The Back Horn: Shanghai Rhapsody

05.08.18
Artist: The Back Horn
Title: Shanghai Rhapsody
Words: Suganami Eijyun
Music: The Back Horn

that cute girl has cuts on her wrists
china blue
I can't forgive the ones who stole her smile
what went boom in the warehouse down by the docks
was a metal baseball bat
under the shanghai neon the honorable balding man

I'll live in this awesome and awful city,
which meaninglessly glitters with the allure of greed
no doubt until I die

I'll run between the burning skyscrapers on the count of three
drilled in my skull, the end of sadness

my pop hung himself, ma's a drunk
the kid's a beggar
no matter how I cry only a dry wind blows
I contort my face, and burst a blood vessel
I'll laugh it off!
sentimentality gets you nowhere

each night a blood stained love song,
what kind of face is your smile?
show to me alone, 'cause I'll be there with you

once you extend your hands to me,
I'll never let go even in death
life ain't that bad, it's not that good either...

dunno why but I spit, glower and kick a stray dog
desperate, a proposal, my last smile

I'll run between the burning skyscrapers on the count of three
drilled in my skull, the end of sadness

something I couldn't grasp with outstretched hands
that girl is an eternal vision in the summer heat.

Translated By: Brian Stewart & Takako Sakuma

Translator's Notes: I was gonna tell you what WE think this song's about but heck, let's leave it a mystery. Maybe when we come back some day, we'll help you figure it out. Good luck to you!

Romaji

kawaii ano ko no tekubi nya kizu ga aru
chainaburu- sa
egao wo ubatta yatsura ha yurusanee
minato no zoukou de unari wo ageta no ha
kizoku batto
shanghai neon ni meiyo no jyarippage

nanka wake mo naku gira tsuita saikou de saitei no
kono machi de ikiteyuku kitto shinu made

seeno de kakenukero moeagaru matenrou
nouten tsuranuita kanashimi no hate

oyaji ha kubitsuri babaa ha sakebitari
gaki ha monogoi
naite mo naite mo fuku no ha karakkaze
ganmen hizumase kekkan buchikirete
waraitobasu ze
kanshou nanka ha zen ni mo narya shinee

maiyo chimamire no rabusongu egao ha donna kao
ore ni dake misetekure soba ni iru kara

sono te wo nobasu nara shinde mo hanasanai
jinsei ha warukanee yoku mo nee kedo...

nanka tsuba haite gan tsukete norainu keriagete
yake ppachi puropo-zu saigo no egao

seeno de kakenukero moeagaru matenrou
nouten tsuranuita kanashimi no hate

nobashita tenohira ni tsukamenakatta mono
ano ko ha eien no natsu no kagerou

Romaji By: Brian Stewart