Shell
TV Tokyo Anime 「WITCH HUNTER ROBIN」 Opening Theme

作詞： 三重野瞳 (MIENO Hitomi)
作曲： 鈴木Daichi秀行 (SUZUKI "Daichi" Hideyuki)
編曲： 鈴木Daichi秀行 (SUZUKI "Daichi" Hideyuki)
  歌： 葉菜 (Bana)
 CDs： - Shell / half pain CDS (VICL-35423)
       - (TV EDIT) Witch Hunter ROBIN Original Sound Score I (VICL-60931)
英訳： Teresa Ko (http://www.okui-masami.net/)

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瞳をふせるとすぐ消えてしまいそうで
自分が見知らぬ他人になった気がする
悲しいほどちっぽけな
 hitomi wo fuseru to sugu kiete shimaisou de
 jibun ga mishiranu tanin ni natta ki ga suru
 kanashii hodo chippoke na
    It's like I'll disappear as soon as I close my eyes
    It feels like I've turned into someone that I don't know
    Sadly, I've become so small

救われたいから溜息をつくのじゃなく
吐き出してしまった孤独の気配の数を
ただかぞえていた
 sukuwaretai kara tameiki wo tsuku no ja naku
 hakidashite shimatta kodoku no kehai no kazu wo
 tada kazoete ita
    I want to be rescued, but instead of sighing
    I vomited up my loneliness, and just lay there
    Measuring it all up

乾いた時間の中で
溺れてるもがいてる心
目眩がするくらいの嘘を
受け止めて引き裂いた
そして私が迷い込むのは
薄闇の世界
 kawaita jikan no naka de
 oborete'ru mogaite'ru kokoro
 memai ga suru kurai no uso wo
 uketomete hikisaita
 soshite watashi ga mayoikomu no wa
 usuyami no sekai [1]
    Amidst this drop of time gone dry
    My heart is drowning and writhing
    These lies that make me dizzy
    I took them and tore them up
    And with that, I became lost
    In a world of thin darkness. [1]

信じるべきものの為にと選んだ場所は
自由を鍵にした檻の中でしょう
決してもう抜け出せない
 shinjiru beki mono no tame ni to eranda basho wa
 jiyuu wo kagi ni shita ori no naka deshou
 keshite mou nukedasenai
    For the sake of those whom I should trust
    I've chosen to come here, a cage into which I've locked myself
    Now there's no escape.

乾いた喉の奥で
始まった儚さの理由は
近づく明日が恐いから
うずくまり崩れても
私を探してささやきかける
薄闇の声
 kawaita nodo no oku de
 hajimatta hakanasa no wake wa [2]
 chikadzuku ashita ga kowai kara
 uzukumari kuzuretemo
 watashi wo sagashite sasayakikakeru
 usuyami no koe
    Deep inside my throat gone dry
    Lies the reason for this growing impermanence [2]
    Scared of the approaching tomorrow
    It cowers and collapses
    But it seeks me out and whispers to me
    This voice of thin darkness.

乾いた時間の中で
溺れてるもがいてる心
目眩がするくらいの嘘を
受け止めて引き裂いた
そして私が迷い込むのは
薄闇の世界
 kawaita jikan no naka de
 oberete'ru mogaite'ru kokoro
 memai ga suru kurai no uso wo
 uketomete hikisaita
 soshite watashi ga mayoikomu no wa
 usuyami no sekai
    Amidst this drop of time gone dry
    My heart is drowning and writhing
    These lies that make me dizzy
    I took them and tore them up
    And with that, I became lost
    In a world of thin darkness.

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Translator's Notes:
[1] "Usuyami" can mean a dilute blackness or thinned-out darkness.
[2] The kanji for "riyuu" is here pronounced "wake".