DIM SCENE

Romaji and English translation of the song DIM SCENE from the album DIM by the GazettE.

• Lyrics originally sung in English are in italics , and words or phrases I felt were implied are in [brackets] in the translation.
• I also (usually) put repeats of chorus/verses/stanzas in [brackets] if they’re not written that way in the original lyrics for ease of singing along.
• If he writes a word in the lyrics but doesn’t sing it, I put it in light grey to make it easier to skip when singing along.
• I usually romajize katakana characters in CAPITALS, and keep punctuation and line spacing as close to the original booklet as possible. If you see me putting spaces before punctuation at the end of a sentence or writing things in mixed-case capitals, that’s because it’s how it was in the booklet.
• Any comments I had during the romajization/translation process will be included as footnotes so as not to disturb the flow of the song. They’re not required reading, but Ruki does some pretty nifty things with his lyrics/kanji choices, or sometimes there’s further explanations about words or phrases in there.

DIM SCENE: Romaji

Azawarai sugita sei de sono kikyuu ya kachi wa nukeochi
Tonari de nemuru danzetsu wa gukou     sou     kuzureteku joukei no imi wo kuchiteku imi wo
Muragaru karasu no moto he nakiyamu made zero¹ ni touhisuru kazu wa ou
Ibitsu ni magaru arubeki sugata wa nuiawaseru hodo fukaku tokeru

Doukou ni ukaberu genjitsu wa kara     mahishita kokoro² no seika

Sora ga togire hikari ga chi ni ochiru     nageku koe wo ayasu akago no yume
Nuritsubushi sugite tadareteku uso     chou no hane de rakka suru ga
Kunou no ura de oborete iru ai     nakigara ni te wo nobasu boukansha
Haitsuku baru asu wo warau rouba douka ore no mama de

Atari wo umetsukusu atenaki itami
Me wo toji tomosu uta ni kizu nado iyasenu

Kabe ichimen ni sakidashita owari³     daremo ga boukyaku wo negau tabi
Soushitsu⁴ ni yakareta ore no uta wa honogurai kyomu no soko de oboreteru

Rarara

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DIM SCENE⁵: Translation

Overwhelmed by unending ridicule, we’ve abandoned everything we ever cherished or longed for
Though [we know it’s] foolish, we still keep destruction close as we slumber     until     even the very meaning of this decaying scene is lost to us
We chase away the crows that gather around us     their squawking cries ceasing      until every one of them has fled
Our utopia is so twisted and distorted that we have to sew it back together before it unravels

The reality that is reflected in our eyes is nothing but a husk;     is it because we’ve become numb to what we feel in our hearts²?

The light from the shattered sky falls upon the ground⁶      a voice broken with grief dreams of rocking a baby⁷
So covered over with lies you begin to fester underneath them⁸     a moth descends on the wings of a butterfly⁹
Love drowns beneath anguish¹⁰     bystanders reach their hands out towards corpses¹¹
An elderly woman sneers at a future brought to its knees¹²
Please let me be myself¹³

Everything around is filled with senseless misery¹⁴
I close my eyes, but the wounds illuminated by this song still won’t heal¹⁵

Extinction³ spread over the face of a wall¹⁶     sometimes everyone just wants to forget¹⁷
My gloomy song was burned¹⁸ by loss⁴ and slowly sank to the depths of oblivion¹⁹

La la la

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DIM album cover art © 2009 King Records / JPU Records