"マイオンリー" (My Only) is SixTONES at their most openly devoted, and honestly it is a bit much in the best way. It opens like a movie scene the narrator hates: he is standing in the rain on a lonely night, following the trail of tears someone he can see in the distance has cried. Then the wish kicks in: "その手を握れたなら" [if only I could hold that hand], and suddenly "モノクロも色付く淡い世界" [even a black-and-white world takes on pale color]. That is the whole song in one image. Her presence is what turns the gray to color.
The chorus is where he lays it all out. "これ以上何も望まないから" [I won't wish for anything more] and "ただ俺のそばにいて欲しい" [I just want you by my side]. Notice he switches between あなた (a soft, respectful "you") and 君 (a closer, more casual "you"), and calls himself 俺, the rough, masculine "I". There is also a cheeky line, "もう俺しかいないって言わせたいんだ" [I want to make you say there's no one but me], which comes back later as a confident "分かってるだろ?" [you know it, right?]. He even admits he is clumsy about it: "不器用なまま君抱きしめたい" [I want to hold you, clumsy as I am].
The bridge is my favourite part. "涙降り止まないなら 傘となって護りたい" [if your tears won't stop falling, I want to become an umbrella and protect you] pays off that rainy opening perfectly. And the "運命の糸" [thread of fate] he keeps mentioning is the red thread of fate, a popular East Asian idea that two people destined for each other are tied together by an invisible string. Then the outro just loops "愛してる forever" [I love you forever] over and over, which is about as subtle as a boy band gets.
SixTONES is a six-member Japanese boy group made up of Jesse, Taiga Kyomoto, Hokuto Matsumura, Yugo Kochi, Shintaro Morimoto and Juri Tanaka. The group was announced in 2015 and debuted on January 22, 2020 with the double A-side single "Imitation Rain/D.D.", released jointly with Snow Man.
In 2026 they released the single "Dance Forever/マイオンリー", which debuted at number one on the Oricon chart.