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thank you~!
I've been meaning to get into that band for a while now actually........the promise of shoegazey vkei is just too interesting for me to ignore -
aas part of my attempts at teaching myself japanese, i thought i'd take an album i liked, and translate the whole thing to see how my translations compared against others'.
So with the exception of two tracks, these have all been translated before, but in the chance that i may have gone with a different meaning/inflection of a phrase or such, i'll post my results here....
but please don't assume any degree of 'accuracy' to these, as 1) i don't know what the hell i'm doing and 2) i tried to prioritize readability over accuracy anyway.
To keep this post from becoming enormous i'll put just the english here under spoiler tags, but if anyone wants to compare my translations against the kanji in a more readable format, i've put it all in a google doc at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xXwShjwBLSL-PE3EaFZHnl1F_O7ePT4xTaXsCefdsrg/edit?usp=sharing01- IDEA
SpoilerHey
Surely you can hear them too
That blue-nosed clown you saw back then
Or the red-eyed hippopotamus
Morningrise as the rain falls on a sunday
Those colours and scents, you can hear them too
The navy-blue curtain is opened
My ideals take flight.
02- シアトリカル・ブルーブラック
Spoiler“Theatrical Navy-Blue”
For both sides of myself... the time has come
As I try to stomach this stale story
As it breaks me inside - am I not pleased?
Someone has to say, “isn’t death the greatest relief?”
So I try to live to want to die
If a vibrant life is drawn in twenty four colours of crayon
I’m no more than three dusty colours of pen
Shedding the wires of that birdcage
Before my eyes is that navy-blue curtain
To start the show, I alone, draw the heavens
“Theatrical Navy-Blue”
I plant the deadly medicine
“Theatrical Navy-Blue”
And to you, I take brilliant flight
To bring these writings more into my heart
But still, I can’t heal this emptiness
In my dreams of tomorrow, I see yesterday’s scar
Today I’ll try only to walk
To start the show, I alone, draw the heavens
“Theatrical Navy-Blue”
Have you become our oxygen?“Theatrical Navy-Blue”
I’ll repaint it all
To a green visage
Those who suffer still are able to walk
“Theatrical Black Shine”
I’ll repaint with you
On invisible wings
03- DiefiL
SpoilerWhy are you
Why are you
Cutting your wrists and wanting to die?The scar remains
If tomorrow still comes, the tears only return again
Why do I
Why do I
Think about living?
Into countless vortices
Let’s join hands and dive
One spoonful of happiness...
Like a drug, makes death seem regrettable
A dying man needs to die.
Won’t anything you found worth living for
Just be scattered in desperation again?
Why do you
Why do you
Live only in annoyance
Unable to be loved
Alone you dive
Why am I
Why am I
Bound by living?In countless vortices
I sing to the scars
As you try to fly with only one wing I’ll give you a push...
Around the world people manage to live
And think it strange to see a knife in our right hands
A dying man needs to die.
I’ll be your one wing
Someday, won’t we be able to find something to live for?
04- Hungry Psychopath
SpoilerWhen I ran away from the pain, the angel of emotion fell like rain.
I focused my thoughts...
I’m tired of melodrama like the last page of a cliche novel
Hungry Psychopath
So I’ll be broken
So I’ll be drowned
Those ambigious magical words
I still love
Hungry Psychopath
So please break me
Drown us both
Those words when we met...
Does your love still wait?
Surely these ideals and reality have become a world apart.
A melancholy temperature...
I’ll go and pick you
To augment myself
The sky is blue
Somewhere behind your ears
There might be another you
Hungry Psychopath
“Stealing my heart... what do you mean?”
“Suddenly making your stomach hurt... just like that”
Lyrical with you
05- Mr. レインは死んだふり
SpoilerI woke up Mr. Rain
Frozen solid until yesterday...
Even if I close my eyes
Even if I talk about it
It comes in
And doesn’t disappear
Overdose... Mr. Rain
I’m tired... of thinking about it
Even if I open the door
Even if I walk away
It comes in
And doesn’t disappear
Time does not stop even though I act like I’m dead
The attacking arrows are like centipedes frightening me
I’m okay
I cried
If I’m able to live
I’ll show you
The view of the other side
Lonely screaming Mr. Rain
There is no death for a god
For the people seeking light
You’re supposed to be that god
I’ll listen
To that painful scene
06- RAVENSpoilerThe flightless raven
Resonance, a raised flag
The voice is scattered
The lynch mob
Lights a fire in the minority
“Don’t die, it’s okay”
Meddling irresponsibly in other peoples’ affairs
Higher powers say “It’s for the future!”
What a headache
For that reason we question every day we live
I can’t accept while keeping my mouth shut
The silent judgement from adults’ eyes
The mute keyboard is beaten and discarded, losing sight of tomorrow
The contracted costume
Is swallowed up by modern times
Let go of this thread, let go of ourselves into the darkness of solitude
In the morning as you wish to die, even hope melts from your mouth
People in the rainfall don’t notice their surroundings
These black dirty feathers can’t see tomorrow
Even as I wish to disappear into the night, there’s no escape to rely on
I’ve lost sight of anyone who would hold my hand
If someday I see that light before I take off
-there is no light-
“Hello, flightless birthday!”
I don’t know right from left
I don’t know my own self
This cruel world has me saying things like “I want to die.”
This information flutters around the world
Our wounds forsaken
Those words spiral into tears and loneliness
As morning comes again, will this voice as well?
Someday those days will come
When we’ll be as migrating crows
Uncaring of the unspeakable scars
Able to shout that I’m alive
Even if I live one day I’ll die
Even if I lived once one day I’ll be dead
In this time as I’m alive
Any happiness isn’t enough
07- 埋葬虫SpoilerThe world of coexistance
Now opens new resonance
Eats into imagination’s biscuit
In a game of musical chairs
The fault of hatred
The teddy bear’s not laughing
Come, come
The throat gives moistness to
A tasseled, malicous, unknown
Shining, pearl spirit; 420 in the moon
Biting
Into pale blue
A temporary mark... it hurts
Wandering to seek a bone
Those days I didn’t know good from bad
Shaking in vomit and love
I eat so I can spit out my life
Inverted
Betrayal laughed in the past, asking... eat
08- ContagionSpoilerI leave myself to the shapeless melody
Grief... is a surprisingly shining transience
Again I draw my hands in the delicate dusk
Stirring up a prayer
Hey, you can hear it
The shadow thinning out
Clawing open an arpeggio under the sheets
To take on this lyric in the shadow again
What you draw will be hidden in the tears
To take on this lyric in your shadow again
It becomes painful and I scream
“The separate volumes have become like one”
You said, seeming more like me already
To take on this voice as you fall asleep
Crying like a child to the invisible wall
To take on tomorrow against the shadow of now
I glare at the time when I could see nothing
09- EchoSpoilerI turned my eyes from that clear day
Inviting a thread of innocence
Was tragedy reflecting through the cracks I had closed?
If I put it into words, as only a bitter gift to the past...
Even those memories cut into the skin like glass
If it’s what you want I’ll become what you want me to be
The past I’ve turned away from shook with that sound
I closed my ears to the silence that my eyes couldn’t meet
Because I knew your pain too
And if I start to ignore it all and pretend to smile
Would you still cry? Or would you smile with me?
As though we were falling, our fingers searched to meet
Like a child you cried, and I couldn’t break that image
So I close my eyes
If it’s what you want I’ll become what you want me to be
Suddenly tired and crying... as outside it rains
“If I can’t have you I’ll disappear”
Codependent reverberation
Were you to suddenly die
I would be relieved
Nothing more to cry over
Nothing more to suffer
Nothing more to love...
“‘I love you’Was that moment put into words
The abandoned past shook in that sound”
“‘Because I love you’ I embraced you as you collapsed
Suddenly tired and crying... as outside it rains”
If it’s what you want I’ll become what you want me to be
Counting the blank space in my hands...
Tomorrow is as unseeable as a deep darkness
The past is in full bloom
I fall into a hole without end...Traces of dry rain
And eternity are quietly gathered
10- hatred × tangle red × hunger redSpoilerRed draws deeply closer
As we go looking for flowers
We block our eyes from that place which hung by chains
You somehow disappeared
This world is so vast
What fantasy could have us forget such suffering?
Children acting like the devil
Are the soldiers protecting that place
We traded common sense for the guile held in our hands
Hatred tangle red world
Hatred hunger red
Everyone flattens others for their own sake
Hatred tangle red world
Hatred hunger red
I’ve lost the words to say ‘I’m just living,’ that even now don’t change
From hidden cracks
The kitten’s carcass laughs
If the future were abandoned, I would choose to sleep
I am a slave, just something in this world made to be a slave
Will the answer I’ve waited for come? If needed, it’s something.
11- 瞬間のアイディアルSpoilerLight
Hide the moment’s truth
I beg
For a momentary ideal
Ah... kick away the countless scattered glass beads
My body is pierced and I tremble in pain
Ah... I don’t want to take in that sight, of falsehood and sheeps’ eyes
Again I’m spoiled for telling myself this is fate
Pray... this world is always the same
Ray... I don’t even want to save it
Light
Engulf the moment’s suffering
Like embracing hidden wounds
Light
Hide the moment’s truth
I beg
For a momentary ideal
Ah, the navy-blue bell sounds, as my fingertips are shaved off
As my freedom is stolen, the gathered eyes are laughing
Ah, “together, shall we break it?” I longed to hear those words
Stolen by the flow of time we run away
Pray... this world is always the same
Ray... i want it to be saved
12- BOWWOWSpoilerThis is just like me
Haven’t you noticed?
Bite and lickBite and lick
Bite down and don’t let go
Touched with pain
A tearful smile
Bite and lick
Bite and lick
Bite down and don’t let go
Even now, when lyrical and free
This mind still lacks the strength to understand
As the late show sings its ending
You gently caress my head
An applause of hearts - gushes forth
This familiar fuckup dog is enough for you
“Hey, do you know? That food’s got a bad taste”
“Hey, are you listening? Please love me”
13- SUICIDAL WORD GAMESpoilerHaving chewed so many grains
I’m crying, unable to fall asleep
Blurred to hide the past
Unaware, my wounds grow
At once, to drink up the platinum
Spewing the smoke of grief
Already driven by these words
“When will it be okay to laugh?”
Knowing that delusion is free
“A body wrapped in affection”
The oath “I will smile! From now on”
Stop it!
“What do you know?”Ah... unrecognized lyrics
Ah... obidient support, ask
I want to break. I want to be destroyed.
Taking love in my hand
I can’t respond to myself
I tried to close my eyes and smile.
Stained with an ugly reaction
We keep on living
14- SERVANTSpoilerThose sufferring in the fire are stirred in sparkling pain
A devil without wings surrenders to me
With neck hung, wandering in search of fresh blood
Shaking in the same merry-go-round a pentagram is cut
From the shining blue jewelry bowl i eat, misled by nausea
With hubris and pain mourning my own power
Stoke my head... just today let me have some candy
The bestowed piercing sublimates my tired trembling body
Loyalty swore
With a grin
To drink from the cup
Until that life is destroyed send to me a prayer
The reward this poem is for...
Loyalty swore
With a grin
To embrace
If that life is destroyed for you i would shed tears
The reward this voice is for...
15- CristateSpoilerIf you don’t know how to kill, there are ways to dive
As long as i live inside you the music flows forth everyday
No sounds are the same; make this world your own
To make that voice heard should be your reason to live
It’s okay to live there
It’s okay to just act on the outside
That’s just your part
Just as you become my reason to live every day
It’s fun to imagine your world
I’ve come to think i’d like to stay here
I’m not forcing you to live every day
But why are you over there?
I should have known really
Because you won’t stop singing over there
What you taught me
“I live because I am”
That
So close... yet so far
Even with these red shoes
Crying, shaking, i become cristate
If this is the world we choose to live in
“I am you, and you are called me”
16- 鳥は泳ぎ方を知らず溺れ亡骸SpoilerFlickering shadows dance
As if prepared to fall
The sweet dream has burned
Rustling and flowing
The black-haired puppet
With no corpse to be found
Covered in the colour of obscured sin
Ah, ah...
The wings are broken
Buried beyond the burnt scent
Ah, ah...
To be forgotten
Light dances from the sky
Piercing my chest
The bright red rain falls
The end... isn’t it lovely?
Light dances from the sky
Plucking off my arms
The past streams down the face
Of this drowned body
Relenting for want of love
The egoist relinquished
Hey... shall we dance?
My hair grows longer
To cover my mouth
Rejecting the lyrics of despair
Dramatic lines again
Make this room feel lonely
Broken sounds play at the ears
You dance from the sky
So full of dreams
The rainbow shines dazzlingly bright
I dance from the sky
Dirtying the words
I had bloomed
Soon, i will drown
17- COPERNICUSSpoiler“So, we can’t afford not to choose. For the future.”
A new
Drama
For our future
And for tomorrow
“Start moving”
Do you know?
In this world that we see
There are different angles.
“There is no endless rain”
Is something i’ve sung somewhere, but,
As for me
“Endless rain”
I want it to keep falling
Even if it’s not like those drops that fall from the sky.
-The End...?-
Anyway there's my take on the album, hope someone thinks it's cool or something.
No need to credit me or w/e since only suicidal word game & servant were 'new' translations.
Definitely feel free to ask/correct anything on these though, i'm still learning ofc so any comments would be helpful, thanks~!chemicalpictures reacted to this -
hi, i'm ryan... i've been lurking here since forever, created an account a few months ago, and lately something's been telling me i should try to talk here more.
i'm not terribly good with forums though - something about the way anything i'd say gets kept on the site forever seems to trip me out a bit.
and i'm not sure how much of value i'd have to comment - so, i'll try to make myself useful and get to posting some (probably wildly inaccurate) translations~
as far as me....... got into vkei with ナイトメア about when their s/t came out, haven't found a band that resonates more with me since.
p sure i can find something to like in just about any style/scene, but i really think vkei hit its golden age between 1997-2007. at least to me.
as of typing this i'm also stanning diru, mucc, the gallo, and meji pretty hard. and since 2014 i've been living in varying degrees of Worried About Royz.
IRL i work at a sushi/udon place, it's p great, and i'm trying to get the hang of this whole 'understanding and speaking japanese' thing. it's hard tho.
Oh, and i'm trying to get a band together. also hard.
and that's basically it for me because i have no life outside visual kei.
Nice to meet all of you though - even if i haven't said much anything before i owe y'all a lot for recommending a lot of my fav bands.
special shoutout to all the staff/mods, rarezhut guys, and everyone who translates band shit bc it'd be so much harder to get into this dumb scene without people like you putting in all the work.
Oh and @ everyone feel free to hmu on twitter, username's same there as here
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hey, if this makes any difference to say -
grab a copy of Diru's Missa or even better, google sometime from La:Sadie's & tell me you sound any worse than Kyo does there
Or check out some of The Gallo or Vanessa's early releases & imagine what kinda shit Jojo & Tsudzuku would have heard with voices as weird as theirs
if you keep working at something you get hella better at it, whether you actually try to or not. -
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i wonder if i'm the only one who does this, i love B-sides but hate having so many singles in my iTunes or playing thru them 2 tracks at a time, so i take all an artist's B-sides from a set of years and arrange them into a custom album....
so i'll have like the 'album' Vermilion by ナイトメア, and it'll look like
Spoiler1- Love Addict
2- Romeo
3- Rover
4- Trauma
5- ByeBye
6- Star Spangled Breaker
7- Dazzle
8- Ugly Duck's Will
9- アイリス
10- Paranoid
11- Rubbish
12- Honestyand i'll do the same w/ rereleases, unplugged vers, and demotapes....
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like the title says i just made some dumb decisions and bought the wrong version of some CDs sooo here they are if anyone wants them
they're all in great condition & have all the obi/attachments i got them with; i didn't take pictures just yet but i def can if anyone has questions
If you don't mind, it'd be great if you could name your price, just whatever you think it's worth cuz i'm pretty awful at determining that
oh and i don't know if trades are done or how common that is but if you'd want to do that i'd probably be totally down
so i've got:
Dir en grey - Gauze [Ever Anime bootleg]
己龍 - 暁歌水月 [初回盤]
ナイトメア - Killer Show [Miya Records bootleg]
ROYZ - S.I.V.A [初回盤]
Sadie - Voyage [初回盤A]
anyway shipping is from Texas, let me know if you're interested, thanks~!
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i'd ask to claim the whole post but that's probably a douche move lmao
could i call [KR] cube & embryo?
and maaayybe Uroboros if no one else wants it
...............hi
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Nice to meet y'all!
y'know on some level i know i'm not gonna be into vkei for my whole life, so i just hope whenever i do find stuff i like better i can still look back on this dumbass genre fondly like that.
If you don't mind me asking - what bands (in general) are you into now and which vk bands stood the test of time for you?