#base translation

言いかけていた事が一つ消えてまた増えて

iikakete ita koto ga hitotsu kiete mata fuete

I’d cut myself off from saying one thing, but soon the urge to say another would rise

背中に後ろめたさが残る

senaka ni ushirometasa ga nokoru

Left with a guilty conscience ever weighing-down upon my back

従いたい心根を吐き出さぬように込めて

shitagaitai kokorone o hakidasanu you ni komete

I wouldn’t dare obey my heart’s desires– instead bottling them all up,

胸の中が澱のように濁る

mune no naka ga ori no you ni nigoru

And now it feels like my heart has been polluted with their rotten remains

受け止めたいことが自分さえ抱えられず

uketometai koto ga jibun sae kakaerarezu

There are things in theory I’d like to come to terms with, but I just can’t

持て余したそれを守っている

moteamashita sore o mamotte iru

I’ve been keeping them all to myself, though I might explode from it

霞んだ声はからからに喉を焼いて埋め尽くす

kasunda koe wa karakara ni nodo o yaite umetsukusu

With a mangled voice, a throat that feels both completely dry and choked up at the same time,

何を言うべきか分からなくて

nani o iu beki ka wakaranakute

I never know the right thing to say

感じてたものが遠く放たれていた

kanjite ta mono ga tooku hanatarete ita

So I’d let my feelings out somewhere far, far away

同じ様で違うなんだか違う

onajiyou de chigau nandaka chigau

Same as always– something about it wrong, just feeling a bit wrong1

何時まで行こうか　何処まで行けるのか

itsu made ikou ka  doko made ikeru no ka

How much longer until we go? How far are we even able to go?

定かじゃないなら何を想うの

sadaka janai nara nani o omou no

If you “don’t know yet”, well then what’s keeping you from knowing?

僕らが離れるなら　僕らが迷うなら

bokura ga hanareru nara  bokura ga mayou nara

Should we be fated to part, should we be fated to lose one another,

その度に何回も繋がれる様に

sono tabi ni nankai mo tsunagareru you ni

I pray we may be reunited each and every time such a thing happens2

ここに居てくれるなら　離さずいられたら

koko ni ite kureru nara  hanasazu iraretara

If you’d just do me the honor of staying, staying and never to part,

まだ誰も知らない感覚で救われていく

mada dare mo shiranai  kankaku de sukuwarete iku

Then I’ll get to remain the only one who knows what this salvation feels like

平穏とは消耗を以て代わりに成す

heion to wa shoumou o motte kawari ni nasu

“Peace” is replaced with attrition3

実際はどうも変わりはなく

jissai wa doumo kawari wa naku

But in truth, there’s hardly a difference between them

京楽とは嘘で成る

kyouraku to wa uso de naru

“Pleasure” is founded upon sin4

「綻ぶ前にここを出ていこうか」と

“hokorobu mae ni koko o dete ikou ka” to

“Why don’t we get out of here before it all goes to hell?”

都合の良い願いを同じ様に同じ様に呟く

tsugou no ii negai o onaji you ni onaji you ni tsubuyaku

…Again and again, I’m whispering that too-good-to-be-true wish to myself

何処から聞こうか　何を見失うか

doko kara kikou ka  nani o miushinau ka

Where to even start, what it is that I’ll lose--

定かじゃないから此処を動けない

sadaka janai kara koko o ugokenai

The uncertainty of it all has rendered me frozen in place

僕らが疲れるなら　これ以上無いなら

bokura ga tsukareru nara  kore ijou nai nara

Should we ever tire, should we ever feel as though we can’t take anymore

その度に何回も逃げ出せる様に

sono tabi ni nankai mo nigedaseru you ni

I pray we may be able to run away from it all each and every time

心が守れる様に　奪われない様に

kokoro ga mamoreru you ni  ubawarenai you ni

So we may protect our hearts, so they may never be stolen away,

互いに託して　身体を預けてよ

tagai ni takushite karada o azukete yo

Let’s entrust them to one another-- put your trust in me

君と泣く　君と笑う　君と怒る

kimi to naku  kimi to warau  kimi to okoru

To cry with you... To laugh with you... To get angry at something with you...

君と歌う　君と踊る　君と話す

kimi to utau  kimi to odoru  kimi to hanasu

To sing with you... To dance with you... To talk with you...

何時まで続くだろうと同じ様に同じ様に呟く

itsu made tsuzuku darou to onaji you ni onaji you ni tsubuyaku

“I wonder how much longer this’ll last” Again and again, I whisper

いま忘れないよう刻まれた空気を

ima wasurenai you kizumareta kuuki o

I wonder how much I’ll think back on

これから何度思い出すのだろう

kore kara nando omoidasu no darou

This moment that feels so etched into my brain, in a “you’ll never be able to forget” way

僕らだけが

bokura dake ga

Should we-- as in nobody else--

僕らが離れるなら　僕らが迷うなら

bokura ga hanareru nara  bokura ga mayou nara

Should we be fated to part, should we be fated to lose one another,

その度に何回も繋がれる様に

sono tabi ni nankai mo tsunagareru you ni

I pray we may be reunited each and every time such a thing happens

ここに居てくれるなら　離さずいられたら

koko ni ite kureru nara  hanasazu iraretara

If you’d just do me the honor of staying, staying and never to part,

まだ誰も知らない感覚で僕の生きているすべてを確かめて

mada dare mo shiranai kankaku de boku no ikite iru subete o tashikamete

Then please, as I live on with this feeling nobody else has yet to feel, look at that existence itself5

正しくして

tadashiku shite

And tell me if it’s right

This is a line I can’t really think of a way to transcribe its wordplay into English, but essentially 違う (chigau) can mean both different and wrong. It’s being used as an antonym to 同じ (onaji), but also incorporating that double meaning in here I believe.

I know there is a popular translation going around which I think accidentally misinterprets the 様に (you ni) here to be used with the meaning of “in order to”, however I’m pretty sure the kind of 様に (you ni) here is the sort used to make wishes. Example: 神様の恵みがあります様に。= May the blessing of God be upon you

Literally “peace, as it is to be defined, exhaustion is made into its replacement”. But 消耗 (shoumou) might also refer to 消耗戦 (shoumousen), i.e. attritional warfare. This is a military strategy where a country attempts to beat the enemy by basically wearing them down until they’re flat out of resources and any real way to fight back. My personal take on this lyric is it might be referring to how in the singer’s mind, feeling “peace” has been replaced with feeling “exhaustion”. Yet “nothing has really changed”, since the singer cannot spit out thier feelings and thus bottles this “exhaustion” up despite its existence, as if peace were still present. Also just a side note, but I enjoy the wordplay here with 代わりに成す (kawari ni nasu) and 変わりはなく (kawari wa naku). 

A bit more liberal here. But I’ve only ever seen 京楽 (kyouraku) used in settings meant to evoke religious/fantastical imagery... 京楽の悪魔 (kyouraku no akuma) or a demon of pleasure, etc. 嘘 (uso) means lie but it can also refer to the more ambiguous idea of just something not beign what you thought it was... So I thought “sin” would be the best choice here, given the song’s themes. For similar reasons, I also have translated 救われる (sukuwareru) or to be saved as “salvation”.