Kaito's "四月は残酷な季節" with English Lyric

Another dark Kaito song by hagoromo P.Caution: This one is very dark!!

My translation on "April is a cruel season".
(This is reprint. I only add translation to video)

[ Original title in NICO VID ]
【KAITOオリジナル曲】四月は残酷な季節
([Kaito's original tune] April is a crule season)

[Original vid URL]
http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm1715919

[MP3 uploaded by actual author]
http://makebelieve.sakura.ne.jp/music...

[Creator]
Lyric: cocotuki
Music & Video: yuzen(hagoromo)
Painter: ujuju
Vocal: Vocaloid "Kaito Hatsune"

[Who's Kaito(the man in vid)?]
http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=CF0A0I6cqmI

[Note]

April in Japanese is read SHIGATSU and written by
two kanji, 四月.
四 is "Shi" part in pronaunciation and it means four(th),
月 is "Gatsu" part in pronaunciation and it means month.
Although in this song's last part, lyricyst intentionally avoided writing this in kanji and altered by KATAKANA, a type of Japanese alphabet that tells how it pronouncd.
That becomes シ(Shi)ガ(Ga)ツ(Tsu).

By doing this lyricyst is suggesting us to understand this word differently from usual.
And as the song's theme is dark and reminds people of death, Japanese would think of altering Shi part with popular one-kanji-word that's pronounced Shi.
And that'd be 死、Death.

And that's what lyricst says in this song
"April is a cruel month", truely a "死(Death)月(Month)".

[About my translation]
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[How to get mp3 and Japanese lyric readable in Eng(Romaji)]
http://www.eonet.ne.jp/~soundares/subs/getmp3.html
http://www.eonet.ne.jp/~soundares/subs/getromaji.html

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Kaito's "April is a cruel season" Lyric
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Ah Heaven-child-of-announcement(Lark) ridicules too
"Sprout not, drop not"
Under the freezing earth
Dreaming sunshine of the spring
Wish it will decay...

Even if it spend the winter starving
Sat free (from the winter, from starvation) then it's the end
Be salted and eaten
Unable to fight that off... can't bear (to see)

Alas Gobbled-and-messed-up.
From snow-fetter, sat free
Starved prisoner(*man)... to that man,
That act-of-trample... Will (he/you) endure that.
Will (he/you) be holding on until the winter?
Oh, come on Resignation is the heart(=key point)

Dormant 'the-weak-be-meat-the-strong-eat' (=*wild-instinct) stirs
Afresh-start of the glaring game
Sing the call of start
Fellow man, now the rhapsody!

Ah The spring announce bird sings
A step faster march
(To) The smell of the spring... have (he) got drunk
(Or) Too funny can't stop the song?
Forgotten even to flap wings, sings
One *singing-bird
Truly a death-month(=April) Cruel season

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[whitepearlvoice376]

This is a pretty dark song. And I find it interesting how the lyrcist altered April & Death.

I find it funny how my birthday is in April haha.

[soundares]

In Japan, April usually means good thing. Like new start^^ So this song is actually going against that. Maybe that's the interesting point in of the song.

[azureseraph7]

It kind of just feels like Kaito really really wanted to crush the flower in a manical manner >.>

[BassGirl818]

That's dark. O_o

What happened to the idiot Kaito who bought too much ice cream and nearly caused bankrupsy?!

[whitepearlvoice376]

@sankosa1 As do I.

Or any other language.

Aaand my birthday is still coming soon. D: LOL CRY

[sankosa1]

@whitepearlvoice376

i find it interesting how much more potential japanese has for old man jokes than english.

[animecatgirlroxs]

I got to this video by typing in Death Note drunken Alphebet. LOL What a nice Kaito song! XD

[Vampire06Romance]

KAITO how can u be soo funny and yet soo scary T_T , btw kaito es sexy both ways xD

[FeelFree3]

It should be the weak's meat is eaten by the strong, instead of the translation.

[vocaloidifytheworld]

*Acts like momiji from Fruits Basket* YOU"RE SO EVIL KAITO! <3

[KrispyApplez]

Oh noe, kaito speaks about salting vegetables surviving in the winter and eating them!

His picture looks like dracula's face but it's interesting about the months. :3 could certain events happen more often in certain months?

[soraXroxas023]

wow O.o

[AnimeTarded]

some of my friends(and mines) b-day is in april would enjoy the fact that they were born is the "death" month (o.0)