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沙上の夢喰い少女
（ゆめくいしょうじょ）
ブーゲンビリアの花が咲いた
給水塔の上で
迷い星を探している
皺枯れの空まで
居場所がない
絵本もない
コウノトリは
赤ん坊を連れ去り消えた
君の悪い夢も
私が全部食べてあげる
痛いの痛いの飛んでいけ
安らかな歌声を
ブーゲンビリアの花が咲いた
給水塔の上で
夜明けは紫陽花の様
眠る水脈は透明に
震えては
聞こえないふりを
まどろみが
君を傷付けて止まないんだ
思い出の話を
語っておくれよ 曖昧な格好で
洒がれた闇さえ飲干して
息を吐く 淡い声
ああ 輪郭を失ってしまった
君だけに子守唄を！
君の悪い夢も
私が全部食べてあげる
その涙で胸が痛いの
余りに残酷で
溺れた夜も 側にいておくれ
この朝に二人 夢を見た
飲み込むのが 怖い程
光を呑んだ 淡い夢
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Sajou no Yume-Kui Shoujo
(Yume-Kui Shoujo)
Buugenbiria no hana ga saita
Kyuusuitou no ue de
Mayoi-boshi o sagashiteiru
Shiwa-kare no sora made
Ibasho ga nai
Ehon mo nai
Kounotori wa
Akanbou o tsuresari kieta
Kimi no warui yume mo
Watashi ga zenbu tabete ageru
Itai no itai no tondeike
Yasuraka na utagoe o
Buugenbiria no hana ga saita
Kyuusuitou no ue de
Yoake wa ajisai no you
Nemuru mio wa toumei ni
Furuete wa
Kikoenai furi o
Madoromi ga
Kimi o kizutsukete tomanainda
Omoide no hanashi o
Katatte okure yo aimai na kakkou de
Susugareta yami sae nohoshite
Iki o haku awai koe
Aa rinkaku o ushinatte shimatta
Kimi dake ni komoriuta o!
Kimi no warui yume mo
Watashi ga zenbu tabete ageru
Sono namida de mune ga itai no
Amari ni zankoku de
Oboreta yoru mo soba ni ite okure
Kono asa ni futari yume o mita
Nomikomu no ga kowai-hodo
Hikari o nonda awai yume
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Dreameater on the Sand
(AKA Dreameater Girl)
The bougainvillea flowers bloomed,
Up upon the water tower
Searching among the lost stars,
Up into the wrinkled sky
Nowhere to be,
No stories to read
And the storks
Have taken the babies far away
Even your worst dreams,
I'll eat them all for you
May the pain, pain, go away,
With a calming song...
The bougainvillea flowers bloomed,
Up upon the water tower
The dawn looking like hydrangeas,
And the sleeping waterway clear
Trembling...
You're pretending not to listen
Dozing...
It just won't stop hurting you
The stories of your memories:
Tell them to me, in all the vagueness of their forms
I'll drink up even the darkness,
And let out a breath, a faint voice
Oh, now the outlines have been lost...
I sing a lullaby, for you alone!
Even your worst dreams,
I'll eat them all for you,
Because your tears pain me inside...
Even when it's just too cruel,
On nights you're drowning in it, stay at my side
On this morning, we dreamt together;
A dream that I was frightened to take in,
A pale dream that drank the light...
The bougainvillea flowers were blooming,
Up on the water tower's highest
And atop my perch, through lost stars, I'm searching,
Up in the wrinkled heavens' farthest
We've nowhere to be,
Nor stories to read,
And the storks have gone,
Taking all their babies away, far away from us
Even though you may have awful dreams,
I'll always be there for you to eat them all away
Send the pain begetting pain out flying afar,
Banishing nightmare with comforting song...
The bougainvillea flowers were blooming,
Up on the water tower's highest
Like hydrangeas, the dawn comes upon us,
The sleeping waterway at clearest
Trembling in dismay...
You're pretending that you can't hear
Your dozing away...
It leaves you so open to pain, and it just won't stop
Tell your tale, recount your memories;
I want you to tell me them, however vague the forms
Face the darkness in yourself and swallow it down,
Give me a breath, please, just the faintest voice
Oh, the outlines are gone; I suppose it's been just too long
I won't let us cry; for you, a lullaby!
Even though you may have awful dreams,
I'll always be right there to eat them all away
I can't bear to see your tears, they make me hurt inside...
Even though, with such harsh cruelty,
You may be drowned at night, just keep me right here at your side
It's a morning which we dreamt, the two of us both,
Though I was frightened to, I took it all down,
A dream somehow pale that drank in the light...
* The Vocaloid original is "Dreameater on the Sand," while "Dreameater Girl" is a cover sung by Hachi/Kenshi Yonezu on his Peace Sign single. The lyrics are identical. *
* There are two kanji for "sand"; the one Hachi chose is a bit less common, but someone suggested he used it because it looks to be made up of the kanji for "little" and "water." Well, mirages, that's for sure. It sorta looks like the oasis is actually the water tower (juxtaposition of the girl sitting over the edge of the tower and the edge of the oasis), except both vanish at the end, so probably not. If the water tower and oasis are mirages that occur during the day, then I guess the girl has to console the guy through the night, because when the mirages disappear, he realizes they're lost in the desert without any actual food or water. (Also, that equates the night with death, and that one always works!) In a somewhat meta way, "no stories" could represent not knowing about anything better/not having anything to look forward to like the WORLD'S END UMBRELLA couple did. Similarly, "nowhere to be" implies they have no so-called "surface of the umbrella" where they "belong." (And the babies? Man, I don't know.) The girl most likely has memories of whatever better place they came from and believes they'll be back someday (though she has to convince the guy it's not hopeless). Having those memories and that hope is why she would talk about flowers despite being in a desert. This is also why the girl would want the guy to talk about his own memories, however vague they might be. Anyway, the ending could pretty easily be interpreted as either happy or not. While she seems to be standing atop all the (mechanical-looking) dreams as if she'd conquered them, the song seems to end a note early and cut to black, so perhaps now she has to deal with them. I'm not sure this fits quite as well with the original Japanese (where it's literally "my chest hurts"), but it would be ironic that his crying "pains her inside" if eating his dreams to prevent such tears hurts her too. Well, eating that eye thing looked pretty gross in the first place. Ignoring all the specifics, it's really just a song about a girl sacrificing herself for her partner, in an almost motherly way (lots of people say it sounds like a more-upbeat lullaby), to get through hard times.
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