Wheel of Fortune

Wheel of Fortune

Vocals: ichigo
Lyrics: ichigo
Arranged by: カヨコ (Kayoko)
Album: SUI-TEN
Circle: ONSEN PROJECT
Event: Reitaisai 14 [RTS14]
Original theme: The Reversed Wheel of Fortune [逆転するホイールオブフォーチュン]

Requested by: Kaii Schwartz

This is my favourite track from the album. The chorus is so emotive! It’s everything I could hope for from an arrangement of Sagume’s theme.

歌詞

小さなサキノハカ
僕らの行く末を憂うような黒い花

捧げて失って
儚い希望さえ恐ろしく思えたの

Eeny, meeny miney, mo.　運命をカードに委ねよう
さよならだけが降り積もる世界が狂っているんだ
Eeny, meeny miney, mo.　運命をカードに尋ねよう
ふたりだけの秘密にするよ

未来の欠片さえ
知らないでいるほうが正しいと知っているのに

Eeny, meeny miney, mo.　運命をカードに委ねよう
さよならだけが降り積もる世界を愛しているんだ
Eeny, meeny miney, mo.　運命をカードに尋ねよう
ふたりだけの秘密にするよ

誰かに選ばれて生かされているなんて思わない
かなしい結末ならさかさまにしよう

Eeny, meeny miney, mo.　運命をカードに委ねよう
さよならだけが僕らを離れがたくするんだ
Eeny, meeny miney, mo.　運命をカードに尋ねよう
君と僕の Fortune 大切にするよ

Romanisation

chiisana sakinohaka
bokura no yukusue wo ureu you na kuroi hana

sasagete ushinatte
hakanai kibou sae osoroshiku omoeta no

Eeny, meeny miney, mo. unmei wo kaado ni yudaneyou
sayonara dake ga furitsumoru sekai ga kurutte iru nda
Eeny, meeny miney, mo. unmei wo kaado ni tazuneyou
futari dake no himitsu ni suru yo

mirai no kakera sae
shiranaide iru hou ga tadashii to shitte iru noni

Eeny, meeny miney, mo. unmei wo kaado ni yudaneyou
sayonara dake ga furi tsumoru sekai wo aishite iru nda
Eeny, meeny miney, mo. unmei wo kaado ni tazuneyou
futari dake no himitsu ni suru yo

dareka ni erabarete ikasarete iru nante omowanai
kanashii ketsumatsu nara sakasama ni shiyou

Eeny, meeny miney, mo. unmei wo kaado ni yudaneyou
sayonara dake ga bokura wo hanaregataku suru nda
Eeny, meeny miney, mo. unmei wo kaado ni tazuneyou
kimi to boku no Fortune taisetsu ni suru yo

Eeny, meeny miney, mo. unmei wo kaado ni yudaneyou
sayonara dake ga furi tsumoru sekai wo aishite iru nda
Eeny, meeny miney, mo. unmei wo kaado ni tazuneyou
futari dake no himitsu ni suru yo

Translation

A small sakinohaka— (1)
That black flower seems to lament our fate.

Offering it up, losing it…
Even fleeting hopes seemed terrifying.

Eeny, meeny, miney, mo. Let’s leave our fate to the cards.
This world, in which only farewells fall like snow, is mad.
Eeny, meeny, miney, mo. Let’s ask the cards about our fate.
It’ll be our secret…

Still, I know it’s more honest
To not know about even the smallest fragment of the future.

Eeny, meeny, miney, mo. Let’s leave our fate to the cards.
I love this world, in which only farewells fall like snow.
Eeny, meeny, miney, mo. Let’s ask the cards about our fate.
It’ll be our secret…

I don’t think we’re chosen by someone and kept alive.
If a sad conclusion awaits us, let’s turn it around!

Eeny, meeny, miney, mo. Let’s leave our fate to the cards.
Only farewells will make it hard for us to part.
Eeny, meeny, miney, mo. Let’s ask the cards about our fate.
I’ll treasure our fortune, you know…

Translator’s note

(1) The sakinohaka (サキノハカ) is not a real flower. Rather, it was ‘created’ by Miyazawa Kenji in the following passage from his poem ‘To My Students’:

“With a black flower called sakinohaka
a revolution will soon be here.
It is a ray of light sent to us,
a southerly wind already decided on.”
[Translation obtained from Ueda, Makoto (1983) Modern Japanese Poets and the Nature of Literature, 208-209.]