English lyrics are provided below.🥰

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🎼🎼Liner Notes🎵🎵

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この曲は、前曲「Neon Ritual」と同様、特定の誰か一人を想定して書いたものではありません。

個人宛てのメッセージとして受け取ってほしい曲でもありません。

つまり、聴いた方がそれぞれ自分の記憶や距離感を重ねられるように、言葉の配置や設計をした曲なんです。

言葉の置き方そのものを意識して、固有の相手や具体的な事情に結びつく書き方は避け、

白いライト、短い会話、揃った呼吸、残響のような、

感情より先に身体に残る感覚を中心に置いています。

描いているのは、特定の関係そのものではなく、

言葉にする前に少しだけ起きてしまう変化や、

何もなかったとは言い切れなくなる夜の気配です。

同時にこの曲は、ひとつの意味に固定されないようにも作っています。

収録後の静かな空気としても、名前のつかない距離の歌としても、

あるいは言葉より先に起きてしまう内側の変化としても読めるように、

感情・情景・余白の層を少しずつ重ねました。

音楽としては、意味を説明しすぎるよりも、

聴いたあとにそれぞれの中で風景が立ち上がる余白を大切にしたいと思っていました。

誰かひとりの物語として閉じるのではなく、

聴くたびに、それぞれの記憶の中で少しずつ違う輪郭を結ぶような曲になっていたら嬉しいです。

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🎼🎼Japanese lyrics 🎵🎵

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Ah...

白いライトの下

言わなくていいことばかり

まだ　熱を持ってる

譜面を閉じる　その指先に

さっきの音だけ　まだ残ってる

何でもないような　短い会話で

終わるはずだった　今夜みたいな夜

鍵盤の端に　触れた気配だけ

静かなままで　ほどけていかない

揃ったはずのない呼吸が

一度だけ　きれいに重なった

音が止んだあとの　白い残響で

まだ　近いままの呼吸が揺れてる

戻れないほどに　先に揃ったもの

言わないままでも　少しだけ残る

ただの夜なら　過ぎていくはずで

何もないふりも　うまくできなくて

近づいたんじゃなく　前とは違うだけ

言葉より先に　夜が変わってる

Still this close

まだ、近いまま

Still this close

戻らないまま

マイクを外す　横顔のそばで

言えない言葉が　息にまぎれた

上手に笑って　手を振るたびに

近づいたはずの何かが　遠く見えた

名前をつけるには静かで

忘れてしまうには　少し深くて

思い出よりも　手前の場所で

まだ　何かが鳴っている

音が止んだあとの　淡い残響が

まだ　近いままの輪郭をなぞる

揃った呼吸だけ　胸に戻らなくて

触れてない距離まで　やさしく残る

流れていくはずの　いつもの夜なのに

何もないふりで　やり過ごせなくて

近づいたんじゃなく　前とは違うだけ

ほどけないままで　夜の奥で鳴る

Still this close

まだ、近いまま

Still this close

もう違うまま

うまく言えない　でも消えない

たった一度で　ずれていない

名前はいらない　理由もいらない

in tune のままで　まだ途切れない

触れてないまま　ぶれてないまま

戻れないほど　きれいなまま

何もなかった　それでいいのに

何もなかったじゃ　もう足りない

音が止んだあとの　白い残響で

もっと近いままの呼吸が揺れてる

消えない光だけ　胸の奥に残って

戻れないことまで　少しだけ似てる

短いあの声を　抱えたままでも

何も起きてないと　もう言えないまま

近づいたんじゃなく　先に揃っただけ

言葉より先に　夜がほどけてる

Still this close

まだ、近いまま

Still this close

音が止んでも

戻らないまま

Still this close

まだ、近いまま

Still this close

何もないふりで

もう違うまま

音が止んだあとの　白い残響を

まだ　近いままの胸に残していく

揃った呼吸ごと　夜の奥へしまって

名前のないままで　たしかにここにある

ただの夜でも　もう同じじゃなくて

何もないふりも　前よりむずかしい

近づいたんじゃない　先に揃っただけ

言葉より先に　少し変わってた

Still this close

まだ、近いまま

Still this close

音が止んでも

戻らないまま

Still this close

まだ、近いまま

Still this close

何もないふりで

もう違うまま

Ah...

白いライトの下

言わなくていいことばかり

今も　響いてる

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🎼🎼Liner Notes🎵🎵

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This song, like the previous track “Neon Ritual,” was not written with any one specific person in mind.

It is also not meant to be received as a personal message addressed to an individual.

Its words were arranged so that each listener can layer their own memories and sense of distance onto it.

To do that, I avoided tying the lyrics to one person or to specific circumstances, and instead centered them on sensations that remain in the body before they fully become emotion — white light, a brief conversation, synchronized breathing, and lingering aftersound.

What this song captures is not a particular relationship itself, but the slight shift that happens before something becomes words,

the atmosphere of a night that can no longer be honestly called nothing.

At the same time, it was made so that it would not settle into just one meaning.

It can be heard as the quiet air left after a recording session, as a song about an unnamed distance, or as an inner change that happens before language can catch up.

Rather than over-explaining its meaning, I wanted to leave room for each listener’s own scene to rise naturally.

I hope it becomes a song that forms slightly different contours within memory each time it is heard.

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🎼🎼English lyrics 🎵🎵

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Ah...

Under the white light

All the things I never had to say

Are still holding heat

At the fingertips that close the score

The last sound still remains

In a short conversation

That should have ended a night like this

Only the trace

Left at the edge of the keys

Stays so quiet

It never comes undone

A breathing

That should not have aligned

Crossed perfectly

Just once

In the white aftersound

After the music stopped

A breath still this close

Is trembling in the air

What aligned too soon

Cannot return to zero

Even left unsaid

A little still remains

An ordinary night

Should have passed away

But even pretending

Nothing happened won’t hold

We did not grow closer

We just aren’t the same

Before the words could name it

The night had already changed

Still this close

Still this close

Still this close

Never going back

Beside that profile

Taking off the mic

Words I could not say

Blurred into my breath

Each time you smiled

And waved goodbye

Something that had drawn near

Looked far away again

Too quiet

To give a name

Too deep

To simply forget

Somewhere before

It turns into memory

Something is

Still ringing on

The pale aftersound

After the music stopped

Still traces

The outline of this closeness

Only that breathing

Won’t return to my chest

Even untouched distance

Stays behind so softly

It was just another night

That should have flowed away

But pretending nothing happened

Won’t carry me through

We did not grow closer

We just aren’t the same

Still unresolved

It rings deep in the night

Still this close

Still this close

Still this close

Already not the same

I can’t say it well

But it won’t disappear

Just once was enough

Nothing fell out of tune

No names needed

No reasons needed

Still in tune

Still unbroken

Untouched, unchanged

Unshaken, the same

Too beautiful

To go back from here

Maybe nothing happened

Maybe that was enough

But “nothing happened”

Is not enough anymore

In the white aftersound

After the music stopped

A breath even closer

Is trembling in the air

Only an unending light

Stays deep in my chest

Even the things that won’t return

Seem a little alike

Even holding

That brief voice inside

I can no longer say

That nothing happened

We did not grow closer

We only aligned too soon

Before the words could name it

The night had already softened

Still this close

Still this close

Still this close

Even after the sound

Never going back

Still this close

Still this close

Still this close

Pretending nothing happened

Already not the same

The white aftersound

After the music stopped

Stays in my chest

Still this close

I fold that breathing

Into the depth of night

Nameless, yet still

Surely here

Even this night

Is no longer the same

Pretending nothing happened

Is harder than before

We did not grow closer

We only aligned too soon

Before the words could name it

Something in me had changed

Still this close

Still this close

Still this close

Even after the sound

Never going back

Still this close

Still this close

Still this close

Pretending nothing happened

Already not the same

Ah...

Under the white light

All the things I never had to say

Are still echoing now