螢－己龍（Japanese-English Lyrics Translation）

「螢」（Firefly）

目覚めてみれば蟲の息で命を刻む　淡く淡く If I try to wake up, then I will carve my life lightly with faint breaths 心に何か想っても　浮かんで流れて消える　まるで走馬灯のよう Whatever I think comes and goes like flashbacks 目覚めぬままに息絶えれば　命を刻む音も眠る If I decease in my sleep, the sound that craves life will also fall asleep 心に何か想っても　巡り巡って行くのでしょう　私を通り過ぎて Perhaps whatever I think will pass through me and go around 現はただ甘い夢を垂れ流す残酷 Reality is merely cruelty that keeps me dreaming of something sweet 焼かれ叫ぶ目が眩む程の悲鳴 My shriek of being burnt is blinding 燃ゆる命　その痛みは何を照らしたのでしょう What had the pain of the burning life brightened 浮かび沈む　必然の性　正と不が織り成す「歪」 Floating and sinking is a necessary nature, right and negative form ‘distortion’ 故に「生きた意味」に縋り「生かされた意味」が誰かの「生きる意味」と成り行くのでしょう So relying on ‘the meaning of lived’, perhaps ‘the enlivened meaning’ will be someone’s ‘reason to live’ 常夜に舞うは冷光 Cold light dances in the long night 「黒い日」一つ終える度に迎えに来るのはまた「黒い日」 When ‘a dark day’ ends, another comes right away 心に強く思えば　巡り巡って何時かは…私を照らすでしょうか If I have a strong belief, then the light will go around, and perhaps... it will shine upon me someday 燃えた命　その屍は何を残したのでしょう What had the body of the burned life left 「終わり」の端　その鋒で何かを織り成す「歪」 At the tip of ‘end’, ‘distortion’ weaves something 故に愚か　然れど仄か　琴の音を掻き鳴らす様に胸の奥に触れられたなら So this is foolish but just slightly, if somewhere deep in the heart is touched like strumming a harp 常夜に舞うは冷光 Cold light will dance in the long night 鼓動が脈を打つ度に広がる痛みに怯え震える私を救ってくれた「冷たい優しさ」 The ‘cold gentleness’ saved me from getting scared and shivering in pain that spreads every time when my heart pulses また一つ、私を通り過ぎた想いに手を振りましょう Let us wave to another thought that passed through me again 今は… Now... 生きて　生きて　死すべき日に大いに笑い逝きましょう Let us beam and perish on the day we die after living our lives 唯一無二の必然として理が織り成す「歪」 As the one and only one certainty, reasons will naturally be ‘distortion’ 「私として私を生き、私の儘に死のう」 ‘Live true to myself, and die as who I am’ 「その日」の刹那の果てにぽつり… Mutter at the instant of ‘that day’... 嗚呼、待ち惚け Alas, I am just waiting in vain