エンブレム - ATOLS

Long time no post, folks! I doubt anyone still checks this blog for new translations but I have seen my old ones used over the years even on the English NND for translation via video comments (properly attributed or not). I haven't been actively studying Japanese but as was tradition years ago, I got an ATOLS song stuck in my head and felt the need to translate it.

I don't see myself translating songs on a regular basis like I did back in high school, but I hope that this translation 1) does the song justice and 2) shows how my understanding of the Japanese language and how other translators operate has changed over the years. I did take pride in my more active years and enjoyed those times when composers would reply to my tweets in thanks for the translation.

If you would like to keep up with me, I am on Tumblr as fleurite!

 

 

Upload Date:  2021.07.08

Vocals: Hatsune Miku append

Lyrics, Composition, Movie: ATOLS

Available for download and streaming on KarenT, as well as Apple Music and Spotify.

Emblem

 

In the darkness unbeknownst to anybody,

I shall grant unto you a single wish.

At a banquet of prayers unending
and shut away.
Keep it down, the fire shall be lit.
That sacred flame that sears into your mind.
 

In the darkness unbeknownst to anybody,
I shall grant unto you a single wish.
On the world stage forgotten by everybody,
I shall gently nestle close to you and see you off.

At a banquet of curses unending
and fires set,
Silhouettes swirl about as the recompense
Floats into the night sky.

Pass it around,
Pass it out, pass it out, piece it out-out,
All the riches up in the air.
Entrust them to me, entrust your dreams.
The legend shall continue.

Pass it around, pass it out, piece it out-out,
All the riches up in the air.
Bodhidharma has fallen down.
“It” is nowhere to be seen.

 

If you are an angel cracked and sullied,

I shall bestow upon you a single wing.

If you are a mermaid immobile and drowned,

I shall engulf you and leave no backwater.

 

At a banquet of prayers unending

and shut away.

Keep it down, the fire shall be lit. 

That sacred flame that sears into your mind.

Pass it around,

Pass it out, pass it out, piece it out-out.

All the riches up in the air.

Entrust them to me, entrust your dreams.

The legend shall continue.
 

Pass it around, pass it out, piece it out-out,

All the riches up in the air.

Bodhidharma has fallen down. 

“It” is nowhere to be seen.
 

Come gather around, shall we dance to a waltz?

Come gather around, shall we dance to a rondo? 

Come gather around, shall we make a puzzle ring?
 

Come gather around, beseech the gods.

アワオドリ - ATOLS

Awa Odori is Japan's largest dance festival, which takes place in the Tokushima prefecture.
Raijin is a Japanese god of thunder.
An umibōzu is a Japanese sea entity that will capsize a ship if any occupants speak of it.



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Upload Date: 08/27/13
Vocals: 初音ミク - Hatsune Miku append
Composer: ATOLS

Author's Comments
"Ever since one year ago, this starts to overflow inside my head when it becomes summer, so I made it thinking that it is fate."

AWAODORI

Raijin in midsummer.
Yoh-sah-yoh-sah.
The white princess of the white night.
Yoh-sah-hah-sah.
One hundred offshoots, yeah.
Hah-hah-hah-sah.
Tonight, come, dance.
Hah-hah. Come, heave-ho.

Looks like it's the summer festival.
Make merry, Umibōzu.
Courtesans. Catgirls.
Seems like there's star fireworks.

The death agony of the gods.
Listen up. Cover your ears.
The flower dancers and
Sending a shadow to a dream.
A perpetual outburst from crickets.
Wartime lightning.
Hot blood, seethe.
It's the ends of the summer.

As one--

Arrive, nil day.
It's the ends of the summer.
Arrive, fulfilling day.
It's the ends of the summer.

アイ - ATOLS

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Upload Date: 06/29/13
Vocals: 初音ミク - Hatsune Miku append
Composer: ATOLS

EYE

Sound dances toward sparkling light.
Making it through everything in this world
That is transmitted via the threshold
Of violent throbbing,
I release it, toward you.

I.
EYE.
That name,
It being born,
Running about,
Is a torn-up
Heart.
The last words in this world
That left behind perpetual
Thoughts.
I.
EYE.
That instant
Reverberating,
Eyes that start
To blink.
Those tears that gleam,
They flow toward the beyond,
Toward the stars.

Flowers that flutter apart.
The memory I abduct.
Making it through everything in this world
That I play via the threshold
Of violent throbbing,
I release it, toward you.

I.
EYE.
That name,
It being born,
Running about,
Is a torn-up
Heart.
The last words in this world
That left behind perpetual
Thoughts.
I.
EYE.
That instant
Reverberating,
Eyes that start
To blink.
Those tears that gleam,
They flow toward the beyond,
Toward the stars.

ラストシグナル - ATOLS

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Upload Date: 05/04/13
Vocals: 初音ミク - Hatsune Miku append
Composer: ATOLS
Lyricist: grid-m7

LAST SIGNAL

I'm silent to and am putting a lock
On that repetitive memory.

In this closed-off world,
I'm left behind alone and I wait for you until the end.

The wind of that day is flowing.
This distant memory that I was starting to forget.
Those hands that'll some day illuminate the darkness
Sweep away my future.
Come to see me.
If it's a dream you can't awake from, then after a just a little bit,
Since here I'm forever...
Waiting.

Do not close off the world.
Do not let go of the future.
The sky that's smashed up in seven colors.
The intersecting last signal.
Solve the meaning of prayer.
Discover me.
I open a closed-off door.
Light that reflects eternity.

The ends of the sky that sink into the dark.
I know of the future I lost. The ending world.
The words that one day declared a goodbye
Are going far away toward the beyond.

I love you.
These hot thoughts that connected us two.
Since someday, surely...
I'll deliver them--

Do not destroy the world.
Do not lose hope.
The dark that vibrantly slips through.
The far-going last signal.
Solve the meaning of miracles.
Do not let go of this hand.
Thousands of downpouring stars.
To the future which is unknown and sparkled--

I want to see you,

At that one place...

ブレス - ATOLS

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Upload Date: 08/04/10
Vocals: 初音ミク - Hatsune Miku append
Composer: ATOLS

Breath

The morning cut off.
It widened.
The tone of imitative sounds that confuse eardrums.

We pressed our bodies against each other's.
We lay scattered about.
Our rough consciousnesses murmured with broad grins.

You wore out.
Flew apart.
Whirled.
Were washed away.
Falsified.
Had fun, huh.
That one day we did it.
I knew pain for the first time.

Before you say it aloud,
Before you vanish,
Come, hands to your eyes;
I nimbly flew away.

Welcome!
So we've met.
On the waves of Eden.

Noise that
Flaps its wings
Hides me.

Resurrection.
Coloring.
A scattering song.

Spitting it out,
It blows away.
My heart's
Darkness.

Now where
Am I?
You held
Out your
Hands to
Me...

That one day.
Growing wings on my
Body that had awakened,
Unfamiliar skin.
Pulling it in and sewing it up.
Me, I'll sing?
I'll be trained?
In the ruins of musical notes
Of LIES that lie thick.

Putting my rusting away
Consciousness
Into a small bottle,
I aligned it
And covered my ears.

Drowning it out.
I shouted
A sound of freedom.

I set it free.
Anguish.
Hold everything.

Smile.
Revere.
If now, I can say it.

I saw off
Myself
With a smile
Who dived in.

エデン - ATOLS

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Upload Date: 05/01/11
Vocals: 初音ミク - Hatsune Miku append
Composer: ATOLS

Eden

The wings that were lost.

Growing unknown, an Imitation.
A virtual hometown's ends built up.
Arcadia.
Life's: Pandora.
Samsara Simulation.
Paranoia's sky flutters apart.
Symphony.
A melodic myth, its collapse.

I covered my ears.
Inner pulsation
Drowned out sensation,
And sacredly, transiently echoed.
From YOU, to ME;
A baby's first cry, a bouquet,
Sorrow, delight,
Eternity and farewell.
Finite time,
The ending world;
Embracing everything,
I start to walk.
In the interval OF space-time,
I now sing.

Adios Eden.

I go down and stand.
Adios Eden.
I declared my farewell.
Adios Eden.
I declared it to you.