@sugarmaple6552

6 months ago

Song translations! 1. あなたは煙草　私はシャボン (Cigarettes for you, soap for me) No matter how I strain I can't reach The one I love is a star Lovely words and misunderstandings A charm on my heart Drifting away Even if that cloudy sky suddenly stopped crying In the sunshine the smoke from your cigarette would turn to ash and vanish Along with the soap bubbles In the blink of an eye At this rate I won't be able to bear it That summer suffused with the scent of flowers comes back to me Cigarettes for you, all grown up Soap bubbles for me "Let's go to the mountains to see shooting stars" In the end it was an empty promise Your words come back to me The hard night drifts away Even if the smell of soap makes me get a little sentimental It's not like my youth is over Even if I lie here and cry like this forever The calendar is just gonna get thinner, So goodbye Along with the cloudy sky where the tears of rain poured down, My clumsy romance came to an end I'm sorry for flinging my messy words at you and bothering you Cigarettes for you, all grown up Soap bubbles for me 2. melt bitter (the title is in English) Hey, did you two know? No matter how many times you tie your hearts together, Day by day the red string will come unwound Don't say "I love you, I love you," The words alone aren't good enough after all To the days when I believed it was fate, oh Goodbye All of a sudden it flows from the car radio, That song you played for me For the first time Pretending to sleep in someone else's passenger seat, Hiding my tears in the night Wonder what you're doing right now That station I never come to anymore, our room together The past hides the present from my view But someday, dyed in a color I haven't seen yet, It'll all be washed away At that moment I know it'll be over for real I mistook my pain For something both of us shared We have to hold each other, even if we haven't got a clue Don't say "I love you, I love you" The words have all the weight of sea foam If I'd gone to see you, maybe the future would've changed I was always reaching out, When I was by your side Even pain seemed more beautiful than anything Wanting to make you mine, my blistered feelings, I can't make you meet my eyes That movie we saw together that one time Might've been about the two of us now We really thought it was fate, But the truth is, Stay with anyone long enough and it starts seeming that way Even now, I can't help thinking, If I'd never had a dream Or maybe if I'd dreamed the same dream as you, Maybe even now, the two of us Would still be together Like it was the most normal thing in the world At this point we can never be friends Your last words to me were "See you later," but There's never gonna be another later ever again (Bye-bye, baby, as you walk away A noisy TV show I don't care about Even if it was wasting our time to watch it together I didn't care as long as it was with you) The earrings you gave me that summer, I flung them into the ocean saying "Thanks forever" I felt like I'd be able to forget you, But even the waves can't swallow up my memories. The past that melted my heart won't leave me That pet phrase so deeply ingrained in me Used to be yours Don't disappear, like an idiot I begged and pleaded Even if I say "I love you, I love you" Nothing will change, not anymore To the days when I believed it was fate, goodbye 2. tasty task I can’t do a thing in this low pressure zone It’s the same for her Somehow I just know Hard times are coming We won’t be able to meet up My internal task stock Eating Vietnamese food in Shibuya Let’s blow one month’s rent on a dress Let’s go out into the tasty streets When I’m with her every snack I eat is tasty I’m looking forward to it Do your best to go on living cheerfully ‘Call me when you’ve got a lot on your mind’ I try saying it, but “I took a bath” is all she texts I want to encourage her as hard as I can Buying Chinese tea in Ikebukuro I want to chat in a teahouse full of smoke I’ll think of lots of tasty tasks I’ll give you black tea and cookies in a tin, So do your best to go on spending time cheerfully Food from the microwave Meticulous vegetable juice All I can think about is what I want to eat together with you Take a moment and think about it too Croissants in Omotesandou Minced pork rice in Sangenjaya Oden and beer in Tokyo Going out for breakfast at Tiffany’s someday Let’s go out into the tasty streets Even though I was born in a completely different region If I’m with her I’m already a local Until that day, do your best to go on living cheerfully Look at all these tasty tasks I’ve collected 4. 花の画 (Flower Painting) **There are no official lyrics of this online, so I tried my best You were wrong again/あなたまた間違えたの Even if the flower opens you won't notice it/花が開いても気づかない I want the sun, I want to see passion/太陽が欲しい、血潮が見たい Naked backs huddled together This was in the nurse's office/裸に群がる背中　ここは保健室だった We're gonna die soon anyway, so/僕らどうせすぐに死んでしまうから Until then/それまで I want you to run away together with me/僕と一緒に逃げて欲しい I want you to run away together with me/僕と一緒に逃げて欲しい I just wanted a flower/花が欲しかっただけ Now I'm going to disappear from inside of you, so/僕は今にあなたの中から消えてしまうから Until then/それまで I want you to run away together with me/僕と一緒に逃げて欲しい I want you to run away together with me/僕と一緒に逃げて欲しい We're gonna die soon anyway, so/僕らどうせすぐに死んでしまうから Until then/それまで I want you to run away together with me/僕と一緒に逃げて欲しい I want you to run away together with me/僕と一緒に逃げて欲しい 5. Skipped this one 6. Lilly I watch you so closely I won't miss a single one of your sleeping breaths I press my fingers into your soft sleeping cheek I hold you closer with every sigh so I won't miss a single bit of your loveliness I won't say goodbye just yet It's like it can't be anyone but you. In the beginning I was astonished by how laughably foolish you were Saying "You've got to stay, you have to stay," falling silent In the end, you're dear to me, you know You were, you were so beautiful It makes me scared of tomorrow Crossing the night, heading for morning As long as I can see you, that's all I need. Worrying about tomorrow's weather You were, you were so cute Taking another year, taking your hand, Not yet, not yet, not yet Crossing the night, heading for morning As long as I can see you, that's all I need. 7. 鶴 (Crane) by 猫戦 = Cat War That’s only if by tomorrow I can hear that voice calling out The strange resemblance between grilled meat and the smell of strangers In the sky, the single call of a crane Wishes that won’t come true no matter how cute you try to look Until the morning after tomorrow, I’ll just give up, selfish cat More and more I don’t notice the signs of the seasons changing Getting my head petted, I Shed sweat, where should I go? From tomorrow on the days when everything stays the same Will just keep on coming, Vietnamese The strange resemblance between grilled meat and the smell of strangers In the sky, the single call of a crane After putting away the clothes you’ve taken off Forgive me for today I meant to help you, not cause you trouble From the beginning I never knew its scent Breaking the unreturned promise, I’m Ready to cry, going on the Three Flavors Tour in the summer That’s only if by tomorrow I can hear that voice calling out In the sky full of the smell of tanned backs and strangers, Tomorrow the crane might not come back to repay the favor Regret crosses the sea with the wintertime Until the warm spring returns, I’ll always be calling Come here, come here ** If I had to guess, this is a song about a cat waiting for a crane to come back to return a favor. A crane returning a favor is a Japanese fairytale. Mentioning Vietnam and Three Flavors (三味) (a tour in China I think? This is also a type of guitar, but the way they pronounce it actually sounds sort of Chinese) might refer to cranes migrating. There’s also a pun with 空似 and そこに which really doesn’t work in English. “Selfish Cat” (わがまま猫) is a Japanese brand of cat food which they might have been referencing. 8. See replies bc the comment got too long ********** I felt like doing a translation because I was listening to this playlist a lot and I thought it would be fun. There might be some mistakes, I'm definitely not fluent, and it's difficult to get all the nuances in another language. Especially in songs! Often I change the literal meaning a little bit so it sounds better in English, or because I feel like it's easier to understand that way, but obviously my interpretation may be wrong.

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