01 - FUTURE

taiyou ni hikari shinjite kon'ya mo tsuki wa kagayaku
tooi mirai wo mitsumeteru futari kurashite yo
yume no KAREIDOSUKOOPU wo zutto nozoiteitai
doko ni demo aru you na GARASUdama wo
DAIYAMONDO ni dekiru no sa

hanasanaide chanto tsukamattete ne
tsugi no KAABU itsumo abunakasii daro
GATAGATA yureru jitensha hashagu kimi to shinken na boku
MISUKYASUTO na futarinori

machi no akari nandaka sabishii yo ne
senakakoshi ni POTSUN to tsubuyaite sa
kyuu na kudarizaka de fui ni kimi no shigamitsuku te ga
tsuyoku naru no wo kata ni kanjinagara

dokoka ni aru negai wo kanaetekureru hoshi wo
mitsuketeyukou

taiyou ni hikari shinjite kon'ya mo tsuki wa kagayaku
tooi mirai wo mitsumeteru futari kurashite yo
yume no KAREIDOSUKOOPU wo zutto nozoiteitai
doko ni demo aru you na GARASUdama wo
DAIYAMONDO ni dekiru no sa

kodomo no koro omoiukabeta you na
KICHIN to shita otona no toshi ni nattemo
juunenmae deatta nakamatachi to mada FUZAKEteru
chotto ii daro ima wa mada kono mama de

boku no kioku tachinarabu hitotachi to
keshiki no nioi wasurenai

akirametakunai kimochi ni
massugu muita mama de
jidai no mizo wo fukinukeru kaze wo kanjitai
seikimatsu ni furuetetara bokura jiyuu ni narenai
dare ni demo aru you na akogare wo
dakishimetetai future

take off for the future

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Translation forthcoming, this is so y'all can sing along until I post this later tonight.

02 - AMUNEJIA no nikki (Amnesia Diary)

Forthcoming

It's been 5 days. When one says 'later tonight", on earth, it usually means in a few hours. Not 5 days.

Some of us also have lives, bro. Things get delayed.

Soooo...any chance of this being translated still?

NOPE.






WAIT, I MEAN YES.









I've got a thorough pillows translation project idea in the works, I think I'm going to be foregoing just tossing out translations and instead trying to do something a bit more interesting for the community with these things. Sorry for vagueness, but I kind of want to surprise most of you with something cool, so bear with me for a while as I get things sorted. K? K.

A little rough but here goes it.

FUTURE

[i]Believing in the sunlight, tonight the moon shines too
It shines on the two of us gazing at the far away future
I want to keep peering at the kaleidoscope dream
An ordinary glass sphere
Can become a diamond

Don't let go, hang on tight, okay?
There's always the danger of the next curve
The two of us ride on the shaking and rattling bicycle
Mismatched, high-spirited you and serious me

The light of the city is lonely somehow
A lone whisper over my shoulders
An abrupt descent, I feel your hand
Suddenly grip my shoulder tight

Wherever it is, let's go see the star
That makes wishes come true

Believing in the sunlight, tonight the moon shines too
It shines on the two of us gazing at the far away future
I want to keep peering at the kaleidoscope dream
An ordinary glass sphere
Can become a diamond

It reminded me of my childhood days
Ten years ago I became a proper adult
Still playing around as friends
For just a moment it was still like that now

I won't forget my memories of the smell of the landscape
Or the people lined up in a row

I won't give up on my feelings
I want to face them honestly
While I feel the wind that blows through the channel of time
If we tremble at the end of a era, we won't be free
I want to hold tight
The future that everyone longs for
Take on for the future[/i]

terra to the rescue~

@Mare, I'm a little fuzzy on the nuances of this whole section, so would appreciate any corrections.

kodomo no koro omoiukabeta you na
KICHIN to shita otona no toshi ni nattemo
juunenmae deatta nakamatachi to mada FUZAKEteru
chotto ii daro ima wa mada kono mama de

boku no kioku tachinarabu hitotachi to
keshiki no nioi wasurenai

Hard to get a really good phrasing for that second part, but here's what I got from it (the "lined up in my memories" is suggesting there are all sorts of people stretching back through his life that have been important to him, I think):

Just like I used to imagine in my childhood,
even though I've become a proper adult
I'm still playing around with the friends I made a decade ago
It'd be nice if we could stay like this a bit longer

I won't forget the scents of the scenery
and people lined up in my memories


My interpretation is him having written this a decade after getting his band going...as you recall, there sales weren't superb at the time, even with Strange Chameleon keeping King Records from dropping them off the label (but he could be referring to friends that he had held onto from before joining the pillows, as well). Very similar theme in that little bit to some of the recent songs, like Quarter Friends.

For shits'n'giggles, here's the first half of the song I had translated waaaaay back when I promised I was going to have it done within the day or whatever several posts up, hahaha.

Believe in the sun's light, the moon shines on tonight
Illuminating the two of us, gazing at the distant future
I want to keep gazing into this kaleidescope of dreams forever
I'll make a diamond out of all these plain glass beads

Hold on tight, don't let me go
You can never know what's around the corner
A miscast pair riding double on a clattering bicycle,
you so carefree and I so serious

The lights of the city are somehow sad, aren't they
you whispered suddenly from behind my back
I felt your grip grow strong on my shoulder
as you clung against a sudden slope

Interesting to see the different ways people tend to phrase different expressions, I don't think I'm very good at trying to make things sound poetic...