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."
