M.A.D.
M.A.D
Lyrics: Sakurai Atsushi
Translation: Lola
I went mad while holding your knees
I licked your wound as juice dripped down
Escaping from your siren's current, can you go on like this?
I'm going mad while my tongue melts, drowning at the bottom of a red sea as I dream
Your gentleness is the only thing I recall and then I fall asleep
I embrace the asphalt, having a fevered nightmare
Please let me explode
I went mad because we can no longer meet, everything has gone crazy but it doesn't matter
Running from your siren's current, your gentleness is the only thing I recall
I heard your pulse within a lullaby*
Please let me go mad
Ah but the stars are pretty aren't they, even though I don't get to have you
Ah their sparkle will soon vanish with the rays of the sun
I embrace the asphalt, having a fevered nightmare
Please let me explode
I heard your pulse within a lullaby*
Please let me go mad
Ah but the stars are pretty aren't they, even though I don't get to have you
Ah their sparkle will soon vanish with the rays of the sun
Ah but the stars are pretty aren't they, even though I don't get to have you
Ah their sparkle will soon vanish with the rays of the sun
I went mad because we can no longer meet, everything has gone crazy but it doesn't matter
Notes: * For pulse he sings 'oto' which means sound but the kanji used is 'kodou', meaning pulse.
ANGELIC CONVERSATION
Lyrics: Imai Hisashi
Translation: Lola
Angelic Conversation
Sympathy for the Devils
Robed in velvet
Angelic Conversation
Sympathy for the Devils
Poured on Marble Flowers
Stand tall and gaze at refinement
Bacchus, bless the ant lions
Interested and Ha...
Angelic Conversation
Sympathy for the Devils
Robed in velvet
Stand tall and gaze at refinement
Bacchus, bless the ant lions
Walk through the garden at midday
Trample wild strawberries* underfoot
Interested and Ha...
Above the steel grey sky, heavenly weaving, the Fall in Angel ascends
A Melody within the light scorching its wings
Separated from the herd of ant lions
Will of deep crimson wavering
Under the sun OH Alone
Stand tall and gaze at refinement
Bacchus, bless the ant lions
Walk through the garden at midday
Trample wild strawberries underfoot
Interested and Ha...
Above the steel grey sky, heavenly weaving, the Fall in Angel ascends
A Melody within the light scorching its wings
Separated from the herd of ant lions
Will of deep crimson wavering
Under the sun OH Alone
Dreams are cut up and devoured, the tapirs are hunted
You ride the great serpent**, ignoring the MELODY
DRAGON AND BOY joined together at sea
Ancient wind coiling around your neck
Sublimely, it dishevels your hair
Under the sun OH Alone
Dreams are cut up and devoured, the tapirs*** are hunted
You ride the great serpent, ignoring the MELODY
DRAGON AND BOY joined together at sea
Ancient wind coiling around your neck
Sublimely, it dishevels your hair
Under the sun OH Alone
Notes: Regarding Bacchus, Bacchus is the Roman god of wine and intoxication, he is equated with the Greek god, Dionysus. Just so you have an idea of what it would mean to be blessed by him. There's a play depicting Bacchus worship by Euripides entitled 'The Bacchae'.
* 蛇苺: Literally the kanji means snake strawberries, the name in Japanese is given to the wild curving nature of the leaves and vines the strawberries grow on but, as you know, in English, we don't call them snake strawberries. From the pictures in Japan, they look a lot like wild strawberries that grow here. You know, they're smaller, the leaves are more bristly.
** 大蛇: this kanji can be read as だいじゃ or おろち. While the former means a great serpent or snake, the latter refers to a Japanese mythical creature, an eight-headed serpent. However, in the song Sakurai sings
だいじゃ and so, that is why I translated this way even though I thought that the idea of the eight-headed serpet goes better with the idea of the song, and the image of the dragon. The bit about the Dragon & the boy really reminds me of the Biblical story of the Apocolyptic Dragon, maybe Imai was referring to it...
*** I bet you all want to know what a tapir is, yes? XD It's sort of a cross between a pig and an ant-eater.