13 Years Old Night Lyrics in English by push pull pot

Below, I translated the lyrics of the song 13 Years Old Night by push pull pot from Japanese to English.
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totsuzen subete ushinatta koto anata wa arimasu ka
Have you ever suddenly lost everything?
13 sai no boku wa ukeireru shika nakatta shi
At 13, I had no choice but to accept it
zutto warattehoshii tte omoeru hito ga anata ni wa imasu ka
Is there someone you wish would keep smiling forever?
kyou mo boku wa sasaerarenagara ikiteru
Today, too, I'm living, held up by others
totsuzen subete ushinatta koto anata wa arimasu ka
Have you ever suddenly lost everything?
13 sai no boku wa ukeireru shika nakatta yo
At 13, I had no choice but to accept it
zutto warattehoshii tte omoeru hito ga anata ni wa imasu ka
Is there someone you wish would keep smiling forever?
kyou mo boku wa sasaerarenagara ikiteru
Today, too, I'm living, held up by others
14 ji 46 fun itsumo to chigau kane ga natta
At 2:46 p.m., a bell rang that wasn't the usual one
musekinin no daijoubu ga yakeni atama o kakemegutta
A careless "it's okay" kept racing strangely through my head
tsurai kedo anata ga warau dake de boku wa sukuwareta you da
It hurts, but just seeing you smile, I feel like I've been saved
anata no hyoujou musekininna kanjou yori hibiku
Your expression reaches me more than any careless feelings
anata ni ikasareteiru no nakisakenda
"I'm kept alive by you," I cried out in tears
wasurerarenai 13 sai no yoru
The night I was 13, I'll never forget
totsuzen subete ushinatta koto anata wa arimasu ka
Have you ever suddenly lost everything?
13 sai no boku wa ukeiretanda yo
At 13, I accepted it
zutto warattehoshii tte omoeru hito ga anata ni wa imasu ka
Is there someone you wish would keep smiling forever?
kyou mo boku wa sasaeraretetanda
Today, too, I see I was being held up by others
kako no kioku to niramekkoshite mo
Even when I stare down my memories of the past
hyoujou hitotsu kawaranai
My expression doesn't change one bit
kowai naraba issho ni waratteikou
If you're scared, let's go on smiling together
totsuzen subete ushinatta koto anata wa arimasu ka
Have you ever suddenly lost everything?
13 sai no boku wa ukeireru shika nakatta shi
At 13, I had no choice but to accept it
zutto warattehoshii tte omoeru hito ga anata ni wa imasu ka
Is there someone you wish would keep smiling forever?
kyou mo boku wa
And today, too, I
anata no hyoujou musekininna kanjou yori hibiku
Your expression reaches me more than any careless feelings
anata ni ikasareteiru no nakisakenda
"I'm kept alive by you," I cried out in tears
kakedashita 13 sai no yoru
Ran off into the night I was 13
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生かされている — being kept alive / living thanks to someone

生かされている comes from 生かす (to keep alive or let live) in the passive form, so it means “being kept alive” or “being sustained by someone.” In the song, the singer says he is living because of the other person, giving this phrase a powerful sense of gratitude, dependence, and emotional survival.

"13 Years Old Night" is push pull pot looking back at one day that split a childhood in two. The time stamp gives it away: "14時46分 いつもと違う鐘が鳴った" (At 2:46 p.m., a bell rang that was different from usual). In Japan, 14:46 is the minute the Great East Japan Earthquake struck on 11 March 2011, so the singer is telling us he was thirteen that afternoon. The chorus asks the listener straight out, "突然すべて失ったこと あなたはありますか" (Have you ever suddenly lost everything?), and answers for himself: "13歳の僕は受け入れるしかなかったし" (at thirteen, I had no choice but to accept it). He is honest about the empty comfort people offered, too: "無責任の大丈夫が やけに頭を駆け巡った" (an irresponsible "it's okay" kept racing round my head). 大丈夫 (daijoubu, "it's okay") is one of the first words learners pick up, and here it stings.

What pulls him through is one person's smile. "辛いけど あなたが笑うだけで 僕は救われたようだ" (It's hard, but just you smiling seemed to save me), and later the much heavier "あなたに生かされているの 泣き叫んだ" (I'm being kept alive by you, I screamed and cried). I like the small changes across the choruses: "受け入れるしかなかった" (had no choice but to accept) becomes "受け入れたんだよ" (I accepted it). There is also a nice idiom, "過去の記憶とにらめっこしても" (even when I stare down my memories of the past). にらめっこ is a kids' staring game where the first to laugh loses, which makes "表情ひとつ変わらない" (my face doesn't change at all) land harder. The song ends moving forward: "怖いならば一緒に笑っていこう" (if you're scared, let's keep laughing together), then "駆け出した 13歳の夜" (I started running, that night at thirteen).

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