Someday

Song Meaning

This song paints a stark portrait of a narrator, Tatekawa Yuka, who feels an overwhelming urge to disappear from her current reality. The initial verses establish a painful suppression of emotion, noting how crying led to physical violence, forcing a choice to "stop crying." This isn't presented as a passive surrender but a deliberate, albeit forced, decision, highlighting a deep-seated trauma that shaped her into someone who "chose to stop crying." The core tension arises from the narrator's profound isolation and the inability to share her suffering. She boards an early morning train, clutching "meager money," seeking an escape to "somewhere else" because she feels she has "no place to belong." This desperate flight is underscored by the recurring thought of dying alone, unable to articulate her pain, a bleak outlook contrasted with the imagined beauty of the sunrise which "never once made me tremble." A striking element is the recurring imagery of beauty found in unexpected, even broken, places. A spilled can of beer reflects a "smooth light" that is "properly beautiful," and later, "round marks" on her "white skin" are likened to "craters," suggesting a celestial, moon-like quality. These moments offer fleeting glimpses of aesthetic appreciation amidst profound despair, hinting at an internal capacity for finding beauty even when external circumstances are crushing. The lyrics effectively convey the crushing weight of unacknowledged trauma and the desperate plea for understanding. The bridge's repeated "Help me, help me, I couldn't say it" and "Understand, understand, I just prayed" amplifies the silent suffering. The devastating response to her confession of "violence and unreasonable treatment" – "That's also love" – reveals the deep-seated gaslighting and emotional abuse that has trapped her, making the desire to "run away and meet someday" a poignant, albeit fragile, hope.