Shaba uta

The song of an old women’s Buddhist surplice

Lyrics: Tenten
Music: Yuma

The dead fish passed the expiration date and is thrown away
withing lost light and all inorganic, useless days

I'm here, I'm here
My painfully screaming voice vanished into the night sky

Stained black is on the ground which is not reached by light
Bubbles which I blew all alone
swimm airy, then vanish scattering*
This singing voice kept blewing them
So they can go as far as even possible to that high place
The soul of these words terribly scatters, scatters along with those bubbles

Broken and scattered bubbles    go to this high place
Just to make them reach I've put a thousand words' souls into them
Facing forward, I sung   getting rid of this song**
I'm afraid that this singing will also vanish
Everywhere it's too high
I scratch my nails on this wall
Painful memories, carved I send them out singing
I tear off my nails in this stained black

Until the soul of words which I've put into these bubbles
reaches terribly scattering, scattering
I will keep singing

*Tenten wrote "sanzan" which means something like harshly but sings "chiri chiri" which is a rather impossible and strange alternative reading. "Chiru" as a verb means to fall or to scatter (e.g. blossoms)

** lit. to part with or lose that song

Romaji
Shabauta

shinda gyokushoku shoumikigen kire mata sutaterareru
ushinakushita hikari to mukishitsu naku dara nai maichi no naka de

koko ni iru boku wa koko ni iru
itaku nakisakenda koe,  yozora ni kieta

hikari no todokanai soko de hizumu kuro
hitokiri de iki o fukikonda shabon
FUAFUA to oyoide [chirichiri] sanzan to kiete yuku
utakoe wa, iki o fukikomu tsuzuketa
dekiru dake toku e ano takami made
kotodama wa [chirichiri] sanzan chiri shabon to tomo ni kudaketa

kudake chiru shabon ano takami made
todoku yo ni ikusen no kotodama o kometa

maemuki ni utatta ano uta o ushinaku shita
mata utatte mo kiechimau no ga kowai
doko made mo takasugiru kono kabe ni tsume o tate
utai kizamu itamu omoi yo todoke
bagareta tsume ni hizumu kuro
shabon ni kometa kotodamatachi ga
[chirichiri] sanzan chiri todoku made utai tsuzukeru