Maaya mentioned on her radio show that this song takes the opposite point of view of 'Chikai', the song that follows on from it on the CD, although they are both talking about the same thing. While this song is pretty...well, the first time I heard it the song brought to mind a desolate wasteland of snow and ice, 'Chikai' is much warmer.
Notes, notes. The second verse, 'frozen stars' is 'kotta hoshi' in the Japanese so I thought she meant the sun was a frozen star instead of the 'rising [normal] sun', then I looked up polar night and no, no sun BUT you can see the stars all day in some forms of polar night Thank you, Wikipedia. .
The final line was also a bit tricky as she literally says 'I will be far away, just a little' in the Japanese and so I changed that to 'slightly further away' as I interpreted her words to mean that, in the end, even though they are not together anymore they are still both in the same country and city (and on the same planet!) they were before...just...apart. Slightly further apart, so to speak.. And in Tokyo, I suppose you always have the possibility of running into your ex because practically everyone lives there....
Now enough of my translator babble.
Polar Night (kyoku-ya)
From Driving in the Silence
Original lyrics by Maaya Sakamoto
As soon as I wake up in the morning I remember you
And quickly close my eyes once more
How many more sleeps will it take before all the sad things
Melt away like ice into tears, I wonder?
It's starting, a new day
It's starting, here
As if it's going to swallow everything completely
It's starting, once more
A sun that won't rise, frozen stars
There's no such thing as time standing still
But I'm still here even though you're gone
Who should prayers be offered to and who are they meant to save?
Making noise, shivering
To the point where I feel like I'm going mad
I'm alive, living
I'm alive, right now
Right now
Until we meet again someday, someplace
I'll be slightly further away
I'll be slightly further away
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