The road we walked back then is gone
but I still walk along it anyway.
The snow quietly falls on the gentle slope,
now I put your favorite flower in your room
even though I know it will never reach you.
when I remembered our unyielding promise
from last year's last day of snow, it began to melt,
and spill from my hands.
The snow quietly falls on the gentle slope,
now I put your favorite flower in your room
even though I know it will never reach you.
As I remember you watching the snow from the window all alone,
I recall you through the window and give you one last kiss...
please, smile, stop your crying now...
I'm always watching you from here.
The snow quietly falls on the gentle slope,
now I put your favorite flower in your room
even though I know it will never reach you.
All over the city quietly colored white by the light,
the last seasonal color you saw.
you shed tears, reality is cruel isn't it?
the last seasonal color you saw.
The colors of you have finally disappeared with the four seasons
the snow melts and flowers bloom on the street.
the "shades" you saw are melting.
the last day of snow this year
(one flower in the street, when I looked up to the sky,
the final snow was pouring from the palm of my hands)
Translated By: Brian Stewart & Takako Sakuma
Translator's Notes: If you hear this song which I assume you will have if you are reading this translation I think it'll be apparent but the lines in the first part before the instrumental break "please smile..." are Kyo taking the role of this girl whom is watching him from heaven or wherever. Takko had a theory about the end of the song which is not actually sung when performed. She believes the singer can't sing it because he dies before he can. The line "The colors of you have finally disappeared with the four seasons" we think is in reference to a year passing. In one year the girl's spirit has finally faded from kyo's world... but the snow coming again reminds him of her. I think "ain't afraid to die" is in reference to this feeling that when the singer dies, he and his lover will be reunited. Kyo says this song isn't connected to Akuro no Oka which is kind of the oppposite of this story, but I think it is. The song was a holdover from the Macabre Album recording sessions, it just didn't seem to fit on that record though.
 Organic Paranoia · Fri Jun 29, 2007 @ 11:06pm · 0 Comments |
