Posting my old Shidou translyrics in light of recent events, part I: Throw Down.
I wrote singable translyrics for Throw Down and Triage a year or so ago, and, well…things sure have happened in Milgram since then. I’ve been thinking about Shidou again lately, and I remembered these. I like how some of the lines turned out, so I thought I’d finally post them.
Lyrics under the cut:
No, even as I’m dreaming
Hearing you cry my name again, taking all the blame again
Oh no, I killed my hesitation
Still it’s gasping from the ground, knowing every lie I spin, oh
Tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock, you know
Faces come and go but the truth won’t
Disappear if I give up now
Once those tears have passed, it’s the sole facts, it’s my last chance
Choose your life and live it, don’t quit it,
There’s nothing left to lose
Throw down
A piece of you, a piece of me, can connect
I know that you will live again
Throw down
Those words I never could unsay
I’ll lie for one more day
Until hope can grow up in its place
Throw down
That’s enough, that’s too far
Just can’t let down your heart, I know
Please don’t forgive my deeds
I see the end still waiting on for me
Throw down
Leaving lacerations
Painful words so simply said, pure white sleeves flow into red
Hey, you know that desperation
As I cut and carve and take, all of this is for your sake, oh
Day by day it’s gray left to savor
Watered down in a world without the flavor
I want nothing but what’s needed
Place by place just waste that I’m seeing, there’s no meaning
Yes or no just say it, or fake it,
It’s not the words you choose
Throw down
The meaning of each human life, every name
It’s never been an equal game
Throw down
And prune the value I decide
It starts to come alive
Til despair is bleeding on the knife
Who’s right can’t be one, it’s many, there’s a truth for every life we lead
The end is reaching its beginning, only then might my salvation come for me
Now gently let my eyes close, don’t forget my regret on show
And pray I may have saved a life I never could have known
Now no matter who comes in their place, it’s the same blank mask of a face
I still don’t have the answer, so I couldn’t even make myself afraid
Throw down
My morals, can I still believe?
Night makes way for morning, but my sins won’t leave
