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Well, the thread has dropped to page two, so time to post some more song lyrics! XD This is a song I first heard before I learned Japanese but I fell in love with it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSo_GgFDxCY

元気をだして、もう泣かないで(genki wo dashite, mou nakanaide "cheer up, don't cry anymore")
明日になれば、すべてかわるわ(ashita ni nareba, subete kawaru wa "when tomorrow comes, everything will change")
元気をだして、もう泣かないで(genki wo dashite, mou nakanaide "cheer up, don't cry anymore")
新しい風向かって、SMILE AGAIN(atarashii kaze mukatte, smile again "face the new wind and smile again")

There's not a whole lot of surprising grammar here, so you should be able to follow the translation for the vocabulary. The only thing that might be an unknown is "nareba", which is "naru" (to become) + -eba (conditional form). It might be more directly translated as "if it becomes tomorrow", but it can also mean "when".
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