World's End Dance Hall - English Lyrics

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World's End Dance Hall
Vocal by Miku Hatsune/Luka Megurine
Song by Wowaka
PV by Pio / taku

This is my most listened to song of 2010, and it's my song for bringing in 2011. Blasting the chorus version of this song in my car while barreling down the city streets at 11:59 PM on New Year's Eve is a memory i'll never forget. I want to sing this song, and I want to do it justice. I've got a bit of a grip on the four part harmony, and i'm slowly mastering the tonguetwister lyrics.



On the boundary line of mingling jokes
Off In the shadow of the stairwell there
Nothing good about it, but hey, babe
How about I take you by the hand and dance now?

Stumbling, tripping, all with little grace
How 'bout a two-step up upon the altar?
Blind your eyes with all the dazzling lights
Oh, how fantastical, it’s me here with you!

Screaming voice echoes around the room
It's swirling with a meaning inconcievable
Nothing good about it all, but hey
Let’s disregard it with all that we’ve got, now!

Tying the meanings together with your eloquence
Face not the same, the reason for your prejudice
Searching for it here
Searching for it there
But I just can’t find it!

Humiliated but I’m in an outrage
Eyes are cast down but I’m still smiling
Those things are such a bore, it’s time to mix it up!

Hop and a step and we’re dancing all around
The world, the corner, our own little one-two
One little slip and I feel the chilling thrill of
Ending here in the dance hall at world’s end

We’re going out with a puff and a hurrah
So please, believe me when I say I want to
Twirl and whirl and hurtle ‘round the room,Intoxicated with destruction

Nothing left out here but standing room
A race to get on board the final train,
Nothing good about it, but hey, babe
How ‘bout I take you by the hand and dance now?

I’m the kind of girl that’s quite unusual
But I believe that it’s a trick of fate on me
An awful, clumsy motion called a “dance”
Let’s make the best of it with all we’ve got, now!

Going through the motions, does it have a meaning?
Stepping on the sound to trample out the reason
Searching for it here
Searching for it there
But I just can’t find it!

When you wanna dance just to break the sad times
When you wanna laugh and when you wanna cry

Those things are just so selfish, time to break it down!

Pop and a sense of singing so out to
The world, before I turned away from my dream
Sound in my heart, it is gone forevermore
I've got a ways to go ‘til I remember

Oh, what a beautiful scene it is to me
The view from here, but what about the meaning?
Oh, not a thing will change in anybody's heart
The arid earth is veering towards destruction

Hop and a step and we’re dancing all around the
World, the corner, our own little one-two
One little slip and I feel the chilling thrill of
Ending here, in the dance hall at world’s end

We’re going out with a puff and a hurrah
So please believe me when I say it with you
Sayonara, goodbye and take care!
A farewell to the ending world

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The Original.

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Chorus version.

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And just for fun, Date Masamune's version, Oshuu's End Dance Hall. A24 rocks.