わたしより素晴らしいわたし || A Version of Me More Wonderful than I Am Now

歌詞

私よりすばらしい私が街を跨いで
変えていくよ 他人の眼を節穴へ

既に廃れた発明を
さもありけりと売り続ける
此処は輝く東京
街をまるごと影に入れ
手のひらで踊る積木たちを眺めては

私よりすばらしい私が街を跨いで
変えていくよ 他人の眼を節穴へ
彼の私より劣りし私は肥溜めで
ゲーテのように光求め往くよ
朝はまだ遠く 天井へラザロ徴候

路地裏から望んだ青空は
もはや私のものでない気がして
耳を塞げば聞こえる思慮も
瞼閉じれば揺蕩う理想も
すべてあなたの思うまま

誰か何かになりたくて
身を切り富を貪りゆく
此処は聖なる東京
生きていたいのに殊更
消えることへの覚悟を欠き道を据える

私よりすばらしい私が街を跨いで
変えていくよ 他人の眼を節穴へ
彼の私より劣りし私は肥溜めで
ゲーテのように光求め往くよ

隠される

路頭に迷う私たちは何処へ行けようか
さらば世界 げに後悔
無限の自虐に駆られても
あの私より劣りし私は肥溜めで
ゲーテのように光求め往くよ
朝はまだ遠く 僕を照らす街灯

Romanisation

watashi yori subarashii watashi ga machi o mataide
kaete iku yo hito no manako o fushiana e

sude ni sutareta hatsumei o
samo arikeri to uri tsudzukeru
koko wa kagayaku toukyou
machi o marugoto kage ni ire
tenohira de odoru tsumiki-tachi o nagamete wa

watashi yori subarashii watashi ga machi o mataide
kaete iku yo hito no manako o fushiana e
ano watashi yori otorishi watashi wa koedame de
geete no you ni hikari motome iku yo
asa wa mada tooku tenjou e razaro choukou

rojiura kara nozonda aozora wa
mohaya watashi no mono de nai ki ga shite
mimi o fusageba kikoeru shiryo mo
mabuta tojireba tayutau risou mo
subete anata no omou mama

dareka nanika ni naritakute
mi o kiri tomi o musabori yuku
koko wa sei naru toukyou
ikite itai noni kotosara
kieru koto e no kakugo o kaki michi o sueru

watashi yori subarashii watashi ga machi o mataide
kaete iku yo hito no manako o fushiana e
ano watashi yori otorishi watashi wa koedame de
guute no you ni hikari motome iku yo

kakusareru

rotou ni mayou watashi-tachi wa doko e ikeyou ka
saraba sekai ge ni koukai
mugen no jigyaku ni kararetemo
ano watashi yori otoshi watashi wa koedame de
geete no you ni hikari motome iku yo
asa wa mada tooku boku o terasu gaitou

Translation

A version of me more wonderful than I am now crosses the road.
I’m gonna turn all their eyes into empty holes.

An obsolete invention
keeps selling like it did in the past.
This is shining Tokyo.
The streets are shrouded in shadows
and I gaze at the building blocks dancing in my hand.

A version of me more wonderful than I am now crosses the road.
I’m gonna turn all their eyes into empty holes.
A version of me more inferior than that me is in a cesspool
and is going to seek light like Goethe.
Dawn is still far away. I see the sign of Lazarus near my ceiling.

The blue sky I saw from the back alley
felt like it no longer belonged to me.
When I blocked my ears, I could hear my thoughts.
When I closed my eyes, my ideals flickered.
Everything is as you wish.

Someone wants to become something
so they pay up and crave fortune.
This is holy Tokyo.
I want to live, but I lack
the resolve to disappear. I lay down on the road.

A version of me more wonderful than I am now crosses the road.
I’m gonna turn all their eyes into empty holes.
A version of me more inferior than that me is in a cesspool
and is going to seek light like Goethe.

It’s hidden away.

Where can we go? We, who were left out in the cold.
Farewell, world. It’s so regretful,
though I succumb to infinite masochism.
A version of me more inferior than that me is in a cesspool
and is going to seek light like Goethe.
Dawn is still far away. The streetlights illuminate me.