SOTSUGYO

Kosha no kage shibafu no ue [bad word] sora
Maboroshi to [bad word] kimochi kanjiteita
Chaimu ga nari [bad word] no itsumo no seki ni suwari
Nani ni [bad word] [bad word] ka kangaeteita
Zawameku kokoro ima ore ni [bad word] mono wa
Imi naku omoete tomadotteita

Hokago machi furatsuki oretachi wa kaze no naka
Kodoku hitomi ni ukabe sabishiku [bad word] 
Waraigoe to tameiki no howa [bad word] mise de
 [bad word] no haisukoa kisoiatta
Taikutsu na kokoro shigeki sae areba
Nandemo oogesani shaberitsuzuketa

Gyogi yoku majime nante dekiya shinakatta
 [bad word] no kosha madogarasu [bad word] mawatta
Sakaraitsuzuke agakitsuzuketa hayaku jiyu ni naritakatta

Shinjirarenu otona to no arasoi no naka de
 [bad word] ittai nani wakariaeta daro
Unzari shinagara soredemo [bad word] 
Hitotsu dake wakatteita koto
Kono shihai kara no sotsugyo

Dareka no kenka no hanashi ni minna atsuku nari
Jibun ga dore dake tsuyoi ka shiritakatta
Chikara dake ga hitsuyo da to katanani shinjite
 [bad word] to wa [bad word] koto to [bad word] 
Tomodachi ni sae tsuyogatte miseta
Toki ni ha dareka wo kizutsukete mo

Yagate daremo koi ni ochite ai no kotoba to
Risou no ai sore dake ni kokoro ubawareta
 [bad word] tame ni keisan takaku nare to iu ga
Hito wo aisu massugusa wo tsuyoku shinjita
Taisetsu nano wa nani [bad word] koto to
 [bad word] tame ni [bad word] koto no kubetsu mayotta

Gyogi yoku majime nante kusokurae to omotta
 [bad word] no kousha madogarasu [bad word] mawatta
Sakaraitsuzuke agakitsuzuketa hayaku jiyu ni naritakatta

Shinjirarenu otona to no arasoi no naka de
 [bad word] ittai nani wakariaeta daro
Unzari shinagara sore demo [bad word] 
Hitotsu dake wakatteita koto
Kono shihai kara no sotsugyo

Sotsugyo [bad word] ittai nani [bad word] to iu noka
Omoide no hoka ni nani ga [bad word] to iu noka

Hito ha daremo shibarareta kayowaki kohitsuji naraba
Sensei anata ha kayowaki otona no daibensha nanoka
Oretachi no ikari doko he mukaubeki nanoka
Korekara wa nani ga ore wo [bad word] daro
Ato nando jibunjishin sotsugyo sureba
Honto no jibun ni [bad word] daro

Shikumareta jiyu ni dare mo kizukazu ni
Agaita hibi mo [bad word] 
Kono shihai kara no sotsugyo
Tatakai kara no sotsugyo

TRANSLATION

Graduation

On the grass in the shadow of the school building,
the sky drew me in.
I had feelings both real and imagined.
The bell rang, I took my usual seat in class
and I thought about what I should conform to.
My heart was restless
as I reflected aimlessly about what I had.
I was confused.

Stumbling around the city after school,
we were in the wind
loneliness in our eyes, walking sadly.
In shops saturated by laughter and sighs,
 [bad word] at pinball for the high score.
We were bored, if only there was something to stimulate us.
We’d keep blabbering on in grandiose terms about anything.

I couldn’t be proper and serious.
I ran around breaking window glasses
on the school building at night.
I kept acting out, I kept [bad word] 
I just wanted to be free already.

In our battles with the [bad word] adults,
what did we ever learn through tolerance?
Even if it [bad word] me off, I went through with it.
The one thing I learned was
that I was graduating from their control.

Everybody gets all worked up over someone’s retelling of a fight.
I wanted to know just how strong I was.
Stubbornly believing all I needed was power,
telling myself that to obey was to lose.
I tried to act tough even in front of my friends,
even if that meant sometimes hurting someone.

Eventually we all fell in love.
Words of love and the ideal of love,
that was all it took to capture our hearts.
They say in order to live you must have great plans,
but I believed strongly
in the straight forwardness of loving another.
What is important?
I was confused about the difference between
loving and what must be done to live.

I thought they could shove their “proper and serious” up their asses.
I ran around breaking window glasses
on the school building at night.
I kept acting out, I kept [bad word] 
I just wanted to be free already.

In our battles with the [bad word] adults
what did we ever learn through tolerance?
Even if it [bad word] me off, I went through with it.
The one thing I learned was
that I was graduating from their control.

What has graduating taught us?
What stays with us aside from memories?
All humans are bound. If we’re all just fragile lambs,
are you the spokesman for the fragile lambs, teacher?
Where should we direct our anger?
What’s gonna bind me from here on?
How many more times must I graduate
till I reach who I really am?

No one realizes that freedom is a concotion.
Our days of [bad word] will end.
We’ll graduate from this control,
we’ll graduate from this battle.