☆ Title: DREAMS OF LOST
★Album: FLASHLIGHT
☆ Album Artist: Alstroemeria Records
★ Vocals: ayame
☆ Arrangement: Masayoshi Minoshima
★Lyrics: Haruka
☆ Original Title: White Flag of Usa Shrine (お宇佐さまの素い幡)
★ Website: http://alst.net/
fukai fukai yume no naka ni wa anata hitori ne
sukui daseru donna toki demo mimi o sumashite
fukaku fukaku modorenakutemo watashi iru kara
anata hitori dake ni shinai yo hayaku kidzuite
You’re all alone aren’t you, in a deep deep dream I can save you at any time, clear your ears Even if even if you’re too deep to return, I’m here therefore I’ll leave you anything but alone, hurry and realize
この声が 届くかな
大丈夫 ここにいる
kono koe ga todoku kana
daijoubu koko ni iru
I wonder if this voice will reach you It’s alright, I’m here
mayoi no yume de wa anata ni aeru no
watashi dake ga ima sukui daseru kara
mayou yume no naka kitto hitorikiri
watashi no kono koe michishirube dakara
In the dream of the lost, I’ll be able to meet you I’m the only one now able to save you after all In the dream where you’re lost, you’re surely all on your own my voice here will be your guide after all
いつも独り夢の途中で 悩んだままで
そんな貴方はみたくないよ 早く届いて
itsu mo hitori yume no tochuu de nayanda mama de
sonna anata wa mitakunai yo hayaku todoite
Always alone in the middle of the dream remaining worried I don’t want to see you like this, hurry up and reach
この声は 貴方へと
差し出した 道しるべ
kono koe wa anata e to
sashi dashita michishirube
This voice of mine is a guide that I held out towards you
mayoi tsudzukereba kitto de aeru wa
anata dake ga hora kono koe ni kidzuku
mayoi no yume ni wa watashi ga iru kara
watashi no kono koe kikoeru no naraba
If you continue to be lost, surely I can come across you You’re the only one that will, look, notice this here voice In the dream of the lost, I’m here so if you’re able to hear this here voice of mine
☆ Title: WITCHCRAFT
★Album: FLASHLIGHT
☆ Album Artist: Alstroemeria Records
★ Vocals: Mei Ayakura (綾倉盟)
☆ Arrangement: Masayoshi Minoshima
★Lyrics: Haruka
☆ Original Title: Disunified Field Theory of Magic (非統一魔法世界論)
★ Website: http://alst.net/
anata ni wa wakaru hazu mo nai
sono omoi ni wa fushigi na chikara ga hisonde
sono me ni wa mieru koto wa nai
anata o ugokasu mienai mahou no kotoba de
I wouldn’t expect you to understand A mysterious power lurks within your feelings Never to be seen by your eyes I’ll rouse you with words of invisible magic
watashi shika wakaru hazu ga nai
subete no genri sore ni sakaraeru chikara wa
sono negai kanaerareru kara
anata wa watashi ni chikadzuku mahou no chikara de
I don’t expect anyone other than me to understand The power to be able to defy the principles of everything It can grant all your wishes after all, so you’ll be drawn to me by the power of magic
nani mo nai kono saki no michi nani mo nai ushiro o mitemo
mou ichido furi kaeru nara kono saki wa mienaku naru no
ayundeta ima made no michi nani mo nai ashiato sae mo
nokosareta hitotsu no omoi sore dake ga saigo no kibou ne
Completely empty, the road after this, completely empty, even if I look behind If I look back one more time, I’ll become unable to see ahead The road up to now that I had walked, completely empty, even the footprints too The one feeling left behind, that and only that is my final hope
wakaranai mama ayundemo wakaranai mama kawarazu ni
omoide o furi kaeru nara omoide ni sode o hikarete
ayundeta mono sae subete muda ni naru sonna kono toki
nokosareta watashi ga hitori nokosareta hitotsu no omoi mo
Even if I walk as I understand nothing, I’ll still understand nothing without a change If I look back on memories, I’ll be drawn by my sleeve by those memories Even those that were walking, everything, it all comes to nothing, as such are these times Left behind, I’m all alone, as well as my one left behind feeling
Requested by my friend Lori, lyrics were found transcripted on a website. I somewhat question the structure of that last stanza there, but what can you do?
Notes: 「早起きにして六文の得」 is based on a proverb, 「早起きは三文の徳」, that essentially translates to “early bird catches the worm,” literally translating into “Waking up early is a benefit for those with little cash.” In this version though, instead of 三文, it’s 六文, which is the fare to cross the river Sanzu.
「丑の刻参り」, or “the two o’clock curse” as I named it, refers to the curse where you drive a nail through a doll into a sacred tree of a shrine for seven nights in a row between 1-3am to kill the person it represents. Imagine a voodoo doll. In the song here though, it only takes one night.
aa nani o tagaete shimatta no ka bokura wa kitto naka yoku ikite ikeru haze datta noni
aa semete kimi ga ite kureta nara saigo no shoujiki mono o shinjirareta kamo shirenai na
nado to baka me ga! yomayoiigoto ni shizume! shoujiki mono ga baka o miru sonna sekai no ruuuru nara aa! boku koso saigo no shousha na no da! sono shinjitsu o kami shimete ima rakuen o ato ni shite bohyou ni kizanda kazu dake mune ni komi ageru shouri no yoin ni warau.
Ah, what did we end up going against? Despite the fact that we surely should’ve been able to live on good terms. Ah, at least, if you were here for me, I might’ve been able to believe the last honest ones, says the idiots! Sink in your nonsense! If honest people just look like fools, if that’s the way of that world. Ah! As for me, I’ll surely be the final victor! Chew on that truth and leave paradise behind now. With each time I carved into a tombstone, I snigger at the afterglow of victory filling my chest.
Amen 