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“Your bag, Professor.”

Melius cocked his head. “What?”

“Your bag,” Ivan repeated, tapping it with his wand. “Can I take a look inside it?”

No sooner had Melius handed over his bag did he regret it. Ivan muttered something - a cantrip, perhaps - and the contents flew out in a puff of pink smoke. There was a stunned silence before he dropped to his knees, stacking up the sheets of summer homework as he waited. Waited for the scolding that would follow. But Melius only smirked and flicked his finger.

“You know you’re failing the class, Ivan.” The paper flew into neat stacks as he spoke. “You need a 155% on your final to pass. I was hoping with that intellect of yours you would come up with something that would finally amaze me.”

Ivan bit back his tongue. Self control wasn’t his thing.

“You could’ve gone out in a blaze of glory. But whatever prank you pulled-” he gestured to the paper, now circling his wrist- “it didn’t work. In fact, I don’t sense any magic at all. So I’ll give you one last chance. Do you have an immortality spell you want to show me?”

A shake of his head and Melius was the one biting back his tongue. Finally! All those months with this delinquent, and he could give him the punishment he deserved. It would prove a shock to his parents; maybe he could get him expelled too, if he argued his case. “No. I don’t, so go ahead and fail me.”

“Alright. Just remember, you chose this.” A notebook shot into his right hand, a quill in the left; half the class was staring at Melius, scribbling away with ink-smudged hands; the other looked at Ivan with a mix of pity and sympathy you give to a dog bleeding out on the street. No one dared to talk over the sound of pen on paper. No one but Melius himself, chuckling away before he tossed the notebook over his shoulder.

He cleared his throat and the stack of homework soared into the air, raining down on desks - and people’s heads. The chorus of groans was interrupted by an ‘oof’ or two.

“You can’t be serious,” someone grumbled.

“What is this, sixty pages?”

“Sixty-seven,” Melius corrected. “It’s due by-”

BANG! The oh-so-mighty wizard was knocked off his feet. Purple swirls circled his chest and ankles as he readied a shield, before dropping it the moment he saw Ivan’s smile, inching up his face. An orange link shot out of each student’s soul, twisting and pulsating until it reached Ivan’s. With each passing second, the eyebags under his face tightened until his skin was glassy smooth.

“How are you-?”

“I’m feeding off their will to live.”

The notebook arced across the room as Merlin tore a page out of it. He thought of enchanting it with Flame and chucking it at Ivan, though admittedly, the boy looked much less like a criminal without pimples.

Wizards are not naturally immortal, in fact creating their own form of immortality is their graduate thesis.

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Names held power. Everyone knew that.

The English royal family were the first to study the phenomenon, and put it to good use by pulling any Charleses out of magic schools and training them in the palace. The Chinese were a bit behind, placing undue focus on crafting the name and less its legacy, although it's said the imperial court knew the method was a dud. Little is to be said of the Germans, who mandated children be named ‘Firemancer’ or ‘Deathbringer’ during World War 2, which failed miserably once the name lost all meaning.

Names held power. But it was only after the Institute of Mythology revealed to the public how that Merlins and Hecates began springing up like weeds. A name contained the legacy of all those who shared it, and so the more powerful your forebears were, the more powerful you would be. The legacy need not be well known, but it must have been true; so it was hilarious when a columnist advertised a way to ‘jailbreak’ the system by using the names of fictional heroes, and it was equally hilarious to see students with last name Sue and first name Mary sulking because they couldn't cast a fireball.

Eventually, though, the wave of excitement died down. The proud named their children after their family’s clan to carry on their legacy; the weak named their children after famous wizards to give them a chance of redemption; everyone else named their child Merlin. For it was a simple and elegant name, with a simple and elegant legacy, well respected but with no hijinks or fate-dooming anomalies.

St. Paul’s School for Wizards had over two hundred and thirteen Merlins in total, not counting staff and faculty. It had become a gambling game for them, really, to look at the CVs of any thirteen year-old and bet if it would be Merlin. Usually the people who bet on Merlin won. Which is why it came as such a surprise that resume letter #1008 was Bob.

Bob was brought straight into questioning by the headmaster. He could perform all the spells for a wizard his age: apparition spells, cantrips, a protective charm or two. But St Paul’s wasn't just any old school, and when subject to more rigorous testing, he barely passed half the tests they threw at him. Completely expected. They sat a sweating and tired Bob down and asked him a few questions: yes, that was the name he was given; no, he did not bring his wand with him because it was confiscated; yes, St Pauls was the only school he applied to.

With each answer the teacher's eyes furrowed. There wasn't any law dictating what you could or couldn't name your children, and yet this seemed to veer on the edge of child abuse. An analyze spell showed he was physically and mentally sound, however. There were reasons to choose one name over the other; the stronger the legacy of a name was, the more constrained a person's field of magic could be. Powerful names reduced a person's magical ability if they tried to surpass them, and fate and fortune alike could be inherited through names. Yet Bob didn't seem like he would surpass Morgan le Fey anytime soon, and Merlin had nothing but a good life.

They decided to let him in on the condition that he would be monitored at school. Bob accepted. That gave the school board time to dig through his legacy. He was the son of Kainotomia and Creatrix. The two were blessed with entrepreneurial talents, and Creatrix had a ‘try it out for yourself’ spirit from C. Smith five decades ago. A perfectly fine name for Bob to inherit, more so given that his name came up blank everywhere. No wizard or alchemist, no witch or sorcerer ever showed up in the Runes 500 or even 5000. They scavenged through historical records, searched through myth and legend. No Bob. The only lead they had was that Bob was an incredibly common name upon the magically deaf.

The biggest surprise came when Bob came into class brandishing a gun, not a wand. Not because it was dangerous, mind you; in fact it was quite the opposite. Magic and technology are like oil and water, and combining the two leads to both failing. Any danger the bullet would've posed was nullified by all sorts of wards enveloping the school. Yet when the teacher called Bob to demonstrate a touch spell amidst sniggers and whispers, Bob simply pointed his gun and pulled the trigger. The bullet was a fiery green.

It soon became clear, among blazing Aerosol sprays and potion-brewing coffee machines, that Bob was in St. Paul’s for a very good reason. Magic people did magic and tech people did tech, yet by inheriting the legacy of millions of smartphone users, gun owners and car drivers, Bob was able to bring the two words together with sheer force. No fate to limit him, no shadow to break free of. He was taken out of normal lessons and privately tutored by whatever teacher could wrap his head around the boy. His name spread through campus, and within weeks he would emerge from the school's private study to a whirlwind of juniors with too much free time on their hands. With each invention - a spell-generating AI, computers that never overheated - Bob’s magical journey soared to new heights. He smashed the final by wearing a set of robot arms to cast incantations at twice the speed, getting an A++ and sending the school board into a heated debate about what it really meant to be proficient in magic. But it was soon decided that just like wands and amulets, Bob’s tools were just that. Tools. His magic prowess was unstoppable.

But if you ask him about what he's most proud of, he'll simply shrug. To him, it was the foresight of his parents and maybe the benevolence of the headmaster that got him this far. He’s simply a boy with a few tricks up his sleeve. Really press him for an answer, though, and he'll point to the air-conditioner blasting icy mist with the slightest smile on his face.

Names have power, so the more people who share the same Name, the more powerful they are. The Wizard School was prepared for their 213th Merlin. What they weren’t prepared for was their first Bob.

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Charles (English Translyrics) / シャルル

'And soon this dance for two will bid us adieu'

Song: balloon

References: Vocaloid Lyrics Wiki

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Fare thee well, my friend, you whispered as the clock chimed - how could I forget?

Crystals of regret still streaming

If the time that I was by your side still chokes you through the night, forget it

Just smile

The bouquet I hold has wilted in the moonlight, an ending so trite

Wandering through the streets of silence

Every step, my feelings left for dead

In my ideals I’ll forget

Is that fine?

Hollow out my heart, to live it anew

But if I met you in the ocean blue

Would we both drown again, or end it right then?

I guess we’ll both never know

Love songs ring out, ring out, high up in the sunset

Too faint to hear with my clouded mind

I try, and try, and try

Whispers fading through this foggy night

We talk and talk of what we could’ve been

Another fight tears this brittle dream / Our endless fights

Awry, awry, awry

Our eyes they lie as we say goodbye

Yet the sunlight streams, embracing rosy cheeks stained with endless regrets

The sighing city wakes up yet again

Through the roads, your laughter echoes by

Growing fainter every time

Is that right?

Stitching up my mouth so it won’t fail me

And if my feelings strain against the seams

I’ll hold them tighter still, and cradle the pain

Then could I find what we lost?

Say it's just love, it’s love, our feelings hid in vain

The script advances until we break

In lies, in lies, in lies

Our filthy costumes laying side by side

We mix and mix, two hermits bound as one

But it was fated we'd come undone

Oh why, oh why, oh why?

I wish I felt how you felt just once

Surely, surely we knew all this time

The spool of lies we spun would run out someday

Truly, truly, we've always been lost

Despair is how we met, it's how we'll stay

And soon this dance for two will bid us adieu

For both our souls were to blame

Love songs ring out, ring out, high up in the sunset

Too faint to hear with my clouded mind

I try, and try, and try

Whispers fading through this foggy night

We talk and talk, each moment a regret

Mend and forgive but this broken thread

Is gone, it's gone, it's gone

And we dream and dream of what we left unsaid

And talk and talk, each moment a regret

We say goodbye with our lies instead

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* The lines 'If the time that I was by your side just chokes you through the night, forget it' and 'Our eyes they lie as they say goodbye' are taken from David Toth's translyrics.

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Gehenna (English Translyrics) / ジェヘナ

'I'm sorry I deceived you.'

Song: wotaku

References: Vocaloid Lyrics Wiki

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'Hey, how's life? Is everything alright?'

Well, you see, those things are far behind me

It's a shame, the light's all but shut away inside these concrete walls

There's nothing to be said

As the regrets collect around the fireplace

Joy, content, I'll forfeit them to ashes

Yeah, that's right, I'm utterly and truly so to blame

A play so ordinary

Oh how I longed to make the plain and simple mine

I set my shackles free and tainted then the order of life

Now standing in the rubble, I cry out but can't scream

Hurry up and fall with me

Let me breathe again, please

Why weep? All I can do is choke and strangle with the real me

Reprieve rotting a heart that barely beats

There's no need to tear apart the endless buzzing in your mind

It's devoid of any meaning, so just move on

And the only choice we have is just to live on

'Hey, how's life? Just are you really fine?'

Oh, I see, you're really at it, aren't you?

'What a shame, surely your partner must've helped you through these times'

Just shut up, will you please?

I've failed again, my end enshrouded in mistakes

Dearest noose, don't tell me too you've left me

That's too bad, you say as the audience erupts in wild applause

Was that so satisfying?

I wade around and find my heart, so broken, black and gone

Clean it with alcohol so I can drift to dreams unabsolved

The ocean swallows me up, it bleeds a murky blue shade

I fall and fall away

Let me breathe again, please

Why weep when every word I choke cuts through the lungs that still beat, still bleed

Inside the flesh that's not really me

So called 'happiness' and 'sorrow' are just feelings, more or less

Not a question will change anything you see now

Play the hand that you've been dealt and keep your head down

Let me breathe again, please

My plea, it wavers in the dark abyss

So let me live, please

Truly, my DNA just won't relent

There's no need to thrash against the instincts carved into your flesh

Not a single thing will change for you, my dearest

Let me breathe again, please

I scream inside the concrete cold and bare

To let me live, please

It beats, the crying crimson carved in me

Let me breathe again, oh Lord, oh end my breathing pained and sore

For this bitter truth of life is all I longed for

But the only choice we have is just to live on

I'm sorry I deceived you

And I'm sorry my words failed you

The script that kept us going ends so silently in sorrow

For our suffering's the only bond we held close

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Regulus (English Translyrics) / レグルス

'So hear my plea, Regulus!'

Song: Yuuyu

References: Vocaloid Lyrics Wiki

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Crystal colors in the night

Scattered seemly by our fates

Though they're blinded by fog

Marred and hidden in our smiles

On the rusty shelf it barely beats

The heart lost in song

Out of sight, golden threads unwind in sighs and distant stares

Tie it tight, until they rebind anew, the dewdrops-

Perched on the hand that grabbed on so tightly

And in your eyes, as the sparrows fly

There lies the starry sky we saw, hey!

The meteor blazing with pride, there I saw it sunder the night

If you’re with me, shining blue star, I won’t lose the way

So hear our plea, Regulus!

Bathed in the rays of Sirius

Our quartet shines with silhouettes larger than life

We’ll march with fervor through our turbulent dreams

(To) the nova that never sleeps

Hear me!

Fight on, fight on, farther, brighter, till the end

Brave on!

In the twilight of the halls

Every path a frail goodbye

There the days withered dry

But still there your hand found it’s way in mine

“We’re together, so it’s alright”

And you called again, and I called to you, my friend

Whispering out the windowsill

To the robins flying free

And I asked them again

In the miracles I hold

What is it that my heart truly seeks?

I'm confirming it all

Though the stars, faint as they are in this silent night

Still they shine with their glow woven between them

And in my eyes, every shard of time

Burns brightly in a flash of pride, hey!

The meteor shining that night-

The meteor blazing with pride, there I saw it sunder the skies

If you’re with me, shining blue star, I won’t fall again

So light the way, Regulus!

Bathed in the rays of Sirius

We’re connected by our destinies woven anew

So march with fervor through our turbulent dreams

(To) the nova that never sleeps

Hear me!

Fight on, fight on, farther, brighter, ‘till we’re

Soaring, tracing every dotted dream in the sky

LEO!

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Scissorhands (English Translyrics) / シザーハンズ

Song: Nem

References: Vocaloid Lyrics Wiki

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Love me please, love me please, love me please, oh love me please

Love me please, love me please, love me please

Why won't you heed?

Snowflakes lingering on silver skin

Never melting for what lies within

Ever tarnished by their mocking cries

The casings grow around my heart bleeding tin

Iron scenes are all I see

My dear, when did you leave?

These hands of mine, these hands of mine

Long to hold you, oh yes indeed

But I stare afar, my fantasy a bleeding dream

Tell me, oh God, tell me, oh God

What can I do to save her smile?

A world apart, the moonlight streams

Love me please, love me please, love me please, oh love me please

Love me please, love me please, love me please

Why won't you heed?

Stained with blood that never seems to dry

Would you rather it be theirs this time?

With my blades of true authority

I’ll strike them down, if they so dare to harm your smile

In the pieces of rejection, I see

What I was meant to be

These hands of mine, these hands of mine

Settle their vices now repaid

Yet in the strife of silenced cries, your smile fades

Tell me, oh Lord, tell me Lord

Haven’t I done my duty well?

The village stills, devoid of prey

Rip and tear, rip and tear, in their screams I see your face

Rip and tear, rip and tear, all their pain - was it all for naught?

But deep in my hands, so deep in my hands

Even the metal starts to beat

The razorblades now melt away, my body breathes

And now that I see, and now that I see

I was in bloodshed ever weak

I'll never harm a single soul

Now that my hands, now that my hands

Cold as they are, can feel your cheeks

I'll scream away in distant haze, so come back please

Tell me, my dear, tell me, my dear

If it was fate that drew us far apart…

I’ll be yours, I'll be yours, I’ll be yours, oh I'll be yours

I'll be yours, I'll be yours, I'll be yours

I'll love you again

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夏日寒風 - 譚詠麟 (English Translyrics)

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The beach’s golden hue pulsing with the ocean blue, there I am in crowds askew

I shiver in the light, putting on a smile tight, withering in zephyrs undue

The fire in my heart fading as she walked through, leaving but a husk in her ruse

Her promise of a thousand years sold off anew

Though she stole the sun, the stars live on

But these tears undone still miss the heart that she traded like a pawn

I’m oh so empty, empty, come hear my hateful plea

You knew the end, so why pretend in comedy?

I’m oh so empty, empty, she’s in my every scream

Through gritted tears, I’ll swear today that I’ll live in pain ever free

The beach’s golden hue pulsing with the ocean blue, there I am in crowds askew

I shiver in the light, putting on a smile tight, withering in zephyrs undue

The fire in my heart fading as she walked through, leaving but a husk in her ruse

Her promise of a thousand years sold off anew

Though she stole the sun, the stars live on

But these tears undone still miss the heart that she traded like a pawn

I’m oh so empty, empty, come hear my hateful plea

You knew the end, so why pretend in comedy?

I’m oh so empty, empty, she’s in my every scream

Through gritted tears, I’ll swear today that I’ll live in pain ever free

I’m oh so empty, empty, come hear my hateful plea

You knew the end, so why pretend in comedy?

I’m oh so empty, empty, she’s in my every scream

Through gritted tears, I’ll swear today that I’ll live in pain ever free

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This song is a classic from where I'm from; figured I might try and translate it as best I can.

I really like the line "說愛我百萬年的她，今愛著誰？" which roughly translates to 'Who does she love now, who said she'd love me for a million years?' The syllables are really tight though so I couldn't translate it as a question in English, so I just wrote 'Her promise of a thousand years sold off anew'

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Twilight Light (English Translyrics) / トワイライトライト

Music: toa

References: Vocaloid Lyrics Wiki, Amiaryllis' translation

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Those feelings come together will reach into the hazy sky someday

So, let’s smile, let’s all smile, let’s all smile

If you’ve been led astray, I’ll guide your way tonight

Through scenery lost to time under curtains concealing secret destinies

Our two souls broken gathered in twilight

We embrace, knowing something’s not quite right

But still, but still, I just can’t seem to hear your voice

The mirror abandoned and covered with tape

The sealed up cocoon that’s still beating away

There I am, don’t you see?

But all the shining stars alight fading out of sight

Could never hear my plea, oh hear my plea

Our fingers weave a story of fires burning in this endless night

And as the pages start to crumble, can’t we sing, can’t we sing?

Our feelings come together will reach into the hazy sky someday

Let them ring, let them ring, let them ring

Hey, can’t we smile, can’t we smile?

If it’s too much one day, I’ll lead the way for you

Through memories pained and left askew in curtains hidden away

The contradictions snipping as we’re stitching our fraying words

The parallel lines of our endless hurt

I still, I still, can’t reach a world with me and you

Inside of the canvas that chases its light

Inside of the box with its lonely blue chimes

There you are, next to me

But still the wires of my fate wrap their ragged chains

Round my prayers so weak, these prayers so weak

The melodies of saviors lost still reaching out to words of feelings gone

The vivid hues of burning dreams in hide and seek with stitched together scenes

Come tear them one by one, these knots of ambiguity strung by your true self hidden deep away

Ever stained in this bleeding red twilight

Why is it that our souls remain and intertwine?

Our fingers weave a story of our repeating nights brought on by chance

So on this fraying, fragile tightrope, can’t we dance, can’t we dance?

Our feelings come together will go beyond the hazy sky someday

Let them ring, let them ring, let them ring

Hey, can’t we sing, can’t we sing, can’t we sing?

The sun rises ever so slightly as the wounded sparrow yearns to fly free

She nestles in the cherry buds pink longing for the day they’d blossom

Hand in hand under the bleeding twilight, strolling past silken curtains swept aside

Now resounding is a melody once unknown

So let’s all smile, let’s all smile, through the night

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A few lines are taken from Amiaryllis' translyrics - namely 'Inside of the canvas that chases it's light', 'repeating nights brought on by chance' and 'Now resounding is a melody once unknown', come check out their translation if you can!

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Rolling Girl (English Translyrics) / ローリンガール / Merry Christmas!!!!!

Song: Wowaka

References: Vocaloid Lyrics Wiki

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Lonely girl, she toils round this churning mess

Of starry skies now torn to shreds

Deadened dreams join the corpses piling up round and round in her head, round and round in her head

‘It's all fine,’ she whispers in the haze

The words swept dry by crashing waves

She's failed again, failed again, flailing in a ocean of errors unsolved and yet her heart still begs to stay

Just one more time, one more time

Let me roll along all my thorns another day

She pleads again, pleads again

Praying for a glimmer of hope within her torrents

“How much longer?’

“Till the morning comes.”

Bracing ragged bodies in waves of leaden sorrow, she stops her breath from seeping out for now

Rolling girl collapsing in her grave

She'll never reach those hues shining bright

Tainted grays creep up on her weary face

Swirling round in her mind, swirling round in her mind

‘I’m alright,’ she mumbles through the tears

Still crawling up that cliff of demise

She falls again, falls again, battered by the sorrow that slits her words apart and yet her soul refused to die

Just one more time, one more time

Won't you roll along all these thorns another day?

She cries again, cries again

Begging to be seen with a scream of bloodied silence

“How much longer?”

“Just a little more.”

Oceans crashing over her body gray and sore, she holds her aching breath for now

Come on, one more time, one more time

Let me roll along all these buds of roses white

She screams again, screams again

Praying every breath doesn’t drown her in tomorrow

“Please, no more!”

“Open up your eyes.”

With the sunlight dancing on torrents of her blight, the rolling girl breathes out a sigh for now

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I used to listen to this obsessively as a child along with Tokyo Teddy Bear lmao

Decided to lean more into the hopeful side of the lyrics for this translation. I've always seen this song as inspiring as it gives off the feeling of fighting against impossible circumstances even though you're exhausted. Also most translations out highlight the depressing part of the lyrics so I figured it'd be a breath of fresh air. Last but not least, Merry Christmas!!!

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Lower (English Translyrics) / ロウワー

Song: nuyuri

References: Vocaloid Lyrics Wiki

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I clasp my eyes and pray to God on high

That in this blurry night my love won’t go awry

But we still waltz in shame as curtains sweep the stage

Whispering a denouement as you’re dragged out of my sight

Confessions bubble up, they’re bursting apart

I sweep them out, the foam corroding my heart

Who knew these things so light could weigh down on me all the same?

Desires bottled up in paper-thin walls

Come crashing down as strangle them off

And now my soul is littered with all their rotten remains

These corpses sing a secret untold

This vile truth of mine that’s killing all hope

It piles up on me, I laugh and turn my eyes away

My raspy throat cries out in a reticent scream

The words all locked away by bloodied old keys

It’s setting me aflame but I still don’t know what to say

So I run as always, screaming out into the distant ocean haze

Sounding so wrong, my cries sound wrong for they are mine

Just how much longer can our love endure this never-ending maze?

Since we’re ever clueless, why not let me put your hand in mine?

If our love was surely cursed from the start

If both our souls were destined to part

Then I’ll pray a thousand times we’ll find each other someday

If you’d turn around and stay here with me

If I could make our time never leave

Maybe we could both be saved by this secret love that sets us both aflame

Peace and quiet fades with these crushing days

(ALT: Quiet empty days, bought by dues unpaid)

But this attrition I face was cried by every dove of mine

Pleasure bursts in flames, lies and sin and shame

I grab your arm and flee before it’s all ravaged in time

Whispering fading hopes in pouring rain again

Hands interlocked, my words interlocked, none to be said

I’m lost among this maze we play that blinds our fragile, weary eyes

All I do is doubt and drown in all my wavering demise!

If we lose it all and crumble away

If both our ragged breaths start to fade

Then I’ll pray a thousand times the sun will rise with glory

So we mend our broken lives whole once more

So my heart can forever be yours

All these burning hopes and dreams, won’t you place them all in me, my darling dear?

Crying there with you

Laughing after you

FIghting there with you

Singing fading tunes

Dancing there with you

Chatting there with you

Whispering right into the hazy ocean blue

Just how much longer, just how much longer will this last?

You’re etched in every breath of mine, and as I take a fateful sigh

All my mind is flooded with those memories of you

If our souls would go on-

If our love was surely cursed from the start

If both our souls were destined to part

Then I’ll pray a thousand times we’ll find each other someday

If you’d turn around and stay here with me

If I could make our time never leave

Maybe I could grasp this fleeting light, laughing here with you into the night

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Samsa (English Translyrics) / ザムザ

Song: Tenihowa

References: Vocaloid Lyrics Wiki

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My rugged name still tainted with a past I'll never forget, this ruby kitsch besets a tone of my dread

Body misshapen like a beast of fading words unsaid, the knights will slay me in time because I’m better off dead

How do I look? Of course I’m an unsightly shame, still drowning every day, an utter disgrace

I beg but still, apples volley over my way, before I’m locked up, locked up, Samsa

Look in the mirror, we'll see if we can stomach your face

If you can still create, your errors won’t be blamed

Those sweetened words you carve onto my temples just won’t change

My shacked hideous fate of ‘do or die in shame’

And when the moonlight penetrates the navy gloom

I pace around my room until the night’s through

Wondering what sacrifice I’ll give today to my nightmares strewn askew

It aches, it aches, it aches (It aches, it aches, it aches)

It aches, it aches, it aches (Remain in pain)

It aches, it aches, it aches (It aches, it aches, it aches)

It aches, it aches, it aches (Will it change?)

It aches, it aches, it aches, it aches

Barely we escape, our souls inflamed in pain and

(It aches, it aches, it aches)

Consumed by hurt, wrangled words screaming ta-ta-ta-ta-ta

I wonder why my heart still cries in silence

(It aches, it aches, it aches still)

Dragging my twitching tail of wishes frail like sa-sa-sa-sa-samsa

Hold onto life another day, come promise you'll stay, Samsa! Oh yeah

It aches, it aches, it aches, it aches, Sa-sa-sa-sa-samsa

It aches, it aches, it aches, it aches

Tell them I’m wrong, I couldn’t save a soul

Within my dying broken songs abiding sorry old woes

The spirit sighs, acting humanly, a shell of a fool

All for a fleeting light, one more smile just from you

Wasn’t it funny how my duty only brung me undone dues?

Who knew saving those in graves turned me a ghost, weeping, whining in mildew?

It aches, it aches, it aches (It aches, it aches, it aches)

It aches, it aches, it aches (Remain in pain)

It aches, it aches, it aches (It aches, it aches, it aches)

It aches, it aches, it aches, I can’t change none of these painful weighing days

Forgive my dreams, don't kill them please, I’m bleeding

(It aches, it aches, it aches)

These desperate tunes played askew, singing ta-ta-ta-ta-ta

Let my ghost weave this melody of pleas, for

(It aches, it aches, it aches still)

If I die, let my corpse thrive in warming song, in Sa-sa-sa-sa-samsa

To flee or fight? The timer’s chiming, Sa-sa-sa-sa-samsa

Grieve it, leave it, move on crying, Sa-sa-sa-sa-samsa

Crumbling, though I’m running along carnation fields of white

Just for them, my end won't be nigh, so I’m mentioned in the credits of their lives

Barely we escape, our souls inflamed in pain and

(It aches, it aches, it aches)

Consumed by hurt, wrangled words screaming ta-ta-ta-ta-ta

I wonder why my heart still cries in silence

(It aches, it aches, it aches still)

Rotten apples lodged in me like Sa-sa-samsa

With hearts of blight into the night, though poisoned my soul still remains

Shadows cast round my past, still I’ll live with the pain

When the clock chimes it’s twenty-five, there I see the soothing light

Gazing into your purple eyes, it's time now, Sa-sa-sa-sa-samsa

Hold onto life another day, come promise you'll stay, Samsa, tonight!

It aches, it aches, it aches, it aches, Sa-sa-sa-sa-samsa

It aches, it aches, it aches, it aches

It aches, it aches, it aches, it aches, it aches, it aches, Sa-sa-sa-sa-samsa

It aches, it aches, it aches, it aches, it aches, it aches

It aches

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Venom (English Translyrics) / ベノム

Song: Kairiki Bear

References: Vocaloid Lyrics Wiki

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Let me give you a pop quiz: just what’s lacking in our lives?

You don’t know the answer? Look around and look inside

Ah, it's not there, not in my heart in repair nor in that despair that’s growing

Spinning round like hamsters in our cages of demise

Win or lose, we’re leadened with our minds of misery

Mustard in the freshener, oh I’m dropping to my knees

So wear this face of a smile laying in the wastes of burnout

Mourning’s just too painful, come and smile, come say cheese!

If you’re bored, come and see this heart of a cheap nirvana junkie

No joke can surpass all my feigned security

Guzzling the poison so pained, but I can’t throw up, I laugh with twitching eyes

This veno-venom, way to say goodbye

Still gulping down this bubbling love with troubles burning all the same

Scrub this suffering, rub it off my face

Until the blood blackened by venom gushes, rushing out my veins

Love, pain, venom setting me aflame, no!

Flashing brand new records of the zeros in our lives

Low on broken batteries, sleep tonight and sleep for life

Ah, lonely nights where the clock chimes with hopes of mere oases, wake up!

For your crimes, you’re sentenced to an overdose tonight

Don’t I love my straitjacket tight? I'm a weak nirvana junkie

Laughing at my woes of a feigned security

Guzzling the poison so pained but my crippled legs won’t let me run away

This veno-venom stays

Still gulping down this bubbling love with troubles burning all the same

Scrub this suffering, rub it off my face

Until the message left on read morphs in a menu of our pain

Love (love), pain (pain), venom setting me aflame, no!

Markings left so stark by poison roiling in my veins

I’ve been cursed, it hurts, I’m sick aren't I?

Now let me down and drown in venom to end my mistakes

Love, pain, love, pain

Down this bubbling love with troubles burning all the same

Scrub this suffering, rub it off my face

Until the blood blackened by venom gushes, rushing out my veins

Love, pain, venom setting me aflame

Venom setting me aflame

Venom setting me aflame, no!

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Midterms are in two weeks I really should get around to revising

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Abnormality Dancing Girl (English Translyrics) / アブノーマリティ･ダンシンガール

Song: Guchiry

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Falling short, the blood and tears I put into this game

To claim these scores so average in every way

Stagnating still day by day

On these scales of arbitrary failure, I’m breaking deep inside, a tragedy we know as life

But in the strife, rebirth brings my new light

Creaking, it stings, my chest fills with abnormality

Won’t you come and see just what’s become of me?

I chase this fate of a paragon of perfect-minded love, you see

To be just enough

Come and show me your gaze, watch me carve my new face

Feel these chains of my fate tangle and break away

Wrap this chrysalis tight as the days whittle by

The wings of holy butterflies will soon take their flight

Not an actor to see on this stage of the freed

Dancing bare to the beat of rapture, 1, 2, 3

Call me deranged as you please, I’m still dancing free

I’m, I’m, I'm breaking!

The chains so pained cursed me to a life of normalcy

But they broke bespoke with abnormality

My eyes now see all the shallowness behind your kitsch beliefs

None of them concern me

Love and distaste I denied when I first seized my fate

For anomalies were all that I would crave

And in the ruins of my metamorphosis of twisted grace

There lies the stitches sewn on my face

Come and show me your gaze, watch me carve my new face

Feel these chains of my fate tangle and break away

Wrap this chrysalis tight as the days whittle by

The wings of holy butterflies will soon take their flight

Not an actor to see on this stage of the freed

Dancing bare to the beat of rapture, 1, 2, 3

Call me deranged as you please, I’m still dancing free

I’m, I’m, I'm breaking!

I hide from the moon, confined to my room

Still staring obtuse into this mirror true

‘Who are you?’ I plead, who am I indeed?

The answer falls apart in blackened echoing shrieks

I’m breaking, I’m breaking, I’m breaking, I’m breaking

I’m breaking, I’m breaking and dancing, it’s time

Oh my, the cocoon is burning alight

Come and show me your gaze, watch me carve my new face

Feel these chains of my fate tangle and break away

Wrap this chrysalis tight as the days whittle by

The wings of holy butterflies will soon take their flight

Not an actor to see on this stage of the freed

Dancing bare to the beat of rapture, 1, 2, 3

Call me deranged as you please, I’m still dancing free

I’m, I’m, I'm breaking!

The chains so pained cursed me to a life of normalcy

But they broke bespoke with abnormality

And in the ruins of my metamorphosis of twisted grace

There lies the stitches sewn on my face

Creaking, it stings, my chest fills with abnormality

Won’t you come and see just what’s become of me?

I chase this fate of a paragon of perfect-minded love, you see

To be just enough

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Miracle Paint (English Translyrics) / ミラクルペイント

Song: OSTER Project

References: Vocaloid Lyrics Wiki

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My legs are strolling home, with eyes on the road and thoughts all drifting to that sunset dyed with the reddest wines

In fading winter skies

The breeze is playing with my hair, I wonder if your heart is busy painting portraits of our care?

In time, the clock will come run dry with minute hands of you and I

In all your warmth, how could I not be yours and yours alone tonight?

From across the room, our gazes meet with longing breaths that twirl like butterflies

Why don't we both shine?

Miracle painting

Dancing in our showtime

Come hypnotize me with that brush of our feelings burning bright

Painting our hearts in colors oh so fine, my nails are stained in reds of the sky

Under the navy blue of gleaming shades, we hold our hands of shining stars and dance this endless night away

How clumsy though we sway

Our footsteps intertwine in time, I tiptoe proudly though I’m melting with the smile on your face

The moon shines fondly just for us two in rendezvous of dreams alike

We toss and whirl and when we dip, there's snowflakes falling from your eyes

Round the fireplace we go all fuzzy from the love of our embraces tight

In shining midnight

Miracle painting

Wonder fills our romance

I’ll put my love into this brush dyed with vivid skies alight

From all my hair to my heart burning bright, they're yours and yours alone for tonight

These lively swirls of colors blurred

Are in the countless dreams we weave and see here tonight

My feelings swell and overflow

I want your eyes to see

This love of oceans deep

I'll show it piece by piece

But still my feelings flee my words

So let's dance our same old song just to be sure

Miracle painting

Laughing in our showtime

With but one flick, your magic brush casts a spell, a love for two

Come mix this palette filled with red and blue, and dye me head to toe with your hue

-Don't let this end just yet!

Miracle painting

With your charming technique

We'll add the ending touches when the sun rises up anew

For when the skies are filled with navy blues, I just want you to know

I love you!

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Been putting Project Sekai chibi stickers around the school recently and no one's done anything about it yet. It's so funny and I'm planning to cover the whole stairwell in them and possibly put a few in every classroom as well since I have two hundred and I don't know what to do with them

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Jackpot Sad Girl (English Translyrics) / ジャックポットサッドガール

Song: syndou

References: Magentra's translation, which can be found here:

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Perfect masks never deviate

They smile as they hide all my rotting face, and

Again, again, it’s happening again

The days, the days, are slipping without end

Talents bright and gentle words so fine

They’re hollowed-out facades in my pointless life, filled with strife

Lament, lament, but I’m still stuck in dread

I can’t, I can’t, unfreeze myself again

Still pacing ‘round this tainted stage of love

But the props are thin, they’re not enough!

Come look at the jackpot sad girl, see oh how distantly she twirls

Watch the ending credits whirr with all her feelings still a blur

All the sinful thoughts she holds, bolted in her soul are what makes her tick and chime, though

The future bright I hold so tight has lost its luster acting all alone

In this maze, logic just won’t hold

So let your whims all sway, life is just a joke, say

Hello, hello, submitting to your throes

You wrap, you wrap, these strings around my soul

Lies and nous* in a rendezvous

All crashing my plans and fading fragile truths onstage!

Come round, come round, my heart so meekly pounds

The depths, the depths, of my mind you endow

The water in the empty tank stagnates

With the creeping smile on my face!

Jackpot sad girl, she still can't understand this world

Though she's broken, she still yearns to feel this beating heart unfurled

Conquering the night head-on, with her wishes strong, she learns she's lived all her life wrong

The cutting fine edge of scalpels bereft, it hurts, your words, I’ll keep on holding on

One, two, three, four, five, six, nine, eight

One, two, three, four, there's no escape

Hey teacher, where’s all the peace you said?

In worlds of pyre so withered and mired, desires in fire all dyed red

Where even weeds don’t grow, this wasteland eagles leave alone

Is this still the girl the director had hoped for?

Teacher! Why can’t you understand my truth?

Just see the flowers in bloom of all my feelings askew!

Why not study all these bloodied stems you ripped to shreds?

I’ll show you ignorance, apathy, purity, understand me please…

I’m sorry, I digress!

I am just a jackpot sad girl, forever lost in this cruel world

Acting on, I’m never sure of all my feelings still a blur

Even then, I’m yearning one day to connect our fates with our fraying words so pained, now

So hold it tight, this future bright, with you and me in all our masquerades

Today!

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*Nous: (copied from Wikipedia) a concept from classical philosophy, sometimes equated to intellect or intelligence, for the faculty of the human mind necessary for understanding what is true or real.