The Back Horn: Nukumori Uta

03.06.04
Artist: The Back Horn
Title: Nukumori Uta (Warmth Song)
Words: The Back Horn
Music: The Back Horn

The kitten in the cardboardbox
I'm not your parent,
the dump site below the guard rail

With nowhere to go, let's sleep together
the sound of honking cars our lullabye

sleep sleep
held to the breast of the city
I think of you.

The crumpled letter I never sent still in my pocket
Greetings and salutations, I'm fine. *1

Don't go,
one day, for you
who turned your back on me...

a distant memory
surrounded by the warmth like a fetus.

Don't go,
I think of you who turned your back on me,
I have to wake up.

There's somewhere I have to go.
keeping these feelings I can't get rid of in my heart.

Translated By: Brian Stewart & Takako Sakuma

Translator's Notes: On to the *'s.

*1 - This is the archetypal way to start a letter in Japanese.

Romaji

danbo-ru no koneko oya ha boku jyanai
ga-do shitano gomiokiba

iku basho ga nai kara issho ni nemurou
kurakushon komoriuta ni shite

nemure nemure
machi no mune ni dakare kimi wo omou yo

poketto shiwakucha no dasenai mama no tegami
haikei boku ga genki desu

iku na boku ni se wo muketeta
kimi no tame ni itsuka ha

tooi kioku taiji no you
nukumori ni tsutsumarete

iku na boku ni se wo muketeta
kimi wo omou me wo samasanakucha

ikubeki tokoro ga aru
nakusenai omoi wo
kono mune ni dakinagara

Romaji By: Brian Stewart