Don’t block your ears at the sound of the show starting
It’s already been playing for quite a while now
This is a stage made of fantasy and reality
So for that blending of fiction
To not understand the first thing about anything
And still want today to last forever? That’s knocking at the wrong door
“Safe” and “sound”, “fit” and “well”
Those kinds of measurements aren’t to be trusted
They’re a kind of magic that induces the illusion of salvation
Hiding the real answers, talking about “inferiority” and “affection” and all that
And then when they hit the spotlight, in the end
They’ll just chicken out and not be able to say anything, right?
Huh, what? So you’re telling me that
It wasn’t just the world that was crazy?
What? Oh no! I can’t believe this!
I really can’t go on like this!
Well, even in the worst-case scenario
I just want to think that love is my motive
I want to say it’s the best, and go out that way… to life!
Ah, this just isn’t supposed to be happening
The understudy is absent just on time, a flash of flaming passion
Ah, take me away, take me away from this fate
But you can’t, can’t escape… from me
On the stage, a sign of the times in the backdrop
You’d better tune in to that subtext
(Another full house! Thanks and come again!)
That’s right, what a real “thrill” is is a kind of trust you can’t buy with money
And this dialogue, made on demand
Your schemes are futile, this spectacle will have you quiet with pure skill alone
Huh, what? So you’re telling me that
It wasn’t just the world that was crazy?
What? Oh no! Wait, pause, time out
I can’t be doing all this, for real
It’s best you put away those sentimental props
There’s no point just barking our heads off at each other
Give me that kind of comedy you can only see from your lowest!
You can’t believe someone?
That kind of life is stupid, I don’t need it
Ah, doubting and doubting, there’s just no end
If you want to know, then…
No matter how many times we have to do it over, I’m sure that
It has to be like this, there’s absolutely no other way!
You’re the only one who could ever play this role!
It’s irreplaceable, this way of life
Charge right in! If you want to be loved, it’s just a matter of loving first
Tell your shoddy and prideless feeling of lightness
That the curtains will rise for us
Come on and bare it all - now, all that I am!
Translated by "haeksak". Let me know if you reprint this translation elsewhere, and please credit me.