SEKAI NI HITOTSU DAKE NO HANA - The Only Flower in the World
(click image to enlarge)
Artist: Smap
Words & Music: Makihara Noriyuki
There's no need to be No. 1.
You've always been a very special "only one."
I saw many kinds of flowers lined up in front of the flowershop.
Everyone has their favorite kinds but all of them are pretty.
Without competing to see which was the best among them,
they were standing straight up proudly inside the bucket.
So why then do we humans have to compare ourselves to one another?
Even though each and every person is different,
why do we want to be number one?
Yes we are each,
A flower unlike any other in the world.
Each and every one of us carries a different seed.
We should focus all our efforts on trying to make that flower bloom.
There are people who are constantly unsure of what they
want.
As they laugh a little put out,
It can't be helped.
All those flowers that did everything they could to bloom, are pretty.
At last that person comes out of the store,
holding a colorful bouquet,
I see them smiling happilly as they go by me.
I never knew their names.
But that day they made me smile.
We too are like flowers that bloom in places where no one
pays any attention.
Yes we too are each...
A flower unlike any other in the world.
Each and every one of us carries a different seed.
We should focus all our efforts on trying to make that flower bloom.
Small flowers and big flowers, none are the same.
There's no need to be No. 1.
You've always been a very special "only one."
Translated By: Brian Stewart & Takako Sakuma