Hatsukoi (初恋) – Utada Hikaru with FULL lyric and english translation

Original lyric (Japanese lyric)

English translation

うるさいほどに高た鳴かる胸むねが
Urusai hodo ni takanaru mune ga

柄えにもなくすくむ足あしが今いま
Gara ni mo naku sukumu ashi ga ima

静しずかに頬ほおを伝つたう涙なみだが
Shizuka ni hoho o tsutau namida ga

私わたしを知しらせる これが初恋はつこいと
Watashi o shiraseru korega hatsukoi to

I need you… I need you…

人間にんげんなら必かならず当あたりに
Ningen’nara kanarazu atarimae ni

恋こいをするものだと
Koi o suru monodato

ずっと思おもっていた
Zutto omotte ita

だけど
Dakedo

もしもあなたに出で会あわずにいたら
Moshimo anata ni deawazu ni itara

誰だれかにいつかこんな気き持もちに
Dareka ni itsuka kon’na kimochi ni

させられたとは思おもえない
Sa se rareta to wa omoenai

うるさいほどに高た鳴かる胸むねが
Urusai hodo ni takanaru mune ga

勝手かってに走はしり出だす足あしが今いま
Katte ni hashiridasu ashi ga ima

確たしかに頬ほおを伝つたう涙なみだが
Tashika ni hoho o tsutau namida ga

私わたしに知しらせる これが初恋はつこいと
Watashi ni shiraseru korega hatsukoi to

I need you… I need you…

どうしようもないことも
Dō shiyō mo nai koto mo

人ひとのせいにしては
Hito no sei ni shite wa

受うけ入いれているフリをしていたんだ
Ukeirete iru furi o shite ita nda

ずっと
Zutto

もしもあなたに出で会あわずにいたら
Moshimo anata ni deawazu ni itara

私わたしはただ生いきていたかもしれない
Watashi wa tada ikiteita kamo shirenai

生うまれてきた意味いみも知しらずに
Umarete kita imi mo shirazuni

言葉ことば一ひとつで傷きずつくような
Kotoba hitotsu de kizutsuku yōna

柔やわらな私わたしを捧捧さたい今いま
Yawarana watashi o sasagetai ima

二に度どと訪おとずれない季節きせつが
Nidoto otozurenai kisetsu ga

終おわりを告つげようとしていた 不器用ぶきように
Owari o tsugeyou to shite ita bukiyō ni

欲ほしいものが手ての届とどくとこに見みえる
Hoshī mono ga te no todoku toko ni mieru

持もたずにいられる訳わけがない
Motazu ni i rareru wake ga nai

正ただしいのか？　皆みなに本ほ当んは誰だれも知しらない
Tadashī no ka? Mina ni hontōha daremoshiranai

風かぜに吹ふかれ震ふるえる梢こずえが
Kaze ni fuka re furueru kozue ga

日ひの刺さす方ほうへと伸のびていくわ
Ni~Tsu no sasu kata e to nobite iku wa

小ちいさなことで喜よろこび合あえば
Chīsana koto de yorokobi aeba

小ちいさなことで傷きずつきもした
Chīsana koto de kizutsuki mo shita

狂くるおしく高た鳴かる胸むねが
Kuruoshiku takanaru mune ga

優やさしく肩かたを打うつ雨あめが今いま
Yasashiku kata o utsu ame ga ima

こらえても溢あふれる涙なみだが
Koraete mo afureru namida ga

私わたしに知しらせる これが初恋はつこいと
Watashi ni shiraseru korega hatsukoi to

I need you… I need you…

My heart, pounding deafeningly in my chest

My legs, now frozen in a way they never are

My tears, silently trickling down my cheek

They tell me… that this is my first love

I need you, I need you

I need you, I need you

I need you, I need you

I need you, I need you

It goes without saying that no matter what

All people fall in love

That’s what I always thought… and yet

If I had never met you

I don’t think that anyone else would have led me

To one day have these feelings

My heart, pounding deafeningly in my chest

My legs, now racing of their own accord

My tears, silently trickling down my cheek

They wound me… saying that this is my first love

I need you, I need you

I need you, I need you

I need you, I need you

I need you, I need you

I used to see things I could do nothing about

Take them at face value

And pretend to accept them

Always

If I had never met you

I think that I’d probably still be living my life

Without knowing why I had been born

I want to offer up my fragile self

Weak enough to be hurt by a single word

A season that will never come again

Tried to draw things to an end

Ever so clumsily

Everything I long for

I can see it, somewhere my hands can reach

There’s no way I’d not chase after it

Is that right to do? Nobody knows the answer

Truly, no one does

The treetops sway, blown by the wind

And stretch towards where the sun shines

As we were overjoyed by the tiniest things

We were hurt by the tiniest things as well

My heart, beating maddeningly fast

The rain, now gently striking my shoulder

My tears, overflowing though I fight them back

They tell me… that this is my first love

I need you, I need you

I need you, I need you

I need you, I need you

I need you, I need you