This song describes the turmoil a woman goes through, having left an abusive relationship and now with a healthy one, but the emotional scars haven’t healed. The whole time she reflects on how she was previously treated, never fully able to feel comfortable or fully trusting. To attempt to cope, she...
Side by side we lie, happy
In each other’s grasp
Tending our together
Never ever ticking hands
Yet my mending heart, safely
Placed inside your arms
Shakes and says it can’t
Accept that gentle happiness
Ah
Ah, like a vacant sky recovered
To be covered with a hole
Both my defenseless core and
Empty form resemble such an air
Where they’re contorted and distorted
Cut with cuts that never close
Who is that staring back at me?
Please leave me bleeding lovesick
For the sickest sort of love
On edge, I bet “enough”
Can’t be enough to hold me up
No, it just keeps me hurting
Still, your gentle ways fill
My heart and make me wish
We could stay like this
For forever and a day
All the while my heart
Set to set intent apart
Panics and forbids that
Bit of modest happiness
Hideously twisting with a feeling
Can’t ignore the horrors that I’ve seen
Bandage and manage, yeah I’m trying
But the cuts stick to
My skin time after time
Are they even mine…?
Please only loan me kisses if
Your lips are dressed in red
I need a break, a breaking
Substitute to live instead
Please leave me bleeding lovesick
For the sickest sort of love
That kind of kind, I know it
Shows how broken I’ve become
Yes, it’s why I’ll be lonely
For life
Hitogawari (Substitute) english ver. Oktavia ヒトガワリ【英語で歌ってみた】 was written by Oktavia.
Oktavia released Hitogawari (Substitute) english ver. Oktavia ヒトガワリ【英語で歌ってみた】 on Wed Feb 07 2018.