と僕の(くすぐったいよ) 希望ごっこ