Thursday, March 28, 2013

Level 5 Judgelight [English Adaptation Lyrics]

As the light of dreams starts to shine again upon this future here
This resonating wish is cast out for our sake
In this dazzling light that just always seems to make the darkness disappear
I keep running forth to surpass my own fate

Giving hope to my own future self
I bind feelings here with my own heart
Knowing always the things that I treasure are close
They stay beside me each day

Do you know how to find power inside?
Do you know how to break limits ahead?
Just find your path. Never give up.
Always put faith in yourself instead

Facing my own reflection in the glass of mirrors in my way
I shatter myself and move on towards my goal
Even as the faces that I can see grow stronger with each passing day
I can feel this resolve burn within my soul

Truths within my heart ensure I won’t stray from the path I walk on
Because my will holds me in place upon this road
I refuse to ever just turn away, to ignore any hurtful things
I will realize that potential that I hold

As I walked, I sensed you coming near
But since when were you so close to me?
This is simply the way our roads now intersect
This bond we all can now see

Still as I look up to the skies above
As I now search among all that I see
Still I can’t shake this strange unease
From the pain of that past memory

I can feel this strength flowing endlessly
Due to my yearning heart
Because there are some things I swear that I’ll protect
As these vistas pass back and forth right here, my troubles seem to disappear
As my feelings and my will both intersect

Believe in Judgelight that now pierces fate and lays within my hands
I choose to shape this fragile dawn for all to see
As I smash through all of life’s obstacles with nothing but my inner will
I will seize this future that shines brilliantly
I will make my will live on eternally

At the start of this time that’s running through, we both swore this same vow
That we would pass our judgment on the darkness here
Even if we fell to our weaker selves, we swore we would never look back
We would move to make loneliness disappear

As this well known scene plays out for our eyes and our past fades away
I feel the signals showing me which way to go
I will cast aside all the things I hold that weigh me down and block my way
I will choose to venture forth with all I know

This truth in my heart keeps on guiding me, it keeps me on my road
I’ll never lose my way if I trust my own will
Tracing this strength back to its distant source, the place where it once overflowed
It is from our bond that holds us closer still
It is within that next stage our fates fulfill. 

Original Song
Karaoke

Sis Puella Magica [English Adaptation Lyrics]

What I saw on that day
What I felt as she lay
Bearing the world on her shoulders

Seeing the price she paid
For that one wish she made
Fighting on until it’s over

The only thing I wished for was a way to save her
Free her from the chains that kept binding her to her fate
Find a way for all of us to keep moving,
Keep alive, all survive
Let’s keep on fighting for our common cause

Watching our friendships split
Watching us fight and die
Knowing our imminent sorrow
Watching sadness and grief
Shatter our core belief
Knowing the end of tomorrow

Are there better ways for us to keep on living?
Can we carry on after we’re done forgiving?
Even if the answer is “no” I’ll keep having hope,
that someday, we will find, that world we dream about

The only thing I wished for was a way to save her
Free her from the chains that kept binding her to her fate
Yet it was her who would start the change to lead the way to the day
Where the future we protect is shining
I’ll keep fighting.

Original Song
Karaoke

Naraku no Hana [English Adaptation Lyrics]

So then, let’s forget the past
That remains soaked with blood
Those days that filled up with pain
Violence, tears, and mud
Right now, as this wind curls round
The wind spirals as a sign
Let’s leave that dark past, far behind

You should run away, you should run away
Just escape from the fate that draws sorrow here
I assure you, you are not a Naraku bloom
Growing within this fear
Please don’t take root here, please don’t blossom near
Don’t let this sorrow be the place where you’re bound
The shattered shards of our time fly by without a sound

So then, do you know the hand that now takes yours with care?
Know then, that despite this pain they are always there
Just now, I know we both felt the shift that our bond just made
Let’s hope that warm sight will not fade

Let us fly away, let us now take wing
We should flee past the bounds of our distant fate
Choose not to be the flowers of Naraku here, lost among everything
As these petals whirl, as they spin and swirl,
I can only think of their downward fate
And as this blooming season passes, their seeds now propagate

Let us chase them there, let us run to where
We can grasp the answer that now breaks our fate
Now it is true that we’re not the blooms of Naraku
We cannot hesitate

Let us break this past, let us break these chains
That once tied us right here within this garden’s bound
Let us now work to free ourselves and leave without a sound.

Original Song
Karaoke

My Soul, Your Beats! [English Adaptation Lyrics]

As I awake, the dream repeats again
The morning sky shines so blue
My past dreams fade away, with all that I knew
Passing the doors that lead out to the class, I move as one with these keys
This one day starts again, within that ceaseless breeze

It carries this melody and plays it back endlessly

I know I heard it calling out
I tried to sense what that song’s all about
And as I felt it, my heart began to tremble
I felt that song play once again
Call to the stars above to leave, and then
They all faded away
I waved them goodbye
With all that I knew
And said “Good for you”

As I tidy the halls, sweeping the dust
It seemed just so strange to me
Should time have really stopped
How this world should be?
As these days pass I change how I still live
And clutter builds up like snow
I feel like I still wait for something I don’t know

And through it all I still hear that melody drawing near

It seems like it’s waiting for me
Calling out from somewhere that I can’t see
Just like the last time, my heart began to tremble
As I still searched, I felt I’d find
Something I lost, forgotten in my mind
Something I had to say
The words that I sought
Memories uncaught
This unending day

Before this feeling passed, I knew the truth at last
I could keep running on, heading toward you
Yesterday’s in the past. Tomorrow’s coming fast
While this endless time is ending now, my own heart begins to beat

I can say I can hear it now
That endless song that carries on somehow
That melody still makes this heart beat and tremble
I felt it come and go again
Show me the path that leads me to the end
The start of something new
What was that thing, waiting for me?
What was that truth that I just couldn’t see?
That doubt that kept me waiting here in this dead world
I found that thing that frees my soul
Those waiting words that can now make me whole
They now appear like dreams

Those words that I know
What I had to do
Is just say “Thank You”

Original Song
Karaoke

Thursday, March 21, 2013

No Thank You [English Adaptation Lyrics]

As we write our wishes down upon this white board
Dry erase marks seem to last through all our mistakes
Even though the bell signals that our time is over
It is here that proves that our dreams won’t erase

Let’s sing louder, Louder, LOUDER! Till our voices crack
Let the hope, you have, form words, upon your hopeful lips
Once these words, are said, out loud, we’ll never take them back
Because they are the words of our song

I say I don’t need memories of what I know
Because the present is the most that I’ll allow
To have a record of the years gone by, is something more mature
But I still can say… I don’t need that right now

Both my heart and notebook cry for songs I’ve yet to write
My hand shakes as I mark these fragile words, carefully
There is pain and pleasure found in breaking this silence
The way it reverberates is a mystery

Let’s fly higher, Higher, HIGHER! Till we all can see
How the dreams, we drew, are all, arrayed in front of me
Here we sing, our songs, to let, our childish words run free
Our brightly colored wings shine with light

I don’t need promises to say what I will do
Taking these words I said, I choose to see them through
Having to keep my word, to just save face. To limit what is true
Those old guarantees… I don’t need anymore

Though I don’t know when or where they’re heard
I feel these words here will remain strong
I hope they ring out eternally
So please listen to what I have to sing, our splendid song

Let’s sing more, and More, and MORE! Until our voices fail
Take these words, we shout, and know, the things they all entail
These ideals, proclaimed, right here, map out our common trail
Our meeting here is part of our bond

NO THANK YOU! My memories are things that can just fade away
Because it’s in the now where I’ll have my song play
To have your memories held close to you, encircle you and stay
Is just more mature… But I don’t need that now.

Original Song
Karaoke

Allegro Cantabile [English Adaptation Lyrics]

As I sat and I played, all of the warm days away
I remembered that sound as the sky faded to grey
And as the day came again, I remembered where I had been
And that is where we begin, from where we left off back then
(Picking up where I left off)
Picking up tempo now
(Now hold these notes aloft)

The chords sound the beat and the instruments sync up here

Starting the new movement “Allegro”
In order to leave some new place to go
Because I feel there’s not much to do
Beside just starting to see it through
And as the time ticks these beats away
Along this score’s path on which I play
And as this new crescendo fills the air
I wonder what I will find there

In this newborn world, brimming with a newfound tune
Is a recurring note that signals the end of the prelude

88 keys I play, in this wide music array
Triplets set in three, describe this main harmony
Taking rests very slow, I move along legato
Until I’m at the place I should be (Recurring melody)

Although the chords balance out
Forte still makes them shout!

Although I may say I know this song
It still doesn’t mean I won’t get it wrong
I trip over tempo changes here
And the path forward seems to disappear

I can try to improvise the next phrase
Or play the next note within a daze
This lost cadenza spills discord everywhere
But I still know I can get there

Right in front of me, I seem to have lost the starting mood
It is with sadness here, I continue into the etude

(Somebody set me free)
(Aaaa….)
(Just repeat back again)

Even though it may seem like I’m still lost
I’ve just recalled which way I must go
Picking speed up with accelerando
And crashing back to the main theme, Subito

I know I could never lose my song
My feelings for singing are too strong
And as my life’s music fills the air
I invite you to hear it there

A pianist on a stage, for this concert I am giving
Let me tell you this truth, this song is the life that I’m living

Just remember; In this music world, that reflects my everlasting mood
As we start once again, the coda leads into the prelude

Original Song
Karaoke

Negai Kanau Basho Ni [English Adaptation Lyrics]

What we saw in those days shining brightly above
Those dreams we had. The things that we love
They’re all here, in this place that remains over time
And now, right here, we stand
I stay, holding, your hand

In those days, we saw how our paths crossed in time
The friends we met, the things we would find
All our dreams, they came true on that brightly lit stage
Lead us, back there, would you?
That place, where dreams, come true…

Those bright tales, they show how our dreams can come true
The ways we live, the things we can do
As they soar far away into the bright blue sky
This place, where dreams, come true
This place, where I, met you

Here, now, the shadows fly by
Bring our wish to the place I lie

All these lights are shining in this place without end
To there, that hill, this message I send
“Start again, repeat what leads to those far bright days
That place where dreams come true
Let’s all begin… anew”
“Perhaps… I will… meet you…”

Friday, March 8, 2013

Momentarily Melancholic

I know not the purpose of my lasting will
My role in the circus that moves ever still
No point in playing games that ensue without end
With this annoyance, I've had my fill

For what reason do we continue to toil
Commit to spats and in conflict embroil
Spent effort ant time, only to find
That there is no worth in new soil

Why is it that I must provide my own fare
for amusement and satisfaction in every day
Else suffer some manner in which minds shall impair
one's fragile ability to care

I tire of acts that seem made in vain
I tire of tiring only to complain
For what reason do events drag along without end
Providing a ceaseless refrain?