GO!GO!7188 – Floating Boat¹

Lyrics: Hamada Akiko
Music: Nakashima Yumi

Neither the scent of spring, nor the budding flowers
Will bring you to me while I stand petrified

Summer arrives on a rainy dawn
We quietly nestle close and gather up the pieces

Once autumn has passed I’m certain
That I will have lopped off my long black hair

We parted only three days ago and I’ve already forgotten your face, my love
All that’s left is the smell of cigarettes

There aren’t enough days to wait for you and my anguish echoes endlessly
The dissonance reverberates
That unwithering and unyielding sound echoing endlessly
Is my lonely song, rai rai rai…

Without so much as a goodbye
The sound of your footsteps suddenly vanished
Oh, what a sad and beautiful white winter

My one and only desire is to be with you again
The snow also lay thick that day

There aren’t enough days to wait for you and my anguish echoes endlessly
The dissonance reverberates
That unwithering and unyielding sound echoing endlessly
Is my lonely song, rai rai rai…
Lonely song, rai rai rai

^{1 – Ukifune literally means “floating boat” and is the name of a female character in “The Tale of Genji.”}