The Back Horn: Ikusenkounen No Kodoku

02.01.18
Artist: The Back Horn
Title: Ikusen Kounen No Kodoku (Loneliness of Thousands of Light Years)
Words: The Back Horn
Music: The Back Horn

There are no
vacancies in heaven
The Animal Caricature *1
Banquet continues

Like "All
races are equal,"
"I love you" or
"Give it up, bitch"

I turn up my collar and keep on walking
on a freezing
midsummer's day
Burned deep
into my back
a cross

The melancholy of
thousands of light years
rains down on me
Deep in the building
a faceless
Jesus Christ is
weeping

A musicbox
If it sings to the rain
The very last bell
A jester that has no wings

One of these days
I'll probably forget
all about
the children
made of glass
who flew through the
star-filled sky

In the far reaches of space
not even the melancholy
of thousands of
light years can reach
The sun's
golden mane
flutters about

In this monochrome world
the morning sun
will never ever
rise again
A sunflower
trapped inside
a picture.

The melancholy of
thousands of light years
rains down on me
Deep in the building
faceless
people were
weeping.

In the far
reaches of space
thoughts can't even reach
The sun's
golden mane
flutters about

Translated By: Brian Dunn. I try to write the English so it flows along with the Japanese lyrics as much as possible, breaking the lines with the flow of the singing.

Translator's Note: *!

* 1 -The Animal Caricatures, or Choujuugiga, are famous old scrolls with drawings that depicted animals doing human-like things in a caricature style.

Romaji

To Be Added

Romaji By: Brian Stewart