Lyrics Ayumi Hamasaki – Progress

Romanized:

Tanjun na hibi o osorete ita no wa mou tooi mukashi
Fukuzatsu na hibi koso kanashii no o shitte ru

Modori tai toka ja naku te shinji tai kokoro ga hora

Onaji toki o kizande onaji mirai shinjite ru futari
Kinou no namida mo kyou no egao mo shinjitsu na mama

Onaji itami o shitte onaji yasashisa mochiyotte
Ashita o ikite yukeru tsuyosa ni kaete yuku kara

Ano toki ni ano basho ni ite tatakatte ita jibun ga
Subete wa ima o erabu tame datta to shita nara

Mukiae zu okizari na mama me o sorashite ita kako o
Yurushi tai to omou no wa yurusare tai kara na no kana

Bokura ga tada jiyuu de i rareta ano koro wa tooku te
Mujaki na egao dake ja kono goro wa sugose nai kedo

Bokura wa susunde yuku sore demo susumi tsuzukete ku
Nanika o shinji rareru kokoro ga nokotte ru kara

Nee, bokura wa kore made datte kore kara datte
Ooku no koto o nozon dari wa shi nai yo

Onaji toki o kizande onaji mirai shinjite ru futari
Kinou no namida mo kyou no egao mo shinjitsu na mama

Onaji itami o shitte onaji yasashisa mochiyotte
Ashita o ikite yukeru tsuyosa ni kaete iketa nara kitto

Wow wow wow
Wow wow yeah

Japanese:

単たん純じゅんな日ひ々を恐おそれていたのはもう遠とおい昔むかし
複ふく雑ざつな日ひ々こそ　悲かなしいのを知しってる
戻もどりたいとかじゃなくて信しんじたい
心こころがほら　背せ中なかで叫さけんでる

同おなじ時ときを刻きざんで　同おなじ未み来らい信しんじてる二ふた人り
昨日きのうの涙なみだも今日きょうの 笑え顔がおを真しん実じつのまま
同おなじ痛いたみを知しって　同おなじ優やさしさ持もち寄よった
明あ日したを生いきて行ゆける　強つよさに変かえていくから

あの時ときに　あの場ば所しょにいて
戦たたかって　いた自じ分ぶんが
すべては　今いまを選えらぶためだったとしたなら

向むき合あえず　置おき去ざりなまま
目めを逸そらしていた過か去こを
許ゆるしたいなと思おもうのは
許ゆるされたいからなのかな

僕ぼくらがただ自じ由だで　いられたあの頃ころは遠とおくて
無む邪じゃ気きな笑え顔がおだけじゃ　この頃ごろは過すごせないけど
僕ぼくらは進すすんでいく　それでも進すすみ続つづけてく
何なにかを信しんじられる　心こころが残のこってるから

ねえ　僕ぼくらはこれまでだって　これからだって
多おおくのことを望のぞんだりはしないよ

同おなじ時ときを刻きざんで　同おなじ未み来らい信しんじてる二ふた人り
昨日きのうの涙なみだも今日きょうの 笑え顔がおを真しん実じつのまま
同おなじ痛いたみを知しって　同おなじ優やさしさ持もち寄よった
明あ日したを生いきて行ゆける　強つよさに変かえて行いけたなら　きっと

Wow wow
Wow wow yeah

English translation:

I was afraid of simple days so long ago
I know now it’s complicated days that are sad

I don’t mean to say I want to return
My heart wants to believe, and look, it’s shouting in my back, «you aren’t wrong at all»

Two of us are having the same time and believing in the same future
Our tears yesterday and our smiles today are both true

Because we know the same pain, bring along the same tenderness
And change them into the strength to live on tomorrow

I was fighting at that time, at that place
If all my deeds were to choose the way I am now

I wonder if it’s because I want to be forgiven
That I want to forgive my past I couldn’t face, I left behind and looked away from

The days we could just be free are far past
And though we can’t spend the days with just innocent smiles now

We go forward, we continue to go forward even so
Because we still have the hearts to believe in something

You see? We haven’t and will not
Want much at all

Two of us are having the same time and believing in the same future
Our tears yesterday and our smiles today are both true

If we know the same pain, bring along the same tenderness
And can change them into the strength to live on tomorrow, surely…

Wow wow wow
Wow wow yeah