General Lyric Summary/Context: Touhou’s portrayal of Prince Shotoku (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Sh%C5%8Dtoku)
talks about their famous power to ‘listen to the desires of 10 people at once’. This is what the song refers to as “to see”.
[Note: This song often will write one word, then voice a different word instead, when this happens I placed the extra context that’s added in parenthesis.]
余計なおしゃべり
そんなものは
「不要」（い）らないわ
堕ち逝く 「欲望」
それはもっと聴かせて ほら
期待しなさい
「望み」 が見えてくるでしょ？
「理想」？
そんなもの 私の 永遠よ
yokei na oshaberi
sonna mono wa
fuyou (i) ranaiwa
ochi yuku yokubou
sore wa motto kikasete hora
kitai shinasai
nozomi ga mietekuru desho?
risou?
sonna mono watashi no eien yo
Too much idle chattering…
I don’t want such (unnecessary)! things
Your degenerate desires,
I want to hear more of that, come on!
I command you to hope,
for I can see your wishes, you know?
Ideals?
A thing like that is my eternity.
どこかに 忘却「わす」 れた
道しるべばかり
積んで
もがいた軌跡を
歪に 「重ね」る だけ
「
外れ」 てばかり
それでもいずれは理解「わ」かる
大切なきもち
「何処」に あるの？
Doko ka ni byoukyaku reta
michishirube bakari tsumunde
mogaita kiseki wo
ibitsu ni [omone] ru dake
hazure te bakari
soredemo izure wa rikaikaru
taisetsu na kimochi
doko ni aru no?
Somewhere, forgotten* [lapsed in oblivion]:
Guideposts all around stacking up;
the desperate path one took
only piling up, distorted —
Encountering only ‘Better luck next time’**;
“Even so, they will comprehend (understand) someday“
A very important feeling.
Where is it?
運命なら
そこに見える
いま必要なの
それが視える
咲き誇る
この身ならば
ただの「戯れ」よ
いずれ終わる
sadame nara soko ni mieru
ima hitsuyou nano sore ga mieru
saki hokoru
kono mi naraba
tada no tawamure yo izure owaru
If it’s my fate, that I can see
It is needed now, that I can see.
If this is will make [that which is me] bloom in perfusion;
It’s just a game to me; for one day or another, it will come to an end.
運命ならそこに 見える
いま 必要なの それが 視える
sadame nara soko ni mieru
ima hitsuyou nano sore ga mieru.
If it’s my fate, that I can see
Now, It is needed that I can see.
運命ならそこに 見える
いま 必要なの それが 視える
sadame nara soko ni mieru
ima hitsuyou na no sore ga mieru.
If it’s my fate, that I can see (the desires of others)
Now, It is needed that I can see that.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Sh%C5%8Dtoku
https://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Toyosatomimi_no_Miko
TD Final Stage Theme: A Small Desire’s Starry Sky
** Hazure means “miss” but it’s used in stuff like this:
In the Touhou franchise, there are less than 10 characters who are male — the vast majority of characters are female because (according to ZUN) it is easier to show symbolism and who the characters are folk lore wise through female clothing than male clothing. Given that ZUN draws all the characters himself, this explanation holds a lot of water to me. I’m not gonna pretend that it isn’t also for cute points but the reasoning is sound to me.
Dancing Funkos 
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