#midnight bus

[magicalgirloftheday]

✧・ﾟ:*Today’s magical girls of the afternoon are: Miracle Wonder Girls from Midnight Bus!✧・ﾟ:*

[jukeboxblowingafuse]

Australian rocknroll n pop singer Betty McQuade

[paraphrasedkulchar]

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[joshua-kimchi]

LUCKY OLD SUN / Midnight Bus

Just like the shoreline continues wherever you go I won’t be lonely After all, every day Living without any changes Tomorrow’s things, I’ll decide tomorrow

Leave the city you were born and raised in Someday you’ll also become an adult You’ll become unable to use magic

Don’t worry, because I’m with you Farther away, more and more, go to the light It’s humming, the midnight bus

Just being strong and kind You can’t protect the people important to you Burning away life The foam of the tumbling days I just want to be scolded So it won’t be poured away

Dear God wait, just a little more Even the sky, someday I won’t be able to fly Knocking on heaven’s door

Don’t worry, because I’m with you By the quickest route, going until everything, everything becomes white It’s weaving through the darkness, the midnight bus

When we were kids The world seemed so big, didn’t it? I remember, to that promised place Being led

Leave the city you were born and raised in Someday you’ll also become an adult You’ll become unable to use magic

Don’t worry, because I’m with you Farther away, more and more and more Somehow, I’m doing well It’s not returning, the midnight bus

LUCKY OLD SUN is a small Japanese indie band, made up of singer-songwriter duo Shinohara Yoshiaki and Nana. Although they are not well known, this song is arguably their most popular. In my opinion, it perfectly captures the bittersweet feeling and sense of nostalgia found in their music.

This translation didn’t cause me too many headaches, so I don’t have any specific translation notes or places of sleep-depriving uncertainty this time. I arranged my translation line-by-line as presented in the music video with a focus on fidelity to line structure. As always, I’d love to hear any suggestions or corrections. Original Japanese lyrics can be seen in the music video, or read here. Thanks!

[joshua-kimchi]

ラッキーオールドサン 『ミッドナイト・バス』

どこまでも海岸線が続くように さみしくない 毎日だってね 代わり映えのない生活 明日のことは明日決める

生まれ育った街をはなれ 君もいつかは大人になってしまうだろう 魔法が使えなくなる 心配ないさ そばにいるから もっと遠く もっともっと光へとゆけ ハミングするミッドナイト・バス

強がりや優しさだけじゃ 大事なひとは守れない いのちを燃やして 転がる日々のあぶく 叱って欲しいだけ 流されないように

神さま待って もうちょっとだけ 空もいつかは飛べなくなってしまうだろう 天国のドアをたたく 心配ないさ そばにいるから 最短距離でぜんぶぜんぶ白むまでゆけ 闇を縫うミッドナイト・バス

こどもの頃には 世界は大きかったでしょう 思い出す あの約束の場所まで 連れていて

生まれ育った街をはなれ 君もいつかは大人になってしまうだろう 魔法が使えなくなる 心配ないさ そばにいるから もっと遠く もっともっともっと なんとか元気にやっています 帰らないミッドナイト・バス

[musicstall]

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[hereiamwandering]

The Midnight Bus

In a way we are all on the midnight bus. We--all of us--are on the last train home. 

We were driving down the Andes mountains from Quito to the northern coast of Ecuador. Ours was one of the last to leave Quitumbe and go where we were going. It was dark, and we drove through fog as thick as clouds: only 25 kmh because the only indication of oncoming traffic were the highbeams piercing through the mist--no way to tell how close or far away we were, so we rely on break pads and luck. 

We pass through small towns and villages on the way down. People outside are scattered like points on a plot, each giving a new meaning to nightlife. Some people stand on the roadsides with Arms raised hoping the bus will stop and pick them up; I wonder what it’s like to have hope like that, to stand on the side of the road and wait at three in the morning. Even as I think it, I know safety is not something easily considered outside the city. Here, security means something else. 

The people outside of Quito are darker skinned. Their faces range from the smoothest browns to the darkest blacks. Moreno means more than just a casual sprinkling of color. And I see them only on the midnight bus winding farther and farther away from the city. 

[mudwerks]

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BETTY McQUADE, “Midnight Bus”