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deidrichensteinWell, while I'm here and getting started and all that jazz, this is my first translation. *hides head*.
蜷局 / toguro / coil
作詞：京
作曲： Dir en grey
translation by deidrich
"Hold your tongue" (1)
"White silence"
"Words swell up"
"Desperation creeps closer" (2)
Seductive decay holds to a clinging smile
The blurry night has split open
“Scars covering scars”
“Darkness, doubt, human nature”
“Thirst for each other like mad”
The striking roar of the vagrant beggar
Smiling as you pick the butterfly-petaled wings
Cast off that sense of superiority (3)
Scatter in repose
Broken by the spur? Come on, mount it (4)
Close your eyes to what is real
Lost, forlorn, roaming aimlessly
FAREWELL, humanity
Without a sound
The striking roar of the survivor
Swarming the sought-out facade, itemised destruction
Reality, gratification, and the nothingness pry open a wound
Trace the answer with your fingers
Dancing Slowly Forever Sick
Choke
⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯
This song is so obscure! It’s like a mixture of moods, images and scenes all blended together, rather than a cohesive story, so I found it quite challenging to translate.
Honestly, this is one of my favourite songs of all time. No words can describe my enduring reaction to this song and it’s wonderful beauty.
1: ‘舌を殺す’ literally reads as ‘kill the tongue’. However I was immediately reminded of the phrase ‘息を殺し’, which means ‘to hold ones breath, to catch ones breath’, although literally reading as ‘kill the breath’. I opted to translate 舌を殺す as such because I far prefer how it flows into the rest of the opening verse. I think it also greatly enhances the imagery for the english reader.
2: 切望. setsubō’ is such a beautiful, beautiful word. Depending on the context, it can mean any of the following: longing for, earnest desire, desperate desire, yearning, hankering, hope, anxiety, tension’; Kyo (typically) doesn’t provide us with the context he is using the word in so we are left to interpret. After thinking about it I wanted to use a word that could… kind of, in a way, encompass or allude to all of the above readings. Desperation I felt was best suited.
3: 切り付ける means to ‘to cut at; to slash at’, I’ve interpreted that as to slash at as in to slash away at, to shed etc.
4: Spur, as in, stimulus, impetus, drive, catalyst, provocation etc. Not an actual riding spur. :P
「舌を殺す」
「沈黙の白」
「言葉と浮腫みだす」
「躙り寄る切望」
転げ堕ちて行く誘惑に笑顔が張り付き
滲む夜はち切れた
「傷で傷を補う」
「闇と疑惑と性」
「狂う様に貪り合う」
撃ち鳴る放浪者よ
蝶の花弁を摘みながら笑う
切り付ける優越感
安息と散れ
拍車に壊れてさあ跨れ
現実と眼を閉ざす
彷徨い暮れるサヨナラ人間
響きはしない
撃ち鳴る順応者よ
求め群れる迷彩、破壊の羅列
現実、娯楽、無と傷を開き
指でなぞる答え
Dancing Slowly Forever Sick
"shita o korosu"
"chinmoku no shiro"
"kotoba to mukumi dasu"
"nijiriyoru setsubō"
koroge ochi te iku yūwaku ni egao ga haritsuki
nijimu yoru hachikire ta
"kizu de kizu o oginau"
"yami to giwaku to sei"
"kurū yō ni musabori au"
uchi naru hōrō sha yo
chō no hanabira o tsumi nagara warau
kiritsukeru yūetsu kan
ansoku to chire
hakusha ni koware te saa matagare
genjitsu to me o tozasu
samayoi kureru sayonara ningen
hibiki ha shi nai
uchi naru junnō sha yo
motome mureru meisai, hakai no raretsu
genjitsu, goraku, mu to kizu o hiraki
yubi de nazoru kotae
Dancing Slowly Forever Sick
蜷局 / toguro / coil
作詞：京
作曲： Dir en grey
translation by deidrich
"Hold your tongue" (1)
"White silence"
"Words swell up"
"Desperation creeps closer" (2)
Seductive decay holds to a clinging smile
The blurry night has split open
“Scars covering scars”
“Darkness, doubt, human nature”
“Thirst for each other like mad”
The striking roar of the vagrant beggar
Smiling as you pick the butterfly-petaled wings
Cast off that sense of superiority (3)
Scatter in repose
Broken by the spur? Come on, mount it (4)
Close your eyes to what is real
Lost, forlorn, roaming aimlessly
FAREWELL, humanity
Without a sound
The striking roar of the survivor
Swarming the sought-out facade, itemised destruction
Reality, gratification, and the nothingness pry open a wound
Trace the answer with your fingers
Dancing Slowly Forever Sick
Choke
⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯
This song is so obscure! It’s like a mixture of moods, images and scenes all blended together, rather than a cohesive story, so I found it quite challenging to translate.
Honestly, this is one of my favourite songs of all time. No words can describe my enduring reaction to this song and it’s wonderful beauty.
1: ‘舌を殺す’ literally reads as ‘kill the tongue’. However I was immediately reminded of the phrase ‘息を殺し’, which means ‘to hold ones breath, to catch ones breath’, although literally reading as ‘kill the breath’. I opted to translate 舌を殺す as such because I far prefer how it flows into the rest of the opening verse. I think it also greatly enhances the imagery for the english reader.
2: 切望. setsubō’ is such a beautiful, beautiful word. Depending on the context, it can mean any of the following: longing for, earnest desire, desperate desire, yearning, hankering, hope, anxiety, tension’; Kyo (typically) doesn’t provide us with the context he is using the word in so we are left to interpret. After thinking about it I wanted to use a word that could… kind of, in a way, encompass or allude to all of the above readings. Desperation I felt was best suited.
3: 切り付ける means to ‘to cut at; to slash at’, I’ve interpreted that as to slash at as in to slash away at, to shed etc.
4: Spur, as in, stimulus, impetus, drive, catalyst, provocation etc. Not an actual riding spur. :P
「舌を殺す」
「沈黙の白」
「言葉と浮腫みだす」
「躙り寄る切望」
転げ堕ちて行く誘惑に笑顔が張り付き
滲む夜はち切れた
「傷で傷を補う」
「闇と疑惑と性」
「狂う様に貪り合う」
撃ち鳴る放浪者よ
蝶の花弁を摘みながら笑う
切り付ける優越感
安息と散れ
拍車に壊れてさあ跨れ
現実と眼を閉ざす
彷徨い暮れるサヨナラ人間
響きはしない
撃ち鳴る順応者よ
求め群れる迷彩、破壊の羅列
現実、娯楽、無と傷を開き
指でなぞる答え
Dancing Slowly Forever Sick
"shita o korosu"
"chinmoku no shiro"
"kotoba to mukumi dasu"
"nijiriyoru setsubō"
koroge ochi te iku yūwaku ni egao ga haritsuki
nijimu yoru hachikire ta
"kizu de kizu o oginau"
"yami to giwaku to sei"
"kurū yō ni musabori au"
uchi naru hōrō sha yo
chō no hanabira o tsumi nagara warau
kiritsukeru yūetsu kan
ansoku to chire
hakusha ni koware te saa matagare
genjitsu to me o tozasu
samayoi kureru sayonara ningen
hibiki ha shi nai
uchi naru junnō sha yo
motome mureru meisai, hakai no raretsu
genjitsu, goraku, mu to kizu o hiraki
yubi de nazoru kotae
Dancing Slowly Forever Sick
