Yorushika turn the singer into weather here. She says it straight out: "私は青い風" [I am a blue wind]. The whole song is a gust tearing across a grassland, and the title line keeps coming back like the wind itself: "雲を抜け風下へ私だけ" [through the clouds, downwind, only me]. Listen for 抜け (nuke), "passing through", stacked over and over: through the grass, through the flowers, through the sky, and finally "今を抜け 風下へ私だけ" [through the present moment, downwind, only me]. It is a great verb to learn, and by the end you will never forget it.
What I love is how lonely and wild it gets. She stares at someone and says "貸せ お前の白い羽根" [lend me your white feathers], which is blunt and a little rude, since お前 is a rough way to say "you". Then she admits "とうに空っぽ" [empty long ago] about her own eyes. The rain is a passing shower she orders away with "片時雨 早く往ね" [passing rain, get lost already], using the old-fashioned verb 往ぬ, "to go away". And the ending is pure dawn: "朝ぼらけ 待ちぼうけ" [the grey of dawn, left waiting], with "ただ濡れた魂の匂い" [only the smell of a wet soul]. That last image is so odd and so specific that it sticks with me every time.
Yorushika is a Japanese rock duo formed in 2017 by composer and guitarist n-buna, a former Vocaloid producer, and vocalist suis. The pair keep their faces and personal lives private, so the music carries the project.
Their first EP came out in 2017, and their first album, That's Why I Gave Up on Music, followed in 2019 on Universal Music Japan. "雲を抜け風下へ私だけ" is the opening theme of the third season of the anime The Apothecary Diaries.