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Phantom Beats-幻屍の鼓動-

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Phantom Beats-幻屍の鼓動-
Phantom Beats-genshi no kodou-
Phantom Beats

Vocals: 咲乃 (Sakino)
Lyrics: eiki
Arranged by: saku
Album: Masquerade
Circle: SOUND UNiSON NEST
Event: C81
Original theme: Ultimate Truth [アルティメットトゥルース]

Requested by: liztiger

The Japanese part of this song’s title is a direct translation of the English part. It looks like this song also appeared in the earlier album W -Snow Blossom-.

歌詞

蒼く澄んだ水面に浮かぶの時の欠片
桜が咲く頃にはきっと忘れるでしょう

花弁敷き詰めた桐棺の船出は
白煙の波と静かに夜へ漕ぎ出す

滲む面影、月囁く夜は
忘れかけた日の記憶がそっと語りかける
熱き血潮の冷めきったこの胸に
何故高鳴り続けるのか？
止まぬ幻屍の鼓動は

君を

まだ

白く澄んだ刃に映る君の姿
桜の舞う景色にいつも想い重ねた

七歩六歩近づいて消せぬ頑なな孤独は
一ミリの距離も極彩の色に霞む

妖しい夢に口付けを焦がれて
無意識に呟く度に気が触れてしまいそう
幽かな日々の記憶を描く子は
亡くしてた筈の心と共に
寄り添いで眠る

手を握った指も
その同じ仕草も

白い髪も
若草の衣も

全て同じに
色褪せない

Romanisation

aoku sunda minamo ni ukabu no toki no kakera
sakura ga saku koro ni wa kitto wasureru deshou

hanabira shikitsumeta kiri hitsugi no funade wa
hakuen no nami to shizuka ni yoru e kogidasu

nijimu omokage, tsuki sasayaku yoru wa
wasure kaketa hi no kioku ga sotto katari kakeru
atsuki chishio no same kitta kono mune ni
naze takanari tsudzukeru no ka?
yamanu genshi no kodou wa

kimi o

mada

shiroku sunda yaiba ni utsuru kimi no sugata
sakura no mau keshiki ni itsumo omoi kasaneta

nanaho roppo chikadzuite kesenu katakuna na kodoku wa
ichimiri no kyori mo gokusai no iro ni kasumu

ayashii yume ni kuchidzuke o kogarete
muishiki ni tsubuyaku tabi ni ki ga furete shimaisou
kasuka na hibi no kioku o egaku ko wa
nakushiteta hazu no kokoro to tomo ni
yorisoide nemuru

te o nigitta yubi mo
sono onaji shigusa mo

shiroi kami mo
wakakusa no koromo mo

subete onaji ni
iroasenai

Translation

Fragments of time float in the clear blue water.
I guess they’ll be forgotten when the sakura bloom.

When the casket begins its journey, covered in petals,
it silently heads to the night with waves of white smoke.

Your face blurs, and during a night when the moon whispers
I softly speak half-forgotten memories of days past.
My heart’s hot blood now runs cold
yet why does it still throb so?
The phantom beats prove

that I love you

still.

You, reflected upon the white blade,
are what I remember when I look at the dancing sakura.

My loneliness, which remains though I draw closer,
is blurred by brilliant colours and the small distance between us.

I yearn for a kiss from that bewitching dream
and I lose my mind each time I unconsciously mutter.
The one drawing faint memories from those days
comes close to the heart they should have lost
and they slumber.

The fingers that grasped my hand,
those same movements,

your white hair
and your early spring garments

are all the same—
they do not fade.

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6 responses to “Phantom Beats-幻屍の鼓動-”

  1. liztiger Avatar
    liztiger

    thank you thank you ❤
    I guessed it is a yuyu-myon song, and look like it's really is
    But i wonder the who is the point of view? when it's "my blade", i think it is youmu, then in the last stanza, "your white hair", did it change to yuyu here?

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    1. Releska Avatar
      Releska

      Thanks for your comment! I wonder whose perspective this song is told from too – and it’s possible that it changes during the song. I was trying to work out who died, and I think it might be Youmu, which would make this song from Yuyuko’s perspective.

      I feel like the blade could either be ‘mine’ or ‘yours’, so if I changed it to ‘the blade’ instead, that would leave it more open to interpretation.

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      1. liztiger Avatar
        liztiger

        Oh. so which part you think it could be either “you” or “I”, which isnt?
        I actually took this song from a youmu centered book called 東方妖々妖夢 https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm13800111. I didnt aware of the other album it’s in, so i gave those album a check on wiki, the one in W-blossom is a instrumental track

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        1. Releska Avatar
          Releska

          It was the line that I had as

          ‘You, reflected upon my white blade,
          are what I remember when I look at the dancing sakura.’

          The part was ‘my white blade’ – there’s nothing in the text that says whose blade it is, so it could actually be ‘your white blade’. I changed it to ‘the white blade’ to reflect this and the line now reads:

          You, reflected upon the white blade,
          are what I remember when I look at the dancing sakura.

          It’s good to know that the track is tied to a Youmu-centered book. I wonder if the story of this song appears in there too…

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          1. liztiger Avatar
            liztiger

            well, it’s a compilation book of short mangas featured youmu by various artists (there is a short by mio – the artist who known for draw lots of youmu too), there is no short related to the song, though, I guess it’s just the publisher wanted to include the song in their book.
            i realize some of romaji is not exact, you may made a typo here “kori ni”, i checked and it should be “koro ni”, and another line, 桐棺 as i heard in the song, it sung “kiri hitsugi”

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            1. Releska Avatar
              Releska

              Thank you! I’ve fixed up the romanisation of those areas. I normally listen to the song before posting to check the romanisation, which solves almost all of those issues. I couldn’t listen this time…

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