Let me know your true feelings
I’m trying to see the vision in your heart ¹
Still, the view is of a sea that burns
I can’t grasp the omen of tomorrow
The rain of light stagnated
Angels won’t save us
It will flake away, your mind’s eye landscape
Here, to your heart’s content
Hoist your flag in the utopia you imagine
Carry on
Can you feel the dark?
Can you hear the voice?
Over the crumbled ruin of bricks
I need your love
I wanna break your heart
Raise your jester’s crown ²
Without thinking—the words will spill out
Let me hear the story inside of you
Nothing exists between your ideals
and the boundary of your wildest fantasies
so
Destroy the Fixed idea
Show me it’s real
3,2,1
It will flake away, your mind’s eye landscape
Here, to your heart’s content
Hoist your flag in the utopia you imagine
And run with it
Can you feel the dark?
Can you hear the voice?
Make your thoughts pass out of reality
I need your love
I wanna break your heart
Expand it
Can you feel the dark?
Can you hear the voice?
Over the crumbled ruin of bricks
I need your love
I wanna break your heart
Raise your jester’s crown
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NOTES / INTERPRETATION:
Blue font indicates text originally written in English in the official booklet.
oo1. This first verse is spoken by a female guest. In addition, Show says a few things in the background of this song that are not included in the booklet, none of which I am sure enough about to add here!
oo2. The clown especially, and the joker as well are frequent flyers in ALICE NINE. lyrical symbolism. The word used here could just as easily denote a clown, but I chose to translate the word as jester to call to mind courts and castles, especially since I translated the subsequent word as crown rather than cap!
Thoughts. This album seems filled with soul-searching of one kind or another. Though this song isn’t so much about soul-searching as it is an attempt to incite the listener to let go of their fatalistic thinking and recapture a sense of passion. But more importantly to talk about what is weighing so heavily on their mind. The imagery of raising your jester’s crown and hoisting a flag in a crumbling ruin is darkly comical, but in the overarching sense of ruin, loss, isolation, and spiraling present in most of the lyrics of this album, this imagery has a strong sense of dignity to it as well. A ruin can be rebuilt if there is still someone left that imagines it can be done and finds a way to make it reality.
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アリス九號. ★ IDEA → IDEAL (将・2017)
ALICE NINE. – IDEA | From IDEAL (Shou – 2017)
Original text translated from Japanese.
Song composed by 沙我 (Saga).
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