少女期の終わりに || At Girlhood’s End

少女期の終わりに
Shoujouki no Owari ni
At Girlhood’s End

Vocals: めらみぽっぷ (Meramipop)
Lyrics: RD-Sounds
Arranged by: RD-Sounds
Album: 縺 (Motsure) [Official site]
Circle: 凋叶棕 (Diao ye zong)
Event: C104
Original theme: Dawn Breaks on Tanabatazaka [七夕坂に朝が来る]

You can generally rely on Diao ye zong for quality, but this track takes it to another level and immediately rose to be one of my all-time favourites.

The bracketed parts are sung in place of what immediately comes before them. Also, as was the case with 少女実在性倶楽部 || Girls’ Reality Club, the official page for this song includes the text ‘Measurement Observation’ in the URL.

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非公式の英訳/Unofficial translation

The stars go out, unnoticed, and while everything remains constant
dawn comes with its grey light. You know, this is the fork in the road leading to daily life.

But that’s so boring.

I’m lost wandering beneath the sky. It’s 10am after an all-nighter.
It’s like the world has left me, and only me, in the lurch.

1 and 1 and 1 are added together and get tangled up.
Or, perhaps, 0 and 0 and 0 stay apart and come undone.

I hold only my dream fragments close and am on my guard.
That’s surely why I show no signs of growing up, right?

Alone
I stagger down the road.
Shine down, morning moon.
That’s right, even now I’m still a young girl.

Listen, listen and respond. I wonder—

are you still smiling at me from beyond the door?

A silly thought.

The anachronistic back gate reeks of a bygone era.
What the hell? I’m shut up in my own world.

And there, I’ve buried countless conspiracies.
Wouldn’t it be better to be a poet, then?

And yet, mysteries would still be there, ever so tangible
while remaining mysteries.

Interpretations and lectures, with tedious length
are preserved then they die like ghosts.

In that case, I’d rather be alone forever
because I don’t give a damn about anything!

Quietly, I bid farewell
to this unexplored landscape.

What on Earth am I doing?
The moment I came to my senses

I realised just how annoying those visible seams are!

And so, and so, tell me. Even now, do you think

that I’m necessary? That’s kinda rude, though.

But still, no matter what the activity (game) may be

I suppose the day will come for it all to end, right?

At girlhood’s end (When we become adults).

A silly thought…