Xenogears - Stairs of Light

	Alternative Title:	Hikari no Kaidan (Japanese Title) Adapts The Sky, the Clouds, and You
	Composition:	Yasunori Mitsuda
	Arrangement:	Yasunori Mitsuda, Hidenobu Ootsuki, Yoko Ueno
	Lyrics:	Junko Kudo
	Vocals:	Tetsuko Honma

Lyrics - Original Japanese Version

Kokoro no mannaka o parade ga yokogiru
Kakato o uchinarashite kimi ga guru

Oboetate no melody karappo no hiroba ni
Barairo no hikari o tomoshite sugiru

Migiyaka na yume wa sugu ryoute o surinukete
Chiisa na kaze ni maiagaru kamifubuki

Miokuru namida yori deatta tokimeki o
Kokoro no naka ni taisetsu ni oitemiru

Kimi ga nokoshitetta kutsuato syncopation
Asamoya no mukou made tsuzuiteru

Dokoka shiranai machi dareka no yume no naka
Atatakai hikari o tomoshi ni itta

Miokuru kanashimi yori deatta yorokobi o
Hikari ni mukete hitotsu zutsu tsumiagaru

Kaidan wa sora e to rasen ni nobiteyuku
Akai amagumo tsukinukete niji ni naru

Kimi ga doko ni ite mo tooi kuni ni ite mo
Mimi o sumaseba kikoeru yo sono uta ga

Lyrics - English Translation

A parade crosses the dead center of my heart
You come, clicking your heels

A melody, just earned, to an empty plaza
Lighting a rose-colored lamp and moving on

Lively dreams soon slip through your two hands
And confetti dances up in a tiny wind

Rather than tears of farewell, try carefully placing
The excitement of meeting inside your heart

The sycopation you left behind in your shoeprints
Continues on through the morning mist

In a town somewhere, in someone's dreams
It's gone to light a warm lamp

Rather than the sadness of farewells, the joy of meeting
Piles up bit by bit, facing the light

A staircase rises in spirals to the sky
And, piercing the red rainclouds, becomes a rainbow

No matter where you are, though you may be in a distant land
If you listen hard, you can hear it... that song

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