Otona ni Nattara (Once You Become an Adult)
GLIM SPANKY
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The scent of tobacco clings to my hair at the cold station platform
The eyes of these helpless young dreamers can’t get any sleep
Isn’t that so?
We’ve got things to do so
we’re here singing

The first train now gently brushes up against my skirt, passing through this city still half asleep
I don’t feel like saying anything like “good morning,” it’s so depressing, ah
I want to be a child forever

This feigned innocence, adults know nothing of it
I gradually become unable to see this once-sparkling world but
Those aspirations I once felt so strongly in the past don’t disappear, they won’t disappear

You don’t know this rock, you don’t need it, you don’t listen to it
You skillfully go through the world but
Do you hear it? Everything in this world
Once you become an adult will you understand?

That store I bought my Ray-Bans and records at disappeared
the convenience store dazzlingly shines but
that child over there that I don’t know gently hums my song in the daybreak, this gentle morning

You don’t know this rock, you don’t need it, you don’t listen to it
You skillfully go through the world but
Do you hear it? Everything in this world
Once you become an adult will you understand?

You don’t know this rock, you don’t need it, you don’t listen to it
You skillfully go through the world but
Do you hear it? Everything in this world
Once you become an adult will you understand?

Once you become an adult will you understand?
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