Radwimps - 25コ目の染色体 (25 ko-me no senshokutai) (English translation)

Radwimps – 25コ目の染色体

English translation

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Translation

The 25th Chromosome

The things you gave me—I’m still holding onto so many of them.

And now, I’m counting them, one by one.

1, 2, the third one taps on my tear ducts,

And the 131st rests gently on my eyelids.

I’d forgotten how to cry. but now,

There’s something right here—something that feels like it might spill over, even with my eyes closed.

I will die for you, and I will live for you.

I will die for you—there’s nothing more

That I could ever say to show it.

The very day before you die—

Please, let me be the one

To take my last breath first.

That’s the one and only favor I ask, for life.

And on the final day you walk this Earth,

I want to guess what color the sky turns as the world fades.

Somewhere halfway between here and heaven—

Maybe right around where the moon stretches out its hand.

That view from up there,

I feel like maybe—just maybe—I could see it too,

Even with my eyes closed.

I will die for you, and I will live for you.

I will die for you—even though

You never ever asked me to.

So what should we do in our next lives?

Reincarnation, meeting again in some other form—

Honestly, that sounds like a hassle.

Let’s just be born as one single life.

That way, there’ll be no fights,

No "who goes first" ever again.

We’ll share the same friends,

And celebrate our birthdays with them all.

We’ll even prepare two cakes, just for the heck of it—

One shortcake, one chocolate. No deep meaning behind it.

When we’re happy, we’ll laugh twice as hard,

Leave twice the wrinkles on our faces.

That’s my second request—

The second “once in a lifetime” wish.

I will die for you, and I will live for you.

I will cry for you,

Because you’re the one who taught me how.

Someday, if two lives are born from us—

When that day comes,

Please, let it be a baby just like you.

I know it’s impossible,

But I hope for 100% your genes.

May it show through loud and clear.

May it look nothing like me, not even a bit.

I’ll press my hands together in prayer every night before bed.

And whenever I say that, you always tell me you want the baby to resemble me,

But I really, really don’t want that.

If I had to choose something—

Just give them my luck.

Just my good fortune and my happy streak.

One for each chromosome,

That’s all I ask.

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25コ目の染色体

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