ハルシオン (Halcyon)

==Lyrics==
Japanese 	Romaji 	English
快楽はもうない 	kairaku wa mou nai 	Happiness is no longer here快楽(kairaku) is more literally “pleasure” instead of happiness (幸福, koufuku), but “pleasure” carries a...more sensual tone than the word happiness does when used informally. There is no such inference here with the word 快楽(kairaku), so I used “happiness”.
愛憎　知らなくて 	aizou shiranakute 	I no longer know what I love or hate
「最善策だ」って 	“saizen saku da” tte 	“This is for the best,” huh?
最低な言葉だ 	saitei na kotoba da 	What horrible words those are
 	 	
際限なく哭いて 	saigen naku naite 	Endlessly crying
もう声　出せなくて 	mou koe dasenakute 	my voice cannot speak出せなくて(dasenakute) used here for the singer's voice (声, koe), means something more like “cannot produce a sound.”
透明になった 	toumei ni natta 	It has become clear
最低な世界だ 	saitei na sekai da 	That this is a horrible world
 	 	
愛のない残像　もう消したくて 	ai no nai zanzou mou keshitakute 	These loveless apparitions; I want them to disappear残像(zanzou) is a hard word to translate, as the only word used in English that means the same thing is “afterimage” (which is not a word we really use a lot, or at all). 残像(zanzou) is the residual effects you experience from a stimulus, after the stimulus no longer exists. When you stare at a bright light for too long, the image you see after you look away from it is a 残像(zanzou), an afterimage. While it normally means a “visual” afterimage, it seems that in this song it's more talking about a “memory” afterimage. As there is no easy way to say this without being excessively wordy, I finally settled on “apparition” to represent what I thought was a close enough meaning to what the singer seemed to be talking about (very recent memories of the break-up).
愛のない情景　もう見たくないから 	ai no nai joukei mou mitakunai kara 	These loveless images; I do not want to see them anymore
 	 	
忘れはしなくて 	wasure wa shinakute 	I cannot forgetMore literally, “Forget(fulness) is not”. Forget (忘れ, wasure) isn't nominalized in this sentence so it sounds awkward to me as a non-native speaker. Perhaps there is more to this line than I can figure.
記憶に縋って 	kioku ni sugatte 	these memories I still cling on to
許されないなら 	yurusarenai nara 	But if I cannot give them up許す(yurusu) has many meanings here that could all work. It could mean “to allow/approve”, “to pardon/forgive”, “to confide”, or “to release”. Nagisa's minimalistic writing style can sometimes make it hard to perfectly judge what is being talked about and how, so this line may perhaps be the most inaccurate.
 	boku koroshite 	they will kill me
 	 	
落ちる、落ちる、落ちる、落ちる 	ochiru, ochiru, ochiru, ochiru 	And they fall, and they fall, and they fall, and they fall
 	 	
３分間の世界で　溺れて 	sanfunkan no sekai de oborete yuku 	In this 3 minute world, I begin to drown溺れる(oboreru) normally means “to drown” in the sense of water, but it can also mean to drown, or wallow, in an idea. As the singer is clearly upset over the situation, it would probably not be wrong to say that she is wallowing in the pain/painful memories of it all. Because of the inferred tears however, I went with drowning, as if she is drowning within all the tears. Also, this line is written as いく(iku) in the song, but seems to be pronounced as ゆく(yuku). There is no difference in meaning between the two words, but I just wanted to point it out in case you're singing along.
灰色の世界を忘れて、さよなら。 	haiiro no sekai o wasurete sayonara.	To this gray world that I will forget about, goodbye.This line feels needlessly wordy to me, but I wanted to keep the same flow of ideas that Nagisa was trying to present in this line.
 	 	
落ちて・・・ 	ochite... 	As they fall...
 	 	
落ちて、夢に浸るだけ 	ochite yume ni hitaru dake 	As they fall, I become immersed within my dreamsThis line could also be saying “memories/feelings become immersed in my dreams”. As there is no topic specifically stated, it is impossible to know for sure.
==Translation Notes==
==Discography==
This song was featured on the following albums:
*ROCKIN★ON (album)
*空想するθ (Kuusou Suru θ) (album)
==External Links==
===Unofficial===
*Google Docs - Translation
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