Duca - Passion

Song: Passion Lyrics: Nakayama♡Mami Composition: Meis Clauson Vocals: Duca Notes: OP for Kodomo no Asobi (コドモノアソビ) Listen: http://www.xiami.com/song/1775393528 Lyrics source: Lyrics-Songs (りりくすーず)

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幼いあの頃　叶えたはずの願い That wish I was supposed to have granted back when I was little

どこへいったのだろう　時は過ぎ流れて Where did it go, now that the years have run on past me

喪われていた　愛おしい気持ちを The precious feelings I’d lost along the way

とても懐かしく　大切に思える Feel so dear to me now, so worth holding onto

子供の世界で社会を学び　大人へと近づいてゆく中で Learning how society works from a child’s world, inching closer to adulthood

失くしたものがかけがえないってこと　気付く程に胸が苦しくて The more I realize what I lost can’t be replaced, the tighter it aches in my chest

あの頃の淡い想いの　行方探し求めさまよう I wander, searching for wherever those faint feelings of back then have gone

取り戻したい　取り戻すため I want them back. So I can take them back

恋心と恋心　持ち主は一体誰なの These feelings of love, and more of them. Whose were they to begin with?

取り戻すから　取り戻してみせるから I’ll take them back. I’ll take them back, just you watch

幼さ所以の　過ちと言うには Calling it a mistake born of childishness

大きすぎる代償　今ならば判るよ The price was too steep. Now I understand

罪か罰なのか　背負うには重くて Is it sin or punishment? Too heavy to carry

無邪気な遊びが　引き起こした現実 An innocent game is what set this reality in motion

子供の世界で学んだ社会　そしてまだまだ学んでる途中 The society I learned from a child’s world, and I’m still in the middle of learning

失くしたものが過ごしてく日々に　欠かせぬものだと感じるから Because I feel that what I lost was something the passing days can’t do without

あの頃の淡い想いは　今何処でくすぶってるのだろう Where are those faint feelings of back then smoldering now?

取り戻したい　取り戻さなきゃ I want them back. I have to take them back

恋心と恋心　光をあて輝かせたい These feelings of love, and more of them. I want to shine a light on them and make them glow

取り戻すから　取り戻してみせるから I’ll take them back. I’ll take them back, just you watch

諦めたくない　諦めなんてしない I don’t want to give up. I won’t give up

一人一人の　それぞれの感情 Every person’s own feelings, each one their own

悩みもがくこと　それも成長の過程 Struggling and writhing in worry: that’s part of growing up too

一つ一つが　宝物 Each and every one of them is a treasure

あの頃の淡い想いの　行方探し求めさまよう I wander, searching for wherever those faint feelings of back then have gone

取り戻したい　取り戻すため I want them back. So I can take them back

恋心と恋心　持ち主は一体誰なの These feelings of love, and more of them. Whose were they to begin with?

取り戻すから　取り戻してみせるから I’ll take them back. I’ll take them back, just you watch

Tip: The lyrics stick right to the plot of Kodomo no Asobi. In the game, the protagonists find a witch as kids and make a wish; one of them hands over their own “feelings of love” in exchange for something else. But the witch takes that “love” and can’t digest it, so once the protagonists have grown up she shows up demanding it be returned. The game’s main plotline is literally “give back the feelings of love,” and that’s what the song’s about too: childhood games causing grown-up suffering, that sort of thing.

The arrangement and composition are by Meis Clauson. All I can say is, for visual novel song arrangement, he’s the one I trust. His melodies and styles are just my taste… I’m a full-on fanboy now.

Note: 喪う (ushinau): same character as “喪” (mourning); here it should be passive, 喪われる. 愛おしい (itooshii): dear, pitiable. 掛け替えない (kakegaenai): irreplaceable. 淡い (awai): faint. 学び (manabi): learning. 気付く程に (kizuku hodo ni): to the extent that one notices. 行方 (yukue): whereabouts. 所以 (yuen): cause, origin. 代償 (daishou): price, cost. 背負う (seou): same as the characters suggest, to bear on one’s back. 無邪気 (mujaki): innocent. 何処 (izuko): same as the characters suggest, where. 諦める (akirameru): to give up. もがく (mogaku): to writhe, to struggle internally.