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[1] The line is originally "I press the 'bocchi' of 'hitoribocchi'," where "bocchi" means "button" and "hitoribocchi" means "alone." Thus, in the translation, it's "on" as in "on button" and also as in "letters that appear in the word 'alone'."

[2] "Sontoku" normally is written with characters meaning "profit and loss" but is here written with characters meaning "honor and virtue."

[3] This is another pun--it's "a funatabi called koukai," where "funatabi" and "koukai" can both mean cruise or boat voyage, but "koukai" can also mean "regret."

[4] The printed lyrics here feature various greetings in different languages, but what's sung is only "konnichiwa." The languages represented are, in order, Chinese, Korean, Thai, Vietnamese, Indonesian (twice), Hindi (twice), Tamil, Hebrew, English, Persian, Turkish, Persian again, Armenian, Russian (twice), Greek (twice), Bulgarian (twice), and Italian (twice).

[5] Another pun, cross-lingual this time: "Ai" is Japanese for "love," but also homophonous with the English "I"--so when asked what "ai/I" means, the singer would choose the "me" definition over the "love" definition.

Transliterated by ArtemisA

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