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[Part 1](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/100023/help-
understanding-the-beginning-of-the-
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[Part 2](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/100025/middle-
of-%e3%81%82%e3%81%aa%e3%81%9f%e3%81%8c%e3%81%84%e3%82%8b%e3%81%8b%e3%82%89-singulars-
or-plurals) Part 3 [Part
4](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/100027/%e3%81%82%e3%81%aa%e3%81%9f%e3%81%8c%e3%81%84%e3%82%8b%e3%81%8b%e3%82%89-will-
to-kneel-or-kneeling-stone-and-other-things-about-those-two)

This is part three of what was mostly a cross-post of [this Quora
post](https://mickgorroonyoutubeartisticsongtranslations.quora.com/Today-we-
have-a-Japanese-song-which-I-met-ages-ago-in-late-2011-and-soon-translated-to-
Italian-Chinese-English-and).

The song is [this one](https://lyricstranslate.com/en/detektiv-conan-ost-
anata-ga-iru-kara-lyrics.html), and the lyrics go:

もしもこの世に汚れがなければ  
姿を変えずに愛し合えたのに  
どうして時は衆を分つの  
ねえそばにいて今だけ  
  
あなたがいるから私は強くなる  
誓いの指輪きらきらきれいね  
You will realize 小さな夢も  
You are the one 心満たされる  
  
夜のハイウエイバイクを飛ばして  
はしゃいだ自由を持て余すくらい  
この目で見て触れて分かる  
確かなものがあったね  
  
あの日の二人にすべて戻らせるなら  
ひざまづく意志になるまでに祈るよ  
We can still be free 百まで数えて  
Never wanna stop 心解き放つ  
  
あなたがいるから私は強くなる  
誓いの指輪きらきらきれいね  
You will realize 小さな夢も  
You are the one いつか叶えられる  

In transliteration:

Moshi mo kono yo ni kegare ga nakereba  
Sugata wo kaezu ni aishiaeta noni  
Doushite toki wa shū wo wakatsu no?  
Nee, soba ni ite ima dake  

Anata ga iru kara watashi wa tsuyoku naru  
Chikai no yubiwa kirakira kirei ne  
You will relize chiisa na yume mo  
You are the one kokoro mitasareru  

Yoru no haiuei baiku o tobashite  
Hashaida jiyuu o moteamasu kurai  
Kono me de mite furete wakaru  
Tashika na mono ga atta ne  

Ano hi no futari ni subete modoserunara  
Hizamazuki ishi ni naru made inoru you  
We can still be free hyaku made kazoete  
Never wanna stop kokoro tokihanatsu  

Anata ga iru kara watashi wa tsuyoku naru  
Chikai no yubiwa kirakira kirei ne  
You will realize chiisa na yume mo  
You are the one itsuka kannaerareru  

And this is the translation attempt [I posted to
lyricstranslate](https://lyricstranslate.com/en/anata-ga-iru-kara-youre-
me.html), with one or two edits:

Even if there were no impurity* in this world LT has "contamination"  
So that [we] could've loved each other without having to change our looks…  
Why does time separate [simple] people? "simple" was added here.  
Hey, be by [my] side, at least now  

Since you're there, I get stronger  
The ring of [my] promise is sparkling, beautiful isn't it?  
You will realize even [my] small dreams  
You are the one, [my] heart is satisfied  

On the highway at night riding a motorbike  
Till [I] don't know what to do with the freedom of making merry  
[I'll] see with these eyes and touch, and understand  
That this has been real [lit. That there has been a real thing [between us]]  

If it will let everything return to [how it was] in the days of us two,  
[I] will pray till [I] want to fall on [my] knees  
We can still be free, count till a hundred  
Never wanna stop, I will set my heart loose  

Since you're there, I get stronger  
The ring of [my] promise is sparkling, beautiful isn't it?  
You will realize even [my] small dreams  
You are the one, [my] heart is satisfied  

I also [asked a question on Quora](https://www.quora.com/unanswered/How-good-
or-bad-is-the-translation-of-the-Japanese-
song-%E3%81%82%E3%81%AA%E3%81%9F%E3%81%8C%E3%81%84%E3%82%8B%E3%81%8B%E3%82%89-that-
I-have-posted-to-lyricstranslate-as-MickG-link-in-question-comments) about
this attempt.

Since they are about the same section, just the two halves of it, I assume I
can ask questions 3 and 4 together? The section is:

夜のハイウエイバイクを飛ばして  
はしゃいだ自由を持て余すくらい  
この目で見て触れて分かる  
確かなものがあったね  

Animelyrics:

On the highway at night riding the bike  
Till the freedom to enjoy becomes annoying  
I saw with these eyes, touch and you'll see  
There are things that are real  

**First half**

First line is literally “Highway of the night, riding a “baiku””. So
animelyrics is pretty correct… except “baiku” is not bike, but motorbike,
AFAICT. And I mean, a bike on the highway? What was the translator smoking?

Line 2, however, is the problem. Word by word:

  * Hashaida: frolicked, made merry; dried out?
  * jiyū wo: freedom (object);
  * motehanasu: not know what to do with;
  * kurai: «① approximately ● about ● around ● or so ② to (about) the extent that ● (almost) enough that ● so ... that ... ● at least ③ as ... as ... ● like ＊», or maybe « ① dark ● gloomy ② dark (in colour) ● dull ③ depressed ● dispirited ④ sorrowful ● bitter (as in a dark past) ⑤ unclear ● unfamiliar ● unknown ＊», or even «① throne ● crown ● (nobleman's) seat ② government position ● court rank ③ social standing ● rank ● class ● echelon ● rung ④ grade (of quality, etc.) ● level ● tier ● rank ⑤ digit (e.g. the tens, the hundreds, etc.) ● place ⑥ degree ● extent ● amount ＊».

So I guess something like «I’m riding my m-b on the highway at night / Enough
that I don’t know what to do with the freedom with which I’ve been
frolicking», or less literally «I drive my m-b on the highway at night / Until
I no longer know what to do with my freedom of making merry». Or maybe I
should take that as a “dried-out freedom”, as in, he’s probably alone on the
highway, hence “free” in some sense, but that freedom is full of sadness and
loneliness (“dried out”), and eventually he doesn’t want it anymore?

**Second half**

Glaring problem in the animelyrics translation: atta is past, so there must be
a “there were / have been” somewhere in that line, not a “there are”. Word by
word:

  * Kono me de: with these (=my) eyes (here the singular wouldn’t really fit IMO);
  * mite: looking;
  * furete: touching;
  * wakaru: understand;
  * tashikana: real, reliable;
  * mono ga: thing(s) or person/people (subject);
  * atta: there were, used for things, as ita is used for people;
  * ne: question tag.

Since a sequence of -te forms ending in a non-past or past form is the
equivalent of «I do/did X and do/did Y and do/did Z», this could either be
«Seeing with these eyes and touching, [] (will) understand / That there
has/have been (a) real thing(s)» or «[] will see with these eyes and touch and
understand / […]». Either way, animelyrics is dead wrong in separating the -te
sequence, and especially wrong in translating mite as “saw” when it’s
basically an -ing form. Since “these eyes” are definitely “my eyes”, that
whole line probably has subject “I”, so the “[]” in my translations above can
be replaced by “I”.

The last line, however, is more to-be-interpreted. To me, the “mono” should be
the feeling/relationship between the singer and the addressee, so «There was a
real thing [between us]», or «This has been real», in a less literal version.

So for the first half, we have two translation:

On the highway at night riding a motorbike  
Till [I] don't know what to do with the freedom of making merry  

Or:

On the highway at night riding a motorbike  
Till [I] don't know what to do with [my] dried-up freedom  

Where "dried-up freedom" would mean "withered", so no longer enjoyable, ruined
by being all alone.

For the second half, we also have two options, though the situation is more of
a "could you comment on my remarks":

[I'll] see with these eyes and touch, and understand  
That this has been real [lit. That there has been a real thing [between us]]  

Or:

Seeing with these eyes and touching, [I] will understand  
That this has been real [lit. That there has been a real thing [between us]]
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translation song-lyrics song
Help understanding the third section of あなたがいるから
##### First half

That はしゃいだ is not a relative clause modifying 自由. Here is the same sentence in
a "prosaic" word order:

>
> 夜のハイウェイ[を](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/3243/5010)、自由を持て余す[くらい](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/a/29457/5010)、バイクを飛ばしてはしゃいだ。
>
> On the night highway, we sped the motorcycle and frolicked, to the point
> where we didn't know how to spend our freedom.

自由を持て余す means having too much freedom to make use of. For example, an
unemployed person might say this. The sentence is saying that speeding the
motorcycle made them feel so excited that they almost felt they had infinite
freedom. And forget "dried out"; nothing in the lyrics says such a thing.

Don't ignore the past tense (はしゃい **だ** ). This scene is her past memory.
Translating this as "I'm driving" means you have missed the most crucial theme
of this song.

##### Second half

> この目で見て触れて分かる確かなものがあったね。
>
> There was a real something which I could feel/understand by seeing with my
> eyes and touching(, you know?)

Those te-forms [express
means](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/a/75172/5010). This もの is basically
just "thing" or "something", but it vaguely refers to everything in this
beautiful and real memory of hers. He was real, and she could actually see
him, hear him, touch him, and feel him. She is remembering it vividly.
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