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If you can’t see anything now, then never you shall
Incased in a sea of lapsed memories
If you feel naught now, touch something never you shall
The blossoms asleep in the water’s base embrace my ailing grief
With the impending pulsations
And in the time when the desolate garden releases its thorns
In life I now draw tinted hues in the bottomless gloom of the mirror
I'll to the sky, and you
Exposed I’ll fall into a trap with the pure fragrance and perish
But somehow, even still, I’ll not become an angel
With those restrained thorns…
And should I take mysterious dreams as truth and an ephemeral passion…
well then…
Cover the coffin in curtain and I’ll be enfolded in inexhaustible pain
Quietly, discretely
A humble method, amidst entwined contemplations
At the last moment I’ll line my casket with my full matured love
And silently rest in peace
You clown feigning the form of a holy goddess!
While covered in poison, a pitiful stringed doll,
Like a lilac* I’ll be enfolded in their pure fragrance, to die and rot
away
And if I nevertheless still take an angel’s evil to be like the transient
blooms…
Well now…
*lilac* in the lyrics is read as "rira",
which is how it is pronounced by a Japanese person
who is speaking french. Mana seems to have made up his own kanji for it
with two symbols meaning "truth, reason, justice" and "naked,
uncovered". This, added to the lilac's symbolism of "innocence,
youth, first love, infatuation", probably heralds a sort of Adam
and Eve state imagery. Maybe. If
I haven't said it before I shall say it now; Mana's lyrics are highly
unclear and hard to translate 100% accurately without having spoken to
him.
Every once in a while I'll notice a certain theme or bit of lyrics
being repeated,
and this time it was the part about dolls, which reminded me terribly
of Velvet Eden.
Well, regardless, 2007 seems to be the year of angels and transience and
flowers in the Japanese scene
of...something.
This sort of song makes me uneasy and reminds me somehow of my own
weaknesses.
By that I mean the weaknesses other than that one which made me sit around
unproductively
and watch Deathrace 2000 all day yesterday even though I do not particularly
like car garage kits.
I guess that's not a bad thing though?
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