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やける様な赤で || With a Burning Red

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やける様な赤で
yakeru you na aka de
With a Burning Red

Vocals: ランコ (Ranko)
Lyrics: コンプ (Comp)
Arranged by: コンプ (Comp)
Album: ポップ (Pop)
Circle: 豚乙女 (BUTAOTOME)
Event: Reitaisai 11 [RTS11]
Original theme: Green-Eyed Jealousy [緑眼のジェラシー]

The theme this time is jealousy. Which is understandable, since it’s Parsee’s theme we’re talking about… Anyway, this song is a fairly straight retelling of the legend of the Hashihime, or bridge princess, which Parsee is based on. According to the legend, a jealous woman, who was abandoned by her ex-lover for another woman, prayed to the gods to become a demon. The gods (surprisingly) listened to her, and gave her detailed instructions on how to do so. Listen to the song with this bit of backstory in mind…


歌詞

焼けた空 焼けた水面
赤く染まりすべて飲み込んで
恋時雨 青く淡く落ちる 消えない苦み残して

アレが足らぬコレが足らないやと
己責める想いやがて妬みへと姿を変えてく

もう取り戻せない 「他人の」 ならばいっそ
やける様な赤で塗りつぶしたいよ
満たされぬ心 満たされないままで
開いた瞳に何も映らない

褪せた夢 褪せた景色
明日も明後日もこのままだね

何も生まぬ毒と分かってても
寂しさより哀しみよりまだ痛くないから溺れる

もう優しく触れることが出来ないなら
誰も触れぬ様に殺してあげるよ
見えない明日は見えないままでいい
乾いた瞳はそっと閉じたまま

もう取り戻せない 「他人の」 ならばいっそ
やける様な赤で塗りつぶしたい
満たされぬ心 満たされないままで
緑の瞳に何も映せない

Romanisation

yaketa sora yaketa minamo
akaku somari subete nomikonde
koi shigure aoku awaku ochiru kienai nigami nokoshite

are ga taranu kore ga taranai ya to
onore semeru omoi yagate netami e to sugata wo kaeteku

mou torimodosenai “hito no” naraba isso
yakeru you na aka de nuritsubushitai yo
mitasarenu kokoro mitasarenai mama de
hiraita hitomi ni nani mo utsuranai

aseta yume aseta keshiki
asu mo asatte mo kono mama da ne

nani mo umanu doku to wakattete mo
samishisa yori kanashimi yori mada itakunai kara oboreru

mou yasashiku fureru koto ga dekinai nara
dare mo furenu you ni koroshite ageru yo
mienai ashita wa mienai mama de ii
kawaita hitomi wa sotto tojita mama

mou torimodosenai “hito no” naraba isso
yakeru you na aka de nuritsubushitai
mitasarenu kokoro mitasarenai mama de
midori no hitomi ni nani mo utsusenai

Translation

The sky was burnt, and the water’s surface was burnt…
Everything is dyed red, and swallowed up in it.
Love rains down. It falls lightly, palely, leaving behind a bitterness that does not disappear. (1)

That is lacking, and this is lacking as well…
Eventually, my feelings of self-loathing change their form to jealousy…

It cannot be undone anymore. If I am to be ‘someone else’s,’ then
I would rather paint everything with a burning red!
My unappeased heart will remain unappeased,
And in these open eyes, nothing is reflected…

In this faded dream, and in this faded landscape,
Tomorrow and the day after will be the same, I guess…

Though I understand that nothing is born from spite,
I wallow in it, as unlike in loneliness and sorrow, I feel no pain.

If I cannot touch you tenderly anymore,
I shall kill you, so you will be unable to touch anyone.
I am fine if that unseen tomorrow remains unseen.
My parched eyes remain closed, softly…

It cannot be undone anymore. If I am to be ‘someone else’s,’ then
I would rather paint everything with a burning red!
My unappeased heart will remain unappeased,
And in these green eyes, nothing can be reflected…


Translator’s note

(1) The rain referred to here is a specific type of drizzle, which occurs in late autumn/early winter. It has a poetic nuance.


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3 responses to “やける様な赤で || With a Burning Red”

  1. Corridor of Phantasm Avatar

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  2. tegamin Avatar
    tegamin

    Mh, a thing I noticed about this one: “yakeru” can mean either “to burn” (fitting for the red), but also “to be jealous” (fitting for Parsee). Do you think it can be put in some way in the translation or is unrelated? (red burning of jealousy… wow)

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    1. releska Avatar

      I’ll have to think about that one! I missed that while I was translating it >_< If only yakeru was in kanji – that would make it much clearer… 😦

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