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Qualia (日本語)
真っ白な世界には、何もありません。
空も、夕飯の献立も、犬も、水平線も、
大地も、お母さんも、影も、ぬくもりさえも。
何もありはしないのです。
ただ一人そこにある、女の子を除いては。
クオリア
私は何処にいるの？
誰も問いに答えない
見渡せば 悲しい程
白いだけの世界で
伝えたい事があるの
誰かに ほら誰かに
見上げても 空は無く
立つべき地面も無い
誰の声も聞こえない こんな世界 何の為
嘘の様な私が ここで息をする
滲む星を作るのは
私自身だと気付く
白の世界 彩ろう
零した色は何処までも
空色 紙飛行機
風色 シャボン玉
私にも 似合うかしら？
桃色 髪飾り
紫の鳥が来て
緑のブランコで
擦り切れた 声鳴らす
黄色の 飴あげるわ
彩られた世界は 賑やかに麻痺していく
それでも私の体は まだ 嘘の様で
瞳の色を知るには
触れられる誰かがいるの
ここは私一人きり
私の色がわからない
「ねぇ」
女の子は小さく呼び掛けました。
当然返事はありません。
あるのは煩いくらいに鮮やかな色達と、
決して意識を得る事はない造形物。
「これが、望んだもの？」
女の子にはわかりません。
この世界に何があって、何がないのか。
自分が見ているこの色は本当に正しい色なのか。
そもそも、何が正しくて何が間違いなのか。
女の子の頬に、涙が流れました。
「ほんとうは、ただ寂しかった」
「誰かに側にいて欲しかった」
色のガラクタの中
私の側にはアナタがいた
差し出されたその手には
赤い赤い林檎の実
「君に似合う色だから
君に似合う色だから
君にあげるよ」
惑う思いも言葉も
愛しいと思えたのなら
きっと歩いて行けるわ
満ち足りた色の中で
滲む星を作るのは
君と見る世界だと知る
白の世界 彩ろう
零した色は何処までも
「ねぇ」
「何？」
「…何でもない」
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Qualia (Romanji)
Masshiro na sekai ni wa, nanimo arimasen.
Sora mo, yuumeshi no kondate no, inu mo, suiheisen mo,
Daichi mo, okaasan mo, kage mo, nukumorisae mo.
Nanimo ari wa shinai no desu.
Tada hitori soko ni aru, onna no ko o nozoite wa.
Qualia
Watashi wa doko ni iru no?
Daremo toi ni kotaenai
Miwataseba kanashii hodo
Shiroi dake no sekai de
Tsutaetai koto ga aru no
Dareka ni, hora dareka ni
Miagete mo sora wa naku
Tatsu beki jimen mo nai
Dare no koe mo kikoenai konna sekai nan no tame
Uso no you na watashi ga koko de iki o suru
Nijimu hoshi o tsukuru no wa
Watashi jishin dato kidzuku
Shiro no sekai irodorou
Koboshita iro wa dokomademo
Sora-iro kami hikouki
Kaze-iro shabondama
Watashi ni mo niau kashira?
Momoiro kamikazari
Murasaki no tori ga kite
Midori no buranko de
Surikireta koe narasu
Kiiro no ame ageru wa
Irodorareta sekai wa nigiyaka ni mahishite iku
Soredemo watashi no karada wa mada uso no you de
Hitomi no iro o shiru ni wa
Furerareru dareka ga iru no
Koko wa watashi hitori kiri
Watashi no iro ga wakaranai
"Nee"
Onna no ko wa chisaku yobikakemashita.
Touzen henji wa arimasen.
Aru no wa urusai kurai ni azayaka na iro-tachi to,
Kesshite ishiki o uru koto wa nai zoukei mono.
"Kore ga, nozonda mono?"
Onna no ko wa wakarimasen.
Kono sekai ni nani ga atte, nani ga nai no ka.
Jibun ga miteiru kono iro wa hontou ni tadashii iro nano ka.
Somosomo, nani ga tadashikute nani ga machigai nano ka.
Onna no ko no hoho ni, namida ga nagaremashita.
"Hontou wa tada sabashikatta"
"Dareka ni soba ni ite hoshikatta"
Iro no garakuta no naka
Watashi no soba ni anata ga ita
Sashidasareta sono te ni wa
Akai akai ringo no mi
"Kimi ni niau iro dakara
Kimi ni niau iro dakara
Kimi ni ageru yo"
Madou omoi mo kotoba mo
Itoshii to omoeta no nara
Kitto aruite ikeru wa
Michitarita iro no naka de
Nijimu hoshi o tsukuru no wa
Kimi to miru sekai dato shiru
Shiro no sekai irodorou
Koboshita iro wa dokomademo
"Nee"
"Nani?"
"...Nandemonai"
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Qualia (English)
In a pure white world, there is nothing.
No heavens, no dinner menus, no dogs, no horizon,
no earth, no mothers, no shadows, no warmth.
Nothing exists there.
There is but one person there, a girl who is the exception.
Qualia
Where am I?
I question no one, to no reply
The more I look, the sadder the sight;
It's a world of nothing but white
There are things I want to tell
To somebody, hey, somebody
Even if I look up, there's no sky
Not even the ground I should be standing on
If I hear no one, what good is a world like this?
I feel wrong, and yet here I breathe
Breathtaking stars are made,
And I notice it's myself who makes them
Let the white world be colored,
And the spilling colors go everywhere
A paper plane the color of the sky
Soap bubbles the color of the wind
So I wonder, what color would suit me?
Perhaps pink ribbons
Purple birds come
And on green swings,
A worn voice sounds out
I'll give you some yellow candy
The now-colored world becomes caught up in its busyness
Even so, I still feel so out of place...
To know the color of my eyes,
There would need to be another to see them
But I'm the only one here;
I don't even know my own color
"Hey..."
The girl called out in a soft voice.
Of course, there was no reply.
There were only wild, vivid colors,
and shapes with no definite form.
"Is this what you wanted?"
The girl did not know.
What does this world have, what does it lack?
The color she sees - is it truly the right color?
For that matter, what is right, and what is wrong?
Tears rolled down the girl's cheek.
"The reality was that I was just lonely."
"I wanted someone beside me."
In the mess of colors,
You were there are my side
In your outstretched hand
Was red, a red apple
"The color suits you, so..."
"The color suits you, so..."
"I'll give it to you!"
Through bewildered thoughts and words,
If we can feel that we're loved,
Then I'm sure we can keep walking on
Within satisfactory colors
What makes these breathtaking stars
Is this world which I see with you
Let the white world be colored,
And the spilling colors go everywhere
"Hey..."
"What?"
"...It's nothing."
* If you want to get REALLY technical and keep the pattern, "pink ribbons" is "the color of peach trees." But it's also just a totally ordinary way of saying pink in Japanese, so. The intro is a piano part played in reverse. The white world more than likely stands for the Garden of Eden. If you won't accept that, well, there really isn't a lot to interpret. But hey, this section is labeled "pretentious!" for a reason... The god of the world starts by making Qualia and nothing else. Alternatively, this is AFTER she's been kicked out of the Garden. Not sure what to make of the reversed "don't want to go back," honestly. What exactly is the white world preferable to (at least, as of the first chorus)? So that could make a little more sense with the after-Eden idea. She doesn't know what she wants, so she tries to make things on her own. However, not knowing color (much less her own), she can't put much form to it. "I still feel so out of place" literally translates as "my body still feels like a lie," which could have some relation to Genesis and nakedness and etc., but I wonder if Hachi cares about the creation story on that kind of level. Either on her own or after being asking as such by the god, she questions if she can truly be the judge of what colors are "right" and realizes she isn't capable of doing the things she wants. Huh, you think "knowing what colors are right" has anything to do with knowledge of good and evil? Nah. The "somebody help me"s MIGHT just mean she wants help in trying to do what she wants, but it seems more likely she actually wants someone to save her from something. Either she wants to be saved from the colors she can't control (which she seemingly is by "Adam"), or, for whatever reason, she doesn't want to have to take the apple. Except that barely makes sense because Adam isn't even there yet. (Oh, and can anybody figure out if the gray things floating around in that instrumental part are meant to be anything? Seriously.) Qualia admits she only wanted company, so the god creates "Adam" (well, presumably, I don't know how else he'd get there), who, together with Qualia, is able to bring form to the color. She finally feels right, but having probably disobeyed God at LEAST once, she still feels somewhat guilty. But... "it's nothing." Sure, it's sin, but what are you gonna do? That stuff spills everywhere.
** "Red, a red apple" could be "a red, red apple," but I figured the color was just so important that it being something red was more important than it being a red apple.
*** CLICK FOR NOTES ABOUT... STUFF IN REVERSE, MOSTLY
The beginning (end) of the first line sounds an awful lot like "kamisama" (god) backwards. Most likely just a coincidence since "watashi wa" is hardly, uh, specific, but just saying.
After each chorus, Qualia says some vaguely-natural-sounding nonsense that sounds like "kaeritakunai" ("don't want to go back") backwards.
During the instrumental part, Qualia sings "dareka" and "tasukete" ("somebody save me") several times backwards.**** CLICK FOR PRETENTIOUS! ANALYSIS