ATARASHII GAKKO! - 恋ゲバ (koi geba) (English translation #2)

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ATARASHII GAKKO! – 恋ゲバ

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Translation

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Love Rebel

If forbidden things, are forbidden, oh why won't you teach me?

I wanna study, I do, I do, just a schoolgirl

Bad things, those bad things, I still haven't learnt you know

Let me study, you are, you are, the teacher

Rebel, revolt, love is the storm of spring

Rebel, revolt, the rain wets the asphalt

Rebel, revolt, the red flowers blooming

The words I announce, the words from that time

Rebel, rebel, rebel, LOVE , revolt

Even though I wrote Dazai and Ango, why doesn't it work for me?

Literature, I wanna, a flower schoolgirl

Akutagawa and Sōseki, everybody adored them

Philosophical, you are, so melancholy, oh teacher

Rebel, revolt, love is the summer's storm

Rebel, revolt, the wind shaking the barricade

Rebel, revolt, the dynamite is burning

Do we live and fall? Or do we fall and live?

Rebel, rebel, rebel, LOVE, revolt

Rebel, revolt, love is the storm of spring

Rebel, revolt, the storm of a blue spring day

Rebel, revolt, the me from that blueish spring

If we confess our love, would it be a crime?

The words I announce, the words from that time

Rebel, rebel, rebel, LOVE , revolt!

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doodle_ on 2021-01-27

Author's comments:

1. ゲバ(geba) is defined by jisho.org as "(political) violence; violent tactics used by political radicals" but that is a bit long and since the song is about a highschool girl's relationship with a teacher I think rebel/revolt work well instead.
2. Dazai, Ango, Akutagawa and Sōseki are all classic Japanese writers who are well known and studied (all deceased)

Japanese

Original lyrics

恋ゲバ

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Translations of "恋ゲバ (koi geba)"

English #1, #2

Russian #1, #2

Comments

baymax oniisan

Sun, 29/05/2022 - 16:28

"revolt / rebel" sounds a bit wrong in my opinion. In japanese, there is an expression (which is a bit old) "Zeni Geba". This expression means "greedy for money". It's used to talk about someone who is ready to do anything for money (even crazy or radical things). The song is called "koi geba" (like zeni geba), but actually "koi geba" is not an official japanese word, it has been created by the author of the song. I've been asking some of my japanese friends and everyone told me that "geba" itself doesn't have any meaning and "koi geba" was probably used according to the old expression "zeni geba". For this song, I would translate "geba" by "greedy", it would be more like "love greedy". I think it would make more sense with the other part of the song.

Marinara

Fri, 27/01/2023 - 02:20

ゲバ (ゲバルト) comes from german "Gewalt" which means violence, usually used in japanese for violent domostration or movements.
Maybe the correct title would be something like violence of love(?), love-violence or violent love (恋は春/夏の嵐) for her teacher, principally passional/sexual/romantic love 恋=/=愛
(ゲバ　ゲバ　赤い花を咲かし) (青い春のわたし) note how these sentences denote youth or adolescence. So yes, I think the song is about young and sexual impulses for her teacher (duhh)

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