ラブレター Love Letter

Nice to meet you, my beloved music.

Addressing 音楽 directly as if it were a person makes the opening sound like a letter or greeting.

Something I’ve been thinking about for a long time.

〜てた is the spoken contraction of 〜ていた, which keeps the tone natural and personal.

I really want you to hear it.

どうか adds earnestness, almost “please, somehow.” 〜てほしい expresses wanting the listener to do something.

(There is something I want to tell you.)

あるんです has explanatory warmth. It sounds more intimate than a bare statement.

It’s a little embarrassing, but...

照れ臭い is not deep shame; it is affectionate self-consciousness.

Something I’ve been feeling for a long time.

想う often feels more emotional than plain 思う, especially in lyrical contexts.

I’ve put it into a letter like this.

込める means putting thought or feeling into something, not just physically inserting it.

(I hope it reaches you.)

〜ますように is a wish formula, common in prayers, hopes, and heartfelt messages.

At any time, your...

This is a suspended line that delays the reason given in the next line.

Just by listening to your words and voice...

だけで means “just by.” It highlights how little is needed for the result that follows.

...strength wells up inside me.

湧いてくる is physical and vivid: strength rises up from within.

Hey...

A soft attention-getter, intimate rather than dramatic.

I want to keep smiling, no matter what time it is.

〜ていたい expresses the desire to remain in a state, not just do something once.

But there are days that are painful, dark, and hurting.

The repetition of short adjectives makes the line sound childlike and direct.

But you know...

A conversational pivot that keeps the tone soft and personal.

Just by touching you, before I realize it...

触れる is “to touch,” but it can also mean coming into contact with something less physical, like music or an idea.

...this world becomes vividly colored.

色鮮やか is not just “colorful,” but vividly, freshly bright.

Like flowers blooming.

A simple simile. The comparison makes the brightening sound gradual and natural rather than abrupt.

Laughing, crying, whatever time it may be...

The pair 笑って泣いて uses two very ordinary verbs to cover a wide emotional range.

It’s okay to choose, always, freely.

〜ていいんだ gives permission and reassurance. It sounds almost like music speaking back.

I wonder what kind of you I’ll meet today.

出会える is potential: “be able to meet.” It keeps the relation to music fresh and living, not static.

Until the very day this world ends...

The wording broadens the promise as far as it can go in spatial terms.

Please keep sounding.

鳴り続ける is to continue sounding or ringing out. Music is imagined as something ongoing and sustaining.

I always end up longing for you.

〜ちゃう is colloquial for 〜てしまう. It adds a feeling of inevitability: I just can’t help it.

(Even when it makes me want to start dancing.)

〜出す adds the sense of beginning suddenly. The body responds before thought does.

(Even when I feel like I’m about to burst.)

〜そう here means “seems likely to,” and しちゃう keeps the line colloquial and emotional.

I’ve been saved by you; I’ve been supported by you.

The pair of passives matters: music is not just enjoyed, but experienced as something that has acted upon and sustained the speaker.

(It moves my heart.)

Literally, the heart is “made to move.” The passive-causative structure gives the feeling of being deeply affected.

(It gradually fills my heart.)

〜ていく shows an ongoing process. Fulfillment arrives gradually, not all at once.

Hey, I want to keep touching you more.

Again 触れる can be read physically or more abstractly. The song keeps reusing that double usefulness.

I want you to stay by my side always.

そばにいてほしい is very direct. It uses the standard 〜てほしい pattern without much softening.

Forever.

This short line extends the time scale beyond the immediate moment.

You, whom I love so much...

Putting あなた here on its own gives it extra focus before the following wish.

May you keep resounding.

Another wish formula. The beloved addressee is not a person who stays beside the speaker physically, but music that continues to sound.

So many feelings like these...

This marks a return from refrain language to the act of writing the letter itself.

Feelings packed in tightly.

ぎゅっと is mimetic and tactile, suggesting compression, closeness, and intensity.

I wonder if I conveyed them properly.

〜られた here is potential past: “was able to convey.” かな makes the doubt soft and inward.

I’m a little anxious, but...

The hesitation is small, but it matters because the whole page is built on sincere address.

Surely it reached you, right?

よね seeks soft confirmation from the addressee, making the line feel conversational rather than purely declarative.

Because all of these are my honest words.

素直 means honest, straightforward, unguarded. It is a key word for the song’s sincerity.

When I imagine what it would be like if I had never met you...

もしも plus conditional opens a hypothetical. The speaker imagines a world without music.

Just thinking about that is frightening; that’s how much I love you.

怖いほど means “to the extent that it’s frightening,” a strong way to describe emotional intensity.

Please receive my feelings.

受け取って is direct but tender. It completes the letter motif very clearly.

Come now.

A small line, but it resets the song into motion and resolve after the vulnerable request.

Those everyday days of laughing and crying...

The phrase gathers many ordinary feelings into one object of commitment.

...I’ll keep walking through them, always, forever.

歩いていく suggests continuing onward through time. It is steady rather than dramatic.

There are many painful, dark, hurting things too, but...

The wording does not deny suffering. Instead, it includes it within the broader statement being made.

This world is overflowing with music, always and everywhere.

溢れる means to overflow. Music is imagined as the medium saturating reality itself.

The things right in front of me, and the things in the future too...

The line covers both present and future anxiety in one compact phrase.

I grow anxious and wonder what I should do.

どうしたらいい is a common everyday pattern, which makes the line feel immediate and human rather than literary.

There are times when I do not know and feel lost, but...

分かんなくって is a colloquial contraction of 分からなくて, keeping the voice young and natural.

Even at such times, if you are there for me...

いてくれれば uses くれる, which often adds the sense that someone’s presence is received as something valuable.

...I can face forward.

前を向く is both literal and idiomatic: to face forward, to keep going with hope.

The reason I can feel like this...

This starts a final explanatory pair.

The reason I can hold feelings like these...

想い again carries richer emotional weight than a flat “thought.”

Surely, it’s only music.

The whole letter resolves into this claim: music alone can do this.

(There is not a single substitute for it.)

一つもない is emphatic total negation: not even one.

Please, even a thousand years from now...

The scope becomes mythically large, matching the depth of gratitude.

Please, do not ever stop sounding.

鳴り止まないで is a plea, not just a statement. The page ends in request, not conclusion.

Thank you, truly, always.

A plain final line, which suits the whole song: the deepest feeling is expressed most simply.