Worthless War
ガゼット / The GazettEOriginal | English version |
WORTHLESS WAR I know last days By bomb of autocracy by bomb of autocracy by bomb of autocracy the smile of people dies by Dirty hand of autocracy by dirty hand of autocracy by dirty hand of autocracy the black sphere is turning やられる前に撃ち抜くのか それを奴は正義と呼ぶのか 己にかかる血 己で拭えず A sacrifice is countless 嘆く者に救いの手出さず 過保護に眠り偽善と交尾 奴は愚かな平和の象徴 A sacrifice is countless Honor...glory 鼓膜に残る爆撃音が 眠れぬ夜を恐怖心に変えた 結ぶ手と手 常に交渉 癪に触れば突っ込むぜTaepodong 破り捨てた 〔A〕nti-〔B〕allistic 〔M〕issile〔T〕reaty 二度と御免だNine eleven But泣くのは市民だけさ 横暴な手段が招くは絶望 despair 退廃した地 焼け焦げた影 犠牲の叫びは止まぬ 降り注ぐ灰 奪われた明日に 涙さえ流さぬくせに Worthless war continues... KBK sleep on a bed... Worthless war continues... commit suicide and compensate people. By bomb of autocracy by bomb of autocracy by bomb of autocracy the smile of people dies by dirty hand of autocracy by dirty hand of autocracy by dirty hand of autocracy the black sphere is turning やられる前に撃ち抜くのか それを奴は正義と呼ぶのか 己にかかる血 己で拭えず A sacrifice is countless 嘆く者に救いの手出さず 過保護に眠り偽善と交尾 奴は愚かな平和の象徴 A sacrifice is countless Honor...glory 鼓膜に残る爆撃音が 眠れぬ夜を恐怖心に変えた 結ぶ手と手 常に交渉 癪に触れば突っ込むぜTaepodong 破り捨てた 〔A〕nti-〔B〕allistic 〔M〕issile〔T〕reaty 二度と御免だNine eleven But泣くのは市民だけさ 横暴な手段が招くは絶望 despair 退廃した地 未だ残る 抉れた傷は無意味で 黒い雨に濡れた記憶が 価値無き争いを生むだけ Worthless war continues... KBK sleep on a bed... Worthless war continues... commit suicide and compensate people. やられる前に撃ち抜くのか それを奴は正義と呼ぶのか 己にかかる血 己で拭えず A sacrifice is countless 嘆く者に救いの手出さず 過保護に眠り偽善と交尾 奴は愚かな平和の象徴 A sacrifice is countless | I KNOW LAST DAYS By bomb of autocracy (2) By bomb of autocracy By bomb of autocracy The smile of people dies By Dirty hand of autocracy by dirty hand of autocracy by dirty hand of autocracy The black sphere is turning Do you shoot first so you won't get hurt? Do you call that sort of thing 'justice'? You (3) can't wash away the blood you spill A sacrifice is countless You don't offer help to those who are suffering But expend all your energy on idle hypocrisy and rutting like an animal (4) You're a poor representation of peace A sacrifice is countless Honor…glory The sound of the explosions that linger in my ears Transform the night into one of sleepless terror [Forming] alliances, hand in hand constantly negotiating We'll be plunged right back into Taepodong (5) at the slightest offense Defying the abandoned (A)nti-(B)allistic (M)issile(T)reaty (1) We never want there to be another Nine eleven (6) But all the public does is wail Violent tactics only invite despair [This is] despair The very earth has become corrupted, a shadow scorched by desperation The screams of the victims will never end Ash rains down in sheets in the future that was stolen away Just like tears that flow without ceasing Worthless war continues… KBK (7) sleep on a bed… Worthless war continues… commit suicide and compensate people. [By bomb of autocracy by bomb of autocracy by bomb of autocracy The smile of people dies By Dirty hand of autocracy by dirty hand of autocracy by dirty hand of autocracy The black sphere is turning] [Do you shoot first so you won't get hurt? Do you call that sort of thing 'justice'? You can't wash away the blood you spill A sacrifice is countless You don't offer help to those who are suffering But expend all your energy on idle hypocrisy and rutting like an animal You're a poor representation of peace A sacrifice is countless Honor…glory The sound of the explosions that linger in my ears Transform the night into one of sleepless terror [Forming] alliances, hand in hand constantly negotiating We'll be plunged right back into Taepodong at the slightest offense Defying the abandoned (A)nti-(B)allistic (M)issile(T)reaty We never want there to be another Nine eleven But all the public does is wail Violent tactics only invite despair [This is] despair The corrupted earth still remains And meaningless are the scars carved into its surface Memories, drenched by contaminated rain (8) Give birth to nothing but worthless strife Worthless war continues… KBK sleep on a bed… Worthless war continues… commit suicide and compensate people. Do you shoot first so you won't get hurt? Do you call that sort of thing 'justice'? You can't wash away the blood you spill A sacrifice is countless You don't offer help to those who are suffering But expend all your energy on idle hypocrisy and rutting like an animal You're a poor representation of peace A sacrifice is countless |
(3) Both the “you” pronouns in this sentence are written with 己 onore, a derogatory way of talking to someone.
(4) The word used is 交尾 koubi which is “mating (as in animals)” – I chose to use “rutting,” which is a verb often used when comparing someone’s ah, love/style/frequency of copulation to that of a beast. It’s kind of in the sense of “mindlessly seeking your own pleasure/release” versus, say, “making love.”
(5) This is either referring to a North Korean missile (Taepodong-1 test-fired in 1998 or Taepodong-2 test-fired in 2006) or the facility from which the missiles are launched, Musudan-ri in an area known as Taepo-dong.
(1) He only sings “ABMT” – but the meaning of the abbreviation was included in all the kanji lyrics databases I checked. More on the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Ballistic_Missile_Treaty
(6) This is pretty obviously referring to the attacks on the United States (World Trade Center / the Pentagon / United Airlines Flight 93) on September 11, 2001 – collectively referred to as “9/11.”
(7) I honestly have no clue. My knee-jerk guess is this is short for “kill or be killed.”
There are a few references to other things online that I was able to find with the acronym KBK (mostly rail stations, football clubs, a gang in New York, an Indian news network, and a Japanese company – Kyokuto Boeki Kaisha Ltd, that does import/export of machinery/equipment relating to aircraft and a bunch of other stuff like bridges and communication systems), but… IDK, man.
(8) 黒い雨 kuroi ame or literally “black rain” also means “heavily polluted; radioactive rain caused after an atmospheric nuclear explosion.” This phenomenon is also referred to as “nuclear rainout” (as opposed to nuclear fallout, where particles simply fall from the sky as dust).