– Akatsuki Records

Lyrics Context:
A god of domestic chickens stands guard over the boundary between the land of the dead and hell itself.
She’s a birdbrain, but it is because she is a birdbrain that she can maintain the attitude that she keeps in life.
Is it part of being a bird god, or is it an intentional choice?

———

一二の三、一二の三歩で | Ichi ni no san, ichi ni no sanpo de
何もかも忘れちゃいましょう | Nanimo kamo wasurechaimashou
悲しみや憎しみなんかに | Kanashimi ya kuyashimi minna ni
縛られないように | Shiborarenai you ni
1, 2, and 3, with 1, 2, 3 steps
Let’s forget anything and everything
So everyone won’t be shackled such things
like pain and hatred

誰も恨まないで済むのなら | Daremo uramanai de sumu no nara
[きっともっと楽しくなれる] | [kitto motto tanoshiku nareru]
誰も妬まないで済むのなら | Daremo netamanai de sumu no nara
[きっともっと素直に笑える] | [kitto motto sunao ni kotaeru]
If I could just not hold a grudge on anyone
[Then certainly, it would become more fun]
If I could not hold jealousy of anyone
[Then certainly, I could more honestly laugh]

庭には二羽ニワトリ | Niwa ni wa niwa niwatori
裹庭には二羽おり | Ura niwa niwa niwa ori
庭には二羽ニワトリ | Niwa ni wa niwa niwatori
裹庭には二羽…庭には？| Ura ni wa niwa niwa… niwa ni wa?
“In the garden there are two chickens
In the backyard there are two birds
In the garden there are two chickens
In the backyard there are two chickens
….(how many) are in the garden?”

Step! 1,2,3
一二の三、一二の三歩で | ichi ni no san, ichi ni no sanpo de
何もかも忘れちゃいました | nanimo kamo wasurechaimashita
悲しみも憎しみもみんな | kanashimi mo kurushimi mo minna
どこ吹く風ヒラヒラ | doko fuku kaze, hira hira
一二の三、一二の三歩で | ichi ni no san, ichi ni no sanpo de
何もかも許しちゃいますよ | nanimo kamo yurushichaimasu yo
ららら、久侘歌！ | la la la, Kutaka!
In 1, 2, and 3, with 1, 2, 3 steps
I forgot anything and everything
Sadness and hatred, all of it
Blown to the wind somewhere, going ‘hira hira’ [*1]
In 1, 2, and 3, with 1, 2, 3 steps
I will forgive anything and everything, you know?
La la la, Kutaka! [*2]

思い出す苦痛がなければ | omoidasu kutsuu ga nakereba
[過去に置き去りにした記憶] | kako ni okizari ni shita kioku
疑う余地も不安もないから | utagau mo yochi mo fuan mo nai kara
[未来、希望だけで描くの] | mirai, kibou dake de egaku no
If I didn’t have the recollection of suffering
[Then memories that I had left behind in the past…]
Because I have no room for doubt or uncertainty or anxiety
[I can sketch the future with just hope]

庭には二羽ニワトリ | Niwa ni wa niwa niwatori
裹庭には二羽おり | Ura niwa niwa niwa ori
庭には二羽ニワトリ | Niwa ni wa niwa niwatori
裹庭には二羽…庭には？| Ura ni wa niwa niwa… niwa ni wa?
“In the garden there are two chickens
In the backyard there are two birds
In the garden there are two chickens
In the backyard there are two chickens
….(how many) are in the garden?”

Step! 1,2,3
一二の三、一二の三歩で | ichi ni no san, ichi ni no sanpo de
何もかも忘れちゃいました | nanimo kamo wasurechaimashita
悲しみも憎しみもみんな | kanashimi mo kurushimi mo minna
どこ吹く風ヒラヒラ | doko fuku kaze, hira hira
一二の三、一二の三歩で | ichi ni no san, ichi ni no sanpo de
何もかも許しちゃいますよ | nanimo kamo yurushichaimasu yo
ららら、久侘歌！ | la la la, Kutaka!
In 1, 2, and 3, with 1, 2, 3 steps
I forgot anything and everything
Sadness and hatred, all of it
Blown to the wind somewhere, going ‘hira hira’
In 1, 2, and 3, with 1, 2, 3 steps
I will forgive anything and everything, you know?
La la la, Kutaka!

一二の三、一二の三歩で忘れちゃいますよ | ichi ni no san, ichi ni no sanpo de wasurechaimasu yo
根に持つにも根っこがないのです | ne ni motsu ni mo nekko ga nai no desu
一二の三、一二の三歩で許しちゃいますよ | ichi ni no san, ichi no sanpo de yurushichaimasu yo
だって、縛られるのはごめんですから。| datte, shibarareru no wa gomen desu kara
In one, two three, one two three steps I’ll forget everything, (you know)？
For there’s nothing at all to ‘hold’ a grudge for. [*3]
In one, two three, one two three steps I’ll forgive everything, (you know)？
Because… I don’t want to be shackled down.

Notes:

The Niwa niwa part is a famous Japanese word play sentence (think “buffalo buffalo buffalo”).

[*1] Hira hira is the sound of gusting wind.

[*2] Kutaka (久侘歌), the character’s name literally means (“long time ago” “wabi (of wabi-sabi)” “song”)
侘 (wabi) means something like “a taste/appreciation for the simple or rustic”, so her name itself means “A song of appreciating the simpler times, a long time ago”.

[*3] This line translates literally as “Even holding a root has no root, you know?”
根に持つ (lit. ‘hold a root’) means to hold a grudge against someone, but because Kutaka holds some Buddhist worldview things, she is saying
“There’s no ‘core root/objective root’ to anything, so holding a grudge (root) is equally pointless.”


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