The Japanese lyric of “It’s No Game Pt.1” (via Stephen Ryan).

shirueto ya kage ga kakumei wo miteiru

(Sillouettes and shadows are watching the revolution)

mo tengoku no jiyu no kaidan wa nai
(free [as in without restrictions] steps of heaven are no longer there/here)

ore wa genjitsu kara shime dasare
(I [a ‘tough’ masculine ‘I’] have been excluded from reality)

nani ga okotteiru no ka wakaranai

(I don’t understand what’s going on)

doko ni kyoukun wa aruno ka hitobito wa yubi wo orareteiru

(where is the lesson [moral] people’s fingers are being broken)

konna dokusaisya ni iyashimerareru no wa kanashii

(to be abused [taunted] by this strong-willed leader [dictator?] is sad)

nanmin no kiroku eiga

(documented films of refugees)

hyouteki ni se wo shita koibitotachi

(lovers are set as a background to the target)

michi ni ishi wo nagereba

(if you throw a stone into the road)

konagona ni kudake

(it is shattered into a powder)

kino ni futa wo sureba

(if you cover up [put a lid on] yesterday

kyoufu wa masu

(the terror [fear] grows)

ore no atama ni tama wo uchikomeba

(if you shoot a bullet into my head)

shinbun wa kakitateru

(the newspapers will write about it in an exaggerated way)