6/12/2011

English version 英訳・命の別名 by 中島みゆき




There is a real English version on youTube,
but it sounds really 70s and 80s,
and changed the meaning of the lyrics conspicuously. ♪
So I kind of tried the best to express its life in lyrics.

Another Name of Life

We are growing everytime we learn the words we didn't know
getting closer to the grownups we were taught to be,
But there will be certain words that we can never memorize
the words which we can never learn by heart.

I wonder if I ever be a help for anything
or if I will vanish from the world before I know
I hope there's someone who feels joy with my existence
somewhere in this world I live in now

Oh, Rocks, woods, and water in the ocean and the stream,
all those elements of the universe
just live and let me live

Now raise the torch to light up all the tragedy which will never end
For you and me, for everyone, reveal what hides in shade !
It's the life we've always treasured for. Another name is "heart".
For you and me, for everyone, whose name is no one knows.

When someone can so easily be in tears for anything,
can someone so easily feel the pain we have inside ?
There is a time we have to be smiling on the surface
hiding sorrows, weeping in our heart.

* Oh Rocks, woods, and water in the ocean and the stream,
You've never hurt anyone or anything unlike me...

Now raise the torch to light up all the failure which is never learnt
For you and me, for everyone, reveal what hides in shade !

** It's the life we've always treasured for. Another name is "heart".
For you and me, for everyone, whose name is no one knows.

* refrain to the end

** refrain to the end



(revised on May 6)




オリジナル歌詞

知らない言葉を覚えるたびに
僕らは大人に近くなる
けれど最後まで覚えられない
言葉もきっとある

何かの足しにもなれずに生きて
何にもなれずに消えてゆく
僕がいることを喜ぶ人が
どこかにいてほしい

石よ樹よ水よ ささやかな者たちよ
僕と生きてくれ

くり返す哀しみを照らす 灯をかざせ
君にも僕にも すべての人にも
命に付く名前を"心"と呼ぶ
名もなき君にも 名もなき僕にも

たやすく涙を流せるならば
たやすく痛みもわかるだろう
けれども人には
笑顔のままで泣いてる時もある

石よ樹よ水よ 僕よりも
誰も傷つけぬ者たちよ

くり返すあやまちを照らす 灯をかざせ
君にも僕にも すべての人にも
命に付く名前を"心"と呼ぶ
名もなき君にも 名もなき僕にも

石よ樹よ水よ 僕よりも
誰も傷つけぬ者たちよ

くり返すあやまちを照らす 灯をかざせ
君にも僕にも すべての人にも
命に付く名前を"心"と呼ぶ
名もなき君にも 名もなき僕にも

命に付く名前を"心"と呼ぶ
名もなき君にも 名もなき僕にも

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