– English Lyrics

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[English]

So,

this is the Thorn Princess.

Thorn Princess,

you need to hide your appearance.

If Twilight, Man With a Thousand Faces,

sees your face, he will come after you.

He'll easily infiltrate your daily life.

Maybe wear the face of someone close to

you.

Everyone you care about would be in

danger.

Only if he gets [music] away with his

life.

I've heard intimidating things about

you, Thorn Princess.

But I refuse to let this be the end for

me.

In a few hours, Lloyd Forger has to be

at the breakfast table with this family.

He has to greet his daughter when she

comes back from school. [music]

He has to ask his wife about her day.

I need to get [music] back to the life

of Lloyd Forger.

For the sake of the mission.

For the sake of peace.

For the sake of the nation.

You will have to die.

This is bad. I can only catch a glimpse

of her movement. She's too fast and too

precise.

I'm going to kill you, Twilight.

Then get back before 5:00 and make

breakfast for Lloyd and Anya.

If this goes [music] on, I'm dead.

No.

The bodies of those who met the Thorn

[music] Princess were either stabbed

with high-precision wounds from

stiletto-like weapons thrown at short to

medium range.

Her range is still limited. As long as I

don't let her step [music] within that

range, there's still a chance I can tire

her out.

There.

Moving by the stairs.

>> [music]

>> Anya?

>> [snorts]

>> How was she here? Did she somehow follow

me? [music]

But I kept the time and address within

my head. Left no trace in writing or

otherwise. How?

Anya, you can't be here. It's dangerous.

Don't you dare shoot a child, Twilight.

Taking a child hostage?

That's low, Thorn Princess.

No.

Don't worry, Anya.

This will all be over in a moment.

He's faster than before.

So, he moved slower previously just so I

wouldn't miscalculate his reaction

speed? NO.

MAMA.

>> [clears throat]

>> YOU'RE

MAMA.

>> [crying]

>> MAMA, I

It's okay, Anya.

I'm just going to [music] talk things

out with this man, all right?

Now,

close your eyes, please.

The bullet just grazed me. Don't worry.

>> [music]

>> It's all right, Anya.

I'm fine. See?

Just close your eyes.

I'll have to kill him now. Pierce his

[music] lungs. Cut his throat. Stab his

heart.

Die, Twilight.

Yor?

How?

How did you know my name?

Twilight?

Tell me, Thorn Princess. Twilight.

What is this sick lie?

Leave us right now, Anya.

B-

But,

Papa.

Just go, Anya. Leave, Anya.

So, you infiltrated this undercover

mission of being a family just to get to

me.

The odds of the woman I asked to play

the wife of my civilian identity being

an assassin sent to kill my spy identity

are too high to be a coincidence, with

your brother being an SSS agent as well.

Was being Yor Briar,

a warm wife and gentle mother,

was it all just a part you played for

the sake of a mission assigned to you,

Thorn Princess?

I don't care what you say.

You're not getting away. Not when you

know my real identity.

Speak all the lies you want, looking and

acting like Loid.

That's just another one of your masks,

isn't it, Twilight?

Tell me,

do you just so happen to be the assassin

Thorn Princess, Yor?

Or was Yor the false face you were

wearing all along, Thorn Princess?

Faking your role in this family,

manipulating a child into thinking you

were someone she can trust and love,

while having the intention of a trade

that trust all along.

That's unforgivable.

You are spewing so much irritating

nonsense.

I'll have the honor of taking your life,

[music] Twilight. So, shut up and die.

I'll see your real face, no matter how

many false faces I need to tear off. I

won't allow you to say such things in

front of Anya while wearing Lloyd's

face. I showed you my face, showed you

that Twilight is really the man you've

been calling your husband all this time.

And yet, you are not only refusing to

stand down, but you are even more

resolved to kill me. He may have tricked

me into some fatigue, making me run

around touching bullets,

but I'm still armed while he is not.

Where to target? Neck, chest, side of

head?

I can't stab through his face. I need to

reveal that it's a mask. And in front of

a child who thinks of me as her father.

So, this is your true self, then. Look

at him pretending to be Lloyd. The way

his eyes glare so coldly.

How his voice grew sterner.

It's exactly how Lloyd would look and

sound if Lloyd ever got that angry.

It's perfect.

You really are so heartless a woman,

Thorn Princess.

You really are an amazing liar,

Twilight.

No.

Papa.

Mama.

>> [music]

>> Huh?

>> I was so blind.

As if our initial meeting in that shop

could have been that great of a

coincidence. A beautiful, single woman

who just so happened to be in need of a

false husband when I was in need of a

false [music] wife.

Your infiltration and lies have been

convincing indeed, Thorn Princess.

I'm going to kill you and tear off that

mask to reveal the impostor underneath,

Twilight. I won't allow you to let Anya

think that her own father is fighting

her mother. I won't allow such a lie to

pollute this family. How could I have

been so blind? How shameless do you have

to be to put on such an act? As if you

belong to this family. And so careless.

As to think of someone like you as

family.

Even in pretense.

You liar. Impostor.

Papa.

Papa.

Mama.

All this time, Anya knew everything. And

the one lying and impostoring has been

Anya.

All this time. All this time, Anya knew

Papa is a spy and Mama is an assassin.

What are you? Anya.

Anya can read minds.

Anya is sorry.

Anya is sorry for lying.

Please don't be angry.

>> [crying]

>> Please, Papa.

Anya won't watch cartoons anymore.

Anya will study all the time and get

stellar stars like Papa wants Papa's

mission.

Anya promise.

Uh

So, please.

Please don't send Anya back to the

orphanage.

Or to the place with the people in white

coats. But, please.

Papa being a spy, Mama being an assassin

it's not fun anymore.

Anya hates it.

>> [gasps]

>> P-

please.

Anya just wants

Anya just wants Papa and Mama

to be Papa and Mama.

At great risk to herself, Melinda

Desmond insisted that her husband, the

chairman of the National Unity Party of

Ostania,

had suddenly changed [music] in behavior

sometime between the births of their two

sons

and could now [music] read minds.

Pair that with the evidence we have of

experiments done by the National Unity

Party,

the experiment rooted out by WISE was

determined to have been started for the

purpose of creating hyper-intelligent

animals for military use.

And when the project shut down, most of

these subjects ended up on the black

market.

And along with them,

what other subjects?

From what other projects?

So, a subject from an Ostania experiment

[music] with telepathic abilities

brought about our first date because she

thought having an assassin mom would be

cool.

Anya is so sad. Anya has no Mama.

And so, we played the part of the family

without knowing each other's identities

as spy and assassin. What are you doing?

But then

she could read your innermost thoughts

all this time

and still love you so much, Twilight

Princess.

Doesn't that mean that fundamentally

as a person

you are genuinely

disgusting.

Have I been protecting people that have

been experimenting on children like Anya

all this time?

So

the work they put my entire life to,

telling me it's for the peace of my

nation and the safety of its children.

Has that all been a lie?

I don't care if they brand me a traitor

like the people they had me disposing

of.

I'll find out what's going on.

If they are still hurting even one child

I

I can't believe I was so gullible.

Stupid, so stupid.

Oh, Anya. If you were adopted from an

orphanage for the purpose of playing a

part in the mission of a Westalian spy

and if he leaves you once his mission is

over

if

if it's all right

could I please still be your mama?

Of course you can.

Huh?

Of course you can, mama. What?

B- b- but but

but I couldn't even figure out that the

organization that trained me might be

protecting the corrupt or that a

Westalian spy was using [music] both you

and me for his mission cover. It went on

for so long, I didn't even question

anything. But um

>> [crying]

>> I'm just so stupid and worse than

useless. No.

No, mama is not stupid.

>> [music]

>> Papa is just a good liar. Uh

Anya knows that mama works very hard

fighting the traders and drug dealers

and bad guys after pretending to go to

bed. Even that she got shot in the butt

by a bad guy's bullet that one time.

Um

Anya knows Papa works very hard, too.

Papa's always running around to lots of

places with lots of different faces

fighting bad guys who wants war while

pretending he's at the hospital working

as a spy-chiatrist.

Uh

Anya knows Mama and Papa works super,

super, super, super, super hard.

All for world peace.

Because Papa and Mama were just like

Anya.

Papa and Mama also had no Papa and Mama.

Papa and Mama may both be liars.

But Papa is also a really great Papa.

And Mama is also a really great Mama.

So, yes.

Anya will always want Mama to be Anya's

Mama.

Oh, Anya.

>> [crying and laughter]

>> I see it now.

The reason why I remained so blind

against so many obvious signs.

Why I have been so willfully stubborn on

not putting two and two together.

Men used to call her up to their hotel

rooms to give them

massages.

No, that's

Even at the cost of my own declining

performance.

After all, the past Twilight would have

disengaged while feigning apathy in the

hostage situation.

He would conceal any sign of recognizing

of brother's identity.

Knowing the high probability of Thorn

Princess leaving your Forger daughter

unharmed for her own infiltration

mission.

Then, after a calculated period of

de-escalation aimed at triggering a

lapse in the target's vigilance, Loid

Forger could have eliminated your Forger

in her own home while telling his

daughter that your Forger had received

urgent news and had go away for the sake

of her job or brother.

Allowing Operation Strix resume

with its core mission intact.

In the past, Twilight wouldn't have

revealed his civilian identity [music]

just for the sake of answers.

He would have cut losses, no answers

needed, if it came at the risk of the

enemy being alerted.

But, just at the thought of everything

being a lie,

I

When did it start exactly, Twilight?

Sleep, little [singing] one, 'neath the

moon's silver shine.

Which day?

Which moment?

I told myself that my real self was the

spy wearing the false mask of Loid

Forger. But, I see now.

Day by day,

moment by moment,

it had long since become the opposite,

hasn't it?

Twilight had become the false mask.

Loid Forger, the real self.

And the one I was trying the hardest to

fool into thinking otherwise was myself.

And this is the grave you dug and

insisted on being buried [music]

in Twilight.

All the while being bewildered at how

poor your instincts had become.

How much your performance degraded.

How badly you have fallen.

Sleep little [singing]

one 'neath the moon silver shine. Oh,

sweet prince of mine, to sleep.

The garden is quiet, drift off to sleep.

Oh, sweet prince of mine, good night.

I don't [singing] know the rest, but

I'll just make something up.

We don't know what's next, so we'll just

make something up.

Key Grammar Structures

• If Twilight, Man With a Thousand Faces, sees your face, he will come after you.

  ➔ First Conditional

  ➔ Uses 'if' + present simple to describe a real possibility in the future.

• I refuse to let this be the end for me.

  ➔ Verb + Object + Bare Infinitive

  ➔ The verb 'let' is followed by an object and the bare form of the verb.

• As long as I don't let her step within that range, there's still a chance.

  ➔ Condition/Restriction phrase (As long as)

  ➔ 'As long as' acts as a conditional conjunction meaning 'provided that'.

• The bodies of those who met the Thorn Princess were either stabbed...

  ➔ Relative Clause (who met...)

  ➔ 'Who met the Thorn Princess' defines the noun 'those'.

• I'll see your real face, no matter how many false faces I need to tear off.

  ➔ Concessive Clause (No matter how)

  ➔ 'No matter how' expresses that the action happens regardless of the number of faces.

• Have I been protecting people that have been experimenting on children?

  ➔ Present Perfect Continuous

  ➔ Used to describe an action that started in the past and continues to the present.

• I couldn't even figure out that the organization that trained me might be protecting the corrupt.

  ➔ Modal verb of possibility (might) in a subordinate clause

  ➔ 'Might' indicates a speculation or low probability about the organization's actions.

• Twilight had become the false mask.

  ➔ Past Perfect

  ➔ Used to describe an action completed before another point in the past.