BUMP OF CHICKEN
という4人組ロックバンドをご存知ですか？
とっても人気なので、曲は詳しくないとしても存在は知っている方が多いと思います。
BUMPを好きになったきっかけは、
Always三丁目の夕日のエンディングで
“花の名”
を聴いた時です。優しい歌詞と声とメロディに一気に惹き込まれ、
すぐに検索して他の曲も聴いてすぐハマって、、
という風に、一気に好きになりました。
こんなに音楽が好きになったのは、BUMP OF CHICKENがきっかけです。
歌詞が、気持ちに寄り添ってくれる事が多くて
“自分でも説明出来ない自分の気持ちを歌ってくれる”
という体験を何度もしました。
難しい表現も多いですが、歌詞が大きな魅力のひとつだと思います。
そんな大好きなBUMPの曲をいくつか英語に訳してみたので、是非ご覧下さい♬
英語の勉強している方の参考になれば嬉しいです！
Do you know BUMP OF CHICKEN?
Their songs are so heart warming and cool.
The one of their attractions are lyrics.
Therefore, I wanted to convey their beautiful words to people who don’t know Japanese.
I wish my translation helps someone.
Aurora
I’m sure maybe it’s OK. I knew where it hurts.
If I can pick up my own tears, I will change to magic someday.
I just forgot a little, and it was very long
When there is no sun, it will be created in the world with crayons
Kind that we did not find for friend of justice
I have to go looking for that voice that kept calling
Though it couldn’t become a sigh, and it didn’t even have a name
I had endured with standing nails in innermost part of my heart
I can get the shape and the sound if I can touch and check
I always found the words which I wanted to convey
Footprints that draw a distorted line without interruption if you look back
It is sad and easy to understand. It always stretch towards here.
I’m not good at cherishing but I know that it is important
At the very least that white letter will arrive correctly
It’s not too much thinking. I’m in that darkness
I’m just looking for the next footstep with courage
Let the light of the shining feathers go with your voice
To where that foot should go. To the future that would otherwise have been invisible
It is better than anyone to know that you did not give up
One by one of the words that flapped, and I wish it will surely arrive
Again and again with crayons as you like
Again with your favorite color then it’ll be transparent
Once again in this world with crayons
Now it can be turned into magic
Oh, why, why, repeatedly, and still continue
The innermost part of my heart, tears are flames, and it’s time to face each other
Get shape and sound if I can touch and check
Your words have always been looking for you
I found it that way
記念撮影
Protruded from buzz of purpose and reasons
The place of the time which is hard to give a name
Like a paper airplane
Jumped in
I was just seeing the color changing of the sky
I heard it far away
Howling and brake
Sit down across a bottle of coke
Speak all you want
Keep quiet all you want
Traced ambiguous melody together
I don’t think that I have nothing to want to do
When I tried to remember that
there are just smiles and sigh
Hey you, maybe
It’s ok to be being lost
We can go whether we want
You already knew, and I already realized
We are in a ending magic
Repetition of usual days that similar to yesterday
Shaved off times little by little secretly
Beyond the blink
Overlooked many things
And pretended overlooking
It was so close
But I couldn’t touch it
Something that in the back of joking and silence
I hid a key, rounding receipt, and troublesome real feelings in my pocket
Waited shutter without moving
Lined up in front of lens
It was so fun,
Cunningly, and so dazzling
And now
Standing in the future which is not imagination
I got same injury as usual
On the fist
In the unmoving views
We are watching us
Be surrounded by buzz of purpose and reasons
Remember and get used to
Doing my best
I felt like hearing that
Howling and brake
Traced ambiguous melody by myself
All things that are unable to show by words
Like a paper airplane
Stared up by me and you at the time
I threw it to the world beyond the lens
Standing in the future which is not imagination
Even though accumulating just my yesterday
Under the yesterday
In the unchanging views
It is connected here
It’s ok to be being lost
We can go wherever we want
You were smiling
Me either
To the outside of ending magic
To the future of where I’m in
ファイター
I was in the storm when I realized
And didn’t know the way to home
So I held an empty bag tightly which only the smell of memory is packed
In the rain and wind that takes time
I got out of sight and I couldn’t not hear it
Only the body worked automatically
I desperately protect my breast which about to cry
Cause it seems to disappear when I stop
So I hide my heart with pain
Cause it seems to be sucked in when I turn around
Just repeating now with cowardly nails and fangs
All of life is shouting for just being here
A thought made with tears becomes a force to connect this breath
After I lost a lot
There is one remaining, strong remained
The voice is like a shooting star
Jump into ears one by one and glow
Get together like a fish
I got a sunshine on my cold chest
I knew that the aurora is spreading
Suddenly my eyes met with the insects at my feet and laughed
I met footsteps that were not my own
That voice showed me all
Because I don’t know how to touch normally
To the hand that touched when I was perplexed
How much passing through the night
The heat that has not been cooled far hit a pulse
It’s just you are here
But all of life are shining
To the frozen heart
That beating sounds and lights a fire
I still cannot get that
But to your side, be the closest
The empty bag is still empty
Increasing dear weight
I got scared when it got heavier
I hugged not to crush
Grab a grasping hand
The cowardly nails and the fangs cut through the darkness
All of life is shouting for just being here
To be able to protect it properly
I was born with a body that was made
Words which beyond tears
Reach from that beat and become courage
Just you are here
Ah, it’s still warm
After I lost a lot
There is one remaining, strong remained
Not leaving, always on your side
In my heart, it’s the closest
花の名
Why I cannot say simple words
But why you can understand that without my words
Even though I forget the sky which we saw together, I’ll remember the thing that I was with you
If you are a flower, it’s not so different from the others
But I picked the one
There is a song just I can sing
And only you are able to hear that
I am here because you were here
I put a song here because we put it together
I borrowed the power of living, so I have to return it before I die
Please remind it when you forget tears and smiles
Faced same difficulties
So just you can sing this song
An just I am able to hear that
Everyone want to see someone, and everyone are waiting for someone
If you have the one that you want to see, the one waits for you
Every time
Just for me and you
Someday, please remind it when you forget tears and smiles
I picked the one without hesitation
There is the one who are waiting for just me
There is the one who just waiting to see you
以上、BUMP OF CHICKEN の曲の英訳でした。
ライブにも何度か足を運んでいます。
“最高”でした♡
ライブについての記事はこちらです☺︎
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ライブレポート！BUMP OF CHICKEN, 米津玄師, moumoon, ALEXANDROS, 安室奈美恵
本当に、素敵な曲ばかりですので、
BUMP OF CHICKENの曲たちを強くオススメします＾＾
I strongly recommend BUMP OF CHICKEN, so please check it out if you are interested in them.
