Released: December 23, 2009

Songwriter: Hotaka Yamashita

Kazasu tenohira ni utsuru taiyou wa shizumu kokoro wo terasu yo
Zutto tooku made

Toki ni bokura wa kizu tsuita
Chiisana koe sae todokazu
Tada mushou wo sagasu kage ni osareta
Atatakai sakamichi wo nuketara mado no aita shiroi heya
Mada tokei no hari wa tashika ni ugokitsuzuketeru

Yurete ita hibi ima wa tooku naru omoidetachi
Kuchikaketa kono ashiato mo yurete saku ichirin no hana

Kazasu tenohira ni utsuru taiyou wa shizumu kokoro wo terasu yo
Soshite boku wa ashimoto wo shiru
Michi wa hateshinaku jikan wa kagiri naku boku no kokoro ni tsuzuku yo
Zutto tooku made

Tachidomari sora wo miageru “hajimari no koe wa kikoeru yo” to
Tonari no hito ga kasuka ni tsubuyaite sugite iku

Tomaranai namida itsuka kitto mita ano kagerou
Yatto mitsuketa kono basho wa motto kagayaki wo hanatte

Naritsuzukeru kutsuoto todoke dokomademo
Michi no hazama de hibiku yo tsukare nemuri ni tsuku sono mae ni
Heya no katasumi de tatazunda kisetsu wa
Hagureta yume to maboroshi
Ima mo sono mama de

Karamaru itotachi hodoki subete wo tsukande yuku
Sunachi no kurayami aruki hi no ataru basho wo mezashiteku
Ima made mo kore kara mo zutto...

Kazasu tenohira ni utsuru taiyou wa shizumu kokoro wo terasu yo
Soshite boku wa ashimoto wo shiru
Michi wa hateshinaku jikan wa kagiri naku boku no kokoro ni tsuzuku yo
Zutto tooku made

Tsunagu tenohira wa sukoshi mabataite kata ni kakaru chikara wo tokashita
Mou hirumu imi mo nai

Subete wo yudaneta ano koro wa tooku michi no hate wo sagashiteku
Zutto tooku made motto tooku made

いきものがかり (Ikimono Gakari)

いきものがかり (Ikimonogakari) is a three-piece co-ed Japanese band that was formed in February 1999 by Hotaka Yamashita (山下穂尊) and Yoshiki Mizuno (水野良樹) in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan – vocalist Kiyoe Yoshioka (吉岡聖恵) was added in December of 1999.

The band made their major-label debut with the album 桜咲く街物語 (Story of the Town where the Sakura Bloom) in 2007 despite releasing their first EP 人生すごろくだべ。 (Life is Amazing) in 2003.