Shinkai Shoujo [English Adaptation Lyrics]

As I sank deeper into the misery around me

The dark water of my own sea

I didn’t want to open my eyes up anymore

As I was lost in the darkness as I hit the seafloor

Where was I going once when I had a goal in mind,

When a bright beam of light passed my side and carried on?

Though I could reach out my hand and see what my eyes could find

All the waves that crashed by here blocked my path and it was gone

Just what exactly was the light that I thought I saw?

It looked so warm and dazzling as it flowed by my side

But by instinct I turned away and shrouded myself

Using these lines to just hide

I’m a girl of the deep sea, wondering who she could be

In the darkness of isolation is the place for me

I may be now buried deep, but I fear I cannot sleep

Because I had found some light that my fragile heart in shadows cannot keep

Even though this place of darkness has no night or day

My insomnia seems to leave my dreams behind

As you spread your wings wide above me and swam away

The magnificence of that sight was now burned in my mind

And as the light above me seemed to rain down around

As I was still entranced our gaze met once more

You noticed me and approached my deceptive lies

And I lost what I fought for

I’m a girl of the seabed cowering within her head

In the darkness you can’t see how my cheeks are flushed with red

Far beneath the trophic zone, I find I am always alone

But I still want to show you this heart that I know can only be my own

And even though my clothes are dirty from all that I did

And though my smile has become distorted

And my face isn’t something that can be shown here anyway

So leave me alone okay?!

The feelings that I couldn’t express here overflowed and then carried on

And just as suddenly the sight of you above blinked and your form was simply gone

As this girl now worries here, as she gives into her fear

As the darkness now closes in and she may disappear

She now knows what she must do, as she reaches out to you

“Look right here the colors of your heart shine right here as a brilliant blue!”

As a girl of the deep sea, I now rise up gracefully

Singing now the song that I feel has been inside of me

As I swim up to the sky, as the light reaches my eye

What I want is to keep on flying to fulfill my curiosity

Having now left the deep far behind, let’s see what I’ll find

Original Song