Zankoku Shangri-La

**Zankoku Shangri-La** is the first opening of the Visual Prison series, and is sung by OZ. The full version was released on October 6, 2021.

## Performers

* Ange Yuki
* Guiltia Brion
* Eve Louise
* Robin Laffite

## Lyrics

### Lyrics Key

**O**: OZ

**A**: Ange Yuki

**G**: Guiltia Brion

**E**: Eve Louise

**R**: Robin Laffite

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* Full Size

* English
* English (Funimation)
* Romaji
* Kanji

**G**: In this prison of "eternity" and "cruelty"

**E**: The sky that doesn't allow the light

**R**: Looking for the invisible stars

**A**: There surely must be "hope"! Ah

**A**: Wandering while holding on to solitude

**G**: In the silence without colours

**E**: In the abyss of darkness

**R**: I accepted it as my punishment

**A**: "Even so I want to speak out about the love"

**G**: Even with the cold heart

**E**: To the warmth, to the softness

**R**: Even this gap of time

**A**: I believe it can be crossed

***A**: "...Will you let me be forever by your side?"*

**O**: "I want to love you" so much that it hurts

**O**: My soul screams "I want to love only you"

**O**: Putting together the lost notes

**O**: It's like the music

**O**: Dancing to the song of story filled with the rain of sins

**O**: Cry, Cry, Cry hiding your tears

**O**: Relight, Relight, Relight to the Shangri-la\*

*Translation notes:*

**1. Shangri-la**

Shangri-la is the concept of Utopia, a place without any worries and sadness. In the Kanji you see word for Utopia and you read it as Shangri-la

Translation Credits: Meanness

**G**: I sit in this prison of eternity and cruelty

**E**: Under this sky without even a single glimmer of light

**R**: I was searching for stars that could never be seen

**A**: But I knew for sure that hope was out there! Ah

**A**: Every time I would embrace my loneliness

**G**: Even if I'm trapped within this colorless silence

**E**: Or if I'm trapped in this abyss of darkness

**R**: I will accept if that is my punishment

**A**: "Even then, I want to tell you of my love and dreams"

**G**: Even if my heart were to freeze over

**E**: I head towards the warmth... Towards the gentle softness

**R**: Even if I'm trapped in time chasms

**A**: I believed that I could surpass it all

**A**: Please, just let me stay by your side

**O**: I want to love you until I am fully broken

**O**: My soul cries out because it only wants to love you

**O**: I scream as I try to connect all the missing pieces together

**O**: Just like creating a musical piece

**O**: Let us dance within this carol of sinful rain

**O**: Cry Cry Cry I hide away my tears

**O**: Relight Relight Relight to Shangri-La

**G**: “Eien” to “zankoku” no purizun de

**E**: Hikari sura yurusarenu oozora ni

**R**: Mienai hoshi wo sagashite ita

**A**: Kitto “kibou” wa aru... to! Ah

**A**: Aroon wo dakishimeru tabi

**G**: Ironaki sairento no naka de

**E**: Kurayami no abisu de sae

**R**: Batsu naraba... to ukeireta

'*A*: '“Da to shite mo rabu wo tsutaetai...”

**G**: Haato wa tsumetaku mo

**E**: Nukumoru hou e... yawara na hou e

**R**: Taimu no mizo de sura

**A**: Koerareru to shinjite

***A**: “...Itsudemo soba ni isasete?”*

**O**: Kowareru hodo “You wo aishitai” to

**O**: Tamashii ga “You dake aishitai” to

**O**: Sakenderu tarinai piisu wo tsunaide

**O**: Sore wa... ongaku no you ni

**O**: Odorou ame no kyaroru no naka

**O**: Cry Cry Cry namida kakushi

**O**: Relight Relight Relight Shangri-La e

**G**: 「永遠」と「残酷」の牢獄(プリズン)で

**E**: 光すら許されぬ大空に

**R**: 見えない星を探していた

**A**きっと「希望」はある…と！Ah

**A**: 孤独(アローン)を抱き締めるたび

**G**: 色無き静寂(サイレント)の中で

**E**: 暗闇の深淵(アビス)でさえ

**R**: 罰ならば…と受け入れた

**A**: 「だとしても夢(ラヴ)を伝えたい…」

**G**: 鼓動(ハート)は冷たくも

**E**: 温もる方へ…柔らな方へ

**R**: 時間(タイム)の溝ですら

**A**: 超えられると信じて

**A**: 「…いつでも側にいさせて？」

**O**: 壊れるほど「Youを愛したい」と

**O**: 魂が「Youだけ愛したい」と

**O**: 叫んでる足りない音符(ピース)を繋いで

**O**: それは…音楽のように

**O**: 踊ろう罪(あめ)の物語(キャロル)の中

**O**: Cry Cry Cry涙隠し

**O**: Relight Relight Relight理想郷(シャングリラ)へ

Kanji: Utanet

* English
* Romaji
* Kanji

**G**: In this prison of "eternity" and "cruelty"

**E**: The sky that doesn't allow the light

**R**: Looking for the invisible stars

**A**: There surely must be "hope"! Ah

**A**: Wandering while holding on to solitude

**G**: In the silence without colours

**E**: In the abyss of darkness

**R**: I accepted it as my punishment

**A**: "Even so I want to speak out about the love"

**G**: Even with the cold heart

**E**: To the warmth, to the softness

**R**: Even this gap of time

**A**: I believe it can be crossed

***A**: "...Will you let me be forever by your side?"*

**O**: "I want to love you" so much that it hurts

**O**: My soul screams "I want to love only you"

**O**: Putting together the lost notes

**O**: It's like the music

**O**: Dancing to the song of story filled with the rain of sins

**O**: Cry, Cry, Cry hiding your tears

**O**: Relight, Relight, Relight to the Shangri-la\*

**A**: Avoiding the lights of the buildings

**G**: Hiding the fangs of the hungry wolf

**E**: My path is stained in the colour of blood

**R**: The roses of sadness are blooming

**A**": Even so I won't forget the love"

**G**: The songs of salvation are growing

**E**: What will I leave behind... What am I looking for?

**R**: Will there be an answer to it?

**A**: Let's find it out

**O**: ...I will be by your side until the last day

**O**: Carrying the weight of everything "I will embrace you"

**O**: "Embracing only you" is the part of my life

**O**: I came up with this pathos\* that shouldn't exist

**O**: Almost like the music

**O**: Running through the dream of the love's legacy

**O**: Pray, pray, pray, reach out your hands

**O**: Believe, believe, believe in the Shangri-la

**G**: In the prison of hiding our identities

**E**: The cross of yesterday we cannot throw away

**R**: Struggling and fighting for it together

**A**: There surely must be "hope"! Ah

**O**: *"Let's go together, no matter how far"*

**O**: "I want to love you" so much that it hurts

**O**: My soul screams "I want to love only you"

**O**: Putting together the lost notes

**O**: It's like the music

**O**: Dancing to the song of story filled with the rain of sins

**O**: Cry, Cry, Cry hiding your tears

**O**: Relight, Relight, Relight to the Shangri-la

**G**: In this prison of "eternity" and "cruelty"

**E**: The sky that doesn't allow the light

**R**: Looking for the invisible stars

**A**: Longing for the love in the prism

*Translation notes:*

**1. Shangri-la**

Shangri-la is the concept of Utopia, a place without any worries and sadness. In the Kanji you see word for Utopia and you read it as Shangri-la

**2. Pathos**

Pathos is a communication technique used most often in rhetoric (in which it is considered one of the three modes of persuasion, alongside ethos and logos), as well as in literature, film and other narrative art, It is the Greek word for "suffering" or "experience" or "something that one undergoes," or "something that happens to one" and in Stoicism it refers to "complaints of the soul".

Translation Credits: Meanness

**G**: “Eien” to “zankoku” no purizun de

**E**: Hikari sura yurusarenu oozora ni

**R**: Mienai hoshi wo sagashite ita

**A**: Kitto “kibou” wa aru... to! Ah

**A**: Aroon wo dakishimeru tabi

**G**: Ironaki sairento no naka de

**E**: Kurayami no abisu de sae

**R**: Batsu naraba... to ukeireta

'*A*: '“Da to shite mo rabu wo tsutaetai...”

**G**: Haato wa tsumetaku mo

**E**: Nukumoru hou e... yawara na hou e

**R**: Taimu no mizo de sura

**A**: Koerareru to shinjite

***A**: “...Itsudemo soba ni isasete?”*

**O**: Kowareru hodo “You wo aishitai” to

**O**: Tamashii ga “You dake aishitai” to

**O**: Sakenderu tarinai piisu wo tsunaide

**O**: Sore wa... ongaku no you ni

**O**: Odorou ame no kyaroru no naka

**O**: Cry Cry Cry namida kakushi

**O**: Relight Relight Relight Shangri-La e

**A**: Biru no kyandoru wo yokete

**G**: Garou no kiba wo kakushita

**E**: Roodo wa chi no iro wo shite

**R**: anashii bara ga saite iru

**A**: “Da to shite mo rabu wa wasurenai...”

**G**: Sukui no uta ga furu

**E**: Nani ga nokosete... nani ga tsunotte

**R**: Kotae ni kawaru no ka?

**A**: Sore wo mitsuke ni ikou

**O**: ...Saigo no hi made soba ni iru

**O**: Subete seoi “You wo dakishimeru” to

**O**: Inochi no bun “You dake dakishimeru” to

**O**: Nai hazu no patosu ga komiagete kuru

**O**: Marude... ongaku no you ni

**O**: Hashagou rabu no regashii no naka

**O**: Pray Pray Pray te wo nobashite

**O**: Believe Believe Believe Shangri-La e

**G**: Sugao wo kakushi atta purizun de

**E**: Suterarenai kinou no juujika wo

**R**: Tomo ni tsukande agaite yuku

**A**: Kitto “kibou” wa aru... to! Ah

**O**: *"...Doko made mo tomo ni yukou"*

**O**: Kowareru hodo “You wo aishitai” to

**O**: Tamashii ga “You dake aishitai” to

**O**: Sakenderu tarinai piisu wo tsunaide

**O**: Sore wa... ongaku no you ni

**O**: Odorou ame no kyaroru no naka

**O**: Cry Cry Cry namida kakushi

**O**: Relight Relight Relight Shangri-La e

**G**: “Eien” to “zankoku” no purizun de

**E**: Hikari sura yurusarenu oozora ni

**R**: Mienai hoshi wo sagashite ita

**A**: Purizumu ni... koikogare...

**G**: 「永遠」と「残酷」の牢獄(プリズン)で

**E**: 光すら許されぬ大空に

**R**: 見えない星を探していた

**A**きっと「希望」はある…と！Ah

**A**: 孤独(アローン)を抱き締めるたび

**G**: 色無き静寂(サイレント)の中で

**E**: 暗闇の深淵(アビス)でさえ

**R**: 罰ならば…と受け入れた

**A**: 「だとしても夢(ラヴ)を伝えたい…」

**G**: 鼓動(ハート)は冷たくも

**E**: 温もる方へ…柔らな方へ

**R**: 時間(タイム)の溝ですら

**A**: 超えられると信じて

**A**: 「…いつでも側にいさせて？」

**O**: 壊れるほど「Youを愛したい」と

**O**: 魂が「Youだけ愛したい」と

**O**: 叫んでる足りない音符(ピース)を繋いで

**O**: それは…音楽のように

**O**: 踊ろう罪(あめ)の物語(キャロル)の中

**O**: Cry Cry Cry涙隠し

**O**: Relight Relight Relight理想郷(シャングリラ)へ

**A**: ビルの街灯(キャンドル)をよけて

**G**: 餓狼の欲望(キバ)を隠した

**E**: 過去(ロード)は血の色をして

**R**: 哀しい薔薇が咲いている

**A**: 「だとしても夢(ラヴ)は忘れない...」

**G**: 救いの歌が降る

**E**: 何が残せて...何が募って

**R**: 答えに変わるのか？

**A**: それを見つけに行こう

**O**: ...最後の日まで側にいる

**O**: すべて背負い「Youを抱きしめる」と

**O**: 命の分「Youだけ抱きしめる」と

**O**: ないはずの熱情(パトス)がこみ上げてくる

**O**: まるで...音楽のように

**O**: はしゃごう夢(ラヴ)の歴史(レガシー)の中

**O**: Pray Pray Pray手を伸ばして

**O**: Believe Believe Believe理想郷(シャングリラ)へ

**G**: 素顔を隠し合った牢獄(プリズン)で

**E**: 捨てられない昨日の十字架を

**R**: 共に掴んで足掻いてゆく

**A**: きっと「希望」はある...と!Ah

**O**:  *...どこまでも共にゆこう*

**O**: 壊れるほど「Youを愛したい」と

**O**: 魂が「Youだけ愛したい」と

**O**: 叫んでる足りない音符(ピース)を繋いで

**O**: それは...音楽のように

**O**: 踊ろう罪(あめ)の物語(キャロル)の中

**O**: Cry Cry Cry涙隠し

**O**: Relight Relight Relight理想郷(シャングリラ)へ

**G**: 「永遠」と「残酷」の牢獄(プリズン)で

**E**: 光すら許されぬ大空に

**R**: 見えない星を探していた

**A**; 未来(プリズム)に...恋い焦がれ...

Kanji: Utanet

## From left to right: Ange's, Eve's and Robin's annotated copies of Zankoku Shangri-La's singing parts.Zankoku Shangri-La lyrics on the music stand during LOST EDEN's recording session.References

1. ↑ https://visualprison.com/music/artist.html