Vanish Lyrics in English by Janne Da Arc

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narenai jikan no nagare

Time flows in a way I'm not used to

yoru ga nagaku kanjiru

The night feels long

karada yori mo kokoro no oashisu ga hoshikute

I wanted an oasis for my heart more than my body

nanigeni kowareta hazu no

On a whim, I tried switching on

rajio o tsuketemiru to

The radio I thought was broken

noizu majiri no kanojo no uta ni deatta

And came across her song mixed with static

natsukashikumonai noni naze ka boku wa

It wasn't even nostalgic, yet somehow I

futo ki ga tsukeba namidashiteta

Suddenly realized I was crying

hikarabikaketa kono boku ni

To me, who was nearly dried up

megami ga maiorite

A goddess descended

kanojo no koe uruosu shizuku no you

Her voice, like a drop that revives me

tenshi no hohoemi ni mo nita

Like an angel's smile

yawarakana kaze no koe

The voice of a gentle breeze

otona ni natta boku no kokoro o iyasu nante

To think it could heal my grown-up heart

itsumo waratteiru you na

That always seemed to be smiling

kanojo no utagoe ga

Her singing voice

boku no komoriuta gawari ni natteta noni

Used to be my lullaby, and yet

yume de miru kanojo wa sora o miagete

In my dreams she looks up at the sky

namida o misezuni naiteiru you

As if crying without showing her tears

mayonaka ni futo me ga sameru to

When I suddenly wake in the middle of the night

itai hodo no seijaku

There's a silence so deep it hurts

itsunomanika kanojo no koe mo tozasare

Before I knew it, her voice had been shut away too

fushigina mahou ni miserareta

Enchanted by a strange spell

boku wa kodomo no you ni kanojo wa mou

I was like a child, and she had already

rajio to tomo ni nemuri ni tsuita

Fallen asleep along with the radio

mou tsumetakunatteiru kanojo ni

To her, already gone cold

nando mo yobikakete

I called out again and again

itsu made mo koe ga karehateru made

On and on, until my voice gave out

unadareta kanojo no karada

Her body, head hanging down

eien ni mezame wa shinai

Will never wake again

kanojo no inai

Without her

ano yoru ni wa modoritakuhanai

I don't want to go back to that night

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静寂 — silence / profound stillness

静寂 means a deep, almost absolute silence, with a more poetic and dramatic feeling than the everyday word 静かさ. In the song, the phrase 痛い程の静寂 describes a silence so intense that it feels physically painful after the woman's voice disappears.

Janne Da Arc's "Vanish" is a love story between a man and a voice on a broken radio. Lying awake on nights that feel too long, he switches on a radio that "should have been broken" (壊れたはずの) and finds a woman singing through the static. He cries without knowing why: "ふと気がつけば涙してた" (before I knew it, I was in tears). He calls her a goddess come down to him, her voice "うるおす雫の様" (like drops of water bringing me back to life), and her singing becomes his lullaby.

Then the radio dies. He wakes at midnight to "痛い程の静寂" (a silence so deep it hurts), and the song treats the radio like a body: she "ラジオとともに眠りについた" (fell asleep along with the radio), and he calls out to her until his voice is gone. The last line is "あの夜には戻りたくはない" (I don't want to go back to that night). It is grief for something that was never a person, sung as if it were.

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