Saturday, August 24, 2019

Antilyours - Zenbukiminoseida (English Translation)

Content Warning: Lyrics contain suicidal ideation as well as potentially implied self-harm.



I'm going to take a warped fall, sink deeply
Stealthily, just for your ears I whisper "Please impose your love on me"
Even after being bitten. It's not a metaphor, honest
It's okay if it's not pretty, even if it's breaking in unseemly ways.

If the obstacles are overflowing, I'll erase them for you right now
Carving into my chest the taste of the color of tears, don't forget ever again! A request made in a dream
"Is it temporary?" you ask. Detestable...

I exist only for the sake of myself. Save for the concept of you, I follow no ideology
That is the ideal I boast, the established routine. (Law.)
In the hope of you growing fond of me, I swim in the world of idols...
My solitude-loving self adored only one thing.

In this world a single person's feelings continued to light the way
Searching and going astray, where is this place?
The voice that echoes is rainbow-colored malice

What should I do, in this way I felt the pain of despair piercing my chest
"I don't need it, it's fine if it doesn't exist!" a condemning voice heard by no one
I can't see tomorrow, I don't need a future, I don't have anything I want to protect
I wish I'd just die already, no one's paying attention to me...

The unforgiving reality is no place where I belong, this scolding wounds me... (?)
That moment contained in a drop of blood, I won't be able to ever forget it, dreamlike
After all it's a delusion... So beautiful...

I don't need it, anything and everything, it's beautifully painful to the point I detest it
To the point of crying my soul out "I love you!", save me, I can't breathe
Hey, in this world that bears nothing but grudges I found meaning for the first time
"I don't care if I die" Clinging to a desire to keep on living, you are what I wish for

Why do the obstacles keep coming? Hey, look at me as I erase them all for you
I carve your existence into my chest If this is hope I'll go through hell for the final conclusion, detestable...

I exist only for the sake of myself. Save for the concept of you, I follow no ideology
This is my reason for being, the established routine. (Law.)
You exist only for the sake of yourself. In order to grow used to your loneliness...
My lonesome self loved only one thing.

I don't need it anymore, anything and everything, it's beautifully painful to the point I detest it
Tears spill out as I say "I love you!", save me, I can't breathe
Hey, when I reached you it was the first time anyone ever acknowledged me
"I want to die" The idea of wanting to live prevails, reigns supreme
Pinky promise!

Thursday, August 8, 2019

Loser Gospel - Zenbukiminoseida [English translation]

(Ready, set go!)

Here's yamikawaii* from Japan, without blindly following others we'll pierce the music scene
Day is breaking, a slightly odd character, today is fleeing, am I a lazy person?
A three-eyed fraud's twisted ultimate nature (too young to live)
There is no gap, the true nature is important
Here's yamikawa ZKS, performing from our hearts we're Zenbukiminosei!**

Am I an eternal loser? Or am I
A modest wimp? Gleaming eyes watching for a chance to strike indeed!
Speaking with a resigned attitude "Ah... ah... aaaah..."
Of course I want to try to become worthy!

In this place I only wanted to try borrowing everyone's hands-
The Sengoku period, you say? What kind of example is that? I'm only ever battling myself
Holding my smartphone in one hand, in the sea of the internet "Go die. The truth is I don't understand myself at all.
Those hands, these hands, colorfully their number increases, everyone concludes "It's all your fault!"

But still...!
Am I an eternal loser? It was by accident, que sera sera
I want to try standing apart from the rabid believers! To be doing...? Huh? Indeed!
It's truly impossible, my heart is still in the preparatory phase..
I want to sincerely express my rebellious spirit!

Palpitations in the dark (I'm not feeling depressed, I'm not feeling depressed...)
Answering my own question, the root of this is...
Is it heresy? Is it because I'm gross? I'm deadly serious here!
Darkness originating from the hearts, envious dull humans

Change!
Am I an eternal loser? Or am I
A modest wimp? Gleaming eyes watching for a chance to strike indeed!
Speaking with a resigned attitude "Ah... ah... aaaah..."
Of course I want to try to become worthy!

*Yamikawaii = a sickly cute aesthetic. Derived from "yamu" (to fall ill)
**Likely referencing their band name. Translates to "It's all your fault"

Wednesday, July 3, 2019

スロウダウナー (Slow Downer) - Rokuro (English Translation)



(Translator's note: I lot of these lyrics were confusing to me, and parts of the lyrics may be vague on purpose. Take this translation with a grain of salt.)

I'm a monster born into this most beloved world
The unpleasant age of weak-willed puppets was shaken off, as it should be
The spider that lets loose the red string, the hunter who is predictably entwined
Living my entire life in a detached state, doctor please give me a reason to live!
I'm a monster born into this ambiguous world of new and old
At a glance it's diffuse, cast off from the palm of my hands it looks like

A slider released to the outside, A batter swinging at the sky as expected
Here, a composed expression of the greatest mental agony, doctor please medicate me
Therefore, I chanted a nonsense spell, placed my finger in my mouth and waited
I invoked the names of absurdities
Ah!
It's said that mankind retained love until the end. The whereabouts will remain unknown to me, won't they?
Crying over the pain of a lovers' suicide, remember it!
It's said that mankind retained love until the end. I think the day I'll comprehend it won't arrive
How these days were gobbled down
I tried to command, Superiority and appearances, The largest rift, Accepted a crushing defeat
Three times delight, Nine-fold sorrow, Wore the gloom, Took refuge in the night Every time this still is, A prowl of paradise, Expectations became familiar, Brooded on the path of retreat

Please try to consider it
Please do it quietly
Please look at me
Ah!
It is said that humanity returned to its first days, There are no recollections of those, are there?
Because I'm growing ever sadder, return a laugh!
It's said that humanity returned to its first days, There are no requirements for existing, it seems
That's kind of a decline
You noticed, please don't extend your hand
It got through, I don't need it, right?
Contaminated, soon the limited bounds somehow became love

Perfection, Lighting the final fire, they said, I wonder if it will be painful
The truth is trying to bloom, they said that, I remembered
I finally reached it, The true form and the camouflaged I (love)*
Ah!
It's said that mankind retained their "I" (love)' until the end, My mark is absent, isn't it?
It's certainly inappropriate but, remember it!
They cried alone ninety nine times, it is said, The next one doesn't exist, it seems
At last I've found it
This performance of "I" (love)* is over
See you, monster who was born into this beloved world
With the biggest triumphant expression in human life, I became one with the world

* The "I" in this instance uses the spelling of love (ai), but in katakana. It's likely a play on words.

Sunday, June 2, 2019

MUTE - 40mP (English Translation)




This town is full of sounds I hate
Drowning out the important ones
In order to not miss the sound of your voice
The only thing I can do is strain do listen but

A car horn, a soapbox speech, some person's laughter
If I could simply erase them
I would find myself in a silent dream

I'm muting the things I don't want to hear
The unpleasant sounds are so loud that I can't sleep
I'm muting the things I don't want to see
Excluding the foul scenery from my vision

In the midst of the unending, cold rain
Since I started holding up an umbrella from the convenience store
All that fall upon it are inconsiderate words
If I had been able to ignore them...

Returning to the way things were, that's completely unreasonable
I want to keep living a life 
Where I only hear good things about myself

I'm muting the things I don't want to hear
The unpleasant sounds are so loud that I can't sleep
I'm muting the things I don't want to see
Excluding the foul scenery from my vision

I'm muting the things I don't want to hear
Even your voice is something I can never hear again
I'm muting the things I don't want to see
Like I wished for, I'm in silent darkness, all alone

Thursday, May 30, 2019

Nisemono no Koi ni Sayonara (Goodbye Fake Love) - ASCA [English Translation]


My words pour from my mouth
During that time we exchange no sounds of acknowledgement
You were three hours late, can we get going already?
Walking down a wet street at 3:00 AM

"Hey, come closer so we can always be together"
I grew weary of hearing that declaration

Hey, it's a deception
Goodbye fake love, ah
Don't touch me, don't come close to me because
I noticed that this isn't love

Your face that I used to love, ah
I don't even want to look at it, I don't want to touch it, jeez
I'm breaking up, let's end this

I noticed
A crumbling balance
Our rhythms collide with each other and we become distant
No matter how many hours we spend we can't return to our original state
A relation that grew cold, you recede into 3:00 AM

"Before you end it like that, let's wait until we can talk things through", you said.
I wonder if those words are just overly selfish

Hey, it's a deception
Goodbye fake love, ah
I became certain, the warmth had disappeared
It's just an afterimage, just a memory

Your face that I used to love, ah
That cliched phrase, that sharp parting remark
Trembling, a final facial expression

what was my mistake?
I’m just wondering.
Disagreeing emotions
If you were with me.
Don’t leave me behind
When will I be able to forget?

Goodbye fake love, ah
Don't touch me, don't come close to me because
I noticed that this isn't love

Your face that I used to love, ah
That cliched phrase, that sharp parting remark
Trembling, a final facial expression

Friday, May 24, 2019

Akenai Yoru, Samenai Yume (Unending Night, A Dream I Can't Wake From) - Yunomi [English Translation]



This is a tale of a night of shooting stars
Our war still isn't ending
I'm unable to protect you with these hands
Unending night, a dream I can't wake from

This night, I wonder if I'm going to disappear into an unknown street
An uninteresting drama is on TV
Mommy and daddy won't wake up either

The ghosts of a name I carried in the past
Please, please, stop accompanying me
If it's that awful, let's erase it
I don't think the newspaper will report on it

In this quiet night I'm alone

Searching, come, the meaning of this journey
The reason you're looking for
The name of my crime is "apathy"
My dictatorial leader

In this night I want to meet you

This world continues to quietly decline
In this long, long dream, I wait for dawn to arrive

This is a tale of a night of shooting stars
Our war still isn't ending
I'm unable to protect you with these hands
Unending night, a dream I can't wake from

I'm searching for it, at any hour
Even though there's no meaning
Because in our world
You exist
You exist

This is a tale of a night of shooting stars
Our war still isn't ending
I'm unable to protect you with these hands
Unending night, a dream I can't wake from

Unending night
You exist here
A dream I can't wake from

Thursday, May 23, 2019

Amaishizuku (Sweet Droplets) - somunia [English Translation]

MV:


The overflowing raindrops
Unfastened my braid

The diffuse reflection of the polka dots
Traced a face I'd never seen before

The ice that was about to melt
Laughed as if it were a first love
If it were me I'd leave it behind, everything
I let you eat all of it and yet

On the return trip home
A face in profile is swaying underfoot

It seemed like my feelings were being seen through
I hid my face behind my bangs

Chilly hand in hand
If I raise my umbrella
And keep holding it up
I wonder if you'll stay by my side

The ice that was about to melt
Laughed as if it were a first love
If it were me I'd leave it behind, everything
Because I'd let you eat all of it

Friday, March 22, 2019

メスゲノムフェノメノン (Female Genome Phenomenon) - Zenbukiminoseida [English Translation]

MV:


Why are there girls who unmask others!?
Hey! Oy! Just a minute! Hey!

Case 1: a depressed tweet, without a moment's delay comes a response
"Today, my friend XX..." accompanied by a photo of sweets
Oh dear, after all wanting to take in sugary content is a component of "kawaii"
You're forever thirsting, right? Being too vague to comprehend is great, you only see a black and white panda

Eraser of wrongdoing, I am faith
One's own needs are justice, stamped with a seal of trauma

Mirror, oh mirror, in this world this animal named "me" is religion
Turn, turn, spiral pattern, now is the time, this moment is number one
Mirror, oh mirror, I stared at only you♥ I said nothing but you still understand
I'm the strongest

Case 2: I'm telling you, hey listen to me! A ceaseless machine gun of selfishness
"Hey, What do you think?", once you get in the habit of listening it's already too late
It's best you do nothing but listen, speaking is selfish
Once you grow at ease, surprise, suddenly it's
Two hours past midnight and the need has been satisfied, that's how it is, bye bye

Haters of the new age, the traffic lights are yellow
Justice based on one's own needs, best regards to the little devil

Mirror, oh mirror, in this world this animal named "me" is religion
Turn, turn, spiral pattern, now is the time, this moment is number one
I'm the strongest, yeah!

At the base is an unwilling slave.
It's a bad time to go out or ponder oneself, please don't fuss over me.
But somehow I read the atmosphere, fleetingly
You regard me with a sidelong glance and won't release me.

Meaning unclear, meaning unclear, meaning unclear, rise and bow

Not by method of getting angry, rather, understanding girl matters,
This is an ordinary display of reality
But soon being delicately wounded is also a reality,
I'm convinced that a love of crying is infinite strength. Perfect combustion!

Mirror, oh mirror, in this world this animal named "me" is religion
Turn, turn, spiral pattern, now is the time, this moment is number one
Mirror, oh mirror, I stared at only you♥ I said nothing but you still understand
I'm the strongest! Three, strongest girls of japan do your best!

Thursday, February 28, 2019

Dead Boy, Dead Girl - CY8ER [English Translation]

MV:


Dead......
Hey, your hand is as stiff as ice
The doctors are at your bedside seeing you off
"Where might heaven be?"
Is that what you're thinking?
But you're not on the list of successful people, are you?

Perhaps we've already
been sleeping for a long time?
If the soul has faded from a vessel, does it disappear into emptiness?
Won't someone please notice me?
A stray child going numb from loneliness

Even if there's no chair in the classroom
I'll always be waiting right here!
Come! Let's dream again tonight
The water on this side is sweet
Can you hear it in the distance?
The parade is coming to pick you up

That's terribly unfortunate
My arm is covered in bandages Even the words I gulp down taste like nothing
Won't someone please notice me?
Only illuminated by the lights of the operating room If the days left are tight, let's fly out

Now then, let's go! In the direction of hands clapping
In the chasm of this long night a voice can be heard
The children are coming to pick you up
Come! Let's dream again tonight

The water on this side is sweet

Can you hear it in the distance? The parade is coming to pick you up

La la la......

Wednesday, February 20, 2019

Game Over - Yunomi ft. Toriena [English Translation]



Did you see?
The skull that smashed from being unable to endure all these loops

Unmistakably, that person's cerebral cortex is NOT ALL RIGHT
That's not someone else's problem
On this battlefield there's no place to rest one's spirit
It kept repeating, be careful not to die
Bit-by-bit my stamina was whittled down to nothing
Sunlight from above
In my coma-like state I planned to cut down the upper class
I didn't plan to hold a grudge against my home town, but things were unfair from the time I was born
I'm having a migraine again
This life ends in a
GAME OVER
GAME OVER
GAME OVER

In the heat haze of summer
These repeating days
Can you tell me to "live"?
If this voice can't reach
Let's push the reset button already
Come now, won't you hand me the last scroll of this story?
Let's have a nice dream
On such an evening, I felt an extremely tiny hope
Run, run, I kept on running from these days
Hey, it's a shootout!
The beginning of a long journey
Ah, the system of spinning gears is falling apart
The consciousness that spreads out is going to assimilate with you

Surely, before a scenery I don't know of
You are, you are smiling
It's okay to extend your fingertips
I really want to try touching that snapshot
In the heat haze of summer
These repeating days
Can you tell me to "live"?
If this voice can't reach
Let's push the reset button already

Tuesday, February 19, 2019

Remixtart - CY8ER [English Translation]

One mundane day, while doing the things I always used to I disappeared
My memories were transformed into a web of electrons

I woke from a short dream and crossed a river of tears
Again, we head for a new town

Trivial words, a mud-covered skirt swaying
Roll up your sleeves and step forward, once again, from here

Hey wait up, wait up, it's impossible to proceed from here 
Leave the tears behind with a Re:START, yes yes
But do you really, really think there is nothing that can be done
Fall over and get up again

That habit of running away from unpleasant things right after we rise
Let's throw it away, turn back on the small regret

Only going in circles, it won't be long until we're going to feel like crying
Now as well, your voice is resounding in my chest

Ah, the spiciness of my footprints is 159
That's right, my music will keep on ringing out forever
Ah, in this place all that's needed is the high-speed MIX
That's right, my music will keep on ringing out forever

For sure, things just keep going badly
Let's Re:mix the path we walk, yes yes
So, there's only, only one more tone and therefore
I need to go no matter how many times it takes because

I went through thick and thin, with you
From this point on, the dream is coming true

Friday, February 15, 2019

Yamikawagun March (Yamikawa Army March) - Zenbukiminoseida [English Translation]

Now then, let's get going. Are you prepared?

A different color of madness, the rule is YAMIKAWA*
Or is it an outrageous gimmick?
Hey hey, don't run away, understanding is not required
I'm a girl who loves ever changing forms

Don't worry! It's a bit of a heavy thought but
If your're thrown off balance I'll bring your favorite food just for you...

Twis night's menu is fwuffy omelet awawnd nwoodles
At the bedside is a suicidal bear. Wink
A perfect awakening, my stomach hurts...
It's really scary, I don't want to be disliked.

Go! Keep going!? I'm by your side. Although the nervousness weakens me a little
I absolutely love this! In spite of my timidness, please give me lots of love

It's a bit irritating, this distance of ours...
I'm a fool, I want the communication barrier to go away

A dream. While our hands entwine our strides somehow line up and you smile, its already a victory
Bonnie eh? Looks more like a Clyde, even if we go to the ends of the earth we'll always be together...

An ordinary kindness, I don't need that.
Our foolish selves don't agree with such a thing!
God. Buddha. Goodbye, take care
I've made up my mind, monotheism. Probably you? Please treat me well.

Is that okay? I'm taking an oath. For you. This body, this heart, I offer up all of myself
Crime and punishment, you and me, that's all right
Die. Until then, it's still the same fruit...

If you're wounded I'll also be, loving loving wounds also bloom
If you're pleased I'll be the same
Thinking about you spiritually. Is it a predestined delusion? It intensifies to the point it can't be stopped
Fanaticism dwells inside.

Now, that's impossible. All of you, memory shortage, I'm full
This way, this way, loving you this much, it's very, very magnificent

I'll see you off at a straight angle! Because this is our march
Always, at any time, we'll be together, since 2016
Into eternity!

*a shortening of "yamikawaii", refers to yamikawaii aesthetic. If you want to know more about this aesthetic, this article is a good place to start (TW mental health, implied self-harm)