Sakura 桜-Kobukuro

Spring is coming, in Japan when you say spring or haru 春  in Japanese, the first thing that will come into your mind is the sakura 桜 or cherry blossoms.  In fact, there are lots of Japanese song entitled sakura.  So, I post here the video of Sakura by Kobukuro, dedicated to a friend of mine who happens to like this song......  

Translation Sakura

*Let's give a nameless flower a name.
There’s only one in the whole world.
It looks like it will get battered by the cold of winter.
It looks like it will be able to get up again at the sound of someone’s voice.*

There is a mass of life sleeping in the earth when you brush away the asphalt.
Whenever we meet, we share the loneliness of the times we can’t see each other,
Like the sun and the moon
Even flowers that don’t bear fruit, even flowers that die when they’re still a bud
From now on, you and someone else
Will bask in the spring wind looking at them

Every time a cherry blossom petal falls, another unfulfilled love
Is wiped out by tears and smiles
And I’ve grown up more.
This sadness that keeps chasing me
This strong, pure sadness will never, ever change
Don’t lose the love that blooms inside you

I saw you looking lonely in town,
slipping into the crowds.
Your shining clear eyes that time,
It's like the quick passage of time hasn't dirtied them.
Don't say anything, it shouldn't be put into words.
The falling tears are turned into rain, healing the wounds of my heart.
At the banks of everyone's hearts, there is a flower that you can't let go.
It is not a very strong flower,
it is a flower that sways fleetingly.
I feel the strength of living as much as the number of flower petals.
Struck by the blowing wind of the storm, too.
There is no rain that won't cease.

Every time a cherry blossom petal falls, another unfulfilled love
Is wiped out by tears and smiles
And I’ve grown up more.
This sadness that keeps chasing me
This strong, pure sadness will never, ever change
The love that blooms inside of you and me.

*repeat*