Music Video

ミュージックビデオ

The Story

歌のものがたり

Sarumaru no Dayū is a legendary poet — counted among the Thirty-Six Immortals of Poetry, yet almost nothing about him can be verified; the Kokinshū records this poem as 'author unknown.' For a thousand years, its plain last line — 'autumn is sorrow' — has defined the Japanese sense of autumn melancholy. Our song recasts it as a childhood memory: a game of tag ending at sunset, evening cicadas ringing down the road home, the sweet scent of fragrant olive — a sadness we felt long before we knew its name. Then one evening, grown up, we realize someone a thousand years ago already named it. The final whisper, 'I want to go home,' is a reply — thirty years late — to the voice that once called us home at dusk.

Lyrics

歌詞

Japanese

奥山に（古今集/猿丸大夫・百人一首5番）Garu JP

Verse 1

真っ赤な夕日が影を伸ばす

鬼ごっこは途中でおしまい

どこからか風が甘くなって

カナカナの響く帰り道

Pre-Chorus

どうして泣きたくなったんだろう

あの頃は名前も知らないまま

Chorus

奥山に紅葉踏み分け

鳴く鹿の声がする

千年前の誰かがつけた

「秋は悲しき」その言葉は

あのさびしさの名前だった

Verse 2

仕事帰りの公園で

金木犀に足を止める

カナカナの響きはあの日と同じ

胸の奥がきゅっと鳴る

Pre-Chorus 2

おとなになるほど季節は足早に

永遠に感じたあの日あの頃

Chorus 2

奥山に紅葉踏み分け

鳴く鹿も知ってたのかな

過ぎてゆく季節の速さ

戻れない秋のまんなかで

恋しいと鳴いていたのかな

Bridge

悲しいって言っていいんだ

千年前からみんな言ってた

秋の夕暮れ悲しいって

言葉にして生きてきた

Drop

奥山に紅葉踏み分け鳴く鹿の

声聞く時ぞ秋は悲しき

Final Chorus

奥山に紅葉踏み分け

鳴く鹿の声が聞こえる

ひぐらしの響きもあの日の甘い風も

みんな誰かを呼んでいる声だ

私も小さく鳴いてみる

「帰りたいね」ってそれだけ

Outro

声聞く時ぞ……

秋は悲しき

English

The crimson sunset stretches our shadows long

Our game of tag ends halfway through

From somewhere, the breeze turns sweet

Evening cicadas ring down the road home

Why did I feel like crying then?

Back then, I didn't even know its name

Deep in the mountains, through fallen autumn leaves

I hear the crying of a deer

Someone a thousand years ago

gave it the words "autumn is sorrow"

That was the name of my loneliness

In the park on my way home from work

The sweet olive scent stops me still

The cicadas ring just like that day

Something tightens deep in my chest

The older I grow, the faster seasons pass

Those days that once felt like forever

Deep in the mountains, through fallen autumn leaves

Did the crying deer know it too?

How swiftly the seasons slip away

In the heart of an autumn I can't return to

Was it crying out of longing, too?

It's okay to say you're sad

People have said it for a thousand years

"Autumn twilight makes me sad"

Putting it into words, we've lived on

Deep in the mountains, treading autumn leaves

when I hear the deer cry — autumn is sorrow

Deep in the mountains, through fallen autumn leaves

I can hear the deer crying still

The cicadas' ring, that sweet breeze of that day

They're all voices calling for someone

So I let out a small cry of my own

"I want to go home" — that's all

When I hear that voice...

autumn is sorrow

Okuyama ni (Kokin Wakashu / Hyakunin Isshu No.5) Garu JP