Worthless War
ガゼット / The GazettEEnglish version | |
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 Yarareru mae ni uchinuku no ka Sore wo yatsu wa seigi to yobu no ka Onore ni kakaru chi onore de nuguezu A sacrifice is countless Nageku mono ni sukui no te dasazu Kahogo ni nemuri gizen to koubi Yatsu wa orokana heiwa no shouchou A sacrifice is countless Honor…glory Komaku ni nokoru bakugekioto ga Nemurenu yoru wo kyoufushin ni kaeta Musubu te to te tsune ni koushou Shaku ni sawareba tsukkomu Taepodong Yaburi suteta (A)nti-(B)allistic (M)issile(T)reaty Nido to gomen da Nine eleven But naku no wa shimen dake sa Oubou na shudan ga maneku wa zetsubou despair [desu] Taihaishita chi yake kogeta kage Gisei no sakebi wa yamanu Furisosogu hai ubawareta asu ni Namida sae nagasanu kuse ni 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 Yarareru mae ni uchinuku no ka Sore wo yatsu wa seigi to yobu no ka Onore ni kakaru chi onore de nuguezu A sacrifice is countless Nageku mono ni sukui no te dasazu Kahogo ni nemuri gizen to koubi Yatsu wa orokana heiwa no shouchou A sacrifice is countless Honor…glory Komaku ni nokoru bakugekioto ga Nemurenu yoru wo kyoufushin ni kaeta Musubu te to te tsune ni koushou Shaku ni sawareba tsukkomu Taepodong Yaburi suteta (A)nti-(B)allistic (M)issile(T)reaty Nido to gomen da Nine eleven But naku no wa shimen dake sa Oubou na shudan ga maneku wa zetsubou despairdesu Taihaishita chi imada nokoru Egureta kizu wa muimi de Kuroi ame ni nureta kioku ga Kachi naki arasoi wo umu dake Worthless war continues… KBK sleep on a bed… Worthless war continues… commit suicide and compensate people. Yarareru mae ni uchinuku no ka Sore wo yatsu wa seigi to yobu no ka Onore ni kakaru chi onore de nuguezu A sacrifice is countless Nageku mono ni sukui no te dasazu Kahogo ni nemuri gizen to koubi Yatsu wa orokana heiwa no shouchou 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).