This one was a bitch to do. Mainly because the lyrics are written in a small font that is stylized to look handwritten instead of printed, which made a lot of the kanji difficult to make out. I believe Japanese part is 100% correctly transcribed (after some effort), but as always the translation is up to interpretation.

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Signal's last official single came out last month and it's a pretty epic track. The clean vocals toward the end of the song got stuck in my head so I opened up my copy and took them down. And then proceeded to translate the whole thing, which is actually largely in English. For the record, I currently have no intentions of translating the other ( Read more... )

I've been meaning to translate this for a long time and just never got round to it. There's a version floating around the 'net already but the original kanji are inaccurate and I wanted to give it a go myself anyway. The lyrics here are transcribed from the original single, I haven't checked if they changed at all in the Undertake booklet for the ( Read more... )

Since I finally finished the entire single, you can now view the lyrics and translations under the Signal tag.


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The only track from this single that I had yet to translate. I'm pretty pleased with this one, though it's a bit more grim than I expected. Yes, a red river sounds like blood, but how many of you realised it was written from the perspective of a child being given birth to? Nice work Yuri, that's suffering, labour and isolation in one single xD

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This song has been in my head pretty much ever since I got the single at Christmas. Whenever that opening riff begins I feel a surge of adrenalin, and ride it to the end. Now I finally have the lyrics romanized I can stop agonizing over what Yuri's singing! I'm really pleased with this translation, it's probably my best effort yet, and brought me a ( Read more... )

Having completed the lyrics of GROW BACK OVER SCARS as my first translation, I thought I might as well go on and do the rest of the single. I thought 蝕-syoku- would be easier than [RED]river since it's shorter, but I was wrong. There's a lot of weird imagery and what I think is a buddhist reference to Asura, as well as an irritating part where all ( Read more... )

I WANT YOU I NEED YOU
FOR YOUR KISS ANYTHING
ANYWHERE ANYTIME
YOU MAKE ME LOSE MY MIND

YOU TURN ME ON YOU SHOOT ME
I’LL BE THERE ON MY KNEES
BE MY MASTER I’LL BE YOUR SLAVE
ANY NIGHT IN ANY WAY

I’M ON FIRE FOR YOUR WIRE
BUT YOU GIVE ME THE PLEASURE
I WANT YOU

*chorus
LONELY LONELY I GO CRAZY
FALLING FALLING INTO YOUR DREAM
ROLLING ROLLING I MAKE YOU SCREAM
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