A song about absence, memory, and the hope that lingers after someone's gone.
"soredake ga boku no kibou dakara"
176BIZ's 'Ruriiro no shinkai' came out in the years after their breakthrough with 'AquA'. The lyric starts with 'Kimi to no saigo kara shibaraku no tsukihi ga nagaremashita', marking time since a last meeting. It's a memory of rain, a car's headlight, and a question left hanging in the air.
The phrase 'kokoro no ame', the rain in the heart, keeps coming back. It's not a metaphor he can use to mean anything; he says his own umbrella is full of holes. All he can do is make the other person sad, and the rain just keeps falling.
That's the whole hope right there: searching for a name in the call log. It's specific, a little pathetic, and completely believable.
It's a song that knows hope can be a thin, stubborn thing. The singer looks for a name in missed calls, and that's the only hope he's got left.
The way the question 'genki ni yatte imasuka?' hangs there, unanswered, after all that time.
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