[Lyrics] Mascara - SixTONES
I like this song a lot! And I really enjoyed the process of translating it too. In Filipino, マスカラ reminds me of "maskara" (mask), which is also pretty apporpriate for the context of the song, which is fun to think about. Yay! Enjoy!
Mascara
KANJI
飾らない笑顔で
ありきたりなキスをして
凡庸なラブストーリーが丁度いい
終わりがあるのなら
始まらなきゃ良かったなんて
いじけてばかりで
わかりきっていた
変わりきってしまった
馴染みの景色を
喰らえど喰らえど
味がしなくなってしまった日々の
貴女の酸いも甘いも忘れたままで
強くなれたならば
素直になれるかな
見えすいた完璧なフリは
もうやめて
枕を濡らした
涙が乾いたなら
出かけようか
マスカラ剥がれたまま
無意味な仕草さえ
切らずに垂れ流した
そんなドキュメンタリーが調子いい
情けない姿も山ほど見せたけど
悔やんでばかりいられないね
わからなかった
変われやしなかった
当たり前の仕合わせを
喰らえど喰らえど
満たされなくなってしまった日々の
貴女の酸いも甘いも忘れたままで
強くなれたならば
優しくなれるかな
見えすいた嘘で
茶化してばかりで
悲しみの雨を
丸々飲み干したら
出かけようか
出会った二人のまま
終わらない夢の狭間を切り裂いた
一筋の真っ直ぐな瞳
苦しいほどに胸を貫いた
喰らえど喰らえど
満たされぬ腹
打たれて打たれて
びしょ濡れのまま
ありきたりな毎日に
足りて足りて足りない僕ら
強くなれたならば
お互い許せるかな
見えすいた幼稚なフリは
もうやめて
枕を濡らした
涙が乾いたなら
出かけようか
マスカラ剥がれたまま
“あの頃の二人のまま”
強くなれたならば
優しくなれるかな
見えすいた嘘で
茶化してばかりで
悲しみの雨を
丸々飲み干したら
出かけようか
出会った二人のまま
飾らない笑顔で
ありきたりなキスをして
凡庸なラブストーリーが丁度いい
終わりがあるのなら
始まらなきゃ良かったなんて
いじけてばかりで
ROMAJI
Kazaranai egao de
Arikitari na kisu wo shite
Bonyou na rabu suto-ri- ga choudo ii
Owari ga aru no nara
Hajimaranakya yokatta nante
Ijikete bakari de
Wakarikitteita
Kawarikitte shimatta
Najimi no keshiki wo
Kuraedo kuraedo
Aji ga shinakunatte shimatta hibi no
Anata no sui mo amai mo wasureta mama de
Tsuyokunareta naraba
Sunao ni nareru ka na
Miesuita kanpeki na furi wa
Mou yamete
Makura wo nurashita
Namida ga kawaita nara
Dekakeyou ka
Masukara hagareta mama
Muimi na shigusa sae
Kirazuni tarenagashita
Sonna dokyumentari- ga choushi ii
Nasakenai sugata mo yama hodo miseta kedo
Kuyande bakari irarenai ne
Wakaranakatta
Kaware ya shinakatta
Atarimae no shiawase wo
Kuraedo kuraedo
Mitasarenakunatte shimatta hibi no
Anata no sui mo amai mo wasureta mama de
Tsuyokunareta naraba
Yasashikunareru ka na
Miesuita uso de
Chakashite bakari de
Kanashimi no ame wo
Marumaru nomihoshitara
Dekakeyou ka
Deatta futari no mama
Owaranai yume no hazama wo kirisaita
Hitosuji no massugu na hitomi
Kurushii hodo ni mune wo tsuranuita
Kuraedo kuraedo
Mitasarenu hara
Utarete utarete
Bisho nureta no mama
Arikitari na mainichi ni
Tarite tarite tarinai bokura
Tsuyokunareta naraba
Otagai yuruseru ka na
Miesuita youchi na furi wa
Mou yamete
Makura wo nurashita
Namida ga kawaitara
Dekakeyou ka
Masukara hagareta mama
"Ano koro no futari no mama"
Tsuyokunareta naraba
Yasashikunareru ka na
Miesuita uso de
Chakashite bakari de
Kanashimi no ame wo
Marumaru nomihoshitara
Dekakeyou ka
Deatta futari no mama
Kazaranai egao de
Arikitari na kisu wo shite
Bonyou na rabu suto-ri- ga choudo ii
Owari ga aru no nara
Hajimaranakya yokatta nante
Ijikete bakari de
ENGLISH
With an unpretentious smile
Give me your usual kiss
This second-rate love story is just right
If I had known it would just end,
I wish it wouldn't have started
I keep thinking twisted thoughts like this
I had already known
It changed completely
Still, this intimate scenery
I take it in, I take it in
My daily life has lost its taste
The sweetness and sourness you brought to it stay forgotten
Does becoming stronger
Make us more honest?
This perfect, transparent charade
Let's stop it already
Once this pillow has dried
From being damp with tears
Do you want to go out?
With your mascara off
Even meaningless actions
Leak through without resistance
That's the kind of recording we need
I've shown so many pitiful sides of me
But it's not something I can say I regret
I didn’t know
It never changed
Still, a happiness so commonplace
I take it in, I take it in
My daily life has become unsatisfying
The sweetness and sourness you brought to it stay forgotten
Does becoming stronger
Make us kinder?
Us and our transparent lies
All we did was fool around
Once these rains of sadness
Have been all drunk up
Do you want to go out?
Just the two of us, brought together by fate
Slashing through the fabric of this endless dream
Your eyes, looking straight at me
Pierce through my heart so painfully
I take it in, I take it all in
But still I don't feel full
I keep getting hit, getting hit
I stay soaked to the bone
Within our ordinary daily lives
We were never, never, never enough
Does becoming stronger
Allow us to forgive each other?
Our childish, transparent charades
Let's stop it already
Once this pillow has dried
From being damp with tears
Do you want to go out?
With your mascara off
"The two of us from back then"
Does becoming stronger
Make us kinder?
Us and our transparent lies
All we did was fool around
Once these rains of sadness
Have been all drunk up
Do you want to go out?
Just the two of us, brought together by fate
With an unpretentious smile
Give me your usual kiss
This second-rate love story is just right
If I had known it would just end,
I wish it wouldn't have started
I keep thinking twisted thoughts like this
NOTES
1. This might just be me reading into it but the way I interpret this song is that it's about the preference for regular old love stories and how special, overly dramatic ones are overrated and come with a lot of baggage. That's why they reference that kind of thing with having a usual kiss, unpretentious smile, no mascara (which we can take to mean no make up or no potential for it running all over your face when you cry), dried up tears on a pillow, rain being equated with dramatic scenes, etc. Like they'd rather have your boring ol' love story than have such an emotionally draining one and then just have it end anyway. Whew.
2. I'm going to check back with what exactly "kuraedo" means, but I'm fairly certain this is generally it. Maybe. It can mean things from enduring things and all that, but I'm taking my cue from the rap where it says he's never full and translating it not exactly as "eating" but as taking something in.
3. "Tsuyokunareta naraba" more literally means "if we became stronger," but to connect it more easily with the following line, I rephrased it a bit.
4. They never specify a "fabric" of a dream, but they're slashing through it in the bridge, so I figure I can get some poetic license in there.
Mascara
KANJI
飾らない笑顔で
ありきたりなキスをして
凡庸なラブストーリーが丁度いい
終わりがあるのなら
始まらなきゃ良かったなんて
いじけてばかりで
わかりきっていた
変わりきってしまった
馴染みの景色を
喰らえど喰らえど
味がしなくなってしまった日々の
貴女の酸いも甘いも忘れたままで
強くなれたならば
素直になれるかな
見えすいた完璧なフリは
もうやめて
枕を濡らした
涙が乾いたなら
出かけようか
マスカラ剥がれたまま
無意味な仕草さえ
切らずに垂れ流した
そんなドキュメンタリーが調子いい
情けない姿も山ほど見せたけど
悔やんでばかりいられないね
わからなかった
変われやしなかった
当たり前の仕合わせを
喰らえど喰らえど
満たされなくなってしまった日々の
貴女の酸いも甘いも忘れたままで
強くなれたならば
優しくなれるかな
見えすいた嘘で
茶化してばかりで
悲しみの雨を
丸々飲み干したら
出かけようか
出会った二人のまま
終わらない夢の狭間を切り裂いた
一筋の真っ直ぐな瞳
苦しいほどに胸を貫いた
喰らえど喰らえど
満たされぬ腹
打たれて打たれて
びしょ濡れのまま
ありきたりな毎日に
足りて足りて足りない僕ら
強くなれたならば
お互い許せるかな
見えすいた幼稚なフリは
もうやめて
枕を濡らした
涙が乾いたなら
出かけようか
マスカラ剥がれたまま
“あの頃の二人のまま”
強くなれたならば
優しくなれるかな
見えすいた嘘で
茶化してばかりで
悲しみの雨を
丸々飲み干したら
出かけようか
出会った二人のまま
飾らない笑顔で
ありきたりなキスをして
凡庸なラブストーリーが丁度いい
終わりがあるのなら
始まらなきゃ良かったなんて
いじけてばかりで
ROMAJI
Kazaranai egao de
Arikitari na kisu wo shite
Bonyou na rabu suto-ri- ga choudo ii
Owari ga aru no nara
Hajimaranakya yokatta nante
Ijikete bakari de
Wakarikitteita
Kawarikitte shimatta
Najimi no keshiki wo
Kuraedo kuraedo
Aji ga shinakunatte shimatta hibi no
Anata no sui mo amai mo wasureta mama de
Tsuyokunareta naraba
Sunao ni nareru ka na
Miesuita kanpeki na furi wa
Mou yamete
Makura wo nurashita
Namida ga kawaita nara
Dekakeyou ka
Masukara hagareta mama
Muimi na shigusa sae
Kirazuni tarenagashita
Sonna dokyumentari- ga choushi ii
Nasakenai sugata mo yama hodo miseta kedo
Kuyande bakari irarenai ne
Wakaranakatta
Kaware ya shinakatta
Atarimae no shiawase wo
Kuraedo kuraedo
Mitasarenakunatte shimatta hibi no
Anata no sui mo amai mo wasureta mama de
Tsuyokunareta naraba
Yasashikunareru ka na
Miesuita uso de
Chakashite bakari de
Kanashimi no ame wo
Marumaru nomihoshitara
Dekakeyou ka
Deatta futari no mama
Owaranai yume no hazama wo kirisaita
Hitosuji no massugu na hitomi
Kurushii hodo ni mune wo tsuranuita
Kuraedo kuraedo
Mitasarenu hara
Utarete utarete
Bisho nureta no mama
Arikitari na mainichi ni
Tarite tarite tarinai bokura
Tsuyokunareta naraba
Otagai yuruseru ka na
Miesuita youchi na furi wa
Mou yamete
Makura wo nurashita
Namida ga kawaitara
Dekakeyou ka
Masukara hagareta mama
"Ano koro no futari no mama"
Tsuyokunareta naraba
Yasashikunareru ka na
Miesuita uso de
Chakashite bakari de
Kanashimi no ame wo
Marumaru nomihoshitara
Dekakeyou ka
Deatta futari no mama
Kazaranai egao de
Arikitari na kisu wo shite
Bonyou na rabu suto-ri- ga choudo ii
Owari ga aru no nara
Hajimaranakya yokatta nante
Ijikete bakari de
ENGLISH
With an unpretentious smile
Give me your usual kiss
This second-rate love story is just right
If I had known it would just end,
I wish it wouldn't have started
I keep thinking twisted thoughts like this
I had already known
It changed completely
Still, this intimate scenery
I take it in, I take it in
My daily life has lost its taste
The sweetness and sourness you brought to it stay forgotten
Does becoming stronger
Make us more honest?
This perfect, transparent charade
Let's stop it already
Once this pillow has dried
From being damp with tears
Do you want to go out?
With your mascara off
Even meaningless actions
Leak through without resistance
That's the kind of recording we need
I've shown so many pitiful sides of me
But it's not something I can say I regret
I didn’t know
It never changed
Still, a happiness so commonplace
I take it in, I take it in
My daily life has become unsatisfying
The sweetness and sourness you brought to it stay forgotten
Does becoming stronger
Make us kinder?
Us and our transparent lies
All we did was fool around
Once these rains of sadness
Have been all drunk up
Do you want to go out?
Just the two of us, brought together by fate
Slashing through the fabric of this endless dream
Your eyes, looking straight at me
Pierce through my heart so painfully
I take it in, I take it all in
But still I don't feel full
I keep getting hit, getting hit
I stay soaked to the bone
Within our ordinary daily lives
We were never, never, never enough
Does becoming stronger
Allow us to forgive each other?
Our childish, transparent charades
Let's stop it already
Once this pillow has dried
From being damp with tears
Do you want to go out?
With your mascara off
"The two of us from back then"
Does becoming stronger
Make us kinder?
Us and our transparent lies
All we did was fool around
Once these rains of sadness
Have been all drunk up
Do you want to go out?
Just the two of us, brought together by fate
With an unpretentious smile
Give me your usual kiss
This second-rate love story is just right
If I had known it would just end,
I wish it wouldn't have started
I keep thinking twisted thoughts like this
NOTES
1. This might just be me reading into it but the way I interpret this song is that it's about the preference for regular old love stories and how special, overly dramatic ones are overrated and come with a lot of baggage. That's why they reference that kind of thing with having a usual kiss, unpretentious smile, no mascara (which we can take to mean no make up or no potential for it running all over your face when you cry), dried up tears on a pillow, rain being equated with dramatic scenes, etc. Like they'd rather have your boring ol' love story than have such an emotionally draining one and then just have it end anyway. Whew.
2. I'm going to check back with what exactly "kuraedo" means, but I'm fairly certain this is generally it. Maybe. It can mean things from enduring things and all that, but I'm taking my cue from the rap where it says he's never full and translating it not exactly as "eating" but as taking something in.
3. "Tsuyokunareta naraba" more literally means "if we became stronger," but to connect it more easily with the following line, I rephrased it a bit.
4. They never specify a "fabric" of a dream, but they're slashing through it in the bridge, so I figure I can get some poetic license in there.