With white earphones in my ears
I give the signal with a little grin.
The moment I knocked on the door,
The heat permeating me floods out.
"You still don't see?"
A staring contest with strained eyes.
When I faltered then
The chord rang out:
"Now's the time, take it back!",
As from inside my mind.
The world is lovable yet harsh.
There were some who loathed it.
With their cruelly irrational "system"
If I approve, then the future won't exist...
Boys and girls, face forward
Finding hope in even the unbearable heat.
"Bring it back!" , "Bring it back!"
The crescent moon rises in red flames.
Now, come, write the code in 0's
Head to the World outside the imaginary,
To the overstated warfront of fantasy.
"Go on ahead," you stick out your tongue, simple eyes feigning cockiness.
With their password, "Hey, it's my turn",
The awoken, restless child won't stop.
The night's getting dark,
For the "children", they're brightly burning
Extra innings.
Adversity is the cool thing, isn't it?
Can't sleep, not yet.
Come, hurry, hurry!!
In-tempo
We meet our gazes
And then the beat resounds with a high touch.
Isn't it too late to think about it?
Come on, just get with us!
With one chord, we meet our gazes
And then you're wrapped in the bouncing groove.
You should see it's not a joke
Between the gasp of the high-end scenery.
So what do you think of this heat
And our values that just so happen to meet?
"Not so bad, is it?"
When we open our eyes
And clasp our hands
Even these surprisingly cheap words
We dispute them as "passwords".
And I face pasulong just a little.
Boys and girls, face forward
Finding hope in only the shimming heat.
Recall, and bring to words
Your miraculous encounters and farewells.
"You know, about that wild world; I laughed it off as being just too harsh."
So ends the signal.
Boys and girls, face forward!
Find hope in only the dizzying heat!
"Take it in hand!", "Take it in hand!"
The blazing sun rises in red flames.
Now, come, it's the call.
Let's make this the end; the best plan of action has opened your eyes,
From the overstated warfront of daydream
to beyond a mobius strip of emotion.
Artificial Enemy:
When your dreams are gone,
Then why repeat the daily grind?
There's no point in it."
A fantastic thing to say...
You are the same
"I pag-ibig the unreal."
You say it with your fingers
Though your mouth says nothing...
People without faces and voices,
You feel some connection to them.
Of course, though,
That can't be a mutual love.
Still, that's the way it goes,
Another araw ends.
But you pretend you have lived,
And then went to sleep.
Ah, even if you say it's boring
You avert your eyes
Even though you can't close them.
Considering you refuse to acknowledge it,
Will you today ipakita such a disgusted face again
As you watch me behind the screen?
This is not the best solution
And I know you know that.
To drown in dark, withered days,
Must no doubt be painful.
If reality isn't a lie, then what is it? If you don't understand then..
How about living together with me
In this world created sa pamamagitan ng humans?
Is there any point in a place
That only denies you?
Just say NO to everything,
And only look at me!
"Ah, truly fantastic."
Even if they clap their hands,
Lies have filled
The outside with junk.
Say, you're so painfully buried in it,
Why are you looking at me now with such a cold face?
This is not the best solution
And I know you know that.
At the end of it,
You know you'll find an endless feeling of isolation.
As you repeat your days
In a room without light,
My noise resounds,
As I begin to crumble away.
"I don't understand this at all!"
I cried, and you sinabi to me,
"I'm already bored of this toy that can only talk!
Blindfold Code:
The vanishing world of hope is growing heavy and cannot fly.
And still I import my mistakes.
The iPod in my pocket vibrates with the code.
I put in my earphones
In the meantime, if you put your hood up it's no problem.
"Blindfold complete."
As usual, it's impossible to be seen like this.
If the emergency light glows red, again the scenery becomes surreal.
Surprisingly, today even came without taking the lo-fi environment
A lifetime of anxiety awaits you tomorrow.
"Now, now, this can't really be it?"
If you, swaying, etch the beat into your mind,
You'll see that this isn't so bad.
Hey, you can't get tired of this yet!
Swallowing down your vanity
To the right of the 2nd railway gate you see.
When your puso is clogged with expectations,
Your lips will widen with a small grin.
Becoming completely groovy
I run slightly ahead, leading, though,
Suddenly the atmosphere becomes familiar.
If no one at all notices you,
Then you'll definitely be alright.
"Continue the mission."
20 minutos later...
Is it hard to do it?
Retie your sneakers!
"Look, there's the signal. Let's go coolly!"
If your body temperature rises, you can clear it in one go with the high-pass
The endlessly swelling city to the west, to the north, toward your side.
"Hey, hey, are you almost over?"
If the blonde heel laughs,
Unfortunately, I wouldn't know.
You can't hide.
The number of members is unlimited.
Naturally, joining mid-action is welcome.
There's no requirements to join.
The uniform is whatever you want to wear.
Even the self-proclaimed naive you
Can sumali with the password.
sa pamamagitan ng the way, even me
And I'm a 2D otaku, hikikomori, NEET.
But that's not a problem, right?
"This feels great!"
I deflect like PIKI!
The alarms don't stop.
If the neon unexpectedly falls
Then, pull back your hood and ipakita your face!
Surprisingly, today even came without taking the lo-fi landscape
A lifetime of anxiety awaits you tomorrow.
"Come, come. It wasn't so bad!"
If you rub your red eyes and look outward
What's this? It wasn't for nothing!
Now then, you who hasn't cooled down,
Why don't you come inside?
Heat-Haze Days:
On August 15th, 12:30 in the afternoon,
The weather was incredibly nice
And amidst the sickening rays of the dazzling sun
I spoke with you, for I had nothing else to do
"Well, y’know, I kind of hate summer",
You boldly murmured while petting a cat
Ah, you pursued that cat as it ran away from you
And what jumped out
Was the traffic light that changed to a glaring red
Suddenly, a truck came out of nowhere and struck you as you screamed
Your scent, now mingled with sprayed blood, choked me
In the haze of lies, the haze of heat laughed, "This is all real!"
With that, like a cricket’s sound being disturbed, the light blue of summer darkened away
I woke up upon my kama to the sound of a ticking clock
What time is it now?
On August 14th, sometime past 12 in the morning
I recalled the sound of an awfully annoying cricket
But, y’know, it’s a little strange.
Yesterday, in a dream, I saw us walking in this same exact park
"Why don’t we go tahanan now?"
The segundo you stepped off the pathway, everyone surrounding us
Turned their heads up to the sky and opened their mouths
From the sky, down dropped an iron pole
That pierced your body straight through
The sound of wind-chimes and your ripping screams filled the spaces between the park trees
In this unnatural scene,
The shimmering heat laughed, "This is the real thing!"
As my vision blurred away, I glanced at your profile, and thought I saw you smiling
Countless times have had me black out
In the laughing heat like this
This cycle has repeated for decades
I realized that a long time ago
In this kind of clichéd story,
There must only be one ending.
Beyond this repeating summer day, it has to exist.
Suddenly, I pushed you aside and jumped into the street;
At that moment, the truck slammed into me
Your eyes and my twisted body were like hazy reflections of the blood that sprayed everywhere
If that praiseful heat haze laughed, “Serves you right!” again
Then this would be what you’d call a normal summer day.
But all of that ended today.
On August 14th, a girl awoke upon her bed
And she said,
"I failed this time, too..." as she cradled a single cat.
Headphone Actor:
It was an extremely average day,
Without a single obstacle in my path
Until I was bored, listening to the radio,
And I heard this voice that said:
"It's very unfortunate I have to say this,
But the world is going to end today"
So sinabi some country's president,
In tears as he spoke.
Out the windows was a huge flock of birds,
Congesting to cover up the sky
Swallowing up the crescent moon,
Headed some unknown direction...
I had a half-finished game with no save;
A scarcely-touched textbook lay on my desk
And to stop my body from trembling,
I promptly put on my headphones
Just as I was listening to an obscure artist,
A number they did with an unknown title,
Just as it came to my ears, I heard:
"You want to survive, yes?"
Waving over the wriggling world,
The skyscrapers seemed to tremble
This voice seemed unmistakable:
It was my own, which I was tired of hearing
"If you tumawid that hill, then in twenty seconds,
You'll know what I mean, for better or worse
Don't doubt, just listen close - go twenty segundos ahead."
The intersection was crowded, of course;
Man, woman, child, it didn't matter
I was buried under people yelling and babies' cries.
Rioting people, a sobbing girl,
A priest praying, I passed them all by
One single person headed the other way,
Towards what was beyond that hill.
The voice from the headphones persisted:
"Twelve minutos left," it told me
If everything was going to up and vanish,
Then I had no other way.
The chorus of shrieks and screams
Turned to tearful eyes in ten seconds
I had my doubts, but no matter who did what,
There was no ending humanity's song
"Run, run, there's one minuto left,"
But I couldn't even hear it sa pamamagitan ng then;
The burol which I thought to cross
Was right before me.
My breath faint, I finally arrived
Before a pader which projected the sky.
Behind it, scientists in white applauded;
"Magnificent," they sinabi -
Doubt.
From there, I saw the town
Was some kind of experimental facility;
"No longer necessary,"
A scientist said, and calmly tossed a bomb
I was told I had been living
My whole life in a little world in a box.
So I could only stare, dumbfounded
At the burnt wreckage that had been the town.
And from the headphones at my ear,
I heard a faint "sorry"...
