Music Video

ミュージックビデオ

The Story

歌のものがたり

Kakinomoto no Hitomaro, revered for over a millennium as Japan's greatest poet-saint, spins a single image into an eternity: the trailing tail feathers of a copper pheasant, a bird said to sleep apart from its mate at night. The drawn-out sounds of the Japanese — naganagashi, 'long, long' — stretch the night itself. Anyone who has watched the ceiling through a sleepless night, waiting for someone who is not there, already knows exactly what this poem feels like.

Lyrics

歌詞

Japanese

あしびきの（拾遺和歌集・百人一首3番）Garu JP

Pre-Hook

ながながし夜をひとりかも寝む

Verse 1

消したはずのスマホがひかる

ちがう自分でまた開けたんだ

君の名前を眺めるだけで

指は止まったまま動けない

Pre-Chorus

「会いたい」って打って消して

時計はまだ夜の途中

Chorus 1

あしびきの山鳥の尾の

しだり尾よりながいながい夜

君がいないそれだけのことで

世界はこんなに静かになる

ながながし夜をひとりかも寝む

Verse 2

千年前の歌人も同じ

届かない距離を数えてた

山鳥は谷をへだてて

朝が来るまで離ればなれ

Pre-Chorus 2

つがいの鳥さえ夜はひとり

だったらこの孤独も普通のこと

Chorus 2

あしびきの山鳥の尾の

しだり尾よりながいながい夜

星を数えても減らない時間

君の夢まであと何時間？

ながながし夜をひとりかも寝む

Bridge

ひとりの夜が教えてくれる

どれだけ君に会いたいかを

長い夜ほど想いは育つ

山鳥は朝つがいに戻る

Drop

あしびきの山鳥の尾のしだり尾の

ながながし夜をひとりかも寝む

Final Chorus

あしびきの山鳥の尾の

しだり尾よりながいながい夜

でも夜が長いそのぶんだけ

会えた朝はやさしくなる

ながながし夜をひとりかも寝む

ひとりじゃないと知る朝が来る

Outro

ながながし夜を……

おやすみもうすぐ朝だ

English

Ashibiki no (Shui Wakashu / Hyakunin Isshu No.3) Garu JP

Must I sleep alone through this long, long night?

The screen I turned off lights up again

No — it was me who opened it

Just gazing at your name

My finger frozen, unable to move

I type "I miss you" — then delete it

The clock still says the night's halfway

Ashibiki no — like the mountain pheasant's tail

This night drags on, longer than its trailing feathers

Just because you're not here

The world turns this quiet

Must I sleep alone through this long, long night?

A poet a thousand years ago felt the same

Counting a distance he couldn't cross

Mountain pheasants sleep apart, valleys between

Till morning comes, kept separate

Even paired birds spend the night alone

So maybe this loneliness is only natural

Ashibiki no — like the mountain pheasant's tail

This night drags on, longer than its trailing feathers

Counting stars won't make the hours shrink

How many more until I reach your dream?

Must I sleep alone through this long, long night?

The lonely night teaches me

How much I long to see you

The longer the night, the more this love grows

At dawn the pheasants return to their mates

Ashibiki no — the mountain pheasant's trailing tail

Must I sleep alone through this long, long night?

Ashibiki no — like the mountain pheasant's tail

This night drags on, longer than its trailing feathers

But the longer the night

The kinder the morning we finally meet

Must I sleep alone through this long, long night?

Morning comes to tell me I'm not alone

This long, long night...

Good night — morning is almost here