Sebone no nai Karasu

[gyaxa]

Ten ・ Liguang

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Don't Look away

Here we go!!

My wings, already starting to rot,

My true self, the world knows not.

Once again, without a second thought

He's buzzing about how I'm of a good lot

 

What's up? A mask to appease the good guys.

Behind the scenes, young hands are stained with crime.¹

Hidden from everyone's eyes

Rage I can't clear from my mind.

 

A simple pawn, hanging on by a thread,

His lack of direction left unsaid.

No drive, no creed held within,

Everything decided by mere whim.

This life is whose to claim?

My cheeks are wet with rain.

Bursting forth is the sound of pain.

Let's just do it

Get your party on!!

I'm a spineless crow.

Get your party on!!

Let's get this show on the road.

Get your party on!!

Any tragedy made of lunacy

Leave to the shadows that dirty work!

It's all cleaned up behind the scenes.

 

Society, Underworld, Keep Out

I shout out Oh-oh-oh-oh

Values that don't feel the light's glow,

Waiting for the inevitable, I stare into the night

 

Everyone and their cute little assumptions

Don't know a thing about these ridiculous burdens.

All their idealistic beliefs are just simple tricks

That go nowhere in the end.

 

So obnoxiously the light shines,

I'm sick of the future I'll have to call mine.

On borrowed wings I steal a glance at the heavens,²

But crows let their shadows speak for them.

 

No matter how much hope you try to throw at me

I'll just keep throwing it back.

In this world of madness and lies,

I've long grown used to the sound of my cries.³

 

I see a flashing burst of neon,

A hand outstretched beyond the horizon.

“I gave up” “I know it all”

You can't boil it down to just that.

We live for impulse and fun,

Sure, I'll show you a dance.

 

The day will come where shadow melts with light,

But I still can't make out where my answer lies.

Let's tear away the darkness that hides it from sight,

With no end in sight I'll just fly with you

With my own two hands, I'll grasp this identity…⁴

Blinding speed…

 

Get your party on!!

I'm a spineless crow.

Get your party on!!

Let's get this show on the road.

Get your party on!!

Any tragedy made of lunacy

Leave to the shadows that dirty work!

It's all cleaned up behind the scenes.

Until dawn till dawn till dawn…

Every empty word and boding sign observed,

Let's dance ‘em all away, Yeah yeah

Ignorance is bliss

I'm just a crow with no backbone.

 

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1. The original lyrics use the word 厨房 (chuubou) which means kitchen but is also a homophone for the word 中坊, which is a slang word for "middle schooler". Since Ten started "working" at a young age, I tried to include both meanings of the word…! ↑

2. The original lyrics include the phrase 10を仰ぐ, where 10 replaces the 天 (ten) in the phrase 天を仰ぐ, meaning "gaze at the heavens" and sometimes used in despairing circumstances. Dawn also used the word 天 to make a pun off of Ten's name. ↑

3. The word cry used here specifically refers to the cries animals make. ↑

4. The original lyrics say "identify" here, but they pronounce it to rhyme "identity" (?), and identify doesn't really make sense contextually (unless there's something I'm missing), so I changed it to "identity".  ↑

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