diryangrey 121 Posted November 21, 2016 (edited) 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=sharing 01- IDEA Spoiler Hey 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 Spoiler Why 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 Spoiler When 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 Spoiler I 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- RAVEN Spoiler The 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 Spoiler The 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- Contagion Spoiler I 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- Echo Spoiler I 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 red Spoiler Red 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 Spoiler Light 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- BOWWOW Spoiler This is just like me Haven’t you noticed? Bite and lick Bite 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 GAME Spoiler Having 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- SERVANT Spoiler Those 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- Cristate Spoiler If 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 Spoiler Flickering 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- COPERNICUS Spoiler “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~! Edited November 21, 2016 by diryangrey accidentally hit ctrl-enter before i finished writing, sorry! 1 chemicalpictures reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
