ループ
坂本真綾 Lyrics

The lyrics of 坂本真綾's song ループ (Loop) talks about the circular nature of life and the way everything is interconnected. The opening lines describe how the world is constantly rotating: when this town is dyed in the dusk, somewhere in the world the sun is rising. The singer suggests that when the flower in someone's hands withers away, it leaves behind a small seed, that will grow into another flower. If we call the trampled earth "road", even closing our eyes can become a form of love. The singer then reflects on the idea that if the world were flat, perhaps she would never have met the person she's singing to. They both ran away from each other at first, but now, even if they are far apart, they will eventually meet again in the middle of the miraculous cycle of life.

In the second verse, the singer asks the night to take her tears away when it leaves this town. She wonders if the words that come to her, trying to tell her something, qualify as a novel. If words don't reach us, perhaps they are only dreams. She reflects on how leaves can float freely down a river and become clouds, eventually raining down on the ocean. She hopes to nurture the seed that fell near her, but wishes that the other person will notice it sometime later, in a different place. The song ends with the idea that the singer's love will quietly sprout like a seed. This is a cycle that will go on, just like the world's eternal spinning.