Confession of Mask (2013 Version) (2014)

VELVET EDEN

Music: Aci/DADA

Lyrics: DADA

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Lyrics

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僕には顔が無い誰かに盗まれた 呪縛と引き換えにこの仮面を手に入れた

“汝、虚蝉にしがみつく付く者、哀れむには値せず”

全てを失って占う価値も無い Aliceの街角を一人歩き続けてる

Walking sick sick, Walking in town.

Walking sick sick, Walking in town. Alone.

“涙を流す度に仮面の裏の棘は伸びる”

忌み嫌ったドレスを身に纏いせめて面影を今夜も探そう

割れた仮面縫い付けながら 壊れてゆく僕をどうぞ笑うがいいさ

醜いだろ？　だけど今も信じていたい

「まだ終わらせないわ」　声がする

ひび割れてく仮面に入り込む 私たちが似合うと羽音が聞こえる

割れた仮面縫い付けながら 壊れてゆく僕をどうぞ笑うがいいさ

醜いだろ？　だけど今も信じていたい

「まだ終わらせないわ」　声がする

巡り逢える日まで　ああ

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Modified Lyrics

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僕には顔が無い誰かに盗まれた¹ 呪縛と引き換えにこの仮面を手に入れた

“汝、虚蝉にしがみ付く²者、哀れむには値せず”

全てを失って占う価値も無い Alice [アリス]の街角を一人歩き続けてる

Walking sick sick, Walking in town.³

^{Walking sick sick, Walking in town.}

Walking sick sick, Walking in town. Alone.

“涙を流す度に仮面の裏の棘は伸びる”

忌み嫌ったドレスを身に纏いせめて面影を今夜も探そう

割れた仮面縫い付けながら 壊れてゆく僕をどうぞ笑うがいいさ

醜いだろ？　だけど今も信じていたい

「まだ終わらせないわ」　声がする

I wish to know me…⁴

ひび割れてく仮面に入り込む 私たちが似合うと羽音が聞こえる

割れた仮面縫い付けながら 壊れてゆく僕をどうぞ笑うがいいさ

醜いだろ？　だけど今も信じていたい

「まだ終わらせないわ」　声がする

巡り逢える日まで　ああ

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Notes:

¹ 僕には顔が無い誰かに盗まれた is an exact combination of the first two lines of the song ‘SAD MASK,’ thus indicating that this is a continuation of the story involved in that song.

² しがみつく付く is what is written (and is clearly an error by DADA, as it makes no sense and I believe he meant to write 付く with kanji and forgot to erase the kana he had first written), but しがみ付く is what is sung (which is correct).

³ This line is sung twice, but is only written once.

⁴ DADA says something here that to me sounds like, ‘I wish to know me…’  It is not written in the official lyrics, however.

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Rōmaji Lyrics

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Boku ni wa kao ga nai, dareka ni nusumareta¹…jubaku to hikikae ni kono kamen o te ni ireta

“Nanji, utsusemi ni shigamitsuku² mono, awaremu ni wa ataisezu”

Subete o ushinatte, uranau kachi mo nai…Alice [Arisu] no machikado o hitori arukitsuzuketeru

Walking sick, sick, walking in town³

Walking sick, sick, walking in town

Walking sick, sick, walking in town…alone

“Namida o nagasu tabi ni kamen no ura no toge wa nobiru”

Imikiratta doresu o mi ni matoi semete omokage o kon’ya mo sagasō

Wareta kamen nuitsukenagara…kowarete yuku, boku o dōzo warau ga ii sa

Minikui, daro?…Dakedo ima mo shinjite itai

“Mada owarasenai wa”…koe ga suru

I wish to know me…⁴

Hibiwareteku kamen ni hairikomu…watashitachi ga niau, to haoto ga kikoeru

Wareta kamen nuitsukenagara…kowarete yuku, boku o dōzo warau ga ii sa

Minikui, daro?…Dakedo ima mo shinjite itai

“Mada owarasenai wa”…koe ga suru

Meguriaeru hi made…ā!

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Notes:

¹ ‘Boku ni wa kao ga nai, dareka ni nusumareta’ is an exact combination of the first two lines of the song ‘SAD MASK,’ thus indicating that this is a continuation of the story involved in that song.

² ‘shigamitsuku tsuku’ is what is written (and is clearly an error by DADA, as it makes no sense and I believe he meant to write ‘-tsuku’ with kanji and forgot to erase the kana he had first written), but ‘shigamitsuku’ is what is sung (which is correct).

³ This line is sung twice, but is only written once.

⁴ DADA says something here that to me sounds like, ‘I wish to know me.’  It is not written in the official lyrics, however.

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My English Translation

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A face does not exist on me/I do not have a face/I have no face, it was stolen by someone¹…I took possession of this mask in exchange for a spell

“Thou, a person who clings on to a cast-off shell of a cicada/an old, useless thing, do not deserve to receive any sympathy”

Since I lost everything, it is worthless even to see my fortune…I keep on walking alone on the street corner of Alice

Walking sick, sick, walking in town²

Walking sick, sick, walking in town

Walking sick, sick, walking in town…alone

“The thorns behind my mask become/grow longer every time/whenever I weep”

I will at least look for my face again tonight wearing the dress I hated

As you wish, please laugh at me, who is breaking down…while I keep sewing on the cracked/split mask

I am ugly, aren’t I?…But even now I want to keep on believing that I will find my face

“I will not let it end yet”…I hear a voice say

I wish to know me…³

We can hear a flapping of a crow’s wings for our well-suited appearance…entering into the cracking and splitting mask 

As you wish, please laugh at me, who is breaking down…while I keep sewing on the cracked/split mask

I am ugly, aren’t I?…But even now I want to keep on believing that I will find my face

“I will not let it end yet”…I hear a voice say

Until the day we meet again by chance…ah!

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Notes:

¹ ‘A face does not exist on me/I do not have a face/I have no face, it was stolen by someone’ is an exact combination of the first two lines of the song ‘SAD MASK,’ thus indicating that this is a continuation of the story involved in that song.

² This line is sung twice, but is only written once.

³ DADA says something here that to me sounds like, ‘I wish to know me.’  It is not written in the official lyrics, however.