Alice in 冷凍庫 (Alice in Reitouko)


Song title
"Alice in 冷凍庫" Romaji: Alice in Reitouko English: Alice in Freezer
Original Upload Date
February 17, 2016
Singer
IA
Producer(s)
Orangestar (music, lyrics) Taisosu (illustration)
Views
3,700,000+ (NN), 25,000,000+ (YT), 54,000+ (SC)
Links
Niconico Broadcast / YouTube Broadcast / SoundCloud Broadcast (deleted)
Description "Icy-cold nonsense theater."^[1]

Lyrics

Japanese	Romaji	English
それは時の果てる劇場世界のプロローグ	sore wa toki no hateru gekijou sekai no puroroogu	There, it is the ending of time, a prologue to a theatrical world,
アライ A lie? 君は誰？どことなく物憂げに	arai A lie? kimi wa dare? doko to naku monouge ni	A lie? Is it a lie? Who are you? A question posed, somehow listlessly,
裸足のままで張りつく夜に遊ぶように	hadashi no mama de haritsuku yoru ni asobu you ni	Barefoot, as if I'm playing in the night that's clinging to me,
彷徨う僕は何故か君を探しているのだ	samayou boku wa nazeka kimi o sagashite iru no da	I'm wandering, inexplicably searching for you.

だぁだぁ	daa daa	For you, for you.

あの日のいつかまでの星座のソラは闇のように	ano hi no itsuka made no seiza no sora wa yami no you ni	On that day, until some time, the constellation-studded sky looking like the darkness,
閉ざされた小景に意味もなく吐き捨てる	tozasareta shokei ni imi mo naku hakisuteru	I spew out words nonsensically in the scenelet I've been trapped in,
あぁ僕は何故僕をどこまで連れてくの	aa boku wa naze boku o doko made tsureteku no	Ah, why is it that I bring myself along wherever I go?
開けたその先にいつか見た扉	hiraketa sono saki ni itsuka mita tobira	Beyond the path that opened before me lies a door that I've seen before.

合図でるらったったった	aizu de rurattattatta	On a signal, ru-ra-ta-ta-ta
繰り返して回ったったった	kurikaeshite mawattattatta	That repeats again and again, na-na-na
君が居そうな氷漬けの夢	kimi ga isou na koorizuke no yume	A dream encased in ice, that I thought you'd be in.

迷走昏いステップるらったったった	meisou kurai suteppuru rattattatta	Straying, steps in the dark of dusk, ru-ra-ta-ta-ta,
寂しくて笑ったったった	sabishikute warattattatta	I smiled lonesomely, la-la-la
踏み出すままに汚せ	fumidasu mama ni yogose	Dirty the ground I tread on,
今は凍えぬように	ima wa kogoenu you ni	So that the present doesn't freeze over.

言葉よ意味を成せ冷やかな世界病みの曜日	kotoba yo imi o nase hiyaka na sekai yami no youbi	O words, form some sense! A frigid world, a depressed weekday.
消え行くあてもなく独り舞台に泣き崩れる	kieyuku ate mo naku hitori butai ni nakikuzureru	Disappearing, with no place to go, crumbling and crying atop a stage, solo.
あぁもう嫌だすべて0からやり直して	aa mou iya da subete zero kara yarinaoshite	Ah, I'm done with it all! I'll start over, from 0,
回り切ったその先にいつか見た扉	mawarikitta sono saki ni itsuka mita tobira	Beyond the loop that I've made lies a door that I've seen before.

荒んだ夜眠れないレイニー	susanda yoru nemurenai reinii	A storming, roughening night; rainy, unable to sleep,
自称冷静な世界と side alley – C 0 0	jishou reisei na sekai to side alley – C 0 0	A self-proclaimed cool-headed world, and a side alley ー0°C,^[2]
見据えたナンセンス必然の解離	misueta nansensu hitsuzen no kairi	Nonsense that I've fixed my eyes upon, and our inevitable dissolution.
僕らまた出逢えるように	bokura mata deaeru you ni	May the two of us meet again one day.

あぁ	aa	Ah,

朝靄を空に裂いた君のその柔い手が	asamoya o sora ni saita kimi no sono yawai te ga	Those gentle hands of yours tore apart the morning haze in the sky,
白銀製の帳をたやすく浚ってゆく	hakuginsei no tobari o tayasuku saratte yuku	Easily sweeping away those silver-formed drapes.
知らぬまま大人になるほど懐かしさは残るけど	shiranu mama otona ni naru hodo natsukashisa wa nokoru kedo	I've become an adult without realizing, and the more grown I am, the more nostalgia stirs within,
それも全部かき混ぜて廻り出す今日は綺麗だ	sore mo zenbu kakimazete mawaridasu kyou wa kirei da	But that all churns together; the new day, today, is beautiful.

時間が音をたてながら崩れてゆく最後を	jikan ga oto o tate nagara kuzurete yuku saigo o	As time ticks on, upon a crumbling finale, Iー
君は何故か悲しそうに笑いながら踊る Wonderland	kimi wa nazeka kanashisou ni warai nagara odoru Wonderland	For some reason, you look so sad as you're smiling and dancing in Wonderland.
またあの日と同じようなさ星空に呑まれては	mata ano hi to onaji you na sa hoshizora ni nomarete wa	Letting out the heat of our emotions, like in the words we spun together,
紡ぎ出した言葉通りの想い熱を放て	tsumugidashita kotobadoori no omoi netsu o hanate	To be swallowed up by the starry sky, just like how it was that day.

English translation by Shiru

Translation Notes

↑ A tweet from Orangestar described this song as light-hearted and meaningless. It also appears to be a reference to Alice in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll.
↑ Many parts of this song are nonsensical on purpose, so this is just my best interpretation of this line.