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(Italics indicate where lyrics were translated into English)
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1. Perfume - Laser Beam
(translation courtesy Perfume City)
Straight, heart-throbbing
His line of sight is like a laser beam
It runs through your heart fizzingly
Rainbow-colored love beam
It is similar to the glittering light
of a growing fruit repelling water
I see you standing on the ground
It is dazzling and makes me blush
Straight, it is straight
Love must be a laser beam
It runs through your heart fizzingly
Rainbow-colored love beam
The secret light that binds the two
The secret light I found on that day
At the moment of love, sounds stop
Time goes slowly, a light beam of love
Straight, heart-throbbing
His line of sight is like a laser beam
It runs through your heart fizzingly
Rainbow-colored love beam
Straight, it is straight
Love must be a laser beam
It runs through your heart sharply and softly
Rainbow-colored love beam
Come to me
In all your glamour and cruelty
Just do that thing that you do
And I'll undress you
Keep it tight
Sometimes the simplest move is right
The melody that you choose
Can rescue you
A hybrid can withstand these things
My heart can beat with bricks and strings
My ARTPOP could mean anything
We could, we could belong together (ARTPOP)
We could, we could belong together (ARTPOP)
We could, we could belong together (ARTPOP, ARTPOP, ARTPOP)
Come to me
With all your subtext and fantasy
Just do that thing that you do
In a perverse hue
Lovers' kites
Are flown on beaches for public sight
The color palette you choose
Can profit you
A hybrid can withstand these things
My heart can beat with bricks and strings
My ARTPOP could mean anything
Could try to sell you out or I
Could show you all the reasons why
My ARTPOP could mean anything
We could, we could belong together (ARTPOP)
We could, we could belong together (ARTPOP)
We could, we could belong together (ARTPOP, ARTPOP, ARTPOP)
Brushes with darkness won't help you create your destiny of self
But ARTPOP could mean anything... anything!
I try to sell myself but I am really laughing
Because I just love the music, not the bling
Music, not the bling
We could, we could belong together (ARTPOP)
We could, we could belong together (ARTPOP)
We could, we could belong together (ARTPOP, ARTPOP, ARTPOP)
We could, we could belong together (ARTPOP)
We could, we could belong together (ARTPOP)
We could, we could belong together (ARTPOP, ARTPOP, ARTPOP)
Free my mind, ARTPOP
You make my heart stop
This is the sound of our days
Burning the light of our nights
This is the sign of our times
From my mouth into your eyes
This is the beat of our praise
Setting the pace of our stride
This is the line that we cross
With my torch I light your way
When the time is right
We raise our heads and look
When the bridges burn
We leave our homes in flames
This is the noise of our blood
Telling the age of our nerves
This is the price of our lies
From my lips into your breath
This is the voice of our past
Turning the tide of our lives
These are the tears that we cry
With my tongue I touch your mind
When the time is right
We raise our heads and look
When the bridges burn
We leave our homes in flames
When the time is right
We raise our heads and look
When the bridges burn
We leave our homes in flames
7. Bjork - Thunderbolt
Stirring at water's edge,
Cold froth on my twig,
My mind in whirls
Wanders around desire.
May I, can I, or have I too often?
Craving miracles…
May I, can I, or have I too often now?
Craving miracles...
Craving miracles…
No one imagines the light shock I need,
And I'll never know
From who's hands, deeply humble,
Dangerous gifts as such to mine come.
My romantic gene is dominant
And it hungers for union,
Universal intimacy,
All embracing.
Waves irregularly striking,
Wind stern in my face.
Thunderstorm, come,
Scrape those barnacles of me!
All my body parts are one
As lightning hits my spine,
Sparkling
Prime runs through me,
Revive my wish
Inviolable.
What's the use of wonderin'
If he's good or if he's bad?
Or if you like the way he wears his hat?
Oh, what's the use of wonderin'
If he's good or if he's bad?
He's your fella and you love him
That's all there is to that
Common sense may tell you
That the ending will be sad
And now's the time to break and run away
But what's the use of wonderin'
If the ending will be sad?
He's your fella and you love him
There's nothing more to say
Something made him the way that he is
Whether he's false or true
And something gave him
The things that are his
One of those things is you
So when he wants your kisses
You will give them to the lad
And anywhere he leads you, you will walk
And any time he needs you
You'll go running there like mad
You're his girl and he's your fella
And all the rest is talk
9. Bjork - All Neon Like
Not 'til you halo all over me
I'll come over
Not 'til it shimmers 'round your skull
I'll be yours
I weave for you
The marvellous web
Glow in the dark threads
All neon like
The cocoon surrounds you
Embraces all
So you can sleep
Foetus-style
And they will assist us
'Cause we're asking for help
And the luminous beam
It feeds you,
Henh-yeah!, henh-yeah
The soft distortion
Fills you up
Nourish nourish
Your turtleheart
And they will assist us
'Cause we're asking for help
And the luminous beam
It feeds you
Henh-yeah!, yeah!
Don't get angry with yourself
Don't, don't get angry with yourself
I'll heal you
With a razorblade
I'll cut a slit open
And the luminous beam
Feeds you honey, heals you
Don't get angry with yourself
I'll heal you, i'll heal you
luminous, i'll heal you
(translation courtesy Perfume City)
I kept running along this road, going forward, advancing forward, even more forward
I can't find the town that should be drawn on the map
looking back, the scenery I was able to see there had vanished
in this world, I am last at the last of the last
Electro World
the ground shook and broke down
the sun in the sky falls to my hand lightly
I have realized the truth
about the structure of this world
I'll leave you a letter
ah...
ah...oh yeh Electro World
in the town where even a cat on a street flies
even your presence has no reality
ah...
ah...oh yeh Electro World
everything I can see, everything I can touch, too
has no reality
but surely I exist
who flipped the switch on for this world?
ah, soon it will be no more
Electro world
By Heaven
I will love you*
Until the end of time
Until the mountains turn flat
Until rivers run dry
Until lightning rumbles in winter
Until snow falls in summer
And until the earth mingles with the sky
Not till then will I cease to love you.
*There's an alternate translation of this poem where "you" is replaced with "my lord". The term used, "君相", can refer to a monarch.
(translation courtesy of bambooXZX)
14. Geeta Novotny - In Trutina
In my own wavering balance
Desire fluctuates with modesty
But I choose what I see
I bow my neck to the yoke
For the burden is sweeter after all
And so I take it upon me