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For a long time, I have been living in a world all alone
Every time I gently touch the world beside me,
I realize, I remember

When we were young,
We were protected by our innocence
With the names we called each other
And promises for tomorrow
That alone made us feel like the world was one

The things we can't understand
The things we can't forgive
Keep increasing one by one
Each time, I even stopped
Expecting that we could believe in each other

For a long time, I have been living in
Separate worlds
Just when I think we've gotten close,
We drift apart
Every time it repeats,
I come to know loneliness
Even so, I seek someone
Because I'm not yet an adult
Who can live by simply accepting loneliness

At the back of the classroom,
The same scenery drawn in different colors
Each of us
Is different
Though we never perfectly overlap
Without even a slight misalignment

Measuring how far we've strayed
From the ideals we draw
Self-indulgence resembling love
Is an excessive yearning for what we don't have
Every time I confirm it, I grow weary
With each desire, I become selfish
And with each loss, I grow timid

I don't wish for more than I have now
So don't take me further away
I convinced myself that maintaining
This ambiguous distance is what it means to be an adult

I am just
Running away from getting hurt
But in reality, I just
Still want to believe

For a long time, both you and I
Live in separate worlds
So let's hold hands
And exchange words
To deceive each other
That we're not alone
Someday, someday
Wrapped in this immature loneliness,
If I can become kinder
With the sadness and pain I've learned,
If I could trust others

For a long time, both you and I
Are all alone
When our hearts, wishing to understand each other,
Come close and touch,
For a moment, this world seemed to become one