Thee Michelle Gun Elephant, "The Redhead Kelly"

[petronia]

For sesame_seed as requested. This turned out to be a rather odd and interesting song. XD

The Redhead Kelly

水牛の角でつくられた街で
焼かれた森の運命を知った
赤毛のケリー（ロングレッドヘアケリー）...

針の錆びている　欠けたブローチには
月から来た石とだけ書かれていた
太陽と道が溶け合う場所の
先に広がるのは　凍りついた海
あの娘描くのは　そこに住む魚
タツノオトシゴ　アザラシの悲鳴
赤毛のケリー（ロングレッドヘアケリー）...
あの娘描くのは　底に住む魚
タツノオトシゴ　アザラシの悲鳴

ケリーの赤毛が西風に浮かぶ
湖の化粧して月の石をつける
ウインカーの出ない車には
ラムのブランケットが
一枚まるまっている
あの娘描くのは　砂漠に降る雪
ゆらいで光る　オアシス・アイス

赤毛のケリー（ロングレッドヘアケリー）...
あの娘描くのは　砂漠に降る雪
ゆらいで光る　オアシス・アイス

***

Suigyuu no kaku de tsukurareta machi de
Yakareta mori no unmei wo shitta
Long red-haired Kelly...

Hari no sabiteiru Kaketa brooch ni wa
Tsuki kara kita ishi to dake kakareteita
Taiyou to michi ga tokeau basho no
Saki ni hirogaru no wa kooritsuita umi
Ano ko egaku no wa Soko ni sumu sakana
Tatsu no otoshigo Azarashi no himei
Long red-haired Kelly...
Ano ko egaku no wa Soko ni sumu sakana
Tatsu no otoshigo Azarashi no himei

Kelly no akake ga nishikaze ni ukabu
Mizuumi no keshou shite tsuki no ishi wo tsukeru

Winker no denai kuruma ni wa
Ram no blanket ga
Ichimai marumatteiru
Ano ko egaku no wa Sabaku ni furu yuki
Yuraide hikaru Oasis ice

Long red-haired Kelly...
Ano ko egaku no wa Sabaku ni furu yuki
Yuraide hikaru Oasis ice

***

In the city made out of the water buffalo's horns
Long red-haired Kelly
Knows the fate of the burnt forest

In the empty brooch with the rusty pin
Written only as on a stone that came from the moon
What spreads before the place
Where sun and road meld together
Is the frozen sea
What that girl draws are the fish that live there
Seahorses and the wailing of seals
Long red-haired Kelly...
What that girl draws are the fish that live at the bottom
Seahorses and the wailing of seals

Kelly's red hair floats in the west wind
Painting the lake, adorned with moonstones

In the car with no blinkers on
A lambskin blanket
Rolled up by itself

What that girl draws is the snow that falls in the desert
Wavering light, oasis ice
Long red-haired Kelly...
What that girl draws is the snow that falls in the desert
Wavering light, oasis ice




Sabina: Ah, tatsu no otoshigo is an actual word. XD
Chrissie: O_O
Chrissie: what does it mean?
Sabina: "Dragon's illegitimate child"
Sabina: "Seahorse"
Sabina: Rather poetic, isn't it?
Chrissie: O_O
Chrissie: it is!
Chrissie: that's an actual term for it?
Chrissie: v. cool

(later)

Sabina: ...Are these things called "winkers" in English?
Chrissie: *blinks*
Chrissie: what?
Chrissie: what are winkers?
Sabina: On a car
Sabina: The lights that blink when you want to make a turn.
Sabina: Aren't they called... blinkers?
Chrissie: blinkers?
Chrissie: yeahhh
Sabina: .......
Sabina: Stupid Japanese.
Chrissie: XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDd
Chrissie: *DIES*
Sabina: Sometimes they're poetic.
Sabina: Sometimes they just FAIL.
Chrissie: ahahahahahahah
Chrissie: *rolllllls*
Chrissie: i'm feeling like one of those bewildered semes
Chrissie: who're matched with an uke who's just NOT COMPREHENSIBLE ACCORDING TO THE NORMAL LAWS OF ANYTHING
Chrissie: confusing!
Sabina: XDD
Chrissie: but loveable

Comments

[rhoe.livejournal.com]

Erm, pardon me but I thought 'blinkers' were those pads/flaps which they put in front of a horse's eyes so that they won't get easily spooked?

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[petronia.livejournal.com]

So did I, actually! XD But Chrissie and I couldn't come up with another word for the car lights except "blinkers". That's what I've always called it too. Maybe it's not the right word, I don't know. I expect one of the car fanatics on my flist to set me straight. But at any rate I'm very sure it's not "winkers". XD

[dipping_sauce]

... Turning signals?

*not a car person*

[cis.livejournal.com]

indicators, dude! Have in fact heard them called 'winkers', but only in the phrase 'use yer winker, wanker' (ah, my dad and road rage).

[sesame-seed.livejournal.com]

*pokes head in*

According to Dictionary.com, last resort in unresolved cases, blinkers, blinders and winkers can all be used to refer to a horse's eyepatches, but 'blinker' is the only one that doubles as those turn signal lights.

So incestuous, the English language. XD I suppose you can't blame the Japanese for getting confused.

[(Anonymous)]

Ah I see, I see. How perverse of the English language to confuse us all so!

PS: I normally refer to the turning lights as 'indicators', but I've heard plenty of other terms for it as well. ^^

[rhoe.livejournal.com]

Oops! That was me! I forgot to log in. >.<

[vonbrigthi.livejournal.com]

aw nice, thanks for translating. i like michelle gun.

i remember watching the Blue Spring dvd and they subtitled (in english) the song lyrics, except they were really... wacky and kind of incomprehensible. ~_~;

[sesame-seed.livejournal.com]

SABINA. I looooove you. Thank you, thank you, thank you. I can't believe you went to all that trouble; was planning to feed the lyrics to Babelfish and work with what popped out. You're so wonderful. *_* Loveable yet not confusing! (And, so sorry for disappearing on you like that? ^^" Close your eyes for ONE SECOND and next thing you know it's morning, sigh.)

You know that if there's anything I can do for you in return, you just have to holla, right?

♥

Btw, I've realized that this song is actually completely fitting for Schuldig; you just have to poke beneath the surface a bit. For it is devious and deceptive, just like Schuldig, and has a surface that's loud and eye-catching and says in bright red letters 'I AM THIS ONE THING', but that's really just a cover for all the other things it/he can be!

For instance, take 'car with no blinkers on'; maybe they did mean those horse eyepatches -- just, y'know, for cars, because cars are cooler and more Schuldig-y. And the reference to Schuldig can't be missed, of course, because isn't he a person with no blinkers/winkers/blinders on? Can't filter out the thoughts of others, can't shy away from the light.

And when you consider 'the frozen sea' in conjunction with water symbolism, in which water can indicate both sex and unconsciousness, darkness and death, it's CRYSTAL CLEAR that this is an allusion to Crawford, who's frigid in bed and is protected by impermeable mental shields (at least, that's what fic says, which means it's practically canon), and yet Schuldig's magnetism draws out the latent unformed squirmy feelings that live deep deep down at the bottom of his soul!

Crawford is, in fact, the snow that falls in the desert of Schuldig's life, cold and cutting and fatal under the proper circumstances, an unwelcoming image to most, but as it lands in the desert it melts, becoming something life-giving and essential, reviving the parched land that had forgotten how it felt not to thirst. Separately, they're harmful and damaging; together, they compensate for each others' shortcomings.

It's so perfect, Sabina. *_*

I'm sure that if I work hard enough, I can figure out how moonstone is a sly indicator of murder and mayhem, or, alternatively, really sweaty sex. *gets crackin'*

/rabu

[dipping_sauce]

I'm sure that if I work hard enough, I can figure out how moonstone is a sly indicator of murder and mayhem

The Moonstone was the name of a 19th century murder/mystery novel. So there you go ^_^

[sesame-seed.livejournal.com]

Oooh, yes! I'd forgotten it included death among its repertoire of misfortunes. And the way the poor girl died was v. psychological, wasn't it? Suicide by quicksand, exactly what Uncle Schuldich would prescribe for a lonely heart. Fits so well!



But the Moonstone reference is undoubtedly preferable. XD THINK OF WHAT YOU HAVE SAVED THE WORLD FROM.

In other words, thank you! :D