The moment when you raise your eyes from the ground and suddenly notice that the world looks like a mirage, you understand that you got a whole lot of really good music. Because it fits the surroundings, even if the melody wasn't initially meant for such a scenery
06 September 2014
Все-таки невозможно приказать мозгу, какой момент отпечатать в памяти. Казалось бы - красивый вид на море, красивая мелодия в наушниках, они должны сложиться в единое целое, запомниться надолго. Но нет, солнечные летние вечера прошли под знаменем lasso, которая всего лишь пару раз попалась на канале евроспорт.
One may have nothing special, but there is love that’s enough to hold in one’s hands
If one has something to believe in, there is the strength to endure anything for the sake of unshaking love
If one can go against his fate, then he moves on embracing all of that
To those who keep their love and never doubt it, the light that guides to the future will shine
If one has something to believe in, there is the strength to endure anything for the sake of unshaking love
To remain human, there must be light of hope that keeps shining in his heart
I promise you あなたとの約束この胸に生き続けている I promise you あなたとの約束この胸に生き続けている
幸せ願う 私の祈り 届きますように．．． I promise you
Translation
Why is it so warm while I feel so sad? Is it because I know I am wrapped in your love?
I promise you, our promise will live in my heart
Every time I feel your presence somewhere beyond the skies [Thanks to] the love I found in something precious I’ve lost [I swear I will] go on, no matter how painful it is
I promise you, our promise will live in my heart I promise you, our promise will live in my heart
To tell the truth, I was about to collapse, I was so scared Frolicking like an idiot, pretending to be normal Maybe it looked all I was discussing were mere dreams, But there was nothing else left for me to do
All I could do was only show off There was nothing I could grasp, even if I reached out, Between reality and dream I was Desperately trying to remain on feet
In a mighty kingdom pipe dreams are going on Before one knows, they'll drown in the superfluous data I didn’t want to miss the true sound, So I stopped and started searching for a sound of my own
What should I believe now? Show me that desperate something that would resound in my heart I want you to let me hear the true sound, If I can’t – then this world will…
Everything around is decorated so gaudily That it has lost its true form The world that I dwell in Is too sad if it doesn’t change
All I could do was only show off But still, it’s better than going on rusting I want you to let me hear the true sound, If I can’t – then this world will… Everything is like a pipe dream Show me that desperate something that would resound in my heart Between reality and dream I was Desperately trying to remain on feet
Who could predict such an ending? Why does it happen exactly now, when it’s just one thing among the infinite? What we do not expect always comes suddenly – same goes both for a happy thing and not If so, is it a trial for me to be prepared for everything that comes next?
Even if it's really so, at least until the tears in my eyes dry out
I can’t go on now. I can’t love anymore I can’t stand up already. I don’t understand anything
I don’t know now if time of forgiveness will ever come. But for sure Beyond the drained dry sorrow the future will come for someone
Sometime dawn will come, and I will properly meet the new day, but until then
I can’t go on now. I can’t love anymore I can’t stand up already. I can’t see anything already I can’t go on now. I can’t love anymore now I can’t stand up already now. I can’t love anymore now
I promise. No matter what happens, even taking some rest, I will move on to the peaceful times that will come someday. But just for now I can’t love I can’t love I can’t love I can’t love
29 May 2014
мы всегда будем отставать от технологий.
8 лет назад песни с битрейтом 128 kpbs казались сказкой, а мой лимит траффика в месяц составлял 250 мегабайт и я качала осты из King of Bandit Jing по одной песне раз в два дня и радовалась, когда скачанное оказывалось хорошим треком.
а сейчас - только я начала радоваться, что торренты, правда, при удачном стечении обстоятельств, качаются со скоростью 1.5 МБ/с, как на ютьюбе появляются видео 4K.
Убейте меня, но я слышу русский язык в самом начале песни. Мне с самого начала, с самого первого прослушивания казалось, что это так, но я не была уверена, что это не мои галлюцинации. Ведь когда идея придет в голову, от нее уже не избавишься. Но сейчас, нечаянно включив ее на большой громкости, я ясно услышала - "очень популярная песня". Мужской голос в самом начале хорошо слышен и похож на голос диктора радио, но если уж японцы и включили бы иностранную запись в песню, то мне казалось более вероятным, что оно будет американское. Но все-таки, это именно "очень популярная песня". После следует еще одна фраза, но ее уже нельзя разобрать. Мне кажется, там есть слово "посмотри...", а вот дальше уже сложно.
Российские фанаты, подтвердите или разоблачите меня!
every time I experience some difficult period, I find my consolation in music. this time, Garnet Crow with their slow, sad, somewhat filled with emptiness songs helped me.
身體中(からだじゅう)が満足されると怖くて
思い出すMathilde身を投げた河で永遠(とわ)に生きる
（きっと果てるのいつの日にか in little time）
誰もいない街角に立ち君を探してる夢を見てしまう
かけがえのない人を見つけた 生きてゆく十字架また一つ増えてゆく
決して枯れない様に強く生きてゆきたい ah~ um-
I have so little time
English
That evening was warm for December, and I left home on a whim
In the car we had been sleeping with our hands joined, until the morning sun woke us up
It seemed like heaven – near the sea filled with light
And sometimes it happens that in such a happy time, for some reason, my eyes become full of tears
Time passed by before we knew it, the two of us were gradually breaking
And to heal us, I remembered that. Heart-rending, in little time…
To love unwaveringly, tell me, how strong should I become?
Offering all I can, forever, I want to live strongly, so that it never withers
Embracing an ephemeral wish, I learn the meaning of loneliness, ah… um…
I have so little time
Rotating the globe, I imagined a land I have never seen
Still, you were together with me all the time, ten years later and even later than that
When my whole body is filled with satisfaction, I become scared
And remember Mathilde, who threw herself in a river and lives there forever
(Someday when it will surely end, in little time)
I can't help seeing a dream where I stand at an empty street corner, looking for you
I found an irreplaceable person, it adds me one more cross of living to bear
I want to live strongly, so that it never withers, ah… um…
I have so little time
_____
remarks:
some words have their reading in brackets - that means, their reading is unusual. 'tengoku' and 'kuni' are written with a rarely used old kanji for 'country' - 國 instead of the commonplace 国. other words unusual for the modern everyday written language are 何故 usually written as なぜ, 與 which is an old form of 与, and 身體 where 體 is an old form of 体, and the reading 'karada' is preserved though a more usual reading would be 'shintai'. it does not change the meaning, but adds some charm to the lyrics
also, 瞬間, a word that means 'moment', is read like 'toki', a word that means 'time' in general. the former is an ordinary noun, but 'toki' is a word used in a grammatical structure frequently translated as 'when...', and merging the two words implies that the narrator cried when she was happy, but that happiness was caused by a single moment, something that did not or cannot last too long. in the next line the word 'toki' is written with katakana, which makes it more emphasised
replacing the reading of 永遠 as 'towa' instead of 'eien' is a widespread thing. they both include the same initial kanji, which makes them related, and Japanese-... dictionaries list the same words as variants of translation, and monolingual dictionaries include one of them into the explanation of the other. if any principal difference is to be found, than I would put it like this: while 'eien' is explained as 'lasting eternally', 'towa' stands for 'being unchanged forever', and is used in negative combinations, such as 'parting forever'.
you can find an alternative translation here, a good one I think. both me and the other translator came to the conclusion that the line 'you were with me' means that the other person was with the narrator in her dreams about the unseen land, because the line starts with それでも - 'still', 'nevertheless', which implies that even when she imagines another reality, she wants him to be with her.
the line in brackets 'someday...' is not sung, and the previous line contains the name 'Mathilde'. the explanation can be found in the web easily, for example here, of course in Japanese. the best answer chosen in the link I provided shows the peculiar Japanese way of thinking - ability to find associations, links, think deeply and explain implied, hidden meaning. Mathilde is a heroine of The Hairdresser's Husband, a woman who SPOILER committed suicide because she was extremely happy and wanted to prolong that happiness eternally END OF SPOILER. the previous line in the song says 'I become scared when my whole body is filled with satisfaction', that's why the narrator associates herself with Mathilde. the unsung line 'Someday when it will surely end, in little time' remains a mystery, but I liked the explanation by the same person in the discussion on the yahoo service: the narrator thinks so, but does not want to pronounce it, does not want to admit it, that's why the line is omitted. if we compare this line with the line 'And to heal us, I remembered that. Heart-rending, in little time', we can see that both end in 'in little time', which could mean that they were both supposed to be the last line of the verse, but the second verse was changed later.
actually the translation could not show it, but the lines 'I want to live strongly, so that it never withers' are slightly different in the original. the first one says 枯れないくらい, which, in my mind, implies that the love won't be able to wither, that there won't be any preconditions for it to start withering. it's like that after many years she looks back at her life and says 'oh, it hasn't withered!' the second time it says 枯れないように, which means that the narrator will do her best to keep the love alive, live properly with the purpose of not letting the love wither. of course, this is only my version, which is more or less subjective.
however that may be, 'In Little Time' is one of the best songs of Garnet Crow, moreover, one of their earliest compositions. and you know what. I understand the wish to end your life while it's still filled with happiness
When the night sky is sleeping, like the twinkling stars
I am disappearing, having you engraved in my heart
Lightly pressing my cheek to the cold window frame
I think… Where is my future?
The scenery we were watching together from here – please, forget it
And then you will live on strongly, so forget everything
I can no longer touch anything and feel it with my hand
I just trace your figure reflected in the pane
I am running up the moon track, to the edge of the Milky Way
There awaits for us a world we have never seen
Getting on this steam train, I aim for the eternal land
Not hearing the screaming voices, only there, far away
The scenery we were watching together from here – please, forget it
Finally the sadness will return to the sky, so forget everything
_____
one of the saddest songs I have ever heard. 'tis not even tears-squeezing, 'tis as if bereaved of anything, including strength, emotions, will or anything else. that is why I love it so much. I cannot understand, however, what Al-Tarf has to do with that
