Aquarion EVOL - Paradoxical Zoo

[EJTranslations]

I'm still taking feedback on Active Pain if anyone's got any, but in the meantime here's the next weird song I'm working on (and boy, is it weird).

絶望的に君はきれいさ
反転する世界のプラトニック
愛し合おう

zetsubouteki ni kimi wa kirei sa
hanten suru sekai no PURATONIKKU
aishiaou

You're despairingly beautiful
Let's love the platonic ideal
Of this inverted world

僕らが見てる世界は
いつでも逆さまで
どうしようもないことで
たいがい決まってく

bokura ga mite'ru sekai wa
itsudemo sakasama de
doushiyou mo nai koto de
taigai kimatte'ku

The world that we're looking at
Is always upside-down
We can't do anything;
Everything's being decided by someone else[1]

涙するほど傷つく瞳
心で叫びながら黙っていた
最後のふたり 混ざれないまま
秒読みが聞こえてくる

namida suru hodo kizutsuku hitomi
kokoro de sakebinagara damatte ita
saigo no futari mazaranai mama
byouyomi ga kikoete kuru

With eyes that had been hurt enough to cry
We stayed silent as our hearts were crying out
Without being able to merge together at the end [2]
We start to hear the countdown

絶望的に君はきれいさ
すたれゆく動物みたいに愛し合おう
泣きたいくらい君はきれいさ
反転する世界のプラトニック
感じたいよ

zetsubouteki ni kimi wa kirei sa
sutareyuku doubutsu mitai ni aishiaou
nakitai kurai kimi wa kirei sa
hanten suru sekai no PURATONIKKU
kanjitai yo

You're despairingly beautiful
Let's love each other like animals that are going extinct
You're so beautiful I want to cry
I want to feel the platonic ideal
Of this inverted world

僕らがいそぐ明日は
なぜだかうらはらで
愛したらついでのように
誰かをにくむのさ

bokura ga isogu ashita wa
nazedaka urahara de
aishitara tsuide no you ni
dareka o nikumu no sa

The future we're hurrying toward
Is somehow reversed
If you love, as if in consequence,[3]
You'll also hate someone

雨降る大地 貼りつく肌に
濡れるほど渇いてく胸の泉
姿さがすよ でも
まぶし過ぎるから何も見えない

ame furu daichi haritsuku hada ni
koboreru hodo kawaite'ku mune no izumi
sugata sagasu yo demo
mabushisugiru kara nani mo mienai

In a body smeared with rain-wet earth
A heart-well so thirsty it's overflowing
I search for your figure [4]
But it's too bright and I can't see anything

絶望的に君はきれいさ
くりかえす饒舌みたいにさらけだそう
消したいくらい君はきれいさ
めくるめくこの眩暈の
ドラマティック捧げたいよ

zetsubouteki ni kimi wa kirei sa
kurikaesu jouzetsu mitai ni sarakedasou
keshitai kurai kimi wa kirei sa
mekurumeku kono memai no
DORAMATIKKU sasagetai yo

You're despairingly beautiful
I'll lay it bare like repetitive chatter [5]
You're so beautiful I want to snuff you out
I want to offer up
The drama of this dazzling dizziness

赤い夢が青い現世(うつつ)を
呑みこむように
ないまぜの感情が むきだしの命が
許しあえば 君とひとつになる

akai yume ga aoi utsutsu o
nomikomu you ni
naimaze no kanjou ga mukidashi no inochi ga
yurushiaeba kimi to hitotsu ni naru

As if a red dream
Were being swallowed up by blue reality
If we can forgive each other's jumbled feelings and naked lives
I can become one with you

絶望的に君はきれいさ
すたれゆく動物みたいに愛し合おう
泣きたいくらい君はきれいさ
反転する世界のプラトニック
感じたいよ

zetsubouteki ni kimi wa kirei sa
sutareyuku doubutsu mitai ni aishiaou
nakitai kurai kimi wa kirei sa
hanten suru sekai no PURATONIKKU
kanjitai yo

You're despairingly beautiful
Let's love each other like animals that are going extinct
You're so beautiful I want to cry
I want to feel the platonic ideal
Of this inverted world

すたれゆく動物みたいに愛し合おう
めくるめくこの眩暈の
ドラマティック捧げたいよ

sutareyuku doubutsu mitai ni aishiaou
mekurumeku kono memai no
DORAMATIKKU sasagetai yo

Let's love each other like animals that are going extinct
I want to offer up
The drama of this dazzling dizziness

反転する世界のプラトニック
愛し合おう

hanten suru sekai no PURATONIKKU
aishiaou

Let's love the platonic ideal
Of this inverted world

[1] Not sure if I've correctly interpreted たいがい決まってく.

[2] What the hell is this line, seriously.

[3] I'm also not sure about ついでのように.

[4] Should this be "your figure," do you think?

[5] Does さらけだそう have another meaning that's not the literal one, or something? It doesn't quite seem to make sense applied to くりかえす饒舌.

[Rei]

Oh wow. Yeah, it's pretty weird.

[1] I think that's the closest you can get to something that actually makes sense- (where's your kanji, Yoko Kanno!), other interpretations could be 体外/対外, which wouldn't work as well.

[2] Before we've been able to join for the last time...?

[3] That seems to be it.

[4] I was thinking that, as well- but maybe it refers to other animals (humans?), since the theme is a zoo? (It's just weird.)

[5] Maybe apart from exposing- confessing? Laying it all out? That would sort of imply that they're doing it to each other though. What it seems to say to me is that the writer wants to expose the beauty of the other person- maybe they've already said it multiple times before, constituting repetitive chatter.

Sorry if that wasn't very helpful. ^^;;

[Haze~]

Wow, I really don't think I can help much with this song, but here's my take on some of the lines.

>涙するほど傷つく瞳
心で叫びながら黙っていた
最後のふたり 混ざれないまま
秒読みが聞こえてくる

Maybe:
"As we're unable to mix together at the end,
We begin to hear the countdown."

I think there was a が omitted, rather than と.
I'd also take into consideration that the previous lines in this stanza may also be a "we" (since ふたり follows).
One last note: you seem to have interpreted it as if it's ながらも, but it might not be necessary to add additional information in this case.

Hope that helps!

[EJTranslations]

Thanks, guys!

[1] I think that's the closest you can get to something that actually makes sense- (where's your kanji, Yoko Kanno!), other interpretations could be 体外/対外, which wouldn't work as well.

[2] Before we've been able to join for the last time...?

[3] That seems to be it.

[4] I was thinking that, as well- but maybe it refers to other animals (humans?), since the theme is a zoo? (It's just weird.)

[5] Maybe apart from exposing- confessing? Laying it all out? That would sort of imply that they're doing it to each other though. What it seems to say to me is that the writer wants to expose the beauty of the other person- maybe they've already said it multiple times before, constituting repetitive chatter.

[1] Yeah, the lack of kanji is definitely the main source of confusion here, but 対外 seems to make the most sense to me, and I'm glad to have a second opinion supporting that.

[2] You're probably right.

[4] I would tend to assume it's "your," just that the context is so weird here that I'm second-guessing myself. I may as well just go for it, though.

[5] Oh, do you think the -そう here is "I'll" rather than "let's"?

One last note: you seem to have interpreted it as if it's ながらも, but it might not be necessary to add additional information in this case.

I wasn't thinking of it as adding extra information per se, I just had a tough time finding an elegant way to phrase that line. Although now that you mention it, I realize I could drop the "even" and lose nothing.

You're probably right about the lines having a plural subject, too.

[Rei]

[5] Oh, do you think the -そう here is "I'll" rather than "let's"?

Yep, that's how I'd interpret it.

[comprar]

You're despairingly beautiful
Let's love each other like animals that are going extinct
You're so beautiful I want to cry
I want to feel the platonic ideal
Of this inverted world