あの子たちのいない空 (Ano Ko-tachi no Inai Sora)

==Lyrics==
Japanese 	Romaji 	English
昔々空を埋め尽くすほど 	Mukashi mukashi sora o umetsukusu hodo 	Once upon a time, there used to be so many passenger pigeons flying about
たくさんのリョコウバトが飛んでいました 	Takusan no ryokounato ga tonde imashita 	that they’d cover up the whole sky.
 	 	
リョコウバトは群れとなり旅をする 	Ryokoubato wa mure to nari tabi o suru 	The passenger pigeons flocked together and traveled
広大な大陸の森から森へと 	Koudai na tairiku no mori kara mori e to 	from forest to forest on the vast continent.
一斉に飛べば空は暗く変わる 	Issei ni tobeba sora wa kuraku kawaru 	When they flew all at once, the sky would turn dark.
あんなにいたのにもうどこにもいない 	Anna ni ita no ni mou doko ni mo inai 	So many of them there used to be, yet none is to be found now.
 	 	
大陸にやってきた人たちが 	Tairiku ni yatte kita hitotachi ga 	The people who arrived at the continent
次々と鳥たちを狩って行った 	Tsugitsugi to toritachi o katte itta 	hunted down the birds one by one.
 	 	
瞬く間に鳩の群れは減って行き 	Matataku ma ni hato no mure wa hette iki 	In the blink of an eye, the flock of pigeons decreased in size,
空が暗くなることもなくなっていく 	Sora ga kuraku naru koto mo naku natte iku 	and the sky would no longer turn dark because of them.
 	 	
それを気にした人はごくごくわずか 	Sore o ki ni shita hito wa gokugoku wazuka 	There were only very few people who realized that.
どうせどこかにたくさんいるだろうと 	Douse dokoka ni takusan iru darou to 	“There must still be lots of them somewhere anyway,” the rest thought.
愚かな人たちは知らなかった 	Oroka na hitotachi wa shiranakatta 	Little did those foolish humans know
一年に一つしか卵を産まないということ 	Ichinen ni hitotsu shika tamago o umanai to iu koto 	that those birds only produced one egg in one year.
 	 	
ようやく人はおかしいと気づいたよ 	Youyaku hito wa okashii to kizuita yo 	Eventually, people realized something was wrong,
けれどももう手の施しようなんてない 	Keredomo mou te no hodokoshi you nante nai 	but it was already too late to do anything.
空からリョコウバトは姿を消した 	Sora kara ryokoubato wa sugata o keshita 	The passenger pigeons had vanished from the sky,
籠で生まれた一羽だけを残して 	Kago de umareta ichiba dake o nokoshite 	leaving behind one sole hatchling born inside a cage.
 	 	
籠のなかあの子は問いかけてた 	Kago no naka ano ko wa toikaketeta 	That little bird inside the cage questioned:
どうしてわたしは一人きりなのと 	Doushite watashi wa hitorikiri na no to 	“How come I’m all by myself?”
 	 	
最後の一羽はずっと籠のなかで 	Saigo no ippa wa zutto kago no naka de 	Spending all its time inside the cage,
仲間と飛ぶこと知らずに死にました 	Nakama to tobu koto shirazu ni shinimashita 	that one last bird died without having ever flown with its friends.
 	 	
もしも鳥にも楽園があるのなら 	Moshimo tori ni mo rakuen ga aru no nara 	If there exists a paradise for birds, too,
あの子を他の子たちと飛ばせてあげて 	Ano ko o hoka no ko-tachi to tobasete agete 	may that little one be given a chance to fly with its friends,
誰にも邪魔されない広い空 	Dare ni mo jama sarenai hiroi sora 	in the vast sky without anyone blocking their way.
全部全部あの子たちだけのものにしてあげて 	Zenbu zenbu ano ko-tachi dake no mono ni shite agete	Pray let all of it, all of it be theirs and theirs alone.
==External Links==
*piapro - Karaoke
*piapro - Lyrics
*Pixiv - Illustration
===Unofficial===
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*Hatsune Miku Wiki
*Hazuki no Yume - Translation source
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