Released: December 24, 2008

Songwriter: Hotaka Yamashita

Bokura ga kakenuketa toki ashita e to mukau tabi
Ooku wo katarazu mizukara sono saki wo misueteku
Isshun mayou kedo kanarazu michi ga aru
Todokanai you na gooru nante nai

Tooku ni mieteta butai ni matsu mono wan an darou
Kokoro ni maita sono shushi wa itsuka kitto mebukun da
Nemurenai hitori no yoru meguru shikou kairo wa satoru
“Ima no jibun de machigai nai...”tte sa

Kokoro ni aru hana wo karasazu ni sakaseyou
Yume ga yagate tashika na kagayaki e kawaru you ni
Yume mita sono keshiki wa kesshite iro asezu ni
Towa ni bokura no mune ni kizamareru no dakara
Kyou no hi mo koko ni “boku” to iu imi wo umu kumori naki soboku na hikari da

Mou makenai to chikatta ano yoru no namida wo nugutta
Sono toki ni yadotta tamashii ga atte
Wasurenai hibi wo koete yatto tadoritsuketa basho ni
“Koukai” nante mon wa hitsuyou nai tte sa
Kokoro ni saku hana wo taisetsu ni sodateyou
Toki ni ame ni utare toki ni kaze ni fukare
Yagate hana wa kuchite umareyuku seimei ga aru
Eikyuu ni tsuzuku rensa ni “boku” to iu imi wo motsu
Ano hi no bokura ga warau sakihokoru hana wo shitau
Ima no bokura ni mukeru sono manazashi wa kataru

Nichijou no hibi koso kiseki bokura ga tsumuideku kiseki
Sagasu no wa “tokubetsu”dewa naku
Nichijou to iu na no me no mae no kiseki

Kagayaita kyou ni kansha to oshimi naku tsuzuku hakushu wo
Moetsukita bokura ga ima idaku hokori koso motsu beki hitsuzen
Itsuka kyou ga kako ni kawari “ima” ni makesou ni nattemo
Bokutachi wa omoidasu darou jounetsu ni somatta hibi wo

Kokoro ni aru hana wo itsumademo sakaseyou
Tatoe mizu ga tsukitemo tatoe yami ga oottemo
Owari to iu hajimari hajimari to iu na no owari
Bokutachi wa mada aruiteku bokutachi wa mada aruiteku
Sono saki ni michi naru ienu itami ga matsu tomo Hitasura ni tsuzuku mirai ga mitai
Hitohira no awai kiseki wo mitai

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.