The GazettE - Ibitsu 歪

University life is so busy. I finally got a chance to listen to The GazettE's newest album DIVISION. This song ibitsu is one of the two cover songs with their own music videos.

Ibitsu can be translated as distorted, irregular or even warped. Sounds like what The GazettE will write about. I find the lyrics to this song to be extremely descriptive and it really fleshes out its own world as you listen to it. This is the "world-view" of the song that The GazettE so often talks about.

Sometimes when you sit down and start thinking about yourself. Your contradictions and maybe even how the world has degenerated over time. Of course, you shouldn't be so pessimistic all the time but when you do decide to think about such things, ibitsu is a good song to listen to.

Small translator note: both imagination and creation are read as "souzou" in Japanese. 

歪みよこのまま何処へ
Do you take me away?

無意味に刻む時に目を閉じ
空回る本能を見た
欲しがる五感が蜜を啜り
苦も楽も抜け殻のようで

鮮やか過ぎた理想に崩れて瓦礫の海へ

そこに転がる自分に気付く
欲に溺れ戻れない
見上げれば満ち過ぎていた時
この空は濁り果てていた

瓦礫に咲いた花も枯れてしまうね

この目を離せばいつか消えて行く
歪んでゆく景色が俺を笑うよ

まだ見ぬ未来　そこに在るのは　「創造」　の成れの果てか？

衰退したまま　何も出来ずに
奇形な現実を泳ぐ
流れに任せ右に倣えば
濁る空も澄んで見えるか？

鮮やか過ぎた理想に崩れて瓦礫の海へ

目の前に映る触れられぬ思い
いつの間にか心は矛盾で濡れていた

この目を離せばいつか消えて行く
僅かなその　「想像」　もやがて無に落ちる
時が満ちてゆく
ただ　歪んだまま。。。

まだ見ぬ未来　そこに在るのは　「創造」　の成れの果てか？

それとも俺の矛盾か？
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yugami yo kono mama doko e
Do you take me away?

muimi ni kizamu toki ni me wo toji
karamawaru honnou wo mita
hoshigaru gokan ga mitsu wo susuri
ku mo raku mo nukegara no you de

azayaka sugita risou ni kuzurete gareki no umi e

soko ni korogaru jibun ni kiduku
yoku ni obore modorenai
miagereba michisugiteita toki
kono sora wa nigori hateteita

gareki ni saita hana mo karete shimau ne

kono me wo hanaseba itsu ka kieteyuku
yugandeyuku keshiki ga ore wo warau yo

mada minu mirai soko ni aru no wa "souzou" no nare no hate ka?

suitai shita mama nani mo dekizu ni
kikei na genjitsu wo oyogu
nagare ni makase migi ni naraeba
nigoru sora mo sunde mieru ka?

azayaka sugita risou ni kuzurete gareki no umi e

me no mae ni utsuru furerarenu omoi
itsu no ma ni ka kokoro wa mujyun ni nureteita

kono me wo hanaseba itsu ka kieteyuku
wazuka na sono "souzou" mo yagate mu ni ochiru
toki ga michiteyuku
tada yuganda mama...

mada minu mirai soko ni aru no wa "souzou" no nare no hate ka?

sore tomo ore no mujyun ka?
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Where does the distortion continue?
Do you take me away?

I close my eyes to the meaningless engraving of time
Staring at my fruitless primal instincts
The five senses I yearned for are sipping honey
treating pain and pleasure like discarded husks

Led by an overly-vibrant ideal, I crumbled into a sea of rubble

Realizing that I was the one tumbling over
drowning in desire I cannot return
Looking up I remembered the time when I was fulfilled
the skies became cloudy and impure

Even a flower that bloomed in rubble will one day wither

If I take my eyes off, it will one day disappear
The distorting scenery is laughing at me

A future still unseen, what is over there is just the mere shadow of what was "creation"?

I am unable to do anything as I stay degenerated
Swimming in this deformed reality
Going with the flow and imitating others
Do you see the impure skies clearing?

Led by an overly-vibrant ideal, I crumbled into a sea of rubble

This thought reflected in my eyes is untouchable
Without realizing it, my heart was already drenched by contradictions

If I take my eyes off, it will one day disappear
Even this mere fragment of "imagination" remaining will eventually fall into nothingness
Time is running out
as everything stays distorted...

A future still unseen, what is over there is just the mere shadow of what was "creation"?

Or are they the contradictions in me?