From: kilpatri@nextnet.csus.edu (Joseph Kilpatrick)
Subject: Re: Song Translation: Macross ][ Opening Song
Keywords: Standard Disclaimer
Organization: California State University: Sacramento
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 02:26:43 GMT

In article <1992Jul27.195635.3566@csus.edu> chaneysa@nextnet.ccs.csus.edu (Steve Chaney : Borg Operating Space Systems, Revision 2.0) writes:
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>This is my first crack at any form of Macross music (for obvious reasons).
>Thanks again to Kent Kochi for lending me his Macross ][ CD Single.
>
>Fortunately, this didn't take me as long to translate as it seemed to take
>for the singer to compose it - some 200,000,000 million years, or so the
>song seems to indicate... :)
>
>Mistakes should be blamed on lyrics of a neo-Minmei mentality, IMO.
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>Macross ][: Lovers Again
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>Opening Theme Song
>
>Ni oku nen no mae ni shizuka da ne
>Quiet Like The Eons
>
>
>1) Yokogao miru to omou
>I think I see your silhouette
>2) Anata o suki to omou
>I think I like you
>3) Ima sekai ga owattatte
>You said it was the end of the world
>4) Oshiku wa nai wa
>It's not a regrettable thing
>
>5) Urusai shai na yuutsu
>My troublesome yet thankful gloom
>6) Noise no mukou gawa ni
>has another side to its noise
>7) Mimi o sumaseba ai ga
>If you tunr your ears, love
>8) Konna ni chikaku
>Turns out to be so close
>
>9) Ni oku nen mae no you ni shizuka da ne
>It's quiet like the past eons
>10) Ah kotoba nante nani mo iranai kara
>Ah, because nothing like words are needed
>
>
>*11) Futari ga hitori de umaretekita koto
>Two people are coming from one
>12) Wasureru kurai ni senaka o daite
>When I forget, come up and hold me
>13) Ano toki ichido wa kimeta sayonara o
>Back then, I decided to say goodbye once
>14) Eien no yoru hoshi dake wa shitte iru kedo
>During the eternal night, all I can see are the stars
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>
>15) Fureau hada no atsusa
>The heat of our skin as we touch
>16) Sore dake kanjiteitai
>is all I want to feel
>17) Machikado de kobandeta
>I refused you on the street corner
>18) Watashi ga iru no
>When you neded me
>
>19) Suikomare soo ni tooi sora no hate
>The sky is endless as if all-encompassing
>20) Ah mirai datte koi wa onajihazu ne
>Ah, you said it's the future now, but hey, love's supposed to be the same
>
>
>21) Futari wa hitori ja umarete irarenai
>two people aren't coming from one
>22) Dakara namida yori anata no soba e 
>So rather than crying I will go to your side
>23) Hanarete ita hi wa kesenai keredo
>I haven't forgotten the day we separated
>24) Kono nukumori o tsugunai no melody ni shite
>I'm still playing a melody to make for this warmth
>
>
>* Repeat (11-14) 

Can someone explain for me how two translations can totally differ?  I am in
no way crtisizing (it's better than I would do) but it almost is 100% different
from the subtitled on the Macross II tape I bought at Anime Expo...
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