Found this band today and so far this is the coolest song by them that I have heard.
Zoom Zoom - Gedou
Rocking the devil's coat of arms our backs [1]
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We race from darkness to darkness
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Cuz we're not scared to die [2]
Go! Going my way
Worn leather jacket and a pompadour
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My rad speed machine [3]
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Put that cute chick on the back [4]
OK Baby go go go
Chase the setting sun to the ends of the earth [5]
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Run run runnin'
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Cuz me 'n the setting suns are friends
Go! going my way
Notes
[1] 外道 can be translated a lot of ways, but I went with "devil" in this case. "Rocking" is pretty liberal, obviously.
[2] 命しらず is a great word but I'm not sure if there's an equivalent idiom. I feel like there is. Kind of on the tip of my tongue but I can't find it. OH maybe I should say "We laugh in the face of death." I feel like that is kind of similar. It's actually not similar at all haha but I mean the tone...the feeling seems right maybe. I dunno. I'll leave it for now.
[3] "rad" is not literal at all. I want to say something like "My pride, my speed machine" cuz you can say that...in life, and people know you are not talking about your pride AND your speed machine, but that your speed machine IS your pride, but somehow I'm not confident it comes across in song lyrics like this...
[4] After consulting this I nearly went with "bitch" http://zokugo-dict.com/13su/suke.htm but decided that "chick" is probably insulting enough of a a nuance? Would be interesting to hear more about this slang haha.
[5] Every song I translate from now on apparently has to have どこまでも in it, and I will translate it differently every time -________-
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