Yasashii Kioku

**Yasashii Kioku** (やさしい記憶 *lit. Tender Memories*) is the third coupling song from limited edition A in the second single by 22/7. It was released on April 11, 2018.

The song is written by Yasushi Akimoto and composed and arranged by Gouki Ohtsuka.

## Featured Members

* Nagomi Saijo as Miu Takigawa
* Sally Amaki as Sakura Fujima
* Mizuha Kuraoka as Miyako Kono
* Chiharu Hokaze as Reika Sato
* Ruri Umino as Jun Toda
* Kanae Shirosawa as Akane Maruyama
* Reina Miyase as Ayaka Tachikawa
* Mei Hanakawa as Nicole Saito
* Moe Suzuhana
* Urara Takatsuji
* Aina Takeda

## Lyrics

* Rōmaji
* Kanji
* English

Semai koutei no fensu no waki

Saiteta hana no namae nante itta kke?

Minna shiranakute shirabeta nda

Boku no shokubutsu zukan katasumi ni notteta

Wasureru koto tte benri da to omou

Kurasumeito no dareka made

Dokoka ni kiete shimatta yo

Yasashii kioku nante ayafuya de

Kore ijou boku no koto kizutsuke wa shinai

Kanashii koto wa kitto kanchigai

Hito ni kiita no o shinjikonda dake

Owatta koto nanka owatta mama de ii yo

Natsu no kyoushitsu no hizashi no naka

Madogiwa no kimi no koto itsumo nusumimita

Nanimo iidasezu aki ni natte

Yagate kokoro no hana mo karete shimatta yo

Oboetenai no wa kanashii kara darou

Sugita tsukihi no omoiyari

Ano hi no jibun wa kirai da

Honto no kioku dokoka bonyari to

Setsunai beiru de mamotte kureteru

Shinjitsu nante dou datte ii koto nano ka?

Hito wa sou kako o bika shite shimau yo

Mirai wa itsu datte uwagaki no tame ni aru

Yasashii kioku nante ayafuya de

Kore ijou boku no koto kizutsuke wa shinai

Daiji na koto wa aru hi furimukeba

Honno isshun dake omoidasu mono sa

Dou demo ii koto nanka doko ni mo nai to shitta

狭い校庭のフェンスの脇

咲いてた花の名前　なんて言ったっけ？

みんな知らなくて調べたんだ

僕の植物図鑑　片隅に載ってた

忘れることって便利だと思う

クラスメイトの誰かまで

どこかに消えてしまったよ

やさしい記憶なんて　あやふやで

これ以上　僕のこと傷つけはしない

悲しいことは　きっと勘違い

人に聞いたのを信じ込んだだけ

終わったことなんか終わったままでいいよ

夏の教室の日差しの中

窓際の君のこと　いつも盗み見た

何も言い出せず　秋になって

やがて心の花も枯れてしまったよ

覚えてないのは悲しいからだろう

過ぎた月日の思いやり

あの日の自分は嫌いだ

ホントの記憶　どこかぼんやりと

切ないベールで守ってくれてる

真実なんてどうだっていいことなのか？

人はそう過去を美化してしまうよ

未来はいつだって上書きのためにある

やさしい記憶なんて　あやふやで

これ以上　僕のこと傷つけはしない

大事なことは　ある日　振り向けば

ほんの一瞬だけ　思い出すものさ

どうでもいいことなんかどこにもないと知った

Next to the cramped schoolyard's fence

A flower was blooming. What's it called?

No one knew so I looked it up

It's listed in the corner of my flower encyclopedia

Even the classmate

Who thinks forgetting is convenient

Vanished off somewhere

The tender memories are hazy

I won't be hurt any more

I must have been confused about the sad things

I just led myself to believe what I heard from people

It's fine, just let the past stay in the past

Amid the summer classroom's sunlight

I always stole glances from you as you sat at the window

It turned to Autumn before I could say anything

Before long, the flower in my heart also died

I probably don't remember because it's sad

There's compassion in the passage of time

I hated myself on that day

The real memories are hazy

Being protected by the veil of sorrow

Was truth something that didn't matter

People always like to make the past into something pretty

The future always exists for overwriting it

The tender memories are hazy

I won't be hurt any more

On days when I think back to important things

For a one brief moment, I would recall something

We learnt that things that don't matter never exist in anywhere