瑠璃色 Ruriiro (Azure)

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午前ごぜん4よ時じ 寝返ねがえり 暗闇くらやみで まばたき

4am, tossing and turning, blinking in the dark

ぬるいシーツをかき分け泳およぐ

Swimming through tepid sheets

青白あおじろい閃せん光こう涙なみだ虫むし かくれんぼ

A pale flash, sad feelings playing hide-and-seek

夢ゆめの入いり口ぐち 見みつからないの

I can't find the entrance to my dreams

もういいかい? まぁだだよ

Are you ready? Not yet!!

いつだって揺ゆれながら生いきてたい

I want to live a life always unsettled

それだけなんだ

That's all

瑠璃るり色いろの炎ほのお 燃もやしながら 星ほしになるまで

Burning with an azure flame until I become a star

ぽつねんと 三み日か月づき

Crescent moon, all alone

花はな守もりが かくれんぼ

The flower guard plays hide and seek

夢ゆめの続つづきは 雨あめに降ふられた

The next part of my dream got rained on

もういいかい? まぁだだよ

Are you ready? Not yet!!

この広ひろい空そらが その瞳ひとみには 何なに色いろに見みえる?

This vast sky: what colour does it seem to your eyes?

明あかるい絶ぜつ望ぼう この胸むねに走はしり続つづけるの

Bright despair keeps running through this heart

光ひかりの中なかで… 闇やみの中なかで…

In the light... in the dark...

初はじめから何なにもない そう何なにもない

From the beginning there is nothing. Yes, nothing.

だから絡からまった風かぜを切きってくこの想おもいを

So these feelings that cut through the tangled wind,

掴つかんだとたんに すぐ行いってしまうこの瞬しゅん間かんを

These moments that slip away the instant you grasp them,

いつだって揺ゆれながら生いきてたい

I want to live them forever unsettled

それだけなんだ

That's all

瑠る璃り色いろの炎ほのお 燃もやしながら 星ほしになるまで

Burning with an azure flame until I become a star.

揺れ (shaking, shake, jolt, vibration) is a bit stronger and has less associated agency than "unsettled", but English translations that preserve the strong physical connotation lose the emotional one.

Japanese has the concept of an indirect or adversative passive. Unlike the direct passive ("a bicycle was stolen") where the subject is whatever the thing happened to, in the adversative passive the (implied) subject is the person affected, and the connotation is usually negative ("[my] bicycle was stolen"). It's used here in 夢の続きは雨に降られた "the next part of my dream got rained on".

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