Calm Eyes Fixed On Me, Screaming
^Dai-chan & Cirno!
I was finally able to watch the finale of Yojouhan Shinwa Taikei again last night, but this time with subtitles. Everytime I watch an episode of that show – especially the ending, I’m filled with a joy that can’t be matched by hardly anything else. It reminds me that the apparent worthlessness of my life is but another flavor to it, and to whatever end, I have a duty to enjoy it. :D
Putting that aside, this post is for Foreground Eclipse!! I messaged them about a week ago so I could get lyrics to “Calm Eyes Fixed On Me, Screaming” and I got a reply yesterday from Suzunori ^w^. So without further ado here’s the translation! Sorry for the delay! The probably English fuzzy screaming in the back isn’t included because I wasn’t sent it, but I figure you don’t mind too much ^_^
Notes:
Calm and Kind correspond to each other in this song. I wanted to match the usage with the title, but here it also implies kind.
“find your answer in the sky!” is more like find your “compensation” in the sky. In other words, find what it is that can make up for all the pain and sadness in the sky, to balance things out. It sounds weird in English, but I’ve seen it before in Japanese – I figured “find your answer” was an appropriate switch. – In a less vague explanation, it likely simply means scream out everything pent up inside out and up into the sky.
I’ve said so before, but because of the general lack of pronouns in Japanese vs. the necessity of them in English, many of the ones put in are based on assumption and could be a little off, so keep that in mind.
YT Listen Link: [link]
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[Title] – Calm Eyes Fixed On Me, Screaming
[Artist] – Foreground Eclipse
-Vocals: Merami
-Guitar & Bass: Suzuori
-Drums & Screams: Teto
[Circle] – Barrage教 (Barrage Am Ring)
[Album] – Barrage Am Ring 0
[Release] – Reitaisai 7 (March 14, 2010)
Don’t lie to me now
Man now I have to tell you one thing
nevertheless you’ll kill me
Hoping words could move you
No one’s there
No one’s gonna bother us now
Don’t hide away, it’s time to confess all
穢れた闇に舞い降りた少女
白き氷の微笑み浮かべて
kegareta yami ni maiorita shoujo
shiroki koori no hohoemi ukabete
Into a polluted darkness she alights
With a white ice smile on her lips.
Tell me what’s the hell going on here
You asked me if this is cool
Okay, let me ask you are you sure
Cause I’ve seen this once before
凍える手を優しく包んで そっと抱き寄せた
冷酷に映る世界は 脆く儚く消えた
kogoeru te wo yasashiku tsutsunde sotto dakiyoseta
reikoku ni utsuru sekai wa moroku hakanaku kieta
With her calm frozen hands she embraced
A world reflected cold and cruel; brittle – it shattered in an instant.
Don’t lie to me now
If I’d live to see you again
then what do you say
全てが狂う力などいらないから
(Hey don’t lie to me now)
遠く歪む空 この想い
(It’s time for you confess all)
subete ga kuruu chikara nado iranai kara
tooku yugamu sora kono omoi
I don’t need to have such power if it ruins everything, so…
To the distant twisting sky, here are my emotions!
怯える少女の面影が瞼に蘇る
美しい硝子の心は 淡く儚く消えた
obieru shoujo no omokage ga mabuta ni yomigaeru
utsukushii glass no kokoro wa awaku hakanaku kieta
Now, the face of that frightened girl I see resurrected in my eyelids…
Her beautiful glass heart; faint – it vanished without a trace.
Hey it serves you right, I’ve told you many times
Don’t lie
ah 優しい瞳で 君は僕を見た
ah, yasashii me de kimi wa boku wo mita
Ah, with calm eyes you fixed your eyes on me…
黒く染まる闇掻き消し 白へと導く
欺く夜に消えぬ過去 蝕む世界
凍えそうな日々を仰ぎ 繰り返す言葉 (Time for you)
最期に見たその悲しみ 空へ贖う (Confess all)
kuroku somaru yami kakikeshi shiro e to michibiku
azamuku yoru ni kienu kako mushibamu sekai
kogoesou na hibi wo aogi kurikaesu kotoba
saigo ni mita sono kanashimi sora e aganau
Erase the blackening darkness, find a way to white!
The past won’t disappear into the desceptive night, the ruined world.
Face the frozen days ahead! For those words repeated over and over again,
That sadness seen in the very end.. find your answer in the sky!
Man I knew that you didn’t hear anything
Man I knew that you didn’t hear anything
Man I knew that you didn’t hear anything
But I couldn’t scream any louder
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kafka-fuura 