Tuesday, January 14, 2014

Translated "Seventeen" into Japanese


I translated "Seventeen" by Youth Lagoon into Japanese.



"Seventeen"

Roaming the campground up by the lake where we swam       僕たちの泳いだ湖近くのキャンプ場を
                                                                                                   歩いて登りながら
We were hunting for snakes                                                   僕たちは蛇を探していた
but we couldn't find them                                                        けれど見つけられなかった
Surrounded by nothing, but the nothing's surrounded by us      何にも囲まれてないけど、
                                                                                                   何もないものが僕たちを囲んでいる
But it's just me in my room                                                      部屋の中に僕一人
with my eyes shut                                                                   両目を閉じながら


When I was seventeen,                                                           僕が17歳の時、
my mother said to me                                                              母さんは僕に言ったのさ
"Don't stop imagining,                                                             ”想像することをやめては駄目、
the day that you do is the day that you die."                            やめたその日はあなたが死ぬ日よ”と
Now I pull a one ton carriage,                                                 今や僕は1トンの客車を引いている
instead of the horses grazing the lawn                                       草を食べている馬たちの代わりに
And I was having fun                                                               それで僕は楽しんでたんだ
We were all having fun                                                            僕たちは皆楽しんでたのさ


My brain can think faster than I can,                                 僕の脳は僕よりも速く物を考えることができる
I'm not fast enough                                                            僕は十分に速くなんかないんだ
Who is there to talk to                                                        話しかけるために誰がいてくれるの,
that won't lock me up?                                                        僕を閉じ込めたりしない誰が?
At least God doesn't judge me by the thoughts that I find 少なくとも神様は僕が気づいてしまう考えで
                                       僕を判断したりはしない
The snakes I couldn't find,                                                   見つけることのできなかった蛇たちも、
I don't want to find                                                               見つけたくなんかないんだ



When I was seventeen,                                                        僕が17歳の時、
my mother said to me                                                          母さんは僕に言ったのさ
"Don't stop imagining,                                                          "想像することをやめては駄目、"
the day that you do is the day that you die."                        やめたその日はあなたが死ぬ日よ”と
Now I pull a one ton carriage,                                              今や僕は1トンの客車を引いている
instead of the horses grazing the lawn                                    草を食べている馬たちの代わりに
And I was having fun                                                              それで僕は楽しんでたんだ
We were all having fun                                                          僕たちは皆楽しんでたのさ



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