1. 長く甘い口づけを交わす

Romaji: nagaku amai kuchidzuke o kawasu
Nuanced meaning:
“We exchange a long, sweet kiss.”

🗣 Why this feels Japanese:
Kuchidzuke is more poetic and restrained than “kiss,” emphasizing duration and shared breath.
The verb kawasu (“to exchange”) suggests reciprocity rather than conquest—
intimacy as something shared, not taken.

2. 深く果てしなくあなたを知りたい

Romaji: fukaku hateshinaku anata o shiritai
Nuanced meaning:
“I want to know you deeply, endlessly.”

🗣 Why this feels Japanese:
In Japanese, shiru (“to know”) includes physical closeness, emotional understanding, and existential connection.
This desire is not about possession, but about dissolving boundaries, a distinctly Japanese approach to intimacy.

3. やけに色の無い夢を見る

Romaji: yakeni iro no nai yume o miru
Nuanced meaning:
“I keep seeing strangely colorless dreams.”

🗣 Why this feels Japanese:
Color in Japanese often represents vitality and emotional richness.
Declaring a dream “colorless” signals emptiness and emotional fatigue.

Placed after passionate kissing, the line reveals the song’s core paradox:
intensity does not guarantee fulfillment.

4. 枯れ葉色の twilight

Romaji: kareha-iro no twilight
Nuanced meaning:
“Twilight the color of fallen leaves.”

🗣 Why this feels Japanese:
Kareha-iro suggests beauty after vitality has faded—
a quiet, autumnal elegance tied to impermanence.

Paired with the English word twilight, it creates a liminal space:
between day and night, warmth and chill, closeness and withdrawal.
This is love cooling without collapsing.

5. 子供のように無邪気に欲しくなる

Romaji: kodomo no yō ni mujaki ni hoshiku naru
Nuanced meaning:
“I start wanting you innocently, like a child.”

🗣 Why this feels Japanese:
Introducing childlike innocence into adult desire heightens vulnerability.
Japanese lyrics often intensify longing by contrasting maturity with regression—
a moment where composure quietly breaks.

6. あなたの素肌　冷たすぎて苛立つ

Romaji: anata no suhada tsumetasugite iradatsu
Nuanced meaning:
“Your bare skin is too cold—it irritates me.”

🗣 Why this feels Japanese:
“Cold” here refers not only to temperature, but emotional distance.
Touch exists, yet warmth does not.
That mismatch becomes irritation—a subtle, realistic portrayal of emotional misalignment.

7. 永遠に独りでいることを知る

Romaji: eien ni hitori de iru koto o shiru
Nuanced meaning:
“I realize I will always be alone.”

🗣 Why this feels Japanese:
Rather than despair or protest, the emotion arrives as quiet recognition.

Japanese often expresses deep loneliness through acceptance rather than outburst.
This single line reframes the entire song as a meditation on adult solitude.

🎤 Emotional Summary

接吻-kiss- is not a song about love fulfilled.

It is about intimacy that sharpens awareness of isolation—
about touch that cannot erase distance.

The kisses are long and sweet.
Yet the dreams lose color.
The night does not save anyone.

Only Japanese, with its sensitivity to absence, impermanence, and restraint,
can hold eroticism and emptiness so naturally in the same breath.

That is why 接吻-kiss- endures:
each listener finds their own quiet night reflected within it.