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Nagakaran

“Tangled as My Morning Hair” — Taikenmon'in no HorikawaSource: Senzaishū, Love III · 802
長からむ 心も知らず 黒髪の
乱れて今朝は 物をこそ思へ
Nagakaran kokoro mo shirazu kurokami no
midarete kesa wa mono o koso omoe
Whether your heart will stay true, I cannot know —
and this morning my black hair, and my thoughts, are all in tangles.
Nagakaran jacket art

Music Video

ミュージックビデオ

The Story

歌のものがたり
Horikawa, a lady-in-waiting to Empress Taiken, writes the morning after a night of love — the hour when the man's promised fidelity is nothing but words hanging in the air. Her unbound black hair, tangled from sleep, becomes the shape of her mind itself: disordered, unable to settle. The Japanese fuses the two so completely that hair and heart cannot be separated. It is the definitive poem of morning-after uncertainty, written nine hundred years before anyone called it that.

Lyrics

歌詞
Japanese

長からむ(千載和歌集・百人一首80番)Garu JP

Verse 1

カーテンの隙間 朝がこぼれて

乱れた髪に 指をとおす

となりで眠る あなたの寝息

起こさないように 見つめてる

Pre-Chorus

幸せの真ん中に いるはずなのに

どうして 泣きたくなるんだろう

Chorus 1

長からむ 心も知らず

あなたの「ずっと」は いつまでだろう

黒髪が 乱れるように

心が 朝に ほどけてゆく

このまま 時が止まればいい

Verse 2

ゆうべの言葉を ひとつずつ

たしかめるように 思い出す

「愛してる」って 言ったくちびるは

夢のなかでは 誰のもの

Pre-Chorus 2

信じることと 疑うことは

おなじ痛みで できている

Chorus 2

長からむ 心も知らず

朝日が髪を 撫でてゆく

疑う私を 抱きしめて

何も言わずに もう一度

このまま 時が止まればいい

Bridge

永遠を 誓えないなら

今だけを ください

乱れた髪も 乱れた心も

あなたの指で とかして

Drop

長からむ 心も知らず 黒髪の

乱れて今朝は 物をこそ思へ

Final Chorus

長からむ 心も知らず

それでも あなたを選ぶから

黒髪が 乱れるたびに

何度でも 恋に落ちるわ

不安ごと 愛と呼べばいい

Outro

乱れて 今朝は……

あなたの夢の つづきのなかで

English

Nagakaramu (Senzai Wakashu / Hyakunin Isshu No.80) Garu JP

Morning spills through the gap in the curtains

I run my fingers through my tangled hair

Beside me, the soft sound of your breathing

I watch you quietly, careful not to wake you

I should be right in the middle of happiness

So why do I feel like crying?

"Will your heart stay long?" — I cannot know

How long is the "always" you spoke of?

Like my black hair falling into tangles

My heart unravels into the morning

I wish time would stop right here

One by one, I retrace

The words you whispered last night

The lips that said "I love you" —

In your dreams, whose are they now?

Believing and doubting

Are made of the very same pain

"Will your heart stay long?" — I cannot know

The morning sun strokes my hair

Hold me, the doubting me

Without a word, once more

I wish time would stop right here

If you cannot promise forever

Then just give me now

My tangled hair, my tangled heart —

Untangle them with your fingers

Will his heart stay long? I cannot know — like my black hair

Tangled, this morning I sink into thought

"Will your heart stay long?" — I cannot know

And still, I choose you

Every time my black hair tangles

I will fall in love with you again

I'll call it love, doubt and all

Tangled, this morning...

Inside the continuation of your dream

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