Dear Mr. Socrates
âLetâs give Socrates a wink and rush out to town! If you turn your back to philosophical skepticism, the world is what you want it to be.â
OR: A girl wants the super-cerebral guy she likes to stop thinking so hard and live a little.
PaPaPa⊠sugu ni   iki wo kiraseta kimi no atama wo nadete ageru yo
PaPaPa⊠Iâll pat your out-of-breath self on the head right away
angou magai no MEERU wo tobasu kakedashita mama oitekebori no   kimi e
I launch a psuedo-encrypted text At you after leaving you behind as you ran
gomen ne   wagamama de gomen ne   demo   yamerarenai kara
Iâm sorry, Iâm being selfish Iâm sorry, but I just canât help myself
DETANTO magai wa konomi ja nai no wahei koushou kikoenai furi   suru no
Iâm not very fond of mock-dĂ©tentes so I pretend not to hear your attempts at peace negotiations
gomen ne   komarasete gomen ne   demo   tomerarenai kara
Iâm sorry, Â Iâm causing you trouble Iâm sorry, but I just canât stop
SOKURATESU ni UINKU shite machi e tabidasou fukachiron ni se wo muketara   sekai wa omou mama omoitsuki de sashidasu te ni   moshimo oitsuitara sugu ni   iki wo kiraseta kimi no atama wo nadete ageru yo
Letâs give Socrates a wink and rush out to town If you turn your back to philosophical skepticism, the world is what you want it to be If you can catch up to the hand that I impulsively stretch out Then Iâll pat your out-of-breath self on the head right away
gomen ne   migatte de gomen ne   demo   gohoubi ageru kara
Iâm sorry, Iâm being selfish Iâm sorry, but Iâll give you a reward, so
SOKURATESU ni UINKU shite machi e tobidasou fukachiron ni se wo muketara   sekai wa omou mama ware omoFU yue NI ware ARI   yuigadokuson sugu ni   iki wo kiraseta kimi no atama wo nadete
Letâs give Socrates a wink and rush out to town If you turn your back to philosophical skepticism, the world is what you want it to be âCogito ergo sumâ is self-conceitÂč Iâll pat your out-of-breath self on the head immediately
SOKURATESU ni UINKU shite machi e tabidasou fukachiron ni se wo muketara   sekai wa omou mama omoitsuki de sashidasu te ni   moshimo oitsuitara sugu ni   iki wo kiraseta kimi no atama wo nadete ageru yo
Letâs give Socrates a wink and rush out to town If you turn your back to philosophical skepticism, the world is what you want it to be If you can catch up to the hand that I impulsively stretch out Then Iâll pat your out-of-breath self on the head right away
PaPaPa⊠massugu ni mayowazu   kimi to yukou
PaPaPa⊠Iâll go straight forward without hesitating, together with you
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Âč This is my favorite line in the song for wordplay that doesnât really translate that smoothly into English. For starters, I translated the Descartes quote in Latin and not in as itâs commonly cited in English (âI think therefore I amâ), mostly because the Japanese verb conjugation used here is similarly old-timey (most Japanese students remember the saying as ware omou yue ni ware ariâthe omoFU ending used in this song is needlessly pretentious). Second, the word for self-conceit (yuigadokuson) starts off the same as solipsism (yuigaron), so the listener expects something like âCogito ergo sum is self-referential knowledgeâ but instead gets the line âCogito ergo sum is too much self-centerednessâ, lolololol.
