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The Back Horn: Kodoku na Senjyou
03.12.25
Artist: The Back Horn Title: Kodoku na Senjyou (Lonely Battlefield) Words: The Back Horn Music: The Back Horn Shibuya, it's like a sea of meat Graffitti on the walls of the public shitters. Can't remove the headphones from the flood of maddening noise. The ones scattering about their insipid folk songs The old hag loudly pestering for a donation So many people it makes me naseous Eh, Since they go on about how I'm such a hick anyway *1 Piss all over the wall of the train station Ah but December is just so goddamn gentle. Idiots are making a racket and dying, *2 sexual facial organs are laughing it up the bitch lickin' the nape of Christ's neck The gritty taste of gold one, two, three people all of them deceased again today, I'm gonna survive in the darkness of the heart. God, We like sad songs so much so it upsets us. The glaring skyscraper, a concealed knife A lonely battlefield without meaning, offering no answers reason is getting suffocated between the meat What I'm afraid of, is simply that you're all human. God, We like sad songs so much so that it upsets us. The glaring skyscraper, a concealed knife A lonely battlefield without meaning, offering no answers in the darkness keep pounding on the door in the darkness keep pounding on the door Translated By: Brian Stewart & Takako Sakuma Translator's Notes: When I went to a store after The Back Horn's in store record signing I saw the advertisement they had drawn for this album 'Ikiru Sainou', it was a large poster written with markers that was basically the kanji for 'meat' written over and over several rows thick with the symbol for fire written underneath it in one solid line. This image seems to be at the heart of this song and one of the themes of the album. *1 - inakamon is a shortened form of inakamono which means "hick" or "bumpkin". kuda wo maku refers to the sloppy talk of a drunk. *2 - Some sarcastic wordplay. Romaji shibuya ha maru de niku no umi da koushuubenjyo no rakugaki da kuruisou na noizu no kyousui ni heddofon ga hazusenai nurui fo-kusongu makichirashiteru yatsura kane wo bokin shiro to urusaku segamu babaa hakike ga suru hodo ni ningen darake aa douse inakamon to kuda wo maite shonben bukkakeru eki biru no kabe aa dakedo jyuunigatsu ga hidoku yasashii baka ga bakasawagi shite shinderu ganmenseiki ga waratteru kirisuto no unaji wo nameru onna zaratsuita kin no aji hitori futari sannin shibito darake sa kyou mo ore ha ikitenobiteyaru kokoro no yami no naka de kamisama oretachi ha kanashii uta ga ki ga fureru hodo suki desu soshite konya giratsuku matenrou kakushita naifu imi mo naku kotae mo nai kodoku na senjyou niku to niku no aida de chissoku shiteku risei ore ga kowai no ha tada omaera ga ningen datte koto sa kamisama oretachi ha kanashii uta ga ki ga fureru hodo suki desu soshite konya giratsuku matenrou kakushita naifu imi mo naku kotae mo nai kodoku na senjyou kurayami no naka doa wo tatakitsuzukero kurayami no naka doa wo tatakitsuzukero Romaji By: Brian Stewart |