Akatsuki Yami

Kanji

死にたくて　目を閉じた僕の全て　無に還し
記憶から消えたいと眠れず考えていた

曇り空　雨　ちらついて昨日の天気、嘘のよう。「生きる苦痛も似てるな」と、雨に打たれてみた 風、一度吹けば
移ろふ景色　どう転ぶ？

深く絶海の底へと沈み　一人、殻に籠れど
憂いは無駄と諭す　その笑顔に救われる

深く朧森　闇へと進み　心　繭に閉ざせど
嘆きの糸群を解き

暁の闇　たたずみて　この手に残りしぬくもりに問う
いつか　せせらぎに笹舟浮かべ
あの場所へ還れますか？

雨に呟いた
「明日、天気になれ」

Romaji

Shinitakute me o tojita boku no subete mu ni kaeshi
Kioku kara kietai to nemurezu kangaeteita

kumorizora ame chiratsuite　kinou no tenki, uso no you. "Ikiru kutsumo niteruna" to, ame ni utarete mita

kaze, hitotabi fukeba
utsurofu keshiki dou korobu?

Fukaku zekkai no soko e to shizumi hitori, kara ni komoredo
Urei wa muda to satosu sono egao ni sukuwareru

Fukaku　oboro mori yami e to susumi kokoro　mayu ni tozasedo
Nageki no itogun o toki+

Akatsuki no yami tatazumite kono te ni nokori shinukumori ni tou
Itsuka seseregi ni sasafune ukaba
Ano basho e kaeremasuka?

Ame ni tsubuyaita
"Ashita, tenki ni nare"

Translation

I want to die I close my eyes Return my everything to nothing
I want to disappear from memorｙ, I think when I can't sleep

In the cloudy sky Rain Scatters down yesterday's weather, like a lie. "To live is like being in pain," and the rain beats down

If the wind suddenly blows strongly for a moment
How will the changing scenery fall?

Deep in the distant seas, sunk at the bottom, I am alone trapped in this shell
Warned that grief is pointless, that smile is saved

Deep in this misty forest, my heart progressing into darkness, sealed in a coocoon of grief
Unraveling these threads of sorrow

The darkness of dawn, it does not pass and remains in these hands, questioning the dying clouds
When this toy boat floats in the stream*
Can it return to that place?

In the rain, I murmured
"I hope tomorrow the weather's better"**

NOTES

Title: Dark before the dawn
+This line is sung differently than what is written after 'nageki no ito'. Because I am having difficulty understanding WHAT is being sung, I've done my best to interpret the kanji.
*Specifically, a boat made out of bamboo leaves. But putting that in the lyrics is very unwieldly.
**"Ashita tenki ni naare" is translated literally in the lyrics so as to keep the double meaning but is a Japanese phrase akin to 'tomorrow is another day'.