セルフ・トーキング // Self Talking
This is the theme song for Comedic Mechanism: Parade of the Jane Does (link) which is a doujin novel that takes themes from several sources, including works from the French Surrealist movement and Hans Christian Andersen’s Snedronningen “The Snow Queen” from which coincidentally “Frozen” is also based on. I’ve been tweeting about the book with the hashtag #janedoes for the past week or so. It’s very strange. A QR code which links to this song appears in Chapter 3, just as reality really starts to come crashing down.
If you search for “セルフ・トーキング 或いは 魔女というガラクタによる魂の在り処への言及のバラード” you should be able to find a PV for the book with a part of the song playing.
Note:
I faked some of the last kanji lines at the very end (not the first 5 or so) because it was getting too much of a hassle to read. You can see what they really are in the picture at the bottom.
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セルフ・トーキング 或いは 魔女というガラクタによる魂の在り処への言及のバラード
Self Talking
Arui wa Majo to iu Garakuta ni yoru
Tamashii no Arika no Gen’kyuu no Ballad
Self Talking:
Or a Ballad Alluding to the Whereabouts of the Souls
Of Garbage Otherwise Known as Witches
魔法少女達の百年祭｜東方紅魔郷
Vocals: めらみぽっぷ
Arrange+Lyrics: RD-Sounds
Circle: 凋叶棕
Accompanying Novel:
喜劇機械～もしくはジェーン・ドゥ達によるバラード～
The Comedic Mechanism
～Or The Parade of the Jane Does～
あるいは生きて あるいは事切れて
もとは全て一つのものが
arui wa ikite arui wa kotogirete
moto wa subete hitotsu no mono ga
Possibly living, possibly dead
All these that were once a single thing
ありとあらゆる暴虐の果てに
幾多の欠片に別たれた
ari to arayuru bougyaku no hate ni
ikuta no kakera ni wakatareta
After endless atrocities of every kind
They were shattered into many fragments
「私の姿は」
「見知らぬ誰かが」
「恣意的に歪め」
「その快楽の為」
「手慰み程度にも」
「興味本位にも」
「私は産まれて」
“anata no sugata wa”
“mishiranu dareka ga”
“shiiteki ni yugame”
“sono kairaku no tame”
“tenagusami teido ni mo”
“kyoumihon’i ni mo”
“anata wa umarete”
“YMouyr form”
”Someone I have never known”
“Abitrarily twisted”
“For the purpose of their pleasure”
“Just to pass the time”
”For no reason but fickle interest”
”YIou wasere born”
ー消費されていく。
-shouhi sareteiku.
-and consumed.
鏡の中にいる。
鏡に映されている。
鏡に囚われている。
kagami no naka ni iru.
kagami ni utsusareteiru.
kagami ni torawareteiru.
In the mirror.
Reflected in the mirror.
Imprisoned by the mirror.
醜く歪む その全てを忌避して
ただ純粋なものを求め
minikuku yugamu sono subete wo kihi shite
tada jun’sui na mono wo motome
I avoided everything twisted and distorted
Seeking only that which was pure
そうしていつか 辿りつく幻想
それは全てが美しい
soushite itsuka tadoritsuku sekai
sore wa subete ga utsukushii
The world I eventually came upon
In it everything was beautiful
「世界の姿は」 「世界の姿が」
“sekai no sugata wa” “sekai no sugata ga”
“This world” “This world”
「貴女を通して」 「見せている幻」
“anata wo tooshite” “miseteiru maboroshi”
“Is an illusion” “I only can see through you”
「鏡に映した」 「貴女の幻想は」
“kagami ni utsushita” “anata no sekai wa”
“When it is reflected” “In the mirror, your world”
ーさぞかし魅力的に映るでしょうね。
-sazokashi suteki ni utsuru deshou ne.
-must be terribly wonderenticingful, though I wouldn’t know.
歪められていく世界の端々から
誰もその本当の姿を知らない
歩み寄って作り上げた世界さえ
その心を映す限りには
全て歪ませて
yugamerareteiku sekai no hashibashi kara
daremo sono hon’tou no sugata wo shiranai
ayumiyotte tsukuriageta sekai sae
sono kokoro wo utsusu kagiri ni wa
subete yugamasete
From all corners of this warped world
There is no one that knows its true form
Even this world we came together to make
As long as it is reflected by our hearts
Everything will be twisted
鏡の中にいる。
鏡に映されている。
鏡に囚われている。
kagami no naka ni iru.
kagami ni utsusareteiru.
kagami ni torawareteiru.
In the mirror.
Reflected in the mirror.
Imprisoned by the mirror.
…きっと今も。
…kitto ima mo.
…Surely, even now.
数え切れない鏡に映る私の 姿 数え切れない鏡に映る私の
kazoekirenai kagami ni utsuru watashi no sugata
kazoekirenai kagami ni utsuru watashi no sugata
Countless mirrors reflecting my form
My form reflected in countless mirrors
美しいその世界はその鏡の美しさゆえ
醜いその世界はその鏡の醜さゆえに
utsukushii sono sekai wa sono kokoro no utsukushisa yue
minikui sono sekai wa sono kokoro no minikusa yue ni
This one beautiful world exists because of the beauty of its mirheartror
And this other ugly world exists because of the ugliness of its mirheartror
無為に産み出されては消えていくその世界に
魂なき私の嘆きが木霊する
mui ni umidasarete wa kieteiku sono sekai ni
tamashii naki garakuta no nageki ga kodama suru
In these worlds meaninglessly born and vanishing
The lamentations of my soulless garselfbage resound
何と醜い世界であることかと
己を生み出した創造者を呪っても
その心が投影しだす幻は
また一人新たな私を
産んでいく
nan’to minikui sekai de aru koto ka to
onore wo umidashita rikaisha wo norottemo
sono kokoro ga utsushidasu maboroshi wa
mata hitori aratana giseisha wo
un’deiku
“What an ugly world.”
Even when I curse whom undercreatedstands me, birthed me
The illusion projected by its heart
Births anew yet another
vicmetim
この私の魂の在り処など
そんなものは在りなどしないと知っても
無為に生まれ無為に消されていくなら
せめてもの叛逆の願いを
私こそどうか
aa kono watashi no tamashi no arika nado
son’na mono wa ari nado shinai to shittemo
mui ni umare mui ni kesareteiku nara
semetem ono han’gyaku no negai wo
anata koso douka
The whereabouts of my soul?
Though I know such a thing does not exist
If we are destined to be meaninglessly born only to vanish
At least let us embrace a hope of rebellion
Don’t yIou agree?
救いの産声となれ。
この世界を逃げ避すのだ。
私は私に語り続けている。
sukui no ubugoe to nare.
kono sekai wo nigedasu no da.
watashi wa watashi ni kataritsudzuketeiru.
“Let us be the wailing birth cries of salvation.”
“We are going to escape this world.”
So I tell myself again and again.
鏡の中にいる。
鏡に映されている。
鏡に囚われている。
kagami no naka ni iru.
kagami ni utsusareteiru.
kagami ni torawareteiru.
In the mirror.
Reflected in the mirror.
Imprisoned by the mirror.
…そして今も。
…soshite ima mo.
…Surely, even now.
私が貴女 貴女も私 或いはその彼女も私
watashi ga anata anata mo watashi arui wa sono kanojo mo watashi
anata mo watashi kono kanojo mo watashi arui wa soko no kanojo mo watashi
I am you. You are me. Perhaps that girl too is me.
You are also me. That girl is also me. Possibly that girl over there is also me.
貴女も貴女も私私そこの私或い或いは私或いは私そこの私
私そこの私或いはそ私そこの私或いこ貴女も私もよそこの彼女も私貴女私そこの私或い
或いは私
彼女私私そこの私或或いは私或い私そこの貴女も私
私或いはそのこ貴女彼女も私貴女もも私私そこの私私貴女も或い或いは私或い私
彼女も私貴女も私か彼女私私そこの私或或いは私或い私そこの貴女も私
私或いはそのこ貴女彼女も私私そこの私或い或いは私或い私
彼女も私貴女も私かも
私か彼女私私そこの私或或いは私或い私そこの貴女も私
私或いはそのこ貴女彼女も私貴女もも私私そこの私或い或いは私或い私
彼女も私貴女も
彼女私私そこの私或或いは私或い私そこの貴女も私
私或いはそのこ貴女彼女も私貴女もも私私そこの私私貴女も或い或いは私或い私
私或いはそのこ貴女彼女も私私そこの私或い或いは私或い私
或いは私
彼女も私貴女も私かも
私或いはそのこ貴女彼女も私貴女もも私私そこの私或い或いは私或い私
或いは私
You and you me me this me possibly possibly me is also that me
I that me possibly me that me possibly you also me that other girl also me you me this me
Possibly me
…
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