歪と雨 (Hizumi to Ame) - a proper translation
Distortion and Rain
Human shadows crawl the earth, bound by false closeness, and the time it takes to gather my thoughts - I hear nothing. I desire nothing.
Sweat, tears, blood drip down onto my hands.
Outside the mosquito net, the lambs are beaten by the rain. (1)
Whatever I give is promptly stolen - again and again, over and over. It’s nothing new - but why does it have to keep happening?
I am not meant to know that, ignorance is bliss. A luxurious cesspool of exploitation, O luxurious, luxurious.
I am not meant to know, ignorance is bliss.
And the fact that I refuse to know, proves that I'm already dead inside. (2)
I close my eyes. I seal my mouth. I cut off my ears.
Whose wounds are these that I carry?
A luxurious cesspool of exploitation, O luxurious, luxurious.
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(1) In case it's not obvious, the lambs here are people who, like the narrator, refuse to see/know/understand.
(2) I had to take some creative liberties here so that this verse is understandable in English. The original reads 知ってはならぬ /それが屍の証, which reads literally "not knowing is proof of the corpse", which would translate in English to "not knowing is proof that I'm already a corpse". If you read through the rest of the lyrics, though, it becomes apparent that what the narrator means is that his refusal to know/see/understand is proof that he's dead to the world.
