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Ode of Showa Restoration

Angry waves swell from the depths of the Miluo[P 1]
Mount Wu's peak is hazy with swirling clouds
Alone I stand in this murky and turbid world
My blood simmers in righteous anger
 
The monied elite, beholden to nought but wealth and status
Thinking nothing of this land and its fate
High and mighty are the zaibatsus and their ilk
In their hearts are nowhere our soil and grain[P 2]
 
Alas, these signs of the nation's collapse
The masses dancing blindly in the stupor of this world
In this nightmare, a political din
The world is reduced to a round of Go（围棋）
 
Under the spring sky of the Showa Restoration
The man[P 3] who marshals a righteous cause
In his heart is the march of a million million
Ready to fall like ten thousand sakura blossoms
 
Transcending the shell of crumbled bones
One body among the wisps of clouds
Standing up with concern for the nation
the righteous man's ode begins
 
Whether the rage of heaven or the cries of earth
The roar of the epoch is thundering now
From the people's sleep, endless kalpa past
Arise, Japan, at this morn's light!
 
Storm clouds gather in the heavens nine
Across the four seas, waves rage and crash
The hour[P 4] of revolution is here and nigh
Sweeping Japan like the winds of dusk
 
O thee boundless sky and land
A labyrinth path the man must tread
Of the splendors and praises in this dusty earth
Whose high castle may yet be seen?
 
Fame and glory are but the figments of a dream
What is immutable is the truth alone
Feeling the will and spirit of mortal life
Who holds the keys to failure or success?
 
A tragic ode, the Sorrow at Parting[P 5]
Here the heavy elegy finds its end
Setting our hearts we draw our swords
A surging sweep, a dance in blood
 

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After I came out of the darkness below,
While waiting for a bright tomorrow.
I came back here again,
My mind set on going somewhere else.
 
In a deserted tunnel.
I run towards the end.
Losing sight of it again and again.
 
I know
That what I ate there
Will disappear when I leave
Breaking open a bottle filled with secrets
Another day, kept within this night.
The place where I still wait will lose all meaning
Covering the light that just came in
I admire it, then throw it away,
The only thing I can do now is wait
 
Coming back up from below,
I go back to where I was yesterday
Even after coming back, I couldn't help but stare
It looks like I didn't care anymore
 
Making my way through this rain,
As if I were being plucked and frayed,
since I was scared
of walking alone
 
I knew that what I heard in that place
Would disappear when I left
Breaking open a bottle filled with secrets
Another day, kept within this night.
The place where I still wait will lose all meaning
Joining the lights then shone in
I'm cast away from the things that I admired
The only thing I can do now is wait
 
Knowing that something that's just been born,
has been doomed to die meaninglessly
To vanish from there someday
I wonder where it is, and what it's doing.
 
I know
that what I ate in that place
will disappear by my leaving
Passing by the bottle drained of it's secrets
Another day, seen within that sky.