Dir en Grey - 我、闇とて．．．

Band: ディル・アン・グレイ (Dir en Grey)
Album: Uroboros
Song: 我、闇とて．．． (Ware, yami tote... / I, even darkness...)

作詞：京 作曲：Dir en Grey
英訳：　VKE

限られた時間の狭間で風に染まり
立ち止まる俺は誰?
有り触れた言葉の狭間で壊れていき
繰り返す此処はどこ?
意志を闇に染めて
息を断つことも簡単で…だけどまだほんの少し君に触れていたい
生きることを許してくれますか?
ある日差しの強い朝、目を開き涙が初めて意味に触れられた気がしたんだ
傍に君が居ると何故だか悲しい
一つになれないのは何故?
手を開き壊れそうな言葉でも、ただ一つでもいい
その胸に突き刺さる程の刃を心にくれ
代償の儚さ 熟れていき ただ闇とて…
夕暮れ がなり立てる
ある日差しの強い朝、目を開き涙が初めて意味に触れられた気がしたんだ
傍に君が居ると何故だか悲しい
一つになれないのは何故?
手を開き壊れそうな言葉でも、ただ一つでもいい
その胸に突き刺さる程の刃を胸に
忘れてしまえば人は変われるもの?
忘れても、変われても、君でもないことも
正しい価値さえ 冷酷に見えて
せめて今を声に変えて
明日の条件
優しすぎる悲鳴、愛は形を変え
苦しさも忘れ自分も忘れて
だけど今は 噛み締めて流れる証と…
正しい価値さえ 冷酷に見えて
せめて今を声に変えて
明日の条件

生きるという名の証を…


Lyrics: Kyou　Composition: Dir en Grey
Translation: VKE

At the threshold of limited time, dyed by the wind
and standing still, who am I?
At the threshold of trite words, breaking down
and repeating, where is this?
Color your will in the darkness
It's easy to stop one's breath...but, I still want to touch you just a little more
Can you forgive me for living?
On one particularly bright morning, opening my eyes, I felt that my tears had for the first time touched upon the [true] meaning
When you're by my side, for some reason I'm sad
Why can't we become one?
Open your hands and just one word, one meaningless phrase would be enough
Give my heart a blade sharp enough to penetrate yours
The transience of the compensation is reaching its breaking point, just darkness
Twilight draws near
On one particularly bright morning, opening my eyes, I felt that my tears had for the first time touched upon the [true] meaning
When you're by my side, for some reason I'm sad
Why can't we become one?
Open your hands and just one word, one meaningless phrase would be enough
Put a blade sharp enough to penetrate your breast through mine
Can people change if they can forget?
Even if they forget, even if they change, even if it's not you
Look upon even a just merit with cruelty
At least change the current moment in your voice
A condition for tomorrow
A scream that's too soft, love changes our shape
Forget the pain as well, forget yourself as well
But now, reflect upon it with the evidence that flows forth...
Look upon even a just merit with cruelty
At least change the current moment in your voice
A condition for tomorrow

Evidence called living...

Dir en Grey - The Blossoming Beelzebub

Band: ディル・アン・グレイ (Dir en Grey)
Album: Dum Spiro Spero
Song: The Blossoming Beelzebub

作詞：京　作曲：DIR EN GREY
英訳： VKE

優しい香りがまだ消えない
焼け焦げた言葉
耳からこびり付いて何もかもが…
だから心に決めたんだ

今日も見えない雲が殺した満月
テーブルはいつも一人
並べられたスプーンやフォーク
首にかけられたナプキン
とっくに冷えきった白い皿に入った
スープ

沈黙に流れる鼓動と隣の家から聞こえる
かすかな雑音

気怠さに任せ床に寝そべる
横に見えた世界は意外に新鮮で
土の方へ伸びる

初めて一つになれたんだ
今日はこのまま寝りにつきたい

動く米粒にいつか羽が生える?

手を後ろまわし探る
僕は飛べない何故だろ?
僕は僕を捜してる
誰も何も教えてはくれないの?
何故?何故?

わらわらと増えてくる君は…

ソファーの下探してた銀のナイフ見つけ
椅子に座り直し口に肉を運ぶ
美味しいはずのライスも口に頬張り
羽を探す



Lyrics: Kyou　Composition: Dir en Grey
Translation: VKE

The soft smell still will not fade
The words scorched in
Clinging from my ears, each and every thing...
That's why I've decided with my heart

Today as well, the invisible full moon has been smothered by the clouds
Always alone at the table
The spoons and forks set out
A napkin hanging at my neck
Already cold on the white plate
Soup

Heartbeats flowing in silence and from next door I hear
a faint noise

Give myself in to the exhaustion and sprawl out on the floor
The world viewed from the side is surprisingly fresh
I reach out to the dirt

For the first time, I could become one
Today, I can't fall asleep like this

Will the moving grains of rice ever grow wings?

I swing my hand around my back and search
I can't fly　Why the fuck not?
I'm searching for myself
Will no one tell me anything?
Why? Why?

You are squirming more and more...

Finding the silver knife that I searched for beneath the sofa
Sitting back down in the chair, I carry the meat to my mouth
Stuffing my face with the expectedly delicious rice
I search for wings

Dir en Grey - Dead Tree

Band: ディル・アン・グレイ (Dir en Grey)
Album: Withering to Death
Song: Dead Tree

作詞：京 作曲：Dir en Grey
英訳： VKE

枯れ木に水を…
泥水に映る君はもう…
夢よ 希望よ大空に描いた理想　情熱の紅
愛して止まない君は もう…
飴より甘い理想はただの理想
No one wants the present
No one wants the present
No one wants the present
No one wants the present

何故? 何故?繰り返される　二度と癒えない
何故? 何故?繰り返される　枯れた心に…
Love, tenderness,freedom and peace

指を差して さよなら
額に向けられた冷たい銃口に愛を
赤いコートのこの子も　押し付けられた今を
抱き抱え涙を呑み込む

何故? 何故?繰り返される　二度と癒えない
何故? 何故?繰り返される　枯れた心に…


Lyrics: Kyou　Composition: Dir en Grey
Translation: VKE

[Giving] water to the dead tree...
You, reflected in the muddy water, no longer...
Dreams, hopes, ideals painted into the sky　a passionate red
You, loved and unstoppable, no longer...
Ideals sweeter than candy are just common ideals
No one wants the present
No one wants the present
No one wants the present
No one wants the present

Why? Why will it be repeated?　You'll never recover again
Why? Why will it be repeated?　In your withered heart...
Love, tenderness, freedom and peace

Point your finger　Farewell
Love for the cold muzzle pointed at your forehead
This child in the red coat too　pushed into the current moment
Embrace and swallow your tears

Why? Why will it be repeated?　You'll never recover again
Why? Why will it be repeated?　In your withered heart...

Dir en Grey - 孤独に死す、故に孤独

Band: ディル・アン・グレー (Dir en Grey)
Album: Withering To Death
Song: 孤独に死す、故に孤独 (Kodoku ni shisu, yue ni kodoku / We die alone, so we're alone)

作詞：京 作曲：DIR EN GREY
英訳： VKE

押さえつけられ生きてきました
「忘れたい」 よりも消えたいから
解ったふりの君達を視て笑い返す

目の前の君達は笑いながら生きている
明日は良い事あるからって言うけど
軽がるしく答える君達とは始めからドコかココが違う

傘を差した 廃棄物さ 夢をちょうだい
傘で隠し なれた俺に 君も ちょうだい
聞こえているかい?

傷付く事がいつの間にやら当たり前の事の様に
ほらまた傷付けた君達を視て 笑い返す

違うと願うのは後ろ向きの唯一の救いであり…
違うと願うのは後ろ向きの唯一の救いであり…
違うと願うのは後ろ向きの唯一の救いであり…
違うと願うのは後ろ向きの唯一の救いであり…

Ash to ash

傘を差した 廃棄物さ 夢をちょうだい
傘で隠し なれた俺に 君も ちょうだい
聞こえているかい?


Lyrics: Kyou　Composition: Dir en Grey
Translation: VKE

I've lived pinned down
More than wanting to forget, I want to disappear, so...
seeing your pretenses of understanding, I laugh back

You people live while laughing away at what's in front of you
and say it's because tomorrow something good will happen
Since the beginning, somewhere here I've been different from you who answer so easily

I opened my umbrella　Give me the trash, the dream
Used to hiding under the umbrella, give yourself to me as well
Can you hear me?

Causing [others] pain, before you know it, ends up just like you would expect
See, I look at you hurt once again and laugh back

When you're different, praying is your only backwards salvation
When you're different, praying is your only backwards salvation
When you're different, praying is your only backwards salvation
When you're different, praying is your only backwards salvation

Ash to ash

I opened my umbrella　Give me the trash, the dream
Used to hiding under the umbrella, give yourself to me as well
Can you hear me?

Dir en Grey - 艶かしき安息、躊躇いに微笑み

Band: ディル・アン・グレイ (Dir en Grey)
Album: The Marrow of a Bone
Song: 艶かしき安息、躊躇いに微笑み (Namamekashiki ansoku, tamerai ni hohoemi / Seductive rest, smiling in hesitation)

作詞：京 作曲：ディル・アン・グレイ
英訳： VKE

手の届かない透き通る闇､
指の隙間から
覗きこんだ この世界に
千切れてゆく赤
細い腕が綺麗な君の嘘
雨に濡れ､
たたずんだ希望も嘘?
朽ち果ての夢で廻る
ハルカカナタ
滲む空はただただ暮れる

薄れてゆく存在さえ
遅れてゆくまま
無駄に泣いた 事に今も
気が付けないまま
ただ怖い｡風鈴､闇を裂き
生暖かい風と息を殺し
朽ち果ての夢で廻る
ハルカカナタ
滲む空はただただ･･･
昨日までの夜を
振り返ればもう･･･
もう二度と･･･光は消え･･･
叶わない･･･もう二度と･･･

もう誰も･･･全て消えろ
叫び生きて
耐え抜いた痛みと
闇の向こう鈴の元へ


Lyrics: Kyou Composition: Dir en Grey
Translation: VKE

The transparent darkness that my hand does not send out
From the gaps between my fingers
I peered out into this world
The red is being torn apart
My thin arms are your beautiful lies
Soaked by the rain,
are my ceased wishes also lies?
I spin around my rotting dreams
Far far away
The blurry sky falls completely dark

Even my fading existence
is falling behind
Even now, crying in futility
while I can't perceive it
I'm just scared. The chimes pierce the darkness
and I kill my breath with the tepid wind
I spin around my rotting dreams
Far far away
The blurry sky is completely...
Looking back on the
night up until yesterday no longer...
Never again...The light fades...
It won't come true...Never again...

No one ever again...Erase it all!
Screaming and living
with the pain I'll bear till the end
near the bells far off in the darkness

Dir en Grey - 蟲

Band: ディル・アン・グレイ　(Dir en Grey)
Album: 鬼葬 (Kisou)
Song: 蟲 (Mushi / Insect)

作詞：京 作曲：薫
英訳： VKE

打ち明けられない誰も 信じられない誰も彼も
ほら全て見えない 差し込んだ光が消えて今にも枯れる
打ち明けられない事は 私の弱さ私の過去
得るモノもあるけれど きっと手に握る優しさが消えてゆくと

心が閉ざして今にも壊れてゆく
涙を殺して笑う日々よ
心が示した信じる意味の無さを
私を殺した偽善人よ

得るモノもあるけれど きっと手に握る優しさが消えてゆくと
ありふれた答えは 生きる事白死に戻して生まれ変わる

心が閉ざして今にも崩れ落ちる
涙を殺して叫ぶ日々よ
心が残した信じる意味の強さを
私を殺した私心

Lyrics: Kyou Composition: Kaoru
Translation: VKE

I can't open myself to anyone
I can't trust anyone at all
Look! I can't see a thing
The incoming light will fade and I'll soon wither away
Being unable to open myself is my weakness, my past
There are things I can seize, but surely the kindness I grasp in my hands is fading away

My heart is closed off and will soon be breaking apart
Killing the tears, I laugh the days by
My heart showed me the lack of a point in believing
Those hypocrites killed me

There are things I can seize, but surely the kindness I grasp in my hands is fading away
The mundane answer is that in living, you'll be reborn with a clean slate in death*

My heart is closed off and will soon crumble away
Killing the tears, I scream the days by
My heart left behind the strength in the point of believing
My heart killed me


*白死 (はくし) is a pun - 白紙 means clean slate, while 白死 would be something like a clean slate in death.

Dir en Grey - Lotus

Band: ディル・アン・グレイ (Dir en Grey)
Album: Lotus(regular ed.)
Song: Lotus

作曲︰Dir en Grey
作詞︰京
英訳： VKE

眼を閉じる
此処は蒼い　朱鷺が鳴く　心の底
嵐が連れ去った　明日を感じたいから
剥がれ朽ちる絵と

記憶からまだ涙を消せない
この闇の音も
きっとそれはもう癒えない
何処かで知りながら

記憶からまた涙を落とし
周りを見渡す
きっとそこにはもう誰の
為でもない今が…独り

消えない傷でも綺麗でしょ？
夢が枯れてもまだ愛せるの？
確かに煌めく明日じゃない
壊れそうなその意思は
振り返る為の傷じゃない

記憶からまだ涙を消せない
この闇の音も
きっとそれはもう癒えない
何処かで知りながら

壊れ行く　夜が　目の前で
何もかも捨てた　お前は月
泣いて眠ればいい

過ちが生き方を変えはしない
気高く真っ白な　蓮を咲かせ
背に描いた　意思はもう揺るがない
自由な空　眼を閉じよう
What is believing?


Composition: Dir en Grey
Lyrics: Kyou
Translation: VKE

I close my eyes
It's green here. The ibis cries out, the bottom of my heart
I want to experience tomorrow, which has been borne away by the storm
with the peeling, fading painting

I can't erase the tears from my memory yet
nor the sound of this darkness
Surely that can no longer be healed
while I feel it somewhere

I drop the tears from my memory once again
and survey my surroundings
Surely I no longer live for
someone else now... all alone

Aren't these permanent scars beautiful?
Even if my dreams fade, can I still love?
Certainly it's not a bright, shining tomorrow
That futile intention
is not a scar to remember the past

I can't erase the tears from my memory yet
nor the sound of this darkness
Surely that can no longer be healed
while I feel it somewhere

The night is breaking before my eyes
You, who threw away everything, are the moon
It's okay to cry yourself to sleep

Mistakes do not change the way you live
Make the sublime, pure white lotus bloom
The intention etched in your back no longer wavers
A free sky, let's close our eyes
What is believing?

Dir en Grey - The Final

Band: ディル・アン・グレイ (Dir en Grey)
Album: Withering To Death
Song: The Final

作詞： 京 作曲： Dir en Grey
英訳： VKE

解けてしまう意図を見つめ…
文字に出来ない左手です
血を流す度に生きてる理由(わけ)…
見出す言葉が鮮やかで
手の中には愛すべき人さえも
華々しく散って
手の中には生きた意味刻んでも
虚しき華と知る
The Final

一つ二つと増え続ける...
何故に笑えない餌となる?
深き獄の心決して戻れはしない
明日を触れない自虐的敗北者

(セリフ)Suicide is the proof of life

手の中には愛すべき人さえも
華々しく散って
手の中には生きた意味刻んでも
虚しき華と散る
So I can't live…
そう無くしたモノはもう産まれない
生きてる証さえ求められない歌

(セリフ)Let's put an end... The Final

未遂の蕾咲かせよう……


Lyrics: Kyou Composition: Dir en Grey
Translation: VKE

Gazing at the removed intention
With my left hand that can't put it into words
My reason for living, every time I shed blood
The words I discover are vivid
From my hand, even people I should love,
Scatter like petals
From my hand, even when my reason to live is cut apart,
I know the futile flower
The Final

One, two, they continue to increase
Why am I becoming prey that can't laugh?
I'll never return to the heart of the deep prison
A masochistic loser who can't feel tomorrow

(Serif) Suicide is the proof of life

From my hand, even people I should love,
Scatter like petals
From my hand, even when my reason to live is cut apart,
I know the futile flower
So I can't live...
Things I lost like that
will no longer be born
Even the proof of living
An unsolicited song

(Serif) Let's put an end... The Final

Let's attempt to make the bud bloom

Dir en Grey - Cage

Band: Dir en Grey
Album: Gauze
Song: Cage

作詞：京 作曲：薫
英訳：VKE

シビレを切らしてる 僕はマゾの血をひき サドの君を待つ
出来れば 毒のbaiserで
悲嘆故に美徳見えず 君は最後のママで
記憶埋めて気付かれぬように 最初のママ
時計は左回りでも 犯した罪は変えれず
最初で最後の理解者 焼き付けて

嫌がる僕を見て 強くそして優しく無理矢理の決断
決して君には言えない
皮のキシム音が痛い 傷を深めてゆこう
嫉妬深い君は いつでも冷血なの?
幼い頃の虐待がね 今でも忘れずにいたい
なぜママはいないの 教えてよ

いつかはやさしさに気付いて 聖母なる“ゆりかご"の中で

非嘆故に前が見えず 僕の最後のママで
せめて君に気付かれぬように 最初のママ
時計は左回りでも 犯した罪は変えれず
最初で最後の理解者 壊した
僕には優し過ぎたのかなあ? 昔のトラウマを映し
最後の君まで壊した僕はサド?

Lyrics: Kyou Composition: Kaoru
Translation: VKE

I've run out of numbness. I draw my masochistic blood and wait for sadistic you
If you can, with a poison baiser*
Due to the grief, I can't see the virtue, you are my final mama*
I wish I could bury memories and not notice it, first mama*
Even if the clock goes counter-clockwise, committed crimes can't be changed
Burn the first and last sympathizer into my memory

Look at me hating it, strongly and then gently forcing a decision
I could never say it to you
The sound of my skin grating is painful; let's go deepen the wounds
Jealous old you, will you always be so cold-blooded?
The abuse I got as a child, you know, even now I don't want to forget
Why isn't mama here? Tell me

At some point, notice the kindness - within the "cradle" of my holy mother*

Due to the bitterness*, I can't see what's ahead, in my final mama*
I wish, at the least, that I wouldn't be noticed by you, my first mama*
Even if the clock goes counter-clockwise, committed crimes can't be changed
I destroyed the first and last sympathizer
Maybe you were too gentle with me, I wonder? Reflecting the past trauma
Am I, who destroyed even you, a sadist?


*Baiser (as a noun) is French for "a kiss".
*The four marked instances of "mama" are puns. In Japanese "mama" can mean things as they are - so 最後のまま and 最初のまま would mean "as it was at the end" and "as it was at the beginning" respectively.
*Normally 聖母 would be read せいぼ, but Kyou reads this as はは.
*非嘆 Read as ひつう, normally written 悲痛, meaning bitterness. Perhaps another pun, as 非 means not, and 嘆 means grief.

Dir en Grey - アクロの丘

Band: ディル・アン・グレイ　(Dir en Grey)
Album: Gauze
Song: アクロの丘 (Akuro no Oka - Acropolis Hill)

作詞：京 作曲：薫
英訳：VKE

あの場所で出逢ったね 今ではもう 何も出来ないけれど
この街で出逢ったね 今ではもう 誰も愛せないけれど

君は今 あの丘で 二人で見た この空を見つめてる
僕は今 この空で 二人でいた あの丘を見つめて

枯れる花 あの頃のように もう一度だけでいい 綺麗に咲きたくて
この夜に 心も理想も 闇に溶け込む せめて今夜だけでも
君のそばで

(セリフ)
あの場所で君と出逢い すべては始まる 今では何も出来ない
この街で君と出逢い 今では誰も愛せない君と二人で
またまたあの丘へ

枯れる花 あの頃のように もう一度だけでいい 綺麗に咲きたくて
この夜に 心も理想も 闇に溶け込む せめて今夜だけでも

繋いでた指が解けて 深く沈みゆく僕 最後に見た君を
愛してた 叶わない夢 アクロの丘で待つ 君と眠りたくて
覚めない夢

過去は二度と 戻らないけれど 生まれ変わり 君を探すから
その時まで 僕を待っていて けれど今は あの丘にはもう…

Lyrics: Kyou Composition: Kaoru
Translation: VKE

We met at that place, huh
As it is now, I can't do anything, but
We met in that town, huh
As it is now, I can't love anyone, but

You're on that hill now, gazing up at the sky we saw together
I'm in that sky now, gazing down at the hill where we were together

The withering flower - just like back then - just one more time would be fine
I want it to bloom beautifully
In this night, both my heart and ideals melt into the darkness
Even if it's just for tonight, by your side...

(Subtext)
I happened to meet you at that place and it all started
As it is now, I can't do a thing
I happened to meet you in that town
As it is now, I can't love anyone
Just me and you, once again, once again, to that hill

The withering flower - just like back then - just one more time would be fine
I want it to bloom beautifully
In this night, both my heart and ideals melt into the darkness
Even if it's just for tonight, by your side

Our tied fingers came apart, and I sank deeply
I loved you the last time I saw you
A dream that won't come true
I'll wait for you on Acropolis Hill
Wanting to sleep with you
A dream from which we won't rouse

The past will never again return, but
Reborn, I will look for you, so
Until that time, wait for me
However, now, on that hill already...