Temperance – Bilingual Lyrics Japanese/English

• By: MAS-RAO

Lyrics & Translation

Discover the nuances of balance and moderation with MAS-RAO's "Temperance." Delve into the historical context of temperance while exploring the song's message of emotional harmony and self-restraint. Learn how to apply these principles to your own life through the power of music.

[English]

In the film where fever softly stirs, you drift farther away

Let’s offer kisses of mistakes and partings, over and again

Bacchus

Bonded together

By threads of desire

This spirit

Is trapped

Drunk on love’s idol

Emptily swallowing it down

Days of endless pleasure

Burned by thorns of roses we spit out

Turn into tragedy

It’s the law of heaven and earth

Knowing what it means to fall

Temperance of the Abyss

Longing till you break

Shangri-La that vanished so fleetingly

Tempting fragrance

Once more, even at the end

To meet again

I’ll release the ghost of you

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In the fractured mirror, an id dwells

Pitiful wings of darkness

Chained up, a breath you send

Tracing the scars

Overflowing impulses

Do we devour each other, only to wither away?

The promise of sin

Tangled round my finger

The pain is still sweetly indulgent

Bewitching temperance

Feelings that seemed pure

Twist into blades inside the labyrinth

An embrace that can never be

Reach out these hands like Icarus once did

Even fate that blends together is just one

Hope

Because I was by your side

Temperance of the Abyss

It’s fine to break, you said,

Please, don’t ever say that

Seducing fragrance

In the darkness beyond, so we can meet again

Resonance to know you

TILL THE END

Let’s be seized by new restraints

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[Japanese]

微熱揺れるフィルムの中 遠ざかる貴方へ

過ちと別離のキスを 何度も捧げよう

Bacchus

絆える

欲望の糸に

この精神

囚われて

愛に酔いしれた 偶像を

虚ろに飲み干す

絶えない享楽の日々は

吐き出した薔薇の棘に灼かれて

悲劇へと変わりゆく

天と地の理ダ

堕ちる意味を知りながら

奈落のTemperance

壊れるほど求め

儚く散った Shangri-La

誘う Fragrance

その果てでもう一度

めぐり逢うために

貴方の亡霊を解き放とう

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割れた鏡 宿るイドは

哀れな闇の翼

雁字搦め 遣わす吐息が

傷痕をなぞる

溢れ零れる衝動を

貪り合い やがて枯れていくの？

罪深き約束を

指に絡めた

痛みはまだ甘やかかな

蠱惑のTemperance

無垢なはずの想いが

刃へと変わる Labyrinth

叶わぬ Embrace

イカロスのようにこの手を伸ばせろ

混ざり合える運命さえひとつの

希望

そばにいたから

奈落のTemperance

壊れてもいいなんて

どうか貴方は言わないで

誘なうFragrance

常闇の彼方 めぐり逢うため

貴方を知るための Resonance

TILL THE END

新たな束縛の虜となろう

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Key Grammar Structures

• 過ちと別離のキスを 何度も捧げよう

  ➔ volitional form

  ➔ The verb "捧げよう" is the volitional form of 捧げる, expressing a suggestion: “let’s offer”.

• 愛に酔いしれた 偶像を 虚ろに飲み干す

  ➔ past attributive form (連体形)

  ➔ The adjective "酔いしれた" is the past plain form of 酔いしれる used before a noun, meaning “the idol that was intoxicated by love”.

• 絶えない享楽の日々は 吐き出した薔薇の棘に灼かれて

  ➔ passive voice

  ➔ "灼かれて" is the passive form of 灼く, meaning “are burned”.

• 堕ちる意味を知りながら

  ➔ ながら (while …)

  ➔ "知りながら" uses "ながら" to mean “while knowing”.

• 壊れるほど求め

  ➔ ほど (to the extent that)

  ➔ "ほど" expresses degree: “to the extent that it breaks”.

• めぐり逢うために

  ➔ ために (purpose)

  ➔ "ために" shows purpose: “in order to meet again”.

• 割れた鏡 宿るイドは 哀れな闇の翼

  ➔ relative clause

  ➔ "宿る" modifies "イド" forming a relative clause: “the ID that dwells”.

• 雁字搦め 遣わす吐息が 傷痕をなぞる

  ➔ subject marker が

  ➔ "が" marks “遣わす吐息” as the subject of the verb “なぞる”.

• やがて枯れていくの？

  ➔ question nominalizer の

  ➔ "の" at the end turns the clause into a question: “Will it eventually wither?”.