Romaji

Atashi no ouchi shoutengai no honya no yoko
Mainichi kuruma to kawarazu takusan no hitotachi nagareru
Kizukeba neko to yobarete jibun ga neko datte kizuita
Kizukeba nekoka no nantoka tte iu shurui ni wakerareteta
Atashi wo mite nyaao tte itte kuru
Baka ja nai? to ittemo tsuujinakute kawaii to isshun no motehayashi

Suki na toki suki na toki ni amaete
Seippai tada ikite iru ima dakara koso
Konna kurai sekai ni mo chiisana ai wa takusan aru
Itsu datte soko ni aru jibun de mitsuke ni ikeru kyori

Atashi no ouchi shoutengai no yaoya no tonari
Jibun katte na yatsura ga mainichi gomi wo suteru
Hi no tsuita tabako funde atashi no nikudama wa yakedo
Kono yarou tte ittemo tsuujinakute tsumetai manazashi de mite kuru

Suki na toki ni naite suki na toki ni yasuraide
Shinpuru na koto datta hazu ga muzukashikattari suru
Konna kanashii sekai demo chiisana ai wa takusan aru
Ookiku nakute ii fukurande yuku akai fuusen ni naru

Namida wa
Namida no tane no mama
Sakasete yarou...

Suki na toki suki na toki ni amaete
Seippai tada ikite iru ima dakara koso
Konna kurai sekai ni mo chiisana ai wa takusan aru
Itsu datte soko ni aru jibun de mitsuke ni ikeru kyori

English

Every day an unchanging stream of people and cars
Flows past the bookshop on the shopping street near where I live
I’ve noticed that being called a cat has made me become one
I’ve realised that I have my own category in the cat family
They look at me and come up to me with a meow
You can call it dumb, but I won’t hear, all I hear is the momentary praise that I’m cute

Acting cute when I want to, when I want to
It’s because I’m just living my life to the full
That I have so many little loves in the world
They’ll always be near enough that I can go find them myself

Every day some selfish guys dump rubbish
By the greengrocer on the shopping street near where I live
They stamp out burning cigarette, burning my eating place
I say “Who do you think you are?” but they don’t hear, just look at me coldly

Crying where I want to, relaxing where I want ti
The things I thought were so simple have gotten complicated
Even in this sad world, there are heaps of little loves
They don’t need to be big, they’ll swell up by themselves and become big red balloons

Let’s nurture
Our tears
While they’re still seeds…

Acting cute when I want to, when I want to
It’s because I’m just living my life to the full
That I have so many little loves in the world
They’ll always be near enough that I can go find them myself