From the album Because of you - Single
This is a love song built on doubt disguised as certainty. Fukasawa keeps insisting 'know this is true' and repeating 'if you don't know it by now,' which means he's not sure she actually believes him. The whole song is written like testimony given under oath, repeating the same claims over and over as if volume could replace proof.
I don't want to leave her here / Because of her I now believe in forever
He's talking about her in third person instead of to her, like he's explaining their relationship to someone else. The word 'now' gives it away. He didn't believe in forever before her, which means this feeling is still new enough to surprise him.
Know this is true / It's all because of you
The word 'know' is doing all the work here. He's not saying 'I love you' or 'you changed me.' He's saying 'know this is true,' like he's preemptively defending against her disbelief. The repetition feels less like emphasis and more like pleading.
And even if I have to start again / It's all because of you
This is the only line that acknowledges failure as a possibility. 'Start again' implies loss, relocation, or complete collapse. He's saying his devotion will survive that, but mentioning it at all means he's already imagining it. Might be the most honest moment in the song.
And that I know it's true / And that I know is true
The grammar falls apart in the last two lines. 'And that I know is true' loses the subject. It reads like he ran out of ways to say the same thing and just kept going anyway, which is maybe the point. The certainty collapses into fragments.
This song works because it sounds like devotion but functions as anxiety. The more he insists it's true, the less stable it feels. By the end, the grammar gives out completely, and what's left is just a guy repeating himself because he doesn't know what else to say. That might be more honest than the love declarations.
"because-of-you" by hideyuki-fukasawa uses repetition as a substitute for certainty, in Scalpel's line-by-line reading. Fukasawa constructs the song around insistent declarations like "know this is true" and "if you don't know it by now," which reveal underlying doubt rather than confidence, as though repeating the same claims might finally convince someone who remains unconvinced. The effect is testimony delivered under pressure, where volume and repetition stand in for the proof the song cannot provide.
"because-of-you" by hideyuki-fukasawa explores reassurance that reveals doubt, her smile as proof of feeling, starting over as inevitable, and believing in forever because of one person. The central thread is reassurance that reveals doubt: The entire song is structured around convincing her, which means he's not convinced she's convinced. These themes come from Scalpel's line-by-line analysis of the lyrics.
"because-of-you" by hideyuki-fukasawa was released on July 20, 2025 on the album "Because of you, Single". Scalpel's analysis covers the full lyrics of the 2025 release.
Scalpel's line-by-line analysis of "because-of-you" by hideyuki-fukasawa lands here: This song works because it sounds like devotion but functions as anxiety. The more he insists it's true, the less stable it feels.