The landscape just goes on flowing
I have stopped feeling anything
I am pining for the sound of you
Now, I have left the past behind
Your voice doesn’t reach me
Ahh even the shadows vanished
The scene just goes on flowing
Why do people come and go?
Even if I try holding my hand against my chest softly
It is a physical sensation
being engraved on me
in vain
Purposeless, we were born and fell
Within hundreds of millions of lives
You and I managed to meet
Water droplets, tears overflow and spill in the middle of eternity
No answer comes forth
But that transparent smile of yours
Kept the flame at the bottom of my heart lit
Within my memories
(Absolutely opposed elements
They resembled each other like twins
Light and shadow
U and I)
Eternity sinks and caves in at your side
The birds of the setting sun head for tomorrow
Only the memories that I loved connect me a little;
Nightfall for a world painted the colour gold
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NOTES / INTERPRETATION:
Blue font indicates text originally written in English in the official booklet.
Thoughts. There is connecting to the musicality of a song when you don’t understand the words, there is understanding the words, and then there is translating the words into your own first language, your own words. I feel as though I just met this song for the third time. The amount of inspiration I have received from this song and the two that follow it in the GEMINI suite cannot be understated and I can’t quite explain why. The music is epic and the lyrics are dripping in the strange imagery of a psyche longing for a world of feelings just out of reach — for the memory of someone irreplaceable. But there is also a certain je ne sais quoi to the suite that has made it particularly enchanting to me and to so many other fans.
The dreamlike flashes of imagery have so much space between them that they allow for the imagination to expand and slip into this, dark sunset world dipped in gold. The landscape flows, scenes flow, birds head for tomorrow, and yet the speaker is at a standstill, insensate, as if in shock.
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アリス九號. ★ ALICE NINE.
GEMINI-0-eternal
GEMINI (2011)
17th THEATRE (2021)
Lyrics by 将/SHOU
Music by 沙我/Saga
Original text translated from Japanese.
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