[Intro — distant koto, soft piano, morning ambience]
[LIA — gentle]
夜明けを待たずに
咲いた花も
朝の光を
忘れてはいない
I made it through the night.
And look—
The sky is changing.
[Verse 1]
I used to think the darkness
Meant I'd lost my way
Like every unanswered question
Needed fixing right away
But somewhere in the silence
I learned to hear myself
Stopped looking for the answers
In everybody else
I've loved
I've lost
I've let things go
I've learned which doors
I shouldn't hold
And every version of me
Brought me to this road
[Pre-Chorus]
空が少しずつ
明るくなる
I can see the colors
Coming back again
夜が長くても
朝は来るから
Maybe I was never lost
Maybe I was becoming
[Chorus]
Yoake
Here comes the light
Gold on the horizon
After the longest night
Yoake
I'm opening my eyes
I don't need to be
Who I was to survive
Let the morning find me
Exactly as I am
Every scar
Every flower
Every piece held in my hands
夜明け
I can finally see
The darkness never took my light
It taught me
What it's worth to me
[Verse 2]
I don't hate the girl
Who used to trust too easily
I don't blame the girl
Who gave away too much of me
She was learning
She was growing
She was doing what she knew
And every road she wandered
Led me somewhere new
Now I know that being gentle
Doesn't mean I have to bend
I can love with everything
And still know when something ends
昨日の私も
抱きしめながら
I don't have to leave her behind
To become who I am
[Pre-Chorus]
光が差し込む
この窓から
For the first time
I'm not afraid of change
何が待っていても
歩いていける
I don't need to know tomorrow
To meet it anyway
[Chorus]
Yoake
Here comes the light
Gold on the horizon
After the longest night
Yoake
I'm opening my eyes
I don't need to be
Who I was to survive
Let the morning find me
Exactly as I am
Every scar
Every flower
Every piece held in my hands
夜明け
I can finally see
The darkness never took my light
It taught me
What it's worth to me
[Bridge — piano, koto, strings slowly rising]
[LIA — intimate]
I was the flower
I was the blade
I was the firework
That lit up and faded
I was the woman
Standing under the moon
Every version of me
Was telling the truth
花も
刃も
涙も
光も
全部、私だった
I kept waiting
For morning to save me
But morning was never
Coming to save me
It came to show me—
I had already
saved myself.
[Final Chorus — full drums, taiko, soaring strings]
Yoake
Look at the sky
I walked through the darkness
And carried my own light
Yoake
This life is still mine
I honor where I've been
But I won't live behind
Let the sunlight touch me
I have nothing left to hide
Every love
Every lesson
Every shadow by my side
夜明け
Now I understand
I don't need another person
To tell me who I am
The night didn't end me
It taught me how to see
And when the morning finally came—
I was already me
[Outro — arrangement falls back to the same koto as Track 1]
[LIA — soft]
静かな花が咲く
今、朝の光の中で
私は私になるんじゃない
ずっと私だった
[soft breath]
Yoake.