Rainscall

Rainscall

Vocals: みとせのりこ (Mitose Noriko)
Album: Electro.sinker
Circle: Electro.muster
Event: C85

Requested by: JustJim97

Update (21 May 2023): Updates to stanzas 1 and 3, prompted by a comment from Arter. Thank you!

When I was making the updates I mentioned above, I also realised that 降り続く音 (furitsuzuku oto) might actually be the Japanese form of the title, so I put it in. You could replace the line with ‘The sounds raining down erase those few words.’

歌詞

嘘つきの哲学なんて　この世になくていい
あてもなく　右へ左へ　無いものねだりに見せかける
傍に来て　離れたくない　紙一重の真実に
慰めを受け入れられず　違う他人の末路を重ねてる

無邪気な日々　雨上がりに　何もなくて
胸につかえた　廃墟のような例えしかない
間違いなく　君が知っても意味ない

降り続く音はわずかな言葉をけしていく
冷静な他人のふりも　何度もやるほど強くない
気づけない傷は　時折　想像した枠を超え
愛情を怠惰にかえる　拒む　体の裏側　締めつける

時間がない　自由のない　因果の中
柱の折れた　廃墟にさえ　花は咲くから
此処ではない　君は知ってはいけない

愛の為に騙した　償いではいけない

無邪気な日々　雨上がりに　何もなくて
胸につかえた　廃墟のような例えしかない
迷いはない　本当のことは言わない

いつか雨上がりに　君の花は咲くから

Romanisation

usotsuki no tetsugaku nante kono yo ni nakute ii
ate mo naku migi he hidari he nai mono nedari ni misekakeru
soba ni kite hanaretakunai kami hitoe no shinjitsu ni
nagusame wo ukeirerarezu chigau tanin no matsuro wo kasaneteru

mujaki na hibi ame agari ni nani mo nakute
mune ni tsukaeta haikyo no you na tatoe shika nai
machigai naku kimi ga shittemo imi nai

furitsudzuku oto wa wazuka na kotoba wo keshiteiku
reisei na tanin no furi mo nando mo yaru hodo tsuyokunai
kidzukenai kizu wa tokiori souzou shita waku wo koe
aijou wo taida ni kaeru kobamu karada no uragawa shimetsukeru

jikan ga nai jiyuu no nai inga no naka
hashira no oreta haikyo ni sae hana wa saku kara
koko de wa nai kimi wa shitte wa ikenai

ai no tame ni damashita tsugunaide wa ikenai

mujaki na hibi ame agari ni nani mo nakute
mune ni tsukaeta haikyo no you na tatoe shika nai
mayoi wa nai hontou no koto wa iwanai

itsuka ame agari ni kimi no hana wa saku kara

Translation

It’s better if lying philosophies, or things like that, don’t exist in the world…
Aimlessly – left, right – I pretend to ask for too much.
“Come to my side, I don’t want to be parted from you.” I can accept no comfort
from this paper-thin reality, and I experience a stranger’s fate over and over.

Those innocent days. After the rain, nothing remains.
Nothing but a metaphor of a kind of ruins, caught in my chest.
There’s no mistaking it – even if you know, it’s meaningless.

The rainscall erases those few words.
I pretend to be a calm stranger, an act that gets weaker the more I do it.
Sometimes, the wounds I cannot feel cross over the framework I imagined up.
I replace love with sloth. I refuse. My back tightens up.

Within cause and effect, in which there is no time and no freedom,
Flowers bloom even in ruins with broken pillars,
so you mustn’t know. Not here.

I deceived you for the sake of love. I mustn’t atone for it…

Those innocent days. After the rain, nothing remains.
Nothing but a metaphor of a kind of ruins, caught in my chest.
I will not hesitate. I will not speak the truth.

Because someday, after the rain, your flower will bloom…

Posted

20 July 2015

Translations, 歌詞

Releska

Tags:

C85, Electro.muster, Electro.sinker

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6 responses to “Rainscall”

Arter

20 May 2023

Hi, I have a question to ask about the meaning of the translated lyrics.
The way I initially understood them was that the main character/singer/girl (assuming) is talking about infidelity and that she regrets committing it, but wants to keep it a secret to protect her love.
But when reading them more carefully I notice these two lines:
“Without accepting comfort, I pile up the last days of a different stranger.”
“My act of being a calm stranger is as powerless as the amount of times I do it.”
Are actually both referring to the same person which is the singer herself. And with that the message changes to – the singer has a past which she has hidden in order to allow herself to fall in love. Her past keeps coming back for her, but she refuses to acknowledge it for the sake of her love and wants to weather the storm and not speak about it.
I was wondering if for the original japanese lyrics these two lines:
“Without accepting comfort, I pile up the last days of a different stranger.”
“My act of being a calm stranger is as powerless as the amount of times I do it.”
Are actually speaking about the same person – as in the singer from first person ? Or if it is ambiguous and you have just translated it ambiguously ?
P.S. I’m asking 8 years later, but if you answer you will make me feel special :d

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1. Releska
  
  21 May 2023
  
  Hello! Thanks for your comment! Even though I translated this song 8 years ago, it was good to revisit it. I revised my translation of stanzas 1 and 3 to clarify some things that I think I left too vague the first time. In both cases, the word used for stranger is 他人 (which also means ‘outsider’ or ‘a person not related’). In other words, the speaker may be either literally or metaphorically distant from the one they love.
  
  Looking back over this, I wonder if the speaker’s beloved fell in love with someone else before she got a chance to confess, and now she must keep silent to protect her beloved’s happiness.
  
  I think the suggestion of infidelity could work too – and it fits with the underlying theme of atonement (or lack of atonement).
  
  I hope that helps! And please let me know if I can clarify anything further (^_^)
  
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  1. Arter
    
    21 May 2023
    
    Wow it is a lot clearer, thank you for replying now and translating this 8 years ago as well. I love this song musically and originally interpreted it in my head based on sound alone – well the lyrics obviously turned out differently and I am now struggling to fit them in with my views. The interpretation of infidelity was something that I did not want to accept 😀
    
    I think that your interpretation that her beloved fell in love with someone else is the one that fits the most lyrically. All the lines really fit and some become really impactful, especially this “I replace love with sloth. I refuse. My back tightens up”. Sloth, the sin people commit when they feel their actions will have no meaning, is such a good word to describe her mental state.
    
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JustJim97

22 July 2015

hnnng thank you so much! it has really changed my opinion of the song!
i hope im not destroying ur ears with my terrible taste in music

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1. releska
  
  22 July 2015
  
  You’re welcome 🙂 I honestly have really broad tastes in music, so I can find something to like in pretty much everything! No ear destroying going on here 😛
  
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