☆ Title: WITCHCRAFT
★Album: FLASHLIGHT
☆ Album Artist: Alstroemeria Records
★ Vocals: Mei Ayakura (綾倉盟)
☆ Arrangement: Masayoshi Minoshima
★Lyrics: Haruka
☆ Original Title: Disunified Field Theory of Magic (非統一魔法世界論)
★ Website: http://alst.net/
anata ni wa wakaru hazu mo nai
sono omoi ni wa fushigi na chikara ga hisonde
sono me ni wa mieru koto wa nai
anata o ugokasu mienai mahou no kotoba de
I wouldn’t expect you to understand A mysterious power lurks within your feelings Never to be seen by your eyes I’ll rouse you with words of invisible magic
watashi shika wakaru hazu ga nai
subete no genri sore ni sakaraeru chikara wa
sono negai kanaerareru kara
anata wa watashi ni chikadzuku mahou no chikara de
I don’t expect anyone other than me to understand The power to be able to defy the principles of everything It can grant all your wishes after all, so you’ll be drawn to me by the power of magic
nani mo nai kono saki no michi nani mo nai ushiro o mitemo
mou ichido furi kaeru nara kono saki wa mienaku naru no
ayundeta ima made no michi nani mo nai ashiato sae mo
nokosareta hitotsu no omoi sore dake ga saigo no kibou ne
Completely empty, the road after this, completely empty, even if I look behind If I look back one more time, I’ll become unable to see ahead The road up to now that I had walked, completely empty, even the footprints too The one feeling left behind, that and only that is my final hope
wakaranai mama ayundemo wakaranai mama kawarazu ni
omoide o furi kaeru nara omoide ni sode o hikarete
ayundeta mono sae subete muda ni naru sonna kono toki
nokosareta watashi ga hitori nokosareta hitotsu no omoi mo
Even if I walk as I understand nothing, I’ll still understand nothing without a change If I look back on memories, I’ll be drawn by my sleeve by those memories Even those that were walking, everything, it all comes to nothing, as such are these times Left behind, I’m all alone, as well as my one left behind feeling
Requested by my friend Lori, lyrics were found transcripted on a website. I somewhat question the structure of that last stanza there, but what can you do?
Notes: 「早起きにして六文の得」 is based on a proverb, 「早起きは三文の徳」, that essentially translates to “early bird catches the worm,” literally translating into “Waking up early is a benefit for those with little cash.” In this version though, instead of 三文, it’s 六文, which is the fare to cross the river Sanzu.
「丑の刻参り」, or “the two o’clock curse” as I named it, refers to the curse where you drive a nail through a doll into a sacred tree of a shrine for seven nights in a row between 1-3am to kill the person it represents. Imagine a voodoo doll. In the song here though, it only takes one night.
aa nani o tagaete shimatta no ka bokura wa kitto naka yoku ikite ikeru haze datta noni
aa semete kimi ga ite kureta nara saigo no shoujiki mono o shinjirareta kamo shirenai na
nado to baka me ga! yomayoiigoto ni shizume! shoujiki mono ga baka o miru sonna sekai no ruuuru nara aa! boku koso saigo no shousha na no da! sono shinjitsu o kami shimete ima rakuen o ato ni shite bohyou ni kizanda kazu dake mune ni komi ageru shouri no yoin ni warau.
Ah, what did we end up going against? Despite the fact that we surely should’ve been able to live on good terms. Ah, at least, if you were here for me, I might’ve been able to believe the last honest ones, says the idiots! Sink in your nonsense! If honest people just look like fools, if that’s the way of that world. Ah! As for me, I’ll surely be the final victor! Chew on that truth and leave paradise behind now. With each time I carved into a tombstone, I snigger at the afterglow of victory filling my chest.
Lyrics by NAGI this time, and I sure could feel a difference when translating. Some of the sentences were real mouthfuls that just continued on and on. My head needs a rest after those.
★ Title: Under Empty
☆ Album: Icicle Fall
★ Album Artist: FELT
☆ Vocals: Mika[?] (美歌)
☆ Arrangement and lyrics: NAGI☆
★ Original Title: Youkai Domination (妖々跋扈)
☆ Website: http://feltmusic.net/
遠い空 黒く霞んでく 世界を闇で包んで
やがて満ちる孤独 心に纏う影を隠し
tooi sora kuroku kasunde ku sekai o yami de tsutsunde
yagate michiru kodoku kokoro ni matou kage o kakushi
The distant sky grows black, wrapping the world in darkness Soon the rising loneliness will hide the shadows my heart adorns
はじけ飛び 流れた 一筋の光を追って
崩れゆく 欠けた世界 取り戻せない
hajike tobi nagareta hitosuji no hikari o otte
kuzure yuku kaketa sekai tori modosenai
I chase the beam of light that flew off and streamed This crumbling, broken world, can’t be taken back
夢へ導く 未来の手に 言葉預けた
走り出した 空の向こうへ 光る君を追って
yume e michibiku mirai no te ni kotoba azuketa
hashiri dashita sora no mukou e hikari kimi o otte
I left my words in the hands of the future leading to my dreams and began to run to the other side of the sky, chasing you as you shine
kagiri naku tsudzuku mirai de hitori tatazumu
bakuen no kage misukasenai sekai kakushite
kono te ni nigiri shime kasanaru omoi no tsuyosa ni
tada hitotsu tashika ni fureta toki o egaku you na ima o shinjite
I stand still alone in this future continuing without end Smoke of explosions and their shadows, opaque, hide the world I believe in a present like one that paints a time when the only thing I certainly felt is the piling up strength of thoughts that I grasp in my hands
静寂に身を委ねて 立ち止まり 息を止めた
長い夢へと落ち 時の流れが薄れ行く
seijaku ni mi o yudanete tachi domari iki o tometa
nagai yume e to ochi toki no nagare ga usure yuku
I surrendered myself to silence, stopping still and holding my breath and fall into a long dream, the flow of time fades away
光降る空間 止めどなく走り続けた
過去を越え 今を進み その先まで
hikari furu kuukan tomedo naku hashiri tsudzuketa
kako o koe ima o susumi sono saki made
In a space where light shines down, I ran on without stopping exceeding the past, going forward in the present, and beyond
立ちはだかる壁を壊し 手を差し伸べれば
動き出した 終幕の空 飛ぶことを恐れて
tachi hadakaru kabe o kowashi te o sashi nobereba
ugoki dashita shuumaku no sora tobu koto o osorete
If I were to lend a hand in destroying the wall in the way I’d fear flying in a sky of an end that’s begun to move
tomedo naku afure mogaite tsuyoku nozonda
kono saki no sora butsukaru kimochi sae fumi koete
tsuki o akaku someta isshun no setsunateki tsuyosa mo
mou hitotsu tashika ni miseta toki ni iro o tsukeru kimi no manazashi
Like an endless overflow, I struggled and strongly wished Even these feelings that conflict with the sky beyond this, I’ll overcome The momentary strength the instant you coloured the moon scarlet also certainly enchanted one more, your look adds colour to time
果てしなく繰り返される 幻想に埋もれてく
夢の終わりを 今告げたこと 記憶に刻んだ
hate shinaku kuri kaesareru gensou ni umorete ku
yume no owari o ima tsugeta koto kioku ni kizanda
Being buried in illusions that are repeated endlessly I etched in my memory things that now told of the end of the dream
kagiri naku tsudzuku mirai de hitori tatazumu
bakuen no kage misukasenai sekai kakushite
kono te ni nigiri shime kasanaru omoi no tsuyosa ni
tada hitotsu tashika ni fureta toki o egaku you na
I stand still alone in this future continuing without end Smoke of explosions and their shadows, opaque, hide the world Similar to painting a time when the only thing I certainly felt is the piling up strength of thoughts that I grasp in my hands
tomedo naku afure mogaite tsuyoku nozonda
kono saki no sora butsukaru kimochi sae fumi koete
tsuki o akaku someta isshun no setsunateki tsuyosa mo
mou hitotsu tashika ni miseta toki ni iro o tsukeru kimi no manazashi
Like an endless overflow, I struggled and strongly wished Even these feelings that conflict with the sky beyond this, I’ll overcome The momentary strength the instant you coloured the moon scarlet also certainly enchanted one more, your gaze adds colour to time