Before drinking the poison,
In one five-tatami-mat room,
as if looking down on summer,
I’m remembering that day
Snow White
Music and Lyrics: n-buna Illustration: No.734 Animation: Awashima
“The day I walked
on the spring riverbank,
The sun shone in the morning
as if night had been completely forgotten
On a bench by the river, someone was sleeping.
Black hair just like ebony,
sleeping in the springtime.
The poison still left in my heart
Was stabbing at my chest as if crazed.”
Blooming
Snow White, laughing and crying again today
If you would only pretend we’re going to live a long time
and kiss me once again
It’s terrible,
it’s love, with a logic devoid of resourcefulness
Maybe just a little more effort to forget…
Translation by EJ/bluepenguin
“Before drinking the poison,
I remembered that time,
And my whole life up to now,
in which I was
never able to follow the crowd.
I came to hate dreams and tomorrows.
Everything I thought I could be proud of
was just inflated ego.
Just the face of that person I met in the spring.
I should remember it, but it blurs in my heart.”
That’s right,
Snow White, cry, don’t pretend anymore
It’s all right now,
smile and wave goodbye
to your memories
It's terrible,
I thought if I was going to die it might as well be today,
While no one has any expectations of me
Putting the pitcher on the windowsill,
I poured the stolen poison in
and patched together the dried-out paper
“In the end I didn’t have anything”
Everything had become pointless,
so I released the scrap of paper into the sky
and sucked the poison water into my mouth
I remembered you.
Snow White, cry, laugh, be sad
Why is it that your sleeping face still lingers in my mind and won’t go away?
It’s terrible
Blooming
Snow White, please laugh and cry
If you would only pretend we’re going to live a long time
and kiss me once again
It’s terrible,
it’s love, with a logic devoid of resourcefulness
If I could only keep looking for you a little longer
Maybe I could try taking just one more step forward
As if vomiting up the poison