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eternal
Lyrics: RINA ~ Music: MAMI ~ Arrangement: Satori Shiraishi

Kaze ni yureru wa
Hinagiku no hana umi ga mitakatta
Nakidashisou na
Sora wo mite itta
"Ima kara, ikou ka."

Mabushii hikari hanatte
Furisosogu ai no shawaa
Onegai kokoro hodoite
Yasashii sekai ni furete

Doushite kashira
Hitotsu ni natta itami to yorokobi
Kowakutemo mata kagi wo aketeku
Watashi no sugata wo mitete yo

Mitete yo

Mabushii hikari hanatte
Furisosogu ai no shawaa
Onegai kokoro hodoite
Yasashii sekai e to

Mabushii hikari hanatte
Furisosogu ai ga aru
Onegai kokoro hodoite
Yasashii sekai ni furete

Nee, kono shunkan wo eien ni shite
Kono shunkan eien ni shite yo
Kono shunkan eien ni shite
Kono shunkan eien ni shite
Kono shunkan eien ni shite
Kono shunkan eien ni shite yo

Kana:

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English Translation

Daisy flowers
Swaying in the wind - I wanted to see the sea
I looked to the sky
On the brink of rain and said
"Shall we go now?"

Emitting a dazzling light
A shower of love pours down
Please, set your heart free
Reach for a gentle world

Why is it
That my pain and joy became one?
Even if I'm scared, I'll unlock this door again
Watch me do it

Watch me

Emitting a dazzling light
A shower of love pours down
Please, set your heart free
Towards a gentle world

Emitting a dazzling light
There's a love that pours down
Please, set your heart free
Reach for a gentle world

Hey, make this moment eternal
Make this moment eternal
Make this moment eternal
Make this moment eternal
Make this moment eternal
Make this moment eternal

Rina's hand is very noticeable in the lyrics of this song, but I think it's a VERY beautiful song. I love it. .love.

And thanks for the translation

thanks for the translation!! 

I'm assuming the when "pain and joy become one", it's like being numb. Like people get emotionally numb to avoid the stress of political and pandemic turmoil, the fear of losing their homes or jobs or freedom. Or friends and lovers. It takes guts to become vulnerable again, but how else can you enjoy perfect moments?
Is that what she's saying?

Could be fear of losing one's source of bliss (either internal, external or both).

Or maybe she's a masochist.

Seems to me like she's stating/lamenting the fact that positive feelings cannot be separated from their negative counterparts. E.g. if you're in a relationship that makes you very happy, that same emotional investment will make you susceptible to also being very unhappy when things go south.

I think everyone has valid points about these lyrics. I feel that if pain and joy become one, it means that they have merged and become something different. One way of getting to this feeling is remembering how we've probably all been moved to tears by a beautiful sunset, by memories of a departed friend, or hearing beautiful music (especially if we are watching SCANDAL perform it).  Like MAMI says in HER diary #2, people do have different ideas about what "eternity" means. The last section of eternity has HARU almost chanting to make the "moment" (shunkan as in Shunkan sentimental) be eternity, or maybe that the moment already is eternity, which sounds a lot like the Buddhist concept "three thousand realms in a single life moment." So if our moment is eternity, everything that we go through in life will be with us here and now. At the same time there's the idea that beauty and joy are very ephemeral. This is often said to be the reason the short cherry blossom (sakura) season means so much in Japan. Isn't this what the snowflakes represent in the video? And the play of light and shadow as well? So these are the feelings and thoughts that come to me with that lyric, "why does pain and joy become one." 
RINA often writes lyrics like this. But I feel that all the members think alomg these lines, more or less. Can anyone think of any English/Anglo pop or rock band doing this type of lyric recently? But I guess that would call for another thread....

etwee wrote:RINA often writes lyrics like this. But I feel that all the members think alomg these lines, more or less. Can anyone think of any English/Anglo pop or rock band doing this type of lyric recently? But I guess that would call for another thread....

Perhaps it's a linguistic thing, but I do notice that Japanese, Korean, Chinese and Cantonese song lyrics are more likely to adopt a poetic/metaphor-heavy approach. English song lyrics tend to adopt a more literal approach. 

Couple that with the fact that Scandal almost always sings about positive messages only, it can be rather hard to find other artistes who write like them.