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MORRIE / Phantom Lake from 光る曠野 (2019)

Phantom Lake

From the darkness of lake’s surface Echoes a singing voice A mirror imbued with blood Knowing every single corpse Beyond time

One’s wandering blood A shadow of reincarnation In a chase Forgetful, pure, Nostalgic you The flesh of a star

In this perishing world My death is A survival A dream come true Endlessly

Dream is just a phantom The unknown at the end of nothingness

From lake’s dark bottom A tragic melody Rumbling of a sunken deity As if trembling within the womb*

The distant day’s Sunset glow Just like you Came early

Eternally

Nothing is changing Memory burns Until it burns out Only the swaying moon and phantom flower And the sound of snow Changing

At the end of this dream And this world A phantom crescent moon Simply dazzling A lover

Everything is a phantom The unknown at the end of death

A note regarding Lake Ashi (MORRIE’s Phantom Lake) and Kuzuryū Shrine by the lake (via Wikipedia):

Kuzuryū (九頭龍 nine-headed dragon) is a deity that appears in folklore and legends of various parts of Japan [...]. In many cases, the Kuzuryū is associated with water.

During the Nara period, a legend arose that the Nine-headed Dragon had settled in Lake Ashi in Hakone, and that it demanded a sacrifice. To appease the dragon, the villagers agreed to select a house by shooting a white-feathered arrow and seeing where it landed, then sacrificing the daughter of the house. A priest named Mankan (Japanese: 万巻上人) cursed the dragon, and is said to have chained it to the Upside-down Cedar (an underwater rock formation). As a result of this legend, the dragon came to be worshipped as Kuzuryū Daimyōjin (九頭竜大明神 Great God Nine-Headed Dragon). The expression "send up a white-feathered arrow" has come to mean "choose by lot."

The legend continues, saying Mankan saw the dragon reform and change into a Dragon King. He then built a shrine to the dragon. After this the customary offering to the dragon changed from human sacrifice to steamed rice with red beans.

Kanji below.