Title: Plaza blue Rage
Circle: サリー (Sally)
Album: ニューサドマゾヒズム (2014)
Arrange: NSY
Lyric: shuriken
Vocal: ランコ (Ranko)
Original: 聖徳伝説～True Administrator (Shoutoku Legend ~ True Administrator)
Done based on a request!
This song is not only part of the “plaza” series of Sally songs, but also an alternate version of “plaza Blue age”, from Sally’s 2011 album サドマゾヒズム.
Compared to the original lyrics of plaza Blue age (note the difference in capitalization too) I feel as if this is a kind of “B-side” reflection on Miko’s becoming a shikaisen. There’s a sense of gravity here compared to the preachiness of the original…
Might come back and revisit this translation later, but one thing’s for sure:
The journey of conveying Shuriken’s lyrics is a fun one.
notes:
- I chose to use mostly “we/us” pronouns (except for the end stanza) as an interpretation of Miko’s magnanimous, royal style–but, perhaps more importantly, the lyrics give me the sense of the kinds of lengths not only Miko herself goes to, but also her allies.
- “yogoto mukaeru… yoi to shite” – in plaza Blue age, this set of lines is exactly the same, EXCEPT for the question mark. Barring the possibility of the lyrics source I used being mistranscribed… it has the sense of the narrator experiencing doubt or questioning what they are doing. (i.e., “Am I to come across this throat-breaking melody EVERY NIGHT?” — as if questioning whether it’s a worthy price to pay for defying death.)
歌詞 / Lyrics:
君は何処の月を見ていた 2度目を知る同士よ 言葉を慎め
愛 離れども 涙はおよし 夜空を嫌う鳥を 親しむこの日の終焉
kimi wa izuko no tsuki wo miteita
nidome wo shiru doushi yo kotoba wo tsutsushime
ai hanare domo namida wa oyoshi
yozora wo kirau tori wo shitashimu kono hi no shuuen
Where is the moon that has drawn your gaze?
O friends, once more, this we shall know of:
Mind the language with which you speak!
Though you have parted with your love, please cease your tears;
As we become familiar with those birds who loathe the nighttime sky,
The demise of today is upon us.
旅路の始まりと終わりの間で うたかた 枕を露に濡らす
さしずめ得難きものというところか 僅かな渇きを潤すだけ
tabiji wa hajimari to owari no aida de
utakata makura wo tsuyu ni nurasu
sashizume egataki mono to iu tokoro ka
wazuka na kawaki wo uruosu dake
Between beginning and end, the journey lies therein:
Our transient cushioning shall become wet with dew.
For those things deemed valuable and rare
Can only sate but a drop of your thirst.
暴徒へ貸した心が痛んだ
焼けるように すべり落ちていく
溢れたその滴は 何だろう
(bouto he kashita kokoro ga itanda)
yakeru you ni suberi-ochiteyuku
(afureta sono shizuku wa nani darou)
(That strength we lent towards rebellion has brought us pain.)
It feels burning hot as they’re sliding off, trickling down:
(Just what are those water drops overflowing from me…?)
戸惑の灯火 立ち昇る白毒
両方で乱舞する光の輪
おいでおいでと 手を招くとこない明日を
反動円 巡る報いの葬儀
tomadoi no douka tachi noboru shiro doku
ryouhou de ranbu suru hikari no wa
oide oide to te wo maneku to konai asu wo
handou-en meguru mukui no sougi
White-poison smoke rises upwards from this burning lamp of disorientation;
Its ring of light wildly dances back and forth between two sides.
“Come to us!” we beckon, gesturing to the unanswering morning;
This cyclical funeral service of reward and punishment
Forms the flat circle of karmic retribution.
風上より便りが千里を渡る
運命に抗いきれるのかと
kazakami yori tayori ga senri wo wataru
sadame ni aragai kireru no ka to
The wind blows in from somewhere far, far away–
Bearing the words, “Will you defy in full-force the laws of fate itself?”
枝先に結ばれたそれとは
種を撒き育ちを待つ凪
倒された尸は 誰だろう
(eda saki ni musubareta sore to wa)
tane wo maki sodachi wo matsu nagi
(taosareta shikabane wa dare darou)
(They were branches connected at their tips,)
Now waiting in the calm waters for the blooming of seeds they have sown;
(Just who are those corpses sent beneath the ground?)
荒ぶる知能が 嘲りの声を断つ
もうよせ 傷を割き開くのは
夜毎迎える？ 喉を折るほどのメロディ
来世に非礼を詫びてもよいとして
araburu chinou ga azakeri no koe wo tatsu
mou yose kizu wo saki hiraku no wa
yogoto mukaeru? nodo wo oru hodo no merodi
raise ni hirei wo wabite mo yoi to shite
With savage minds we deafen those voices that laugh with scorn;
Enough of it! No more opening our cuts and gashes!
Shall this melody be sung every night to the point it breaks our throats,
Permitting us to apologize for our insolence towards the afterlife?
ー逆らうことなきよう アミダに廻れ小人やー
– sakarau koto naki you amida ni maware kobito ya –
— Come, children, and gather around Buddha, so that you won’t be defiant! —
君は何処の月を見ていた
なんと愚かしいか 瞼が気後れ
今 別れよう 涙はおよし
姿 変わるのみよ 着馴染む衣を捨て
kimi wa izuko no tsuki wo miteita
nanto orokashii ka mabuta ga kiokure
ima wakare you namida wa oyoshi
sugata kawaru nomi yo ki-najimu koromo wo sute
Where is the moon that has drawn your gaze?
How foolish you are, your eyelids trembling in hesitance!
Let us part ways now, and please cease your tears.
Only the outer shell shall change as we
Cast our overworn clothing away.
惨劇の１幕から眺めよう
峠奥に いと希望が映える
譲らないの他に 何がある
(sangeki no ichi-maku kara nagame you)
touge oku ni ito kibou ga haeru
(yuzuranai no hoka ni nani ga aru)
(From this tragic one-act story,)
Let us bear witness to the depth of its climax,
Where there is a hope shining radiantly.
(Unyielding, not to surrender. What else could it be?)
焚き付けたのは 自らの意に思う
強行で堰止められても流れ
忠義 歪んだこの身とて意に介さずに
おい道化 歌声は鳴くばかり
takitsuketa no wa mizukara no i ni omou
kyoukou de sekitomerarete mo nagare
chuugi yuganda kono mi tote i ni kaisazu ni
oi douke utagoe wa naku bakari
I think of how I feel about having incited that fire;
Even pushed back behind a dam, those feelings flow forth.
As this body is distorted by such devotion…
How foolish it is to pay no mind,
And do nothing but sing.
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