"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.
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