'A Thousand Cranes' - The GazettE [ENG TRANS]

Original title: 千鶴
Lyricist: Ruki (流鬼)
Composer: The GazettE (ガゼット)
Translator: ayszhang

 

I can't read anything on your letter

I want to see you and hear the words from your mouth

I can't get used to this white that I hate so much

Even my sighs echo

I would be saved even only I could just see the colour of the sky

I want to forget my ragged breathing someday, too

But the strength to even wish so seems to dry up

If I sing "an upside-down tomorrow," my sleep follows a path of thorns
This restraint entangles my body
Even the mind seems to sleep
So nostalgic and gentle is the warmth I feel on my cheeks
The shadow I see through the dim interstices
A warm-coloured dream
 

Even when the day comes
When my eyes that had you in them loses you

I don't want the sunlight filtering through the trees that I'm able to see
and you to be taken away

The oozing white sways

I think I'm losing my voice too

Where are the overflowing tears going to?

Call my name

Hold me to the point I break

I'm scared to lose anymore 

Are you singing about me somewhere?

Even if I cover my ears, the erratic pulsations still resonate
Even the mind seems to sleep
I can't recall the warmth that is supposed to be on my cheeks
The shadow I see through the dim interstices
A cold-coloured reality

I inch towards the one thousand cranes of your tiny wishes

I can't even return your smile
I'm just counting the last of my breaths
In the last of moments of consciousness

I hear your voice

The morning I lost everything

"The two that never united as one"
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Translator's Notes:

Ruki has said that the lyrics are about lovers, one of which is in critical condition while the other is a singer who cannot visit the lover because of work, but sings about the lover, nonetheless.