What is the Paradox?
Here I am with a new song analysis in “Lyrical Love”! Today’s subject is a song by the Japanese rock singer Morrie, precisely Paradox, the lead song and second track of his first solo album Ignorance, come out on 21st November 1990. The song itself appears simple and easy to listen to, even if it has some peculiar influence, but the text is way more complex than expected.
THE MUSIC
The song starts with a fast drumming and a living guitar, leading up to a flowing theme, emphasized by the bass lines; Morrie’s voice is limpid, with some irregular shade, accompained by a nice melody, which features a jazzy vibe, in a catchy and quite simple song to follow, with an atmosphere of other times.
Lyrics (Romaji)
「Zetsubou」 kara hajimeru
Sore igai ni kachi wanai
Oputiimisutiikku ni
「Kibou」 wo kataru nakare
Afure kaeru taikutsu
Imi no geemu sa shinu made hima tsubushi
Aremo fikushon koremo fikushon
Dokokani kumikoma rete
Peshi misuteikku ni
「Mirai」 wo nageku nakare
Abai ta kimi mo sesera warau boku mo
「Sekai」 ni tojikome rarete
Anata da keno paradox
Paradox
Imi wo mitsukete paradox
Paradox
「Ai」 de subete kushizashi
Sore wa muchi wo ooi kakusu
Atowa「jiyuu」 to 「heiwa」 de
Fumetsu no gensou
Kotoba ni odora sare maboroshi sae
Teniire rarenai
Anata dakeno paradox
Paradox
Imi wo mitsukete paradox
Paradox
Anata dakeno paradox
Paradox
Imi wo sagashi te paradox
Paradox
Lyrics (Translation)
It starts with “despair”
There’s not any other merit than that
An optimist
Should never talk about “hope”
Overflowing boredom
The meaning of the game is a waste of time until you won’t die
Such fiction is even a fiction
Included somewhere
A pessimist
Should never complain about “future” (I)
You, outrageous, who are laughing of me too
Confined in the “world”
You are only a paradox
Paradox
Find the meaning of the paradox
Paradox (II)
Everyone spitting “love”
Which hides the ignorance
After the “freedom” and the “peace”
Immortal fantasy
Dance by the words, only an illusion
I can’t have it (III)
You are only a paradox
Paradox
Find the meaning of the paradox
Paradox
You are only a paradox
Paradox
Look to the meaning of the paradox
Paradox (IV)
THE WORDS
Written by Morrie himself, the text appears pretty plain and contained, with a relevant focus on some key words, which are not by case closed between parenthesis, as for underlining their own meaning in the subject. For talking about this song, we should make an analysis of the title, as it encloses the sense of the whole thing, even if it would seem hard to find. Paradox is a word coming from Greek (παρά = against and δόξα = opinion)and it is a philosophical term indicating a fact which contradicts the common opinion of a subject. If applied to this song, we realize that the paradox is not a paradox itself, as it might seem, but despite an element of instability of a wider context, our reality. In fact the world we live, the reality we experience is made of mostly paradoxal elements, so the author doesn’t put himself on the point of view of the individual who suffers the weight of his own reality, but he watches with the eyes of the common mass, or simpler, of a maker, who, crafting the reality against each principle of existence, sees the reader, who is the real protagonist in this case, as the paradox of his own concept of the world, making the whole text as a sort of implied denunciation. And now... let’s analyze the song!
I) The text starts with the author who says that the existence starts from despair (「Zetsubou」 kara hajimeru, note the use of parenthesis on certain words, as mentioned above, likely to make their concepts external to the text itself), which is the only thing that mankind deserves (Sore igai ni kachi wanai); then he claims that an optimist should not talk about hope, one of the paradoxes of this distorted reality (Oputiimisutiikku ni/「Kibou」 wo kataru nakare); in fact according to him, the life is made of a overflowing boredom (Afure kaeru taikutsu) and finding its sense, defined as a game, is a waste of time, at least until death doesn’t come (Imi no geemu sa shinu made hima tsubushi), seeing the search of a meaning as a fiction inside another fiction, the life, enclosed somewhere else (Aremo fikushon koremo fikushon/Dokokani kumi komarete) and again he claims that a pessimist shouldn’t talk about the future, another paradoxal thing (Peshi misuteikku ni/ 「Mirai」 wo nageku nakare).
II) In the second sequence the author talks directly with the reader, defining him outrageous, as he laughs of him (Abai ta kimi mo sesera warau boku mo), while is confined in his world ( 「Sekai」 ni tojikome rarete, the use of parenthesis makes thinking that the author doesn’t live in our existence plan); he defines him the paradox, whose sense is to be found (Anata da keno paradox /Paradox/Imi wo mitsukete paradox /Paradox, in few words he is blaming the reader of his own defects).
III) In the third sequence the author describes the mankind as people spitting love (「Ai」 de subete kushizashi), which actually hides the ignorance (Sore wa muchi wo ooi kakusu, note that ignorance is the only concept not written between parenthesis, meaning that it is the device which moves the existence, according to the author), rejecting the concepts of freedom and peace, defined as immortal illusions (Atowa「jiyuu」 to 「heiwa」 de/Fumetsu no gensou); those illusions dance between the words used to be told and the author knows that he can’t have them (Kotoba ni odora sare maboroshi sae/Teniire rarenai, the second line might be translated referred to the reader, as “You can’t have them”, but I think that the first translation works better).
IV) The final sequence reprises the refrain of the second one, adding something new to the reader seen as a paradox, which must be looked at and understood, as the author can’t do that, in any way.
The human existence, in all its good and bad aspects, is seen as a paradox by the society, the mass, who lives only through ignorance and apathy. Morrie shows off his philosophical side in a compact song, with enigmatic shades and a deeper message, which engages everybody, one way or another.
That’s all folks! See you with a new review with “Let’s Listen to”!
Thanks for the reading!
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