Eve – How to Eat Life Lyrics + English Translation

“Most Important Thing About Eating” is the 5th track from the “Smile” album released by Eve. It was released on February 12, 2020.

Details

• Title: How to Eat Life
• Also Known As: Inochi no Tabekata (いのちの食べ方) , Most Important Thing About Eating
• Genre: Pop
• Language: Japanese
• Released: February 12, 2020
• Performer: Eve
• Composer: Eve
• Arranger: Numa
• Lyricist: Eve

Lyrics

tarinai mono sagashite bakkupakkaa
katto natte wa yacchimatta

kyuu tenkai ni kitai shinakutatte
kitto kimi wa konai ttenai tteba

"bibidi babidi buu"

omajinai mitai na mon sa
kaeri wo ima mo machinozonde wa

sono kandou wa mata hashirisatta
kore janai to are janai to
aseri dake ga tsunoru you da

tonari ni nigirishimeru te ga hoshikatta
nukumori wo shiranu mama

kokoro made mazushiku natte
gurei no umi wo samayotta
bi wa michi afurete irun da
misugosu na

yoru ga akeru mae ni yoi wo samashite
jikan ga nain da kimi ni wa

moumoku de itai no taikutsu na kyou wo
koete ikitain da kitto

koe ga todoku made omoi wo butsukete
furafura ni natte shimau made

bokura ni sore wo wasureru koto wo yurusanai kara
kangaeru koto sura yamete shimai na

mayonaka odoridasu maddohattaa
atto iu ma ni tacchimatta

kuusoujou ni kitai shitakunatte
kitto kimi wa konai ttenai tteba

genjitsu to no hazama de naite
hara wo sakareru kono omoide
nomihoshita kotoba no toge ga sasaru

sono kokkeisa dake ga nokotta
okiniiri no katorarii wa
shifuku dake wo hakobu you da

teeburu wo minna de kakomitakattan da
naifu wo tsukitatete wa

kimi no nodobotoke wo saite
yubisaki wo shimerasetan da
fooku no tsukai kata nante
dare ni mo osowaranakatta

shinri wo miyou to shinaide
inochi no omosa wo hakatta
yurameku kagaribi no naka
nani wo mita

yoru ga akeru mae ni yoi wo samashite
jikan ga nain da kimi ni wa

moumoku de itai no taikutsu na kyou wo
koete ikitain da kitto

koe ga todoku made omoi wo butsukete
furafura ni natte shimau made

bokura ni sore wo wasureru koto wo yurusanai kara
kangaeru koto sura yamete shimai na

boku ga taberu mae ni boku wo mitsukete

English Translation

A backpacker, who is searching for something missing​,
flew into a rage yet again​

​​​Even if I were to get hopeful over sudden happenings​
you wouldn't appear at all​

"Bibbidi Bobbide Bouー"

Reciting it just like a spell,​
but I'm still anxiously waiting for its return​

Yet again those emotions escaped me​
It isn't this, nor that
This is just making me more impatient)

All I wanted was a hand next to me to hold​
because I don't know the warmth of it at all​

This poverty have reached my heart​
while wandering around the gray sea​
The beauty of it is overflowing​
Do not overlook it​

Tonight, ​before tomorrow comes, sober up
You're running out of time

I want to be blinded​ from this dull today​
and go beyond it​

Surely your voice has yet to hit and make all these thoughts go away
until I get overcome with unsteadiness

For both of us, to forget that is unforgivable.
As long as you don’t ever stop thinking of it

The Mad Hatter that dances at midnight​
vanishes before you could say a thing​

Even if I were to lower my expectations​
you wouldn't appear at all​

Crying in the gap between reality​
my stomach being torn apart with this thought​
The thorns of the words I've gulped down stab me​

Only that absurdity was left over​
My favorite cutlery
seems to only bring bliss

Everyone was gathering around the table​
just to thrust forward the knife​
while tearing out your adam's apple​

I wet the tips of my fingers​
How to use a fork​
No one has ever taught me

Do not try to look at the truth​
Measuring the weight of life
In that wavering bonfire,​
what did you see?

Tonight, ​​before tomorrow comes, sober up
You're running out of time

I want to be blinded from this dull today​
and go beyond it​

Surely, my voice has yet to hit and make all these thoughts go away
until I get overcome with unsteadiness

For both of us, to forget that is unforgivable.
As long as you don’t ever stop thinking of it

Find me,​ before I eat myself​

(from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7L-3VXAkSA)