Translations of Wicked songs in Japanese

[mysteryperson_x]

I've started a small pet project of retranslating the Japanese version of Wicked back into English and subtitling it to put on YouTube. I mainly find this interesting because the Japanese lyrics are decidedly... wonky in places. Some songs are adapted better than others, but with the amount of syllables it takes to get a sentence out in Japanese (and usually only one allowed per note when singing, even with vowel sounds that get merged together in everyday speech), they really struggle to get all the information across. And then sometimes they just don't even try.

But anyway, so far I've only done two. The original English lyrics are at the top, and the romaji Japanese lyrics are at the bottom along with my translation.

One Short Day:

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Defying Gravity:

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Enjoy!