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Today's featured song is: "Imitation" by FLG4 feat. Flower!

happy (one day late) birthday ebang. I drew this for a friend in December :) <3 referenced "like first love," a song by FLG4, mv by piapro, drew because it was in both of our playlists 😚

(also i did the translation myself too so it’s probably not the best but it’s my interpretation!)

かごめかごめ　答え合わせ ほらほら見て　誰だ仲間外れ フラフラ演じるよ道化 愛想ふりまいて 決まったルールの中で戦うのが大人でしょ やいのやいの　世知辛いこと言われ　 溺れそう 自分に甘い奴ほど　毒づきやがんだ Kagome kagome,¹ I’m checking my answers. Come on, come on, look--who is it, that’s being left out of the group? I perform it all unsteadily, this buffoonery. I lavish people with this friendliness. The ones fighting within the established rules are the adults, right? Badgeringly, I’m told things like “life is tough.” I could practically drown in it. The softer on themselves those guys are, the more furiously I curse them! イミテーション　踊り踊らされ 街に溶け込んで 今日もセイを全うしました 咎人は石投げられちゃう 強く　目瞑って さっさと寝よう　おやすみ Imitation I’m made to dance to someone else’s tune, and I blend into the town. I’ve fulfilled my life again today. The offender'll get stoned. I firmly shut my eyes and hit the hay. Good night. いつしか口を閉ざし 身体と心離れた　パパもママも 「よかった　よかった」 クラ　クラ 生まれたこと自体が　罪なんでしょ 壊れてもいいから 誰も泣かせたくなかったな どうしようもないなら ぶっこんじゃいな　白いチャイナ 笑顔でいないと　疑われるから Before I knew it I’d shut my mouth; my body and mind had grown distant. Papa and mama both went ”thank goodness, thank goodness!” My head swims. Being born is in and of itself a sin, right? Then it’s fine if I break, because I never wanted to make anyone cry. If there’s nothing to be done about it, then just smash it in! That white china. If you’re not smiling, they’ll be suspicious of you. イミテーション　世間を纏えば 涙はいらない 今日も馬鹿を嘲笑いました 傷つけば　塩塗り込まれる 仮面を　被って ナイフを　忍ばせる Imitation If I clad myself in the world, I won’t have any need for tears. I sneered down at the idiots again today. If I get hurt, I’ll only get salt in the wound. I don my mask and conceal my knife. 幼さ故　矢に貫かれ 前へ足掻いて　藻掻いて 美味な羨望　共感を息継ぎに ノイズが　聞こえなくなるまで Thanks to my childishness, I’m pierced by an arrow. I struggle and strain forwards, a delicious envy. I take a quick breath of empathy, until I can’t hear the noise any longer. もう汚いものは　見たくない I don’t want to look at filthy things anymore. イミテーション　踊り踊らされ 街に溶け込んで 今日もセイを全うしました 咎人は　石投げられちゃう 強く　目瞑って さっさと寝よう　おやすみ Imitation I’m made to dance to someone else’s tune, and I blend into the town. I’ve fulfilled my life again today. The offender'll get stoned. I firmly shut my eyes and hit the hay. Good night. バグを　抑え込んで 夜　密かに舞って 生を全う　できてるのかな I shut out the bugs² and dance surreptitiously in the night. I wonder if I can really fulfill my life. イミテーション 嘘塗れ　息もできないよ Imitation I can’t even breathe, smeared with lies as I am. 嗚呼　じゃあねおやすみ Aah--see you, goodnight. ¹ Kagome Kagome is a children’s song. The fist line of the song, “Kagome kagome,” seems to indicate that “Kagome” (a kind of lattice) is being addressed, so in a way it’s similar to “Mirror, mirror.” ² This is “bugs” as in digital bugs, not insects (虫).

(Song requested by ztracker)