In 10 Years (Dear Me)In 10 Years (Dear Me)
A letter sent to myself in 10 years
Like a falling leaf that gets caught in the autumn wind to leave one branch and fly to a faraway country,
Will I get further away from the roots of my heart?
How much will I have changed? A father beloved by his children?
Or nothing but false respect, admired by lipservice but attacked deep down?
With a house decorated like in a TV drama
With an abundance of wealth, will I abandon my dreams like time that passes aimlessly?
Or from early in the morning, will I open the newspaper on the tiny floor and to look for a job
Death and life; a difference of only a single strand of hair
Hello and goodbye; the two sides of a single sheet of paper
If you tape-measure it, the end of life is not so far
But the distance between you and me is so long
A letter sent to myself in 10 years
Unlike the tower full of regrets that I’ve been buildling for 20 years
I pray that I’ll live without being shaken, never changing before my own faith and beliefs
Blocking my impure eyes and ears in order to walk on the right path
I dream of an ideal with the eyes of my mind
My life breathes with an upright dignity
The consequences of vain greed and dishonest conduct will all come back to myself, multiplied many times
The greed filling up my stomach — get on a boat and leave!
I pray that I’ll be reborn as a pear, becoming a fruit that’s more attractive than a withering flower
Like the insides of a pear filled with sweetness, like my mother’s bosom
I indulge myself in sweet dreams and live on
You gotta stand up, live your life
Fight for the right of way through the way of right, every night and day
Never change, when the two of us and everyone else leap over that high wall of hardships
Stand up, even when you’re walking firmly ahead
Be a wise person and think of how you look from the back as well
Never change, never, even when I’m breaking down
I’ll stand on a high cliff without closing my eyes
Did I fly away? Did I become a bird and fly away? (Fly away, fly far away)
Did I go searching for something as a response? (Search, go search for your place)
Did I drift away from my past self? (Come back, come back from far away)
Am I walking along this path? (Follow, follow this path)
Within time that has passed by
Upon seeing myself having changed
With the world before me
For me to never have any regrets
Every gotta stand up, never change
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