青い鳥 (Aoi tori)

Kanji

足りない頭で考えてみた
君はきっと僕の青い鳥で
忌々しいクソったれなこの世界でも
君の後ろについて行けば大丈夫

チルチルでもミチルでもなくて
機械仕掛けの人形になろう
もしも例えば僕の電池が止まっても
君がいれば世界は動くから
ね？

最善の配役さ
考えるな

僕はシドにもナンシーにもなれなかったから
時計仕掛けのオレンジになろう
もしも例えば僕の呼吸が止まっても
君がいれば世界は回るから
ね？

君の視線に僕はいない
僕は出来損ないのただの背景
最善の配役さ
考えな

空を羽ばたいているつもりだったけどそれも妄想で
僕はとっくの昔に青い鳥をもう見つけてたんだ
青い鳥の役は君で　僕はそれを見てる役で

Romaji

tarinai atama de kangaetemita
kimi wa kitto boku no aoi tori de
imiimishii KUSOttare na kono sekai demo
kimi no ushiro ni tsuite ikeba daijoubu

CHIRU CHIRU demo MICHIRU demo nakute
kikai shikake no ningyou ni narou
moshimo tatoeba boku no denchi ga tomattemo
kimi ga ireba sekai wa ugokukara
ne?

saizen no hayakusa
kangaena

boku wa SHIDO nimo NANSHII nimo narenakattakara
tokei shikake no ORENJI ni narou
moshimo tatoeba boku no kokyuu ga tomattemo
kimi ga ireba sekai wa mawarukara
ne?

kimi no shisen ni boku wa inai
boku wa dekisokonaino tada no haikei
saizen no hayakusa
kangaena

sora o habataiteirutsumoridatta kedo sore mo mousou de
boku wa tokku no mukashi ni aoi tori o mou mitsuketetanda
aoi tori no yaku wa kimi de boku wa sore o miteru yaku de

Translation

It's not enough, in my head I'm trying to think
You are surely my blue bird
There are annoying shitheads in this world, too
If I keep following you, it'll be okay

Spilling over and being full but without it*
I'll become a mechanical doll
Even if, for example, my battery were to stop
Because of you the world still works
Right?

The best casting,+
don't you think?

Because I couldn't get used to Sid and Nancy
I'll become a clockwork orange**
Even if, for example, I were to stop breathing
Because of you the world still turns
Right?

I'm not in your gaze
I'm just a good-for-nothing in the background
The best casting,
don't you think?

I planned to fly in the sky but that's a delusion
I am looking for for a blue bird from a time long past
You're the part of the blue bird, I'm looking for my part

NOTES

* No. Fucking. Clue. Chiru as in the verb that means 'spilling or scattering'? Katakana makes this difficult.
+ Cast as in the kind in a movie, not the kind you get when you break a bone.
** These two lines are really interesting. Sid and Nancy refers to Sid Vicious of the Sex Pistols and his girlfriend, who were notorious for doing lots of drugs, fighting a lot, and dying due to drug use. 'Clockwork orange' refers to a book by Anthony Burgess (Yes, and the movie, too) where he describes a clockwork orange as a person that does good or evil because they're really a 'clockwork toy to be wound up by god or the devil'. That says so much about this relationship in the song, doesn't it?