Looping the Rooms (English Singable Translation)

English

Someone pulled the cassette tape
Or pushed the reset button
I’m wandering through a labyrinth
Where going forward is to go back

Through a door I saw myself staring through the same door at my back
Then I turned around and thought
I saw a glimpse of hope ahead
Is this hell, and if it is, then does it have an end in sight?
Will I make it out alive?

Looping Looping Looping Looping
Looping without end
Loop the room again
Loop the room again
Loop the room again

Falling Falling Falling Falling
Falling without sound
Fractals all around
Fractals all around
Fractals all around

Spinning out of control
On an unending road
The air is tinged with sulfur²
No one can hear my SOS

Staving off the hunger pains with fallen fruit from Persephone³
Ringing in my ears right to my skull are discordant polyphonies
If nothing will ever change no matter how far I go, then
Is there any point anymore?

Looping Looping Looping Looping
Looping without end
Loop the room again
Loop the room again
Loop the room again

Falling Falling Falling Falling
Falling without sound
Fractals all around
Fractals all around
Fractals all around

Ahh
I’ll open up the door
Forget anything more
Slip deeper into this mad dream of ours

I’ll keep on going as long as it takes

Looping Looping Looping through the rooms

Kanji

引き抜くカセット
押し込むリセット
迷い込む迷路
進めどもダルセーニョ

ドアの先に僕の背中が見えた
振り向いた先に希望が見えた
地獄の果てなどどこにあるのか
出口はまだなの？

くるくるくるくる
くりかえす
くりかえす
くりかえす
くりかえす

ふらふらふらふら¹
ふらくたる
ふらくたる
ふらくたる
ふらくたる

空回るソウト
終わらないロード
鉄臭い酸素
届かないSOS

落ちてた柘榴で飢えを凌いだ
頭蓋の中から耳鳴りがした
進めど進めど変わりないなら
抗う意味など

くるくるくるくる
くりかえす
くりかえす
くりかえす
くりかえす

ふらふらふらふら
ふらくたる
ふらくたる
ふらくたる
ふらくたる

ああ
扉を開け
意味も忘れ
いかれた夢の奥へ

どこまで続いてく

くるくるくりかえす

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Translation notes:

¹ I’m making up the “falling” part because “fura” is just the beginning of “furakutaru” which is just the katakana-izing the word “fractal”. So really that line means nothing but something needs to be there, haha

² Original word here is actually iron (“iron-scented oxygen”), but I changed it to sulfur to fit with the theme of hell, and because it rhymes more with the previous lines

³ Persephone isn’t in the original, and the original says the fruit is a pomegranate, but this is a liberty I’ve taken because it is referencing the same symbol. Since there’s the theme of hell, in Greek that’s Hades, and in the Greek myths Persephone ate a pomegranate in the underworld, so I feel like “fallen fruit from Persephone” conveys the pomegranate. Also I needed more syllables and to create a rhyme!