{Words of Songs} ~ for the translation of anime & game lyrics

Ruined Country Awakening Catharsis
Vocals: ALI PROJECT
Lyrics: Takarano Arika
Composition: Katakura Mikiya

The wall of grief is being stacked up
The foolish god is revered

Living is a cup of poison; who shall teach me
The trick to drink dry the bitterness of groundless fears?
The sage’s eagle is said to inhabit the sun
Only the flapping of its wings echoes

Continue reading .hack//Roots 1st Ending Theme – Boukoku Kakusei Catharsis…

GOD DIVA
Vocals: ALI PROJECT
Lyrics: Takarano Arika
Composition: Katakura Mikiya

How is a seed of happiness
If an angel who lives in Hell
Comes to sell it?

Continue reading .hack//Roots Insert Song – GOD DIVA…

Memories
Vocals: See-Saw
Lyrics: Kajiura Yuki
Composition: Kajiura Yuki
Arrangement: Kajiura Yuki

I think I’ll certainly return here in the end
Together, we watched the beginning of the world
Because I’ve definitely gotten to that place just once
So even if you let go of my hand, I won’t ever be afraid again

Continue reading .hack//Liminality Vol. 4 Opening Theme – Kioku…

Dawn
Vocals: Takahashi Mai
Lyrics: Takahashi Mai
Composition: Takahashi Mai
Arrangement: Shimada Masanori

You’re always yearning in your strong and shining gaze
Even if tears moisten your cheeks, it’s not weakness

Don’t count the number of things you can’t do, you should just walk on

Continue reading .hack//Tasogare no Udewa Densetsu Insert Song – Dawn…

Beautiful
Vocals: ROUND TABLE featuring Nino
Lyrics: Ito Rieko
Composition: Ito Rieko
Arrangement: ROUND TABLE

Before I close my eyes, I recall my distant memories for a little while
The scenery that looks like I’ve seen somewhere starts to dissolve in my dreams

Ooh, someday, I’ll try to follow the road that I walked on with you
On my way, surely I’ll know, the starry sky is our eternal vow

Continue reading .hack//Tasogare no Udewa Densetsu Insert Song – Beautiful…

Emerald Green
Vocals: See-Saw
Lyrics: Ishikawa Chiaki
Composition: Kajiura Yuki
Arrangement: Kajiura Yuki

In the running children’s merry laughter
I feel like I want to try chasing light and shadows
I wonder if they have thought about what exists
Beyond that sun they saw through the green leaves

Continue reading .hack//Tasogare no Udewa Densetsu Ending Theme – Emerald Green…

NEW WORLD
Vocals: ROUND TABLE featuring Nino
Lyrics: Kitagawa Katsutoshi
Composition: Kitagawa Katsutoshi
Arrangement: ROUND TABLE

Tell me, I don’t understand anything, but still
You say, it’s always those words

I only pass by you, You find another way
Jump out of the ending world, You know?

Continue reading .hack//Tasogare no Udewa Densetsu Opening Theme – NEW WORLD…

Gentle Dawn
Vocals: See-Saw
Lyrics: Kajiura Yuki
Composition: Kajiura Yuki
Arrangement: Kajiura Yuki

You, who search for eternity, are a capricious dreamer
Clinging onto a fickle dream, where will you go?

Searching for the key that unlocks twilight, while I couldn’t reach
The moon’s shadow as I wept, where will I go?

Continue reading .hack//SIGN 1st Ending Theme – Yasashii Yoake…

The Story That You Were In
Vocals: See-Saw
Lyrics: Kajiura Yuki
Composition: Kajiura Yuki
Arrangement: Kajiura Yuki

Because stillness and peace beckon from afar
I feel like I can still go a little further ahead
Just holding your hand, overcoming the freezing night

Continue reading .hack//Liminality Vol. 3 Opening Theme – Kimi ga Ita Monogatari…

One Thousand and One Nights
Vocals: See-Saw
Lyrics: Kajiura Yuki
Composition: Kajiura Yuki
Arrangement: Kajiura Yuki

I leave this place and think about the road I walk on
The sky is still early in the evening, leaving colors behind in the clouds
The child next to me is singing the same song for the third time already
Only repeating the last part forever, unable to recall the ending words

Continue reading .hack//Liminality Vol. 2 Opening Theme – Senya Ichiya…