Rusty Nail
by X-JAPAN (East-West Japan AMCM-4271)
translation: Mark Neidengard


Kioku no kakera ni egaita bara wo
  mitsumete
Togireta omoi de kasaneru kawaranai
  yume ni
Oh - Rusty Nail
                                      Gaze at the rose painted on the shard
                                        of memory
                                      As you bury unchanging dreams in broken
                                        memories
                                      Oh - Rusty Nail

Doredake namida wo nagaseba
Anata wo wasurerareru darou
Just tell me my life
Doko made aruite mitemo
Namida de ashita ga mienai
                                      How many tears
                                      Will it take for me to forget you
                                      Just tell me my life
                                      No matter how far I try to walk
                                      I can't see tomorrow because of my tears

Joshou ni owatta shuumatsu no kizu
  wasurete
Nagareru toki ni dakarete mo mune
  ni tsukisasaru
Oh - Rusty Nail
                                     Forget the wound of the weekend finished
                                       in the prologue
                                     Even if I am held in flowing time,
                                       I'm pierced through the heart
                                     Oh - Rusty Nail

Doredake namida wo nagaseba
Anata wo wasurerareru darou
Utsukushiku iro asete nemuru bara wo
Anata no kokoro ni sakasete
                                      If I cry enough tears
                                      I wonder if I'll be able to forget you
                                      Let the beautifully faded sleeping rose
                                      Bloom in your heart

Sugao no mama de ikite yukereba kitto
Hitomi ni utsuru yoru wa kagayaku
  yume dake nokoshite
Asa wo mukaeru kodoku wo wasurete
Akai tekubi wo dakishimete naita
Yoru wo owarasete
                                      If you go on living, the way you are,
                                        surely
                                      The night reflected in your eyes will
                                        leave only shining dreams
                                      Forget the solitude that greets the dawn
                                      Hold the scarlet wrist and
                                      End the night of crying

Kioku no tobira wo tozashita mama de
  furete
Togireta omoi wo kasaneru aoi
  kuchibiru ni
Oh - Rusty Nail
                                      Trembling, with the gate of memory sealed
                                      Touch the blue lips laden with broken
                                        thoughts
                                      Oh - Rusty Nail 
                                      

Doredake namida wo nagaseba
Anata wo wasurerareru darou
Just tell me my life
Doko made aruite mite mo
Namida de ashita ga mienai
                                      If I cry enough tears
                                      I wonder if I'll be able to forget you
                                      Just tell me my life
                                      No matter how far I try to walk
                                      I can't see tomorrow because of my tears

Kurushikute kokoro wo kazatta...imamo
Anata wo wasurerarenakute
                                      My heart painfully laden, even now
                                      And I can't forget about you