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虹と共に消えた恋Love Disappeared With The RainbowLyrics by Kiyoshiro Imawano and Shinji MiyakeTranslation...

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 14:43:00 -0400

虹と共に消えた恋
Love Disappeared With The Rainbow
Lyrics by Kiyoshiro Imawano and Shinji Miyake
Translation by Klara

Summer memories; a moonlit beach and my Baby, on those distant days
Doo dodoo doddoo

She disappeared beyond the rainbow, that summer’s Baby
Doo dodoo doddoo

Oh summer rain showers
Please bring her back to me

When I’m enveloped by the wind’s fragrant embrace, my Baby comes back to me
Doo dodoo doddoo

Oh summer rain showers
Please bring her back to me

She disappeared beyond the rainbow, that summer’s Baby
Doo dodoo doddoo

Japanese lyrics: http://www.uta-net.com/song/62234/

Michiro Endo

Wed, 22 May 2013 18:35:23 -0400

nopperabounet:

And now for something completely different. ;p

We’ve just updated the side with a new page in the ‘Various’ section, featuring Michiro Endo of The Stalin. You’ll find some songs and an interview from a 1982 issue of Doll magazine.

Hope you enjoy the read!

http://www.nopperabou.net/endo-index/endo-index.htm

~w_b

Don’t think I’ve posted this one here yet?メシ食うなStop Eating!Text by Kou...

Sat, 18 May 2013 01:09:22 -0400

Don’t think I’ve posted this one here yet?

メシ食うな
Stop Eating!
Text by Kou Machida
Translation by Klara

Erase my entire existence
Negate my entire existence
And that of those fucking daft bourgeois kids
Because they beat me up
In town, colourful blooms in hand
National railway passengers wear the look of poverty
A sea of people; humanity

You all fucking stuff your faces because you just can’t take it anymore
Inside that void you call ‘self’
Stop eating!

電動コケシVibratorLyrics by Michiro EndoTranslation by KlaraThe vibrator ate upThe skyline of hollow...

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 21:18:59 -0400

電動コケシ
Vibrator
Lyrics by Michiro Endo
Translation by Klara

The vibrator ate up
The skyline of hollow buildings
It thrust head on
Into their hopeless lust
When the vibrator shakes its head
Buildings all across Tokyo
Wish they were the one
In the dead of the night they shake their heads
When they shake their heads all together
They suddenly all get kind of wet
And at any moment the city could melt
Even God took his pants off!
The night the vibrator schemed
Mankind became the toy
The night the vibrator schemed
Mankind became the toy

So the first one who looked like he would
Proclaim that he welcomed it
Found himself with an unbearable 4.5V
Shoved deep down his throat
It shook and shook its head, made his body shake
And as he cried and shook his head in protest
I watched, until morning came
Until morning came…

The vibrator ate up
The skyline of hollow buildings
It thrust head on
Into their hopeless lust

Japanese lyrics, in a slightly different format than mine: Niku

I’ll leave you with this one quote from Endo (taken from the Doll...

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 00:30:07 -0400

I’ll leave you with this one quote from Endo (taken from the Doll magazine):

“There’s one side to music that makes me the most miserable. And those are the times when I have no choice but to make a living from it, in the same way that ordinary people have to make money to support themselves. It makes me feel weak.”

nopperabou.net: hide vs Kenji Ohtsuki

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 21:46:15 -0400

nopperabou.net: hide vs Kenji Ohtsuki:

nopperabounet:

[…]

Ohtsuki: Wasn’t Saver Tiger punk?

hide: No. It really was regular hard rock. Only sometimes I’d spit up blood, or smash some stuff up. One time I went out and bought some meat–remember the band WASP? So they had this performance where they bit into raw meat, to go with the image of the song….

サルThe MonkeyLyrics by Michiro EndoMonkey! Monkey!The emperor learned to masturbate, the emperor...

Wed, 13 Mar 2013 18:02:06 -0400

サル
The Monkey
Lyrics by Michiro Endo

Monkey! Monkey!

The emperor learned to masturbate, the emperor learned to masturbate
In the zoo he learned to masturbate

Once he starts going at it, he doesn’t stop!
Once he starts going at it, he doesn’t stop!

The emperor learned all on his own; to masturbate, the emperor learned
The emperor learned to masturbate

Once he starts going at it, he doesn’t stop!
Once he starts going at it, he doesn’t stop!

The emperor learned to masturbate; he turned off all the lights
The emperor learned to masturbate; in the pitch dark he learned to masturbate

Once he starts going at it, he doesn’t stop!
Once he starts going at it, he doesn’t stop!
He won’t stop, the monkey!

Notes: a few lines have been cut due to repetition. This version of the song is from Stalinism but a Japanese fan wrote the lyrics out by ear since they apparently aren’t printed in the booklet.

Japanese lyrics: http://tuneari.fc2web.com/musik/stalinism.html

(I’ll admit it, I’m sticking to easy lyrics cause homework has my translation brain fried.)

The King

Sun, 03 Mar 2013 23:55:00 -0500

かくれんぼ
Hide and Seek
Lyrics by Kiyoshiro Imawano and Char
Translation by Klara

Are you ready? No, not yet!
Are you ready? No, not yet!
Even though the sun is sinking
Alone, I play hide and seek
I search for her
Tag, I’m it

Are you ready? No, not yet!
Even though the moon is shining
I can’t play hide and seek alone
I can’t search for her
Tag, I’m it
I’m still it

Japanese lyrics: http://www.utamap.com/showkasi.php?surl=E08537

vinylpanx replied to your post: Happy Fucking 2013! omggggggg so weird D: I get a feeling...

Mon, 31 Dec 2012 01:30:05 -0500

vinylpanx replied to your post: Happy Fucking 2013!
omggggggg so weird D:

I get a feeling it’s a twisted game of ‘spot the real life reference’. Anyone up for the challenge? Hah. :/

Happy Fucking 2013!

Mon, 31 Dec 2012 00:53:00 -0500

おかあさん、いい加減あなたの顔は忘れてしまいました
Mother, I Can Barely Remember Your Face Now
Lyrics by Michiro Endo
Translation by Klara

Mother, I remember the rainy traffic lights and how beside each pedestrian crossing
this ovary of yours, with his mouth gaping open,
pulled out from the trash bin mementos of a sun swollen crimson;
how then a single insect would try to sneak out of there
while going in circles through 285,120 hours of darkness.
I long for those happy memories of being soaked to the skin
after I had poured over my head the miso soup that had just been served at the dinner table.
I had wished to share with someone the embarrassment I’d felt at writing all by myself
to the Autistic Children’s Letters to the Editor section that my father is a civil servant,
and unable to wait it out until the end of school I had bolted from the classroom
and ran home as fast as I could,
but though I tried to hold my pee and wait for the green light before crossing
as you had taught me,
by the time I noticed that the traffic light was actually broken it was already too late, I was done.
Are you well?

Mother, I can’t help it if I’m smart.
Every time I assert myself she is instantly cured of her morbid fear of a phantom miscarriage.
Women’s underwear is always stained yellow,
and I will declare without hesitation that racial discrimination is the root of sexual desire.
Refreshed by my morning erection, just as if I had swallowed whole an American politician’s speech,
I decided to take a look at a sacrificial sale of Vietnamese bananas,
when I recalled a story about an old geezer from the agricultural coop;
with a freedom goddess vibrator in one hand and a red viper drink in the other,
he bought trendy jeans in Ueno’s Ameyoko as a souvenir for his cute grand-daughter,
spat some rash, old-fashioned remarks about all penniless families sharing a common destiny,
then later he became a vagrant and eventually got himself killed; it’s a sad story I’ve been trying to remember.
Are you well?

Mother, I’m not allowed to wear pants in this freezing cell.
The sound of the toilet flushing is so loud that no one can sleep,
so instead the criminals are always masturbating in secret,
and when I told the detectives in the interrogation room that I only dreamt of you,
they seemed elated as they admonished me about filial piety.
They gave me katsudon for my midday meal but I’d rather have tanuki udon,
and when I said how I despised my father,
the yakuza next to me, a Self-Defence Forces maniac, turned crimson,
flew into a rage, and started antagonizing me: “Luxury is the enemy!” and the like.
That’s when I unintentionally let it slip
how I’m glad that he got what he had wanted in life then! What a fucking pauper!
Are you well?

Mother, I can barely remember your face now.
Since my bout of cystitis, I have found pleasure in cooling that part of myself with water.
I have come to hate baths; my skin will not stop peeling off in large flakes,
and I can’t stand having my subcutaneous fat constantly exposed:
that is why I cried in the purple-red entryway, all alone.
Mother, I want to taste anpan one last time.
Mother, I want to taste the kuri kinton you used to make for me during the New Year.
Mother, I would love to eat some sukiyaki stuffed with pork and full of sugar.
Mother, my tastes are a disgrace to the ordinary person.
Mother, my diarrhea hasn’t stopped since this morning.
Mother, I must have ruptured a blood vessel.
Mother, it won’t stop bleeding, it will not stop.
Mother, Mother, I hate the color red!

Notes: I tried to keep the format as close to the original as I could but I’m iffy as hell about some parts. Not adding notes either since anything I’d write would be incomplete at best.

Japanese lyrics: http://www.uta-net.com/song/105832/

イワンのばかIvan the FoolLyrics by Ohtsuki Kenji Translation by KlaraDo you know the Sannen Goroshi?...

Thu, 06 Dec 2012 20:26:00 -0500

イワンのばか
Ivan the Fool
Lyrics by Ohtsuki Kenji
Translation by Klara

Do you know the Sannen Goroshi? (1)
It’s a trick from the Russian Sambo martial arts
That will leave you with only three years to live!
No time even to dance the Polka
Ivan had the trick pulled on him
And to himself he muttered farewell
Since then the seasons have turned
And sure enough, yesterday the third year came

Be it in happiness or in torment
The third year’s days will go by
And it’s the former that Ivan chose

Ivan the Fool!

Since learning he had little time left
Ivan had lived in depravity
For a cheap price
He took in destitute children one by one
Gradually a procession of children formed
With Ivan at the head
On they walk, straight ahead
The Trans-Siberian Railroad runs straight ahead too

They crossed the plains and headed for an ocean of trees
A great forest beneath the tundra’s midnight sun
Ivan taught the children
About this world’s hidden side

Ivan the Fool!

Having learned of the world’s hidden side, the children
despaired of the world
They drank poison and died one by one
Except for Ivan who couldn’t die
Though he knew his time was near, Ivan could not die
Again he’s Ivan the Fool! The Fool!

As Ivan buries the children
In the tundra soil
Their corpses are
Staring at him coldly

“The tundra colors are beautiful”
Says Ivan

Ivan the Fool!

Notes:
1. The ‘sannen goroshi’ or ‘three-year death’, is a martial arts myth according to which you can strike your opponent in such a way that he will die exactly three years from the day he was struck. I’ve also come across a few mentions of a ‘five-year death’. Same concept, different time period.

Japanese lyrics: http://www.uta-net.com/song/31931/

Just Like a BoyLyrics by Michiro EndoTranslation by KlaraOn the morning your letter cameIn which you...

Tue, 27 Nov 2012 18:32:20 -0500

Just Like a Boy
Lyrics by Michiro Endo
Translation by Klara

On the morning your letter came
In which you wrote you were doing great
I opened the window and conjured up your silhouette
Chasing your dreams on the sea’s distant shore (1)
And I felt a touch envious, but it’s a beautiful day today!

Oh! Just Like a Boy
Just Like a Boy
I’ll go out into town just like a boy

In the far away distance beyond is the Arizona desert
You’re standing with a guitar in one hand
Your cheeks red, made russet by the sand
I conjure up your silhouette, standing there,
And I feel a touch envious, but it’s a beautiful day today!

Oh! Just Like a Boy
Just Like a Boy
I’ll go out into town just like a boy

Oh! Just Like a Boy
Just Like a Boy
I’ll go out into town just like a boy

The morning, I’m half-asleep as usual
And even the sound of car horns seems far removed
Somehow I even feel far removed from myself
While I’m not distraught, I do find myself helpless
And feel a touch saddened, but it’s a beautiful day today!

Oh! Just Like a Boy
Just Like a Boy
I’ll go out into town just like a boy

This road runs on and on, endlessly straight ahead
Somewhere far beyond it is Paradise
I cannot wait to see what it is you have found
Your words are shining so bright
And I feel a touch envious, but today as well is a beautiful day!

Oh! Just Like a Boy
Just Like a Boy
I’ll go out into town just like a boy

Notes:
1. The verb used is 駆けずり回る. It means to rush or run around, however the emphasis seems to be on the fact that you’re making great efforts to achieve a goal, even if it means going to a million places or doing a million things. (With another possible definition being to frolic, to gambol.)
I chose to translate it as ‘chasing your dreams’ since to me that fits the lyrics best, especially since the song seems to be about emigration.

Japanese lyrics are here: http://www.uta-net.com/song/105833/

On Japanese music and translation

Mon, 26 Nov 2012 18:17:40 -0500

This is something I’ve been mulling over more and more often during my language studies. It’s by no means general - it probably applies best to me and those with more or less a similar level of knowledge.

How accurate can my translations be?

The first hurdle is the most obvious: the mentality of language. Fully grasping the mentality of Japanese is extremely difficult, especially for a person like me who has never lived in Japan. I find even after years of study, some concepts are simply too alien to my way of thinking to be easily understood.
I’m talking about cases when the dictionary definition of a word/expression has nothing to do with how that word is actually used. About cases when a word I might find positive or hopeful is actually perceived as negative or sad. About social concepts (take tatemae and honne, though that’s a cheap example) without which you will lose the entire meaning of the text you’re trying to translate.

Now add to this the fact that the people whose works I’m trying to translate are “rebels”. By some in Japan they’re seen as not having a Japanese mentality at all. They certainly don’t always think in stereotypical ways.
How does that reflect in the way they speak and write? How much of their culture’s mentality is ingrained in the language they use? For the lack of a better word, how Japanese are they even when trying to be different or edgy?

How can I, someone who is still struggling to grasp it all, translate them accurately? When often one sentence will be direct and another dripping with hidden meaning?

I worry about this the more I look at Michiro Endo’s lyrics; I can’t help but wonder what am I missing, what emotions or impressions does a Japanese person get from his lyrics that I do not? Ultimately, how qualified am I to translate this type of text?

Plastic Tree are my guilty little pleasure. :) AndrometamorphoseLyrics by Arimura...

Sat, 13 Oct 2012 20:57:15 -0400

Plastic Tree are my guilty little pleasure. :)

Andrometamorphose
Lyrics by Arimura Ryutaro
Translation by Klara

The red line
Of a thermometer
My fever is rising

My heart
Has metamorphosed
And the part that was you is waning

If life is bound to end in flames
Turn to ash, turn to sand
Then this was the first and the last time
We were able to meet

Call my name, give me yours
You are not invisible to me
The half-eaten moon is glaring at me coldly
I wish we had been able to continue towards the future together
Because there were so many things I wanted to give you and can’t now, you see

I will dream this dream for millions of nights
Surrounded by the Milky Way, we’ll meet by chance in an underworld
No matter how deep the darkness, I know I’ll instantly find you
Along a thread of memories, to you I will make my way

I’m a cowardly magician

Love’s spell
A refrain

All the flowers I grow in my heart are decaying to a dreadful colour
And though they bloom in suffering and happiness, in sorrow and love
I can’t even bestow upon you a single one

Is this the millionth night I have dreamt this dream?
An underworld hidden in the Milky Way where we strayed far from one another
But someday my tears will dry in the winds blowing from the moon
And I will almost be ready to walk on to the ends of the world

I’m iffy about a few lines so if anyone wants to see the Japanese lyrics, they’re here: http://www.uta-net.com/song/55841/

STOP GIRLLyrics by Michiro EndoTranslation by KlaraTake me to the world’s edgeSo what if we...

Sun, 16 Sep 2012 23:36:57 -0400

STOP GIRL
Lyrics by Michiro Endo
Translation by Klara

Take me to the world’s edge
So what if we crash, we’ve got nothing to lose
I’ll take the cold crystal with you tonight
And I don’t care if my throat splits

Oh Oh Oh Stop Girl Oh Oh Oh Stop Girl
Oh Oh Oh, I’ll love you even though you say stop

Even so, don’t close your ears please?
You’ll grow weary, time will turn its back on you
Your voice will sink, the air like a razor
And even though blind, you’ll be ready to forgive it all

Oh Oh Oh Stop Girl Oh Oh Oh Stop Girl
Oh Oh Oh, I’ll love you even though you say stop

You have no place to go back to, that is why you’re here
I have no place to go, that is why I’m here
In this harsh light, the sight of two insects was burnt into my mind
I don’t think they’ll ever fly away now

Oh Oh Oh Stop Girl Oh Oh Oh Stop Girl
Oh Oh Oh, I’ll love you even though you say stop

And even when this ends I’ll be perfectly fine
Someday, memories of you I’ll carry on alone
So take me to the world’s edge
Take me to the world’s edge

Oh Oh Oh Stop Girl Oh Oh Oh Stop Girl
Oh Oh Oh, I’ll love you even though you say stop

Take me to the world’s edge, Stop Girl!

Alternate version of Dekiai. 溺愛Blind Love (1) Lyrics by Michiro EndoTranslation by KlaraMemories of...

Tue, 04 Sep 2012 18:09:33 -0400

Alternate version of Dekiai.

溺愛
Blind Love (1)
Lyrics by Michiro Endo
Translation by Klara

Memories of Heaven; my body rent
My throat terribly parched
I cannot even smile, my feet have given out
I keep silent, all my words exhausted
Aa, perhaps I don’t need to pass on together with you
Aa, I cannot pass on with you

You see, I have known you since before you were born
No one would notice
Were I allowed to die slowly this way

Aa, in my mind I switch our places

I do love you as I love the dead
Aa, perhaps I don’t need to pass on together with you
Aa, I cannot pass on with you

Aa, perhaps I don’t need to pass on together with you
Aa, I cannot pass on with you

Memories of Heaven; my body rent
My throat terribly parched
I cannot even smile, my feet have given out
I keep silent, all my words exhausted

Notes:
1. 溺愛 (dekiai), can mean either a blind or a doting love though I’ve seen more examples using the latter meaning. There is also the phrase 愛に溺れる (ai ni oboreru), which means to dote on, or to be besotted with.

Japanese lyrics: http://www.uta-net.com/song/127895/

溺（DEKI-AI）愛Blind Love (1) Lyrics by Michiro EndoTranslation by KlaraMemories of Heaven; now my hair...

Tue, 04 Sep 2012 12:49:57 -0400

溺（DEKI-AI）愛
Blind Love (1)
Lyrics by Michiro Endo
Translation by Klara

Memories of Heaven; now my hair has fallen out
My throat is terribly parched
I cannot even smile, my feet have given out
My body worn out, I hold my silence…

Aa, I cannot pass on
Together with you

You see, I have known you since before you were born
Were I allowed to die slowly this way
No one would notice, I know, not one person would take note
It’s likely, I think

Aa, in my mind I switch our places
In my mind I switch our places

I do love you as I love the dead
I do love you as I love the dead
Yet I hold my silence, I will hold my silence

Aa, I cannot pass on
Together with you

Aa
Perhaps I don’t need to pass on together with you
Perhaps I don’t need to pass on together with you

I have split free of you
It’s time…I split free of you…

Memories of Heaven…..

Notes: this is the Trash version.
1. To be honest, I can’t make my mind up. 溺愛 (dekiai), can mean either a blind or a doting love though I’ve seen more examples using the latter meaning. There is also the phrase 愛に溺れる (ai ni oboreru), which means to dote on, or to be besotted with.

Japanese lyrics are here: http://tuneari.fc2web.com/musik/trash.html

負け犬Coward (1)Lyrics by Michiro EndoTranslation by KlaraCoward! Coward! You breed...

Thu, 30 Aug 2012 15:59:02 -0400

負け犬
Coward (1)
Lyrics by Michiro Endo
Translation by Klara

Coward! Coward! You breed schizophrenia
Coward! Coward! On a fair night you start to howl (2)

When those damned politicians start to sing
Cursed capitalists burst into laughter
And the magistrates start to rage
They’ll be forever wretched!

Coward! Coward! There is nothing you believe in
Coward! Coward! It’s enough your feelings get hurt and you’re incompetent

You’re the outsider when you crash in uninvited
A blind sheep nodding along
Surely someday you’ll turn out to be a bakeneko (3)
You’ll be forever a fool

Coward! Coward! You’re obscene down to the core
Coward! Coward! Hoarding your semen and nothing more

When those damned politicians start to sing
Cursed capitalists burst into laughter
And the magistrates start to rage
They’ll be forever wretched!

Notes:
These lyrics were taken from STOP JAP NAKED.
1. The literal translation of 「負け犬」 (makeinu) is “losing dog”. A makeinu is someone whose entire existence is based on servitude and submission to those he considers his superiors. He will never “bare his fangs” at a superior adversary, preferring instead to give up and run before the start of the fight. His cowardice and submission seem to be the two defining traits - that is why I translated it as ‘coward’ rather than ‘loser’.
I have also seen makeinu translated as ‘underdog’ but unlike an underdog, makeinu is not seen in a positive light.
2. This line is a twist on the expression 「（負け）犬の遠吠え」, “(make)inu no tooboe”. The distant howl of a makeinu. It’s a three part saying. First, a weak dog will always wait to be in a safe place before howling with all of his might. Second, a coward will be full of swagger behind other people’s backs, and will stab them in the back rather than confront them directly. It’s also an expression ridiculing the swagger, excuses and unwillingness to admit defeat of one who finds himself in a losing position.
3. Have a peek at the Wikipedia page for some quick information on the bakeneko.

If anyone wants, lyrics to the STOP JAP version are here: http://www.uta-net.com/song/105834/

先天性労働者＝ＯＨ！マルクスHereditary Labourer = Oh! MarxLyrics by Michiro EndoTranslation by Klara▼ The...

Thu, 30 Aug 2012 15:40:24 -0400

先天性労働者＝ＯＨ！マルクス
Hereditary Labourer = Oh! Marx
Lyrics by Michiro Endo
Translation by Klara

▼ The immediate aim of the Communists is the (same
▼ as that of all other proletarian parties:) formation of the proletariat
▼ into a class, overthrow of the bourgeois supremacy, conquest of
▼ political power by the proletariat.
▼ The Communist revolution is the most radical rupture with
▼ traditional property relations. No wonder that its development involved
▼ the most radical rupture with traditional ideas.

▼ (The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims.)
▼ They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible
▼ overthrow of all existing social conditions.
▼ Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution.
▼ The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains.
▼ They have a world to win.

     You can’t live without loving
     You can’t live with love
     Foul, dark, stinking, ignorant
     Stinking, ignorant, stinking, ignorant

▼ The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.
     The history of all hitherto existing class struggles is the history of defeat.
     Suppress them the moment, the moment they happen!
     Desist as you are! Disappear as you are!
     Vanish as you are! End it now!
     Just go to sleep now!

     Rise up! Rise up!
     Rise up! Rise up!
     Rise up! Rise up!

▼ Working men of all countries, unite!
▼ Working men of all countries, unite!

Notes:
All lines marked with triangles are quotes from the Communist Manifesto. The lines in parentheses aren’t part of the Japanese lyrics but in my opinion had to be kept to preserve the meaning of the quotes.
I would like to quote a footnote from the English translation that I used: “The famous final phrase of the Manifesto, “Working Men of All Countries, Unite!”, in the original German is: “Proletarier aller Länder, vereinigt euch!” Thus, a more correct translation would be “Proletarians of all countries, Unite!”
The last two lines of the song, 「万国のプロレタリアート　団結せよ」, are a word for word translation of the German phrase and thus more accurate than the English “Working men of all countries, unite!”

I used the following English version of the Communist Manifesto: http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/index.htm

I couldn’t find the exact Japanese translation Endo used, but here are two Japanese versions for the curious:
http://redmole.m78.com/bunko/kisobunken/sengen1.html
http://page.freett.com/rionag/marx/mcp.html

The song 「お母さんいい加減―先天性労働者」 is another version of Oh Marx! with the order of the lyrics reshuffled and minus (most of) Endo’s original lines.

KalavinkaLyrics by Suganami EijunPerformed by The Back HornTranslation by KlaraDance in the rain,...

Sun, 15 Jul 2012 19:39:03 -0400

Kalavinka
Lyrics by Suganami Eijun
Performed by The Back Horn
Translation by Klara

Dance in the rain, Kalavinka
Dance gaily, Kalavinka

With truth in your hand and reality in your eyes
Dance in the rain, Kalavinka

There are mountains of hidden treasures, flowers in beautiful bloom
Now share a drink from the sacred chalice and exhale purple smoke

Dance in memory of death, Kalavinka
Dance gaily, Kalavinka

With truth in your hand and reality in your eyes
Dance in memory of death, Kalavinka

A vibrant mandala; the darkness of reality deepens into a void
As darma tumbles down the eternal helix of karma

Under a swirling gilded sky, fate is etched into your palm
Arcadia dyed pink by a swirl of exhaled smoke

Following the light towards the peak where life blooms
The map of your soul unfolds, guided by the light

Under a swirling gilded sky, fate is etched into your palm
Arcadia dyed pink by a swirl of exhaled smoke