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LINER NOTES
The original track declares kawaii as a signal before language. This mix is what happens when that signal unravels in the dark. Lyrics drift in romaji without landing, blurred like words heard through glass. The beat softens. The voice loses some of its outline. What is left is the sensation that remains after something has passed.
Yellow here is not the full brightness of noon. It is the signal still barely visible in the dark — the kind that does not need clarity to persist. Even when the words have come apart, the rhythm and the shape of the voice do not fully disappear. Words are not here to explain. They are here to glow faintly after the transmission has already occurred.
Where the original places kawaii at the moment of communication, Phosphorescence shows kawaii at the moment after: pale, undissolved, stubbornly present in the dark.
Original lyrics
ORIGINAL JAPANESE
Original Japanese lyrics are shown below.
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Sore sono koto akei no koto karada
Nazo ni awashite kedo mesu
Itsumo no yo ni kari no itoku dete
Ima no itsumo tamari
Sore te to kono shitai no
Kokoro ne ni sono shitara
Na no ni o mitashiteta
Kono otai kakushiteta
Kudashi kata kano
Hitori gake ga suru
Chotto nankai shikai na no de
Takeda ai kitsumeke deki
Chotto nankai shikai na no de
Chotto aishitai
Itsumo itsumo ni dake de
Kono mo kimi ni okizuki
Hitori dake no kotoba
Itsu demo
Chotto nankai shikai na no de
Takeda ai kitsumeke deki
Chotto nankai shikai na no de
Chotto aishitai
Sorede no koto akete
Kienai kotoba
Sorete no koto akei no koto karada
Nozomi awashita
Sorede nokotte
Mitsuketa yokan da
Kimi no kokoro no iro
Chotto nankai shikai na no de
Takeda ai kitsumeke deki
Chotto nankai shikai na no de
Chotto aishitai