Rainbow

This song actually translates quite prettily into English, which is a good thing because it’s one of my favorites. The simultaneous despair and hope of the chorus “everything, now everything…” always gets me. I’ve been noticing some pretty common clammbon themes, and this one contains several of them: whirlpools, meaning to understand something when you really don’t, having to swallow phrases, phrases in general, being a part of the night, quotations of conversations or thoughts, wanting to change but not being able to…

English

Rainbow

Even with nothing left to throw up, I jammed my finger in and kept trying

Even though I meant to understand, the bitter phrase I can’t swallow

“Ah, I can’t say it right!” irritated, my stomach hurts

“How could you say that?” parched, my mouth dries out

Everything, now everything, wash everything away in the water

Already, now already, being sucked into the middle of the night… I am

I threw up what I could, and at the table I kept smiling

When I nodded and said “I understand”, it was because I thought I understood

“Well, shall we go on to the next one?” irritated, my stomach hurts

“Someone to give up on! Someone to go with!” parched, my mouth dries out

I want to be certain of where the words went

Who do I really want to be with?

I want to hear what they call “the heart’s voice”

Where do I really want to go?

Now, right now, I can’t change like that, but

Soon, now soon, I want to change further

Everything, now everything, whirl everything up

Already, now already, being sucked into tomorrow… I am

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Karaoke

reinbou

haku mono nanka nai no ni yubi tsukkonde hakitsudzuketa

wakatta tsumori de ita no ni nomikomenai nigai fureezu

aa umaku ienai yo igaiga i ga itamu yo

naze sonnani iechau no karakara kuchi kawaku yo

subete mou subete subete mizu ni nagaseba

sude ni mou sude ni mayonaka e suikomarete iru

haku dake hakidashita kara teeburu de waraitsudzuketa

wakaru to unazuita no wa wakaru you na ki ga shita kara

jaa tsugi ikimasu ka igaiga i ga itamu yo

yametoku hito ikitai hito karakara kuchi kawaku yo

kotoba no yukue tashikametai

honto wa dare to itain darou

kokoro no koe tteiu no kiite itai

honto wa doko ni ikitain darou

sugu ni mou sugu ni watashi sou kawarenai shi demo

sugu ni demo sugu ni watashi motto kawaritai shi

subete mou subete subete uzu ni makarete

sude ni mou sude ni ashita e to suikomarete… iru