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Letter - From the Lost Days - Akira Yamaoka

This song makes me want to write a letter to my future self as well. Or maybe just contemplate what I would want to hear from me ten years down the road. It's an interesting conundrum, I think.

A letter to my future self:
Am I still happy? I began.
Have I grown up 'pretty'?
Is daddy still a good man?
Am I still friends with Colleen?
I'm sure that I'm still laughing.
Aren't I?
Aren't
                           I?
 
Hey there, to my future self,
If you forget how to smile
I have this to tell you
Remember it once in a while.
 
Ten
                           years ago your past self
Prayed
                           for your happiness.
Please don't
                           lose hope.
 
Oh, oh what a pair, me and you.
Put here to feel joy, not be blue.
Sad times and bad times, see them through.
Soon we will know, if it's for real
What we both feel.
 
(Spoken:)
Though I can't
                           know for sure how things worked out for us
No matter how hard it gets, you have to realize
We weren't put on this earth to suffer and cry.
We were made for being happy.
So, be happy, for me, for you.
Please.
 
(Sung:)
Oh, oh what a pair, me and you.
Put here to feel joy, not be blue.
Sad times and bad times, see them through.
Soon we will know, if it's for real
What we both feel.
 
We were put here on this earth, put here to feel joy... (x4)

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