inui/yanagi! : yanagi lyrics - "answer"

[cimorene]

i've been desperately craving inui/yanagi lately. (it's very sad when you're desperate for a rather unpopular pairing, isn't it?) so i asked kyuuketsukirui to translate the lyrics to yanagi's recently-released single, "answer", and she did. o.O translating tenipuri lyrics is sort of a gamble that they will turn out to be gay - they often do, but they're not usually this gay. they surpassed my wildest expectations!


yanagi renji - answer
translated by kyuuketsukirui; kanji & romaji from crosswithyou.net

You can hear my heartbeat, can't you?
You can feel this love, can't you?
I can't shake off these old memories
Still twined around my heart

Those words, those gestures torment me

I don't want to break anything
Even if it means lying to myself
Is it cowardly
That I can't answer?
Please tell me

Though I pull you close, in my arms
I won't entrust you with my heart
What do people fear?
What do they pray for as they sleep?

What can I wish for that will save me now?

Though I try talking of love
There's nothing that's certain
Is it cowardly
That I can't answer?
Please tell me

I don't care if it's fate
I just want to stay like this
Is it cowardly
That I can't answer?
Please tell me

Comments

[happiestwhen.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the lines in the manga vs. anime are very similar (and might be exactly the same in Japanese and the fan translations are just different). I want to rewatch too, now. Every word out of Renji's mouth during those eps. God. :(( I wish he'd opened his eyes, though. :\

he wants something to fill his heart and... sustain him

:(( That's the saddest thing. That he knows, and wants to play that one last game to "see which one is stronger", and also to give himself the closure he needs. He says in the manga, "as I expected, Hakase is a singles player", which gives the whole thing this awfully sad, fated sort of quality. But also just the fact that Renji can recognize that and wants to give Inui just the push he needs by going against him rather than with him is very <333.

I love the way they're able to dance circles around each other with their minds. Renji's able to read into Inui back then just like Inui's able to read into and through him now. And dfj;lklkjfdsjkafdjka;s Renji's reaction to the whole manipulation of the game, that smirk. Like he should have seen it coming, should have known that Inui wouldn't let things slip so easily. It's like this satisfied sort of acknowledgment of all Inui's overcome, and all he's remembered. And then they can come together (quite literally in that slow-motion flash-of-light end of the game) as they were meant to four years ago. :((

[cimness.livejournal.com]

:(( That's the saddest thing. That he knows, and wants to play that one last game to "see which one is stronger", and also to give himself the closure he needs.

it is sad. it's all so poignant! i think he says that about inui being a singles player in the anime too, although i don't remember where. i really NEED to rewatch obviously. :X it does have a fated sort of quality - he expected that? back in primary school? (it's also a bit unfair, isn't it - he's a singles player too now, and they're both exceptionally strong ones, yet somehow they still make a good doubles pair. i think in the tenipuri language of tennis symbolism that is probably very significant and romantic.)

i loved renji's reaction too. not just that he was pleased, but that he was really surprised, and that pleased him! which also seems kind of romantic to me. of course that is why it's romantic (or, more precisely, sexual) for doubles partners to play against each other in singles, because they can go all out in a contest for dominance and... ahem. and that's why it's so freeing and meaningful and why they're equally pleased to lose as to win (generally speaking, anyway. i'm not sure yanagi is completely resigned to losing, but i guess that has more to do with his responsibilities to rikkai than with his feelings for inui).

aja told me your ym name so i am going to add you, if that's all right? although i may have kind of lost the thread of squee somewhat.