Fra-Foa: Light of Sorrow

02.9.21
Artist: Fra-Foa
Title: Light of Sorrow
Words: Mikami Chisako
Music: Mikami Chisako

I'm afraid with no place to go someday you'll disappear.

If you can't find anything else,
why not live for me

so, now hold me hold me strongly
because this body has no meaning
just wrap me in your warmth

that face you showed me suddenly,
what did you lose? are you now smiling? *1

you don't have to say anything else
just having you by my side is enough

so, I want to hold you strongly
because I don't need there to be any value in it.
If only your hollowness could be filled just by my blood.

you know, one day if you die
I'll take your corpse to my chest
and forever my love, I'll pet your hair
I'll touch your cheek, and then I'll eat you up.

so, now I want to hold you tightly
your smile, your emptiness, your tears
I'd like to have you in my arms,
your chest quivering as your breathing grows sparse. *2

so now hold me, hold me strongly
if this body has any meaning
I will hurt and love the certainty
deep in my heart, only with you.

Translated By: Brian Stewart & Takako Sakuma

Translator's Notes: Hoho. Nice lyrics. How many of you out there wanna be eaten by Mikami let's see a show of hands? I thought so. =P OK. I would normally translate tsuyoku as tightly when paired with daite but because gyutto "tightly" comes up in the lyrics later. I opted to stay with strongly. On to the *'s.

*1 - Don't know if we translated this right, but it's kind of vague.

*2 - As 'You' are dying, Mikami is holding 'you' in her arms pulling 'you' close to her. I think what she is trying to say is that she'd rather 'you' die in her arms than leave her and go onto someone else. The same thing goes with eating 'you'. She thinks by eating up 'you' she can keep 'you' forever. But...

Romaji

ikuate no nai anata ha
itsuka kiesou de kowai

moshi nanimo midasenai no nara
douka atashi no tame ni ikite

dakara ima tsuyoku daite daite
kono karada ni imi nado nai kara
tada anata no sono atatakasa de
atashi wo sou gyutto tsutsunde

nee fui ni miseru sono kao
nani wo ushinai ima, hohoemu no?

mou nanimo iwanakute ii no
koko ni anata ga iru dake de

dakara ima tsuyoku daitetai no
kachi nado nanimo iranai kara
tada anata no sono kuudou wo
atashi no chi de mitasetara

nee itsuka anata ga shindara
sono nakigara wo mune ni daite
itsumademo itoshii anata no
kami wo nade, hoho ni fure tabeteshimaou

dakara ima gyutto daitetai no
sono egao wo kuukyo wo namida wo
anata no sono furueru mune ga
atashi no ude de ikitaeba ii

dakara ima tsuyoku daite daite
kono karada ni imi ga aru nara
tada anata to kono mune no oku no
tashikasa wo sou kizutsuke, aisuno

Romaji By: Brian Stewart