Lyrics: Kagayama Takeshi
Composition: Kagayama Takeshi

3. Phantasm

“It’s the year 2057, I took refuge from the real world I can’t log out from. This is the virtual world, I’m looking for my true self whom nobody knows…”

An unreliable story, I can’t find it
On the hill where even sadness doesn’t grow

A nameless #5, struggling for misery,
Objection without reason, a discorded world

Who is the reflected me?

It’s an unpredictable labyrinth going ‘round, goodbye to the reality I’d imagined, cutting through
The code of love that I can’t decipher, please give me the number that opens the door to the future

I forgot your song, nobody knows it
a world that’s so dazzling it’s agonizing

Where is the reflected you?

It’s out of control, my heart starts beating violently, I cry at the accelerated illusion, slip away from it
the strong feelings about illuminating even after 100 years, that impulse is the truth to the future

“Did we forget preciousness? Did we even forget sadness? Courage, regrets, even admiration… Just how many more emotions will disappear from within us?”

A convincing discord, an unfulfilling destiny,
Say love you on that contradiction, that discorded world

Who is the reflected me?

It’s an unpredictable labyrinth going ‘round, goodbye to the reality I’d imagined, cutting through
The code of love that I can’t decipher, please give me the number that opens the door to the future

Lyrics: Yoshiki Eriko
Composition: Yoshiki Eriko

2. ACROSS

I’m wandering around by myself
in a wasteland where my voice doesn’t seem to reach
Amidst a scenery I’m averting my eyes from
what I’m relying on is only my map towards morning

Even if I’m afraid to protect
the faint hope I’m wishing for with you
I’ll run through the sleeping earth

Engrave, the definite feelings you hold in your chest
With the power to believe as my source of encouragement
I will cut through the darkness
Resound, the vow of the future even in the far beyond
Someday, our prayers will assemble
and we will make it to the light

In my memories, a shadow comes back to life
your smile comes to mind, tears are welling up
Even though I cowered in the days when there were no answers,
beyond my hesitation, I should be able to see the truth

Even if I don’t have a destination and I am desperate
bonds can betray no-one
that’s why I can start running strongly

Draw, the world that was full of love that will never disappear
As long as there is life, we will keep yearning for freedom
Grasp, the place in our hearts where we can belong which never lies
Piercing that untiring determination,
let’s make a light with those hands

I can hear a song of sadness…
even if there is constant fighting and repeating grief
there is no night that doesn’t end
Overcome your pain, stand up and go
towards the shining side…

Let go, the definite feelings you hold in your chest
with the power to believe as my shield
I will cut through the darkness
Resound, the vow of the future even in the far beyond
Someday, our prayers will assemble
and we will make it to the light

Lyrics: Mizuki Nana
Composition: Agematsu Noriyasu (Elements Garden)

1. Testament

Take off, hold out your voice…

The dream you grasped tightly in those hands
Even a rail, the more wrenched open, the more it aches (violently)
I surrender myself to the feelings that are boiling up
(Can we) give the answer that justice desires from us?

Cutting through the silence
loudly like a lightning bolt
piercing through the love we believed in, let’s advance

Even if this life burns out and collapses, the never-ending song
will start illuminating the misty future with grief
Even if we are separated from the world and shot by the arrow of loneliness,
the flame burning in our chests can’t disappear
it resounds to you, time and time again, love of all energy

The hope you embraced tightly in those arms
Cells are written down to be prepared (engraved)
Before we were born,
(we drew) our emotions that couldn’t be put into words into melody

Every time we yearn for something
it’s a whirling duet
our instincts yield to our showing heartbeats

If you wish for it, let’s scream until heaven and earth are overturned,
The more we chase it, the more it takes root, we get lost and crush it
Even if someone tries to encloud the sky with his wish,
The tomorrow I spin with you will pierce the darkness

The veil that’s trapped by tumult is removed,
I want to protect the smile that’s more special than any miracle

Even if this life burns out and collapses, the never-ending song
will start illuminating the misty future with grief
Even if we are separated from the world and broken,
the flame burning in our chests can’t disappear
it resounds to you, time and time again, love of all energy

Take off, hold our your voice…

Lyrics: Shihori
Composition: Yokoyama Naohiro (Kankaku Piero)

3. Poison Lily

I want to embrace and tear you down right now

With merely a fingertip
my strategy is being dodged
this isn’t even a game

The goddess looking down on me
from the highest top of the ecosystem
is killing me, but I’m addicted…

Desire – I want to engrave it on the slightly white nape of my neck
I am this impulse,
a lethal dose of deadly poison
Craving – even though I want to drink you up like this
I’m a miserable wanderer

It’s so sinful, this mad attachment
I can’t grasp it, it’s like a hallucination
I am sweltering in a disease in which I can’t live without you
Even my pride, which is all I have,
is rubbish when I’m in front of you, isn’t it?
Being played with like a toy block…
I’m drowning at my wits’ end

Cry out, my heart is torn to pieces
White out, Hell or Heaven?
Why not? I’m trapped by you
Black out, I become numb… and I’m falling…

Surely, it would be easier
if I hated you, I know that
My sanity is gradually robbed from me…
I lose control

I just knew the moment
when I touched you once
that it was already too late
I’m already just
being burned to nothing
by the flame of my deep love for you

Hey, it’s not fair, with those innocent eyes
you’re toying with me and laughing about it, right?
How can I mess you up?
I can never slip away
being trapped by a beautiful bewitchment
I can’t go back anymore

It’s so sinful, this mad attachment
I can’t grasp it, it’s like a hallucination
I am sweltering in a disease in which I can’t live without you
Even my pride, which is all I have,
is rubbish when I’m in front of you, isn’t it?
Being played with like a toy block…

Ah…
I can’t live without you
The sweet nectar made me poisonous

I’m in miserable agony
I want you so bad I could die
It’s okay if I destroy everything
I want to embrace and tear you down right now

Lyrics: Iwasato Yuuho
Composition: Maruyama Mayuko

2. Invisible Heat

If living
would mean using your life,
I wouldn’t mind using up my life for you

When our hearts connected with each other, it makes a sound
Like that time when we watched sunset together

Because when you’re thinking of someone, admiring someone, or if anyone is crying,
the world will never leave you behind on your own

Invisible hand palms are
embracing you nevertheless
We are being protected
by an invisible warmth, that’s why
I won’t run away from getting to know you
It’s okay to just scream out everything that’s locked up inside that chest
Gotta change the world

And you will probably realize that, by just blinking a little,
the city you’re looking down on looks brighter than yesterday

Just like you can’t separate from your footsteps and your spreading shadow,
The scars and the hardships are a part of you too

I want to become stronger, if I can become stronger, I won’t lose sight of it again
Even if the night comes when the world ends, I won’t leave your side

Hand palms that won’t disappear are
certainly embracing you
We are being guided
by a warmth that won’t disappear, surely
I won’t throw away the wish to believe in each other
It’s okay to just expose everything that killed your voice
Gotta change the world

We’ve fought while clashing, only the pain
will tell us about our true sadness

Invisible hand palms are
embracing you nevertheless
We are being protected
by an invisible warmth, that’s why
Invisible fingertips are
wiping away your tears
We are being protected
by an invisible warmth, forever
I won’t run away from getting to know you
It’s okay to just scream everything that’s locked up inside that chest
Gotta change the world

Lyrics: Mizuki Nana
Composition: Katou Yuusuke

1. Destiny’s Prelude

Where am I going…?
Beyond the darkness, hiding my spilling tears
I kept running while wanting to reel in
that bit of hope that’s still far away and seems about to disappear

A story to admire
Like a thorn running through time that sticks to my heart,
I found light in the shadow that was lurking in the radiance
and I believed it to be ‘happiness’

The future I dreamed about
the more beautiful it is, the less the present can reach it
Stacking sad memories, I trembled by myself
The strength that I touched without knowing love is too bright,
it’s slipping through
In truth, I had been aware of it since the beginning
Beyond that closed wish, was a smile I wanted to protect
a starry night where I’m only thinking of you

Standing still,
reflecting the repeating illusion in the presence of the morning
I will foretell the outcome of the endless journey
with the cards of truth facing down

Although screaming that I want to change,
I draw a place to go home to in the unchanging peacefulness
Even if it’s just one moment, I yearned for warmth
that could break down the strengthening loneliness

The beginning is surely sudden, so
it will bring along a revolution-like encounter to anyone
If you’re always being tested by love, you may present my everything
The first impulse dissolved like praying
The words that started to overflow, I want to convey them to you now

I set fire to the weakness I leave behind
Being guided by your eyes, I am resurrected
No matter what happens, I won’t let go of the honest voice from that day
“I’m by your side”

The future I dreamed about more than anyone else…
the more beautiful it got, the less the present could reach it
Stacking sad memories, I trembled by myself
I now pledge to you who taught me love, that I won’t lose my way anymore
In truth, I had been aware of it since the beginning
Beyond that shaded wish, was a smile I wanted to protect
A radiant tomorrow is waiting for us
Now, take my hand, starry sky

Lyrics: Mizuki Nana
Composition: Katou Yuusuke

1. Destiny’s Prelude

Where am I going…?
Beyond the darkness, hiding my spilling tears
I kept running while wanting to reel in
that bit of hope that’s still far away and seems about to disappear

A story to admire
Like a thorn running through time that sticks to my heart,
I found light in the shadow that was lurking in the radiance
and I believed it to be ‘happiness’

The future I dreamed about
the more beautiful it is, the less the present can reach it
Stacking sad memories, I trembled by myself
The strength that I touched without knowing love is too bright,
it’s slipping through
In truth, I had been aware of it since the beginning
Beyond that closed wish, was a smile I wanted to protect
a starry night where I’m only thinking of you

Standing still,
reflecting the repeating illusion in the presence of the morning
I will foretell the outcome of the endless journey
with the cards of truth facing down

Although screaming that I want to change,
I draw a place to go home to in the unchanging peacefulness
Even if it’s just one moment, I yearned for warmth
that could break down the strengthening loneliness

The beginning is surely sudden, so
it will bring along a revolution-like encounter to anyone
If you’re always being tested by love, you may present my everything
The first impulse dissolved like praying
The words that started to overflow, I want to convey them to you now

I set fire to the weakness I leave behind
Being guided by your eyes, I am resurrected
No matter what happens, I won’t let go of the honest voice from that day
“I’m by your side”

The future I dreamed about more than anyone else…
the more beautiful it got, the less the present could reach it
Stacking sad memories, I trembled by myself
I now pledge to you who taught me love, that I won’t lose my way anymore
In truth, I had been aware of it since the beginning
Beyond that shaded wish, was a smile I wanted to protect
A radiant tomorrow is waiting for us
Now, take my hand, starry sky

Testament is Nana Mizuki’s 36th single which was released on July 19, 2017.

Underneath, you will find my translations of the songs from Testament. Because English is not my mother tongue, please kindly let me know if there are any grammatical errors: I am open for corrections and like to learn from my mistakes 

1. Testament (opening theme for anime Senki Zesshou Symphogear AXZ)
2. ACROSS (theme song for iOS/Android game Tales of Asteria: Tsuioku no Eden)
3. Phantasm