Probably my favorite song from Janet. I’ve become attached to localizing the title of this song as “The Birth of Fall” but it’s more literally “The Day Fall Was Born.”
This song is from a concept album and I have not translated all the songs. As such, this is a vague interpretation of the lyrics for this one song, and were possibly misinterpreted since they were translated without the context of the full album.
Title: 秋が生まれた日
———> aki ga umareta hi
———> “The Birth of Fall”
Circle: じゃねっと亭
———> Janetto-Tei
Album: ただ今を告げる軌跡
———> tada ima wo tsugeru kiseki
———> “The Path You Make Marks the Present”
Arrange: じゃねっと
Lyrics & Vocal: ななせ
Key: Original Lyrics; Romaji; Translation
NOTE: In the first verse, I’ve used “they” to keep it ambiguous but the subject is markedly singular through the use of 独り and 一人分. The chorus is vague as well but the use of 出会う implies a meeting, which in the second verse is implied to be in dreams (further supported by the dream-like musicality of the bridge). The final chorus implies a real meeting, as the promise is being fulfilled and Fall is born. Somehow this translation note turned from pronoun clarification to lyrical analysis…
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独り静かに眠りにつける場所を探して
「悪くない夢だった」と
落ちる見栄を重ねて
hitori shizuka ni nemuri ni tsukeru basho wo sagashite
warukunai yume datta to
ochiru mie wo kasanete
Quiet and alone, they search for a place they can rest
Where they can say “I had a pleasant dream…”
And give up all previous pretensions
あぁそして辿り着く
一人分のさよなら 告げる為の
秋の咲く場所
a soshite tadoritsuku
hitoribun no sayonara tsugeru tame no
aki no saku basho
But oh, the struggle continued
They said their farewells and looked to mark
A new place where Fall could bloom
初めて会ったこの日には
互いを知らなくても
誰かに許されなければ生きられないのなら
初めて在ったあの日から
互いを知っていたの
「この世界は好き？」だなんて
淋しそうに笑わないで
hajimete atta kono hi ni ha
tagai wo shirankutemo
dareka ni yurusarenakereba ikirarenai no nara
hajimete atta ano hi kara
tagai wo shitteita no
kono sekai ha suki da nante
samishisou ni warawanai de
This day we first met
Even though we don’t know each other
You couldn’t keep living without being able to forgive
So from that first day onwards
It was mutually understood
Things like “Do you like this world?”
Please don’t ask with such a lonesome look
双り静かな眠りを告げる夢に契りを
「いつか 二人出逢えたら
其処に秋を咲かそう」
futari shizuka na nemuri wo tsugeru yume ni chigiri wo
itsuka futari deaetara
soko ni aki wo sakasou
The two in quiet slumber made a promise in a dream
“Someday, if we two should meet
That’s where Fall will bloom.”
初めて在ったあの日から
互いを知っていても
許しあえる事をもしも生きると呼ぶのなら
初めて会ったこの日から
互いを知って行くの
彼方で終いの契りが ねぇ
色付いてるから
hajimete atta ano hi kara
tagai wo shitteitemo
yurushiaeru koto wo moshimo ikiru to yobu no nara
hajimete atta kono hi kara
tagai wo shitteyuku no
kanata de shimai no chigiri ga ne
irodzuiteru kara
And from that first day onwards
Even though we both understood
If being alive and crying out were things that could be forgiven
Then from this day we first met and onwards
We’ll come to understand one another
The promise we made from the ends of that other side
Is turning bright crimson
秋の生まれた日に
aki no umareta hi ni
The Birth of Fall