Cross World
^I’m in love with this artist. 心太 (Tokoroten). Here’s two of three recent pictures, I’m with holding the third for the next song.
Excuse me. I’m listening to Freezepop’s Less Talk More Rokk and reminiscing over 2007. “mostly unironically~” (I translated most of this while listening to it, so if there’s some outside influence… uh. sorry m(_ _)m)
By the way, any song that praises reading is on my side.
Oh look. This is my 800th post.
Notes:
All of the strange imagery is taken out of Merry and Renko’s adventures/Touhou events. The unwilting cherry blossoms is the Perfect Cherry Blossom incident.
“As the circuit closes” ie. connects.
This one’s lightly translated – mostly with feeling.
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Cross World
トロヤ群の密林｜鳥船遺跡
Vocal: 吉河順央
Arrangement: REDALiCE
Lyrics: 野宮あゆみ
Circle: Alice’s Emotion
Album: FORLANE|REI
Event: Reitaisai 9
影落ちて茜咲く部屋
古ぼけた本に焦がれる
kage ochite akane saku heya
furuboketa hon’ ni kogareru
In this room as shadows fall and rose madder blossoms
I fall in love with a musty old book
知らない事知るのが
いけない事だなんて
知らないだからもっと
深く奥の未知へ
shiranai koto shiru no ga
ikenai koto da nan’te
shiranai dakara motto
fukaku oku no michi e
How could they say there are
Some things we should not know?
It is because we don’t know that we
Travel further down the path of “unknown”
枯れぬ桜も
真紅の月も
この目に映らない
氷の華に
消えるスキマに
この手で触れてみたいの
思考広がる
本が刻んだ
不可思議幻想郷
想いだけふわり
浮かんで消えた
karenu sakura mo
shin’ku no tsuki mo
kono me ni utsuranai
koori no hana ni
kieru sukima ni
kono te de furetemitai no
shikou hirogaru
hon’ ga kizan’da
fukashigi gen’soukyou
omoi dake fuwari
ukan’de kieta
Neither the unwilting cherry blossoms
Nor the crimson moon
Do I see with my own eyes
But the flowers of eyes
And the disappearing gaps
I want to touch with my own hands
As my thoughts broaden
The strange wonderland
Brought to life from this book
Gently appear and disappear
In the waves of my thoughts
遠く響く祭囃子
目を閉じて記憶重ねる
tooku hibiku matsuribayashi
me wo tojite kioku kasaneru
To a faraway festival beat I close my eyes
And let memories pile on top of each other
ページめくる度に
新しい出会いと
現実との壁に
取り残されていく
page mekuru tabi ni
atarashii deai to
gen’jitsu to no kabe ni
tori nokosareteiku
Every time I turn a page
I am left behind
On the wall between
A new meeting, and reality
永久の身体も
叫ぶ炎も
この目に映らない
潜む水面に
誘う音色に
この手で触れてみたいの
回路繋がる
本が刻んだ
不可思議幻想郷
想いだけふわり
浮かんで消えた
towa no karada mo
sakebu honoo mo
kono me ni utsuranai
hisomu minamo ni
sasou neiro ni
kono te de furetemitai no
kairo tsunagaru
hon’ ga kizan’da
fukashigi gen’soukyou
omoidake fuwari
ukan’de kieta
Neither that eternal body
Nor its screaming flames
Do I see with my own eyes
But that concealing water’s surface
And its inviting tones
I want to touch with my own hands
As the circuit closes
The strange wonderland
Brought to life from this book
Gently appears and disappears
In the waves of my thoughts
知らない事知るのが
いけない事だなんて
知らないだからもっと
深く奥の未知へ
shiranai koto shiru no ga
ikenai koto da nan’te
shiranai dakara motto
fukaku oku no michi e
How could they say there are
Some things we should not know?
It is because we don’t know that we
Travel further down the path of “unknown”
枯れぬ桜も
真紅の月も
この目に映らない
氷の華に
消えるスキマに
この手で触れてみたいの
思考広がる
本が刻んだ
不可思議幻想郷
想いだけふわり
浮かんで消えた
karenu sakura mo
shin’ku no tsuki mo
kono me ni utsuranai
koori no hana ni
kieru sukima ni
kono te de furetemitai no
shikou hirogaru
hon’ ga kizan’da
fukashigi gen’soukyou
omoi dake fuwari
ukan’de kieta
Neither the unwilting cherry blossoms
Nor the crimson moon
Do I see with my own eyes
But the flowers of eyes
And the disappearing gaps
I want to touch with my own hands
As my thoughts broaden
The strange wonderland
Brought to life from this book
Gently appears and disappears
In the waves of my thoughts
—
kafka-fuura 
Yeaaah, thanks for the translation !