Hitoto Yoh: Omokage Modan

04.06.08
Artist: Hitoto Yoh
Title: Omokage Modan (Remanant of the Modern)
Words: Hitoto Yoh
Music: Inoue Yousui

...Billions more of our dollars in interest, increasing our debt, decresing our ability to invest in our children's...

the vagueness I got from you
I think it's been passed down from another
the phone call I slammed down
the button dials *1
I've just been tantalized into dancing for 1 or 2 years
I dropped my wine red hat
the platform opposite me
I can't hear
what the pigeons in front are saying anymore
like a spiral, without end, without end
last from me
half asleep, the sudden change in wind from day to night,
starts to tell me where I'm going

the sleeping princess is ta-dum ta-dum *2
the parachute of my feelings for you
when we met, ta-dum ta-dum
the speed it went away, a stray cloud
on the double bridge ta-dum ta-dum
we are a remnant of the modern

the vagueness I gave to you
no one will be refused
when you've parted the clouds of smoke, it'll soon be time
who's next? to be blunt, to be blunt, a friend's girlfriend
I heard it without knowing it,
a drop falls on my romance, drip, drop, drip

the train leaving ta-dum ta-dum
I can't see you ta-dum ta-dum
One who has lost their love ta-dum ta-dum
smack dab in the middle of the fog, tangled, covered
a two sided ta-tum ta-tum
we are a remnant of the modern

Translated By: Brian Stewart & Takako Sakuma

Translator's Notes: Another case of WTF!? I would venture to say that this song is impossible to translate effectively. I hope we got across enough of its atmosphere for you all to understand it.

* 1 - Hitoto Yoh uses Kanji here meaning "The peony freezes" but clearly the lyrics are intended to be botan ga ko-ru or "button" ga "call".

* 2 - The sound effect word tatan tatan could have several different meanings. The one we most felt listening to this song was the sound of someone doing steps in a dance. A big drum also makes this sound as can a chugging locomotive.

Romaji

anata ga kureta aimai sa
dare yuzuri ka, mo
buttsuri togireta denwa
boutan ga kooru
ichi, ni nen ha nantonaku nantonaku jirasarete dansu
ebiiro no boushi otoshi
mukai no ho-mu sentou ni hato no kaiwa
kikoenaku naru
rasen no you ni kirinaku kirinaku atashi kara saigo.
utsura utsura chuuyafuu yukusaki wo iikake,te

nemurihime ha tatan tatan
anata omoi no rakkasan
deai gashira tatan tatan
kieta hayasa haguregumo
nijyuubashi de tatan tatan
futari ha omokage modan

anata ni ageta aimai sa
kuru mo kobamazu
tabakogumo kakiwaketara sugu ni shiodoki
otsugi ha dare? sokkenaku sokkenaku tomodachi no kanojyo
shirazu shirazu kiita kara
koi ni shizuku ga... potsuri potsuri hitori

wakareta kisha tatan tatan
mienai anata tan tatan
koisarioto tatan tatan
kiri no sanaka motsure, zumo
futaomote no tatan tatan
futari ha omokage modan

Romaji By: Brian Stewart