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Black Birdcage (Kuroi Torikago) - Wakeshima Kanon(2008)

Writer's picture: Kelly CKelly C

*actually this was my very first translation in 2008.. that's 12 years ago!

Now, I am retranslating this piece for my own nostalgia and current standard of Japanese.


*this is a coupling song from Wakeshima Kanon's single "Still Doll"

 

Lyrics : Wakeshima Kanon

Composer : MANA

Single - Still Doll

 

Unable to challenge my destiny

My mind in Chaos

Hands that can’t stop heaven and time

Both hands in blind obedience

The thread tightens

Open your stitched up eyes!


Break down invisible walls!

Even if it is a mechanical thought

it will gnaw at your dreams.

A dark past and scary future,

is the reason you ponder over words.

Knowing their limitations

within a black birdcage


Even if you mute your voice


Believe in the unseeable!

I want to protect

my beloved even if

my arms are trembling.


Moving forward to a place in the future,

seeing hope even in the small, dark world.


Open your magenta eyes.


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