The scenery doesn’t change;
on a faded afternoon I’m lying in the deep indigo
beneath the overpass
I hear a single clap
for my blank-page life
I was singing about my own emptiness today, as usual
Yorushika - Deep Indigo*
Lyrics, Composition, Arrangement: n-buna
Vocal: suis
Music Video Directed by Popurika
So things wouldn’t change,
I wrote a story starring you
in my notebook
My gas and water being cut off,
society, and the news are all someone else’s problem
Look,
my life is like ink
The dream I had when I was young gets closer to its expiration date
as I get older
Though I just, I just look up at the clouds
As usual, they flow through my field of vision
In the distant night sky I looked up at, flowers swam
So many that it could be mistaken for spring
As if I’d just lost sight of you
Translation by EJ/bluepenguin
*A more literal translation of the title would be “Indigo Squared.”
The word for “indigo,” 藍/ai, sounds like the number “i,”;
i2 is -1.
It’s also homophonous with 愛 (love) and 哀 (grief).
I looked down so I wouldn’t trip
Life is made of
nothing but compromises
I don’t believe in hearts or fate or love songs or life
After all, if you can’t sell something it has no value
I intentionally discarded the present I dreamed of,
and now I’m lying here waiting for
its expiration date
Behind my eyelids, I just, I just saw
An imagined, distant vision of you
In my notebook, flowers swim in the corner of a faded night
One more is in my eye
Life is just one compromise after another**
I learned that pretty fast
Elma, it’s you
You alone are my music
There are only eighty more characters in this song
Because maybe the only value of a life
is in the way it ends
I just, I just picture you
As even the indigo filling my vision is blurred
In the distant sky I looked up at, flowers swam
Deep indigo covers my eyes
It’s just, it’s just…
In the distant sky I looked up at, you are cooling off
As if you were just swimming in the night
** go to the bottom of the video's description for the translation of the flashing text found here