夏のミラージュ - 和田加奈子

Here is one of my favorite anime songs, from Kimagure Orange Road, so sweet. I may try to give this a shot at karaoke if they have it. Since I'm sweating it out in Tokyo now, seems only appropriate.





Summer Mirage - Kanako Wada

I'll put a spell

on you, player[1]

I want to put your heart

into a trance

Love is deja vu

unfamiliar memories

I can feel

our lips overlapping

Love me tenderly

a golden summer mirage

Someday someday

The morning you call me your lover[2]

go ahead and kiss my naked body

Someday someday

I'll wait forever

There's a balloon floating

between buildings

I have a feeling

very similar to vertigo.[3]

Stretch out your fingers

a letter with no characters

If I entrust it to the wind [4]

I bet you'll get it[5]

Love me eternally

White doves dancing on the wind

Tell me tell me

I wonder when love will come

To hold that person[6]

Tell me tell me

I'll wait forever

The Persia Blue

in your eyes

I want you to show me

the mysterious future

Love me tenderly

a golden summer mirage

Someday someday

The morning you call me your lover

go ahead and kiss my naked body

Someday someday

I'll wait forever

Notes:

[1] This is kind of bullshit haha. But I couldn't find anything about 遊び心 being an adverb or something. It seemed like it's instead the object of ふりかけて. The meaning I gathered is just wanting to have fun for fun's sake, like a player. I mean, 遊ぶ is even in there, so maybe this isn't surprising. I haven't looked to see how others have translated it, but it seems to fit, maybe.

[2] I don't think 呼ばれる is modifying 朝. "The morning I'm called your lover" seems strange to me, so I changed it to active instead of passive voice........is that bad?

[3] This whole bit was sort of problematic, but I think it came out right? First I couldn't decide if 予感 was being modified or not by the previous line, but I decided it was.

[4] あづける There were a bunch of words I was thinking about here like just plain "send" [on the wind] or "leave" or "throw" [to the wind], but I guess entrust seemed not tooooooo stiff and to catch the most meaning.

[5] "Probably" sounded really weak here. That line has a lot of personality, so I tried out "I bet" and it seems better. Maybe I'm a horrible translator. Maybe someday I'll go to grad school #bewww

[6] Ah this line is super important right? But I had trouble deciding how to read it. The は at the end is distinct from the kind of わ two lines down, so it's either just a phrase orrrrrr (what I decided, it seemed like it is maybe connected to that line. I.e. without the "tell me tell me" you would just read it as "To hold that person, I'll wait forever."