5. Knock U Down

Lyrics: Mizuki Nana / Yamada Ryuuhei
Composer: Yamada Ryuuhei

Today too, I’m passing merrily at my own fancy
I’ll decline any hindrances
Even the boring city is having a party, those pompous voices are nothing
taking a detour isn’t bad either!
Now let’s get going in a crazy dress-up

After all, where does your individuality go
when you get caught by an annoying bad boy?
With a vague stance, your real self will crumble (Oh my god!)
Decide splendidly with a style that’s more like you and go straight!
(ah, ah, amazing!)

Everybody, clap your hands! (4x)

Make it, make it, cry and laugh
lay yourself bare, at any time
I’ll knock you down with a gimme, gimme dance! Oh yeah!
(ah, ah, ah, so swanky, my life!)
Look at me! I’ll knock you down with a gimme, gimme dance! Oh yeah!

When you’re surrounded by gloomy feelings
and you’re torturing yourself and are suffering,
stop it, stop it! If you do that, you’ll miss out on life! (you are right!)
Switch to a more easygoing way and let go of immoderate stress!
(ah, ah, it’s on fleek!)

Everybody, wave your hands! (4x)

Shake it, shake it, your pure instinct
nobody is binding you to it, right?
I don’t care with a singing, singing smile! Oh yeah!
(ah, ah, ah, so beautiful life)
I don’t care with a singing, singing smile! Oh yeah!

I want to live positive
That’s what everyone wishes for, but
Our unintentional defense functions are fighting us (It’s fine! Don’t worry about it!)
I give up… I’ll go with you

Make it, make it, cry and laugh
lay yourself bare, at any time
I’ll knock you down with a gimme, gimme dance! Oh yeah!
(ah, ah, ah, so swanky, my life!)
Look at me! I’ll knock you down with a gimme, gimme dance! Oh yeah!
 

4. Daybreakers

Lyrics: Fujibayashi Shouko
Composer: Mitsumasu Hajime (FirstCall)

We’re waiting for so long
Daybreak!

The world I can see is now
either real or fake (it ain’t nobody knows)
I don’t know (crisis is coming close), no-one does

On the other side of calm and gentle everyday-life,
into our scars, the color of uncertainty (falling down on the floor)
is soaking into it (can’t get it back no more)

Our hope that broke into tiny little pieces
gather them like tears,
Let’s make a move before they start falling

The light that cracks through the clouds, as if shining in
Even the darkness that blocks the great sky thoroughly burns with passion
Overcoming trials, changing your heart, and after that fight
if you are dreaming about a pure time with no conflict,
Stand up, Daybreakers!

We’re waiting for so long
Daybreak!

Everyone should have noticed by now
the word ‘eternity’ has already become… (it ain’t nobody knows)
a hollow sound (crisis is coming close), it echoes

We don’t doubt ‘existing’,
but what if tomorrow is just an extension of today (falling down on the floor)
and nothing more? (can’t get it back no more)

Snuggling up isn’t enough
considering the things that were stolen from us even more so,
we’ll protect them, we vow it, I promise, I promise, I promise

Even if there’s no night that doesn’t end
in order to believe, we search for this world without order
We’ll oppose the dilemma of confronting this new wall
if you are dreaming about days that are more dazzling
than the ones right now, stand up Daybreakers!

(Silly dreamer) Even if someone would call you that
(don’t ever give it up) We’ll stand up

The past will repaint
the time called the future
(we gotta find out)
Daybreak!

Throw away your pain and fear
Even the darkness that blocks the great sky thoroughly burns with passion
Overcoming trials, changing your heart, and after that fight
if you are dreaming about a pure time with no conflict,
if you are dreaming about a pure time with no conflict,
Stand up, Daybreakers!

We’re waiting for so long
Daybreak!

3. Love Fight!

Lyrics: TATSUNE
Composer: Hara Kazuhiro

Love Fight! La la la la!
Love Fight! La la la la!

You’re impregnable, you’re my target
Charging complete, alright
Don’t rush your strategies,
let’s spin our trap
Our next strategy…

Whenever our gazes meet I want to smile
But I don’t want you to find out my true intentions
A wavering SOS
Hide your weakness

Aim for the heart, one shot! Two shot!
Until I shoot out, I can’t stop, can’t stop!
For the sake of my glorious victory,
fire now!

Love Fight! La la la la!

Your attitude is way too ambiguous
there’s no response at all
The distance I approach with uncertainty,
‘Why don’t you just try and tell him already?’
My swaying ideology…

The fight will end with a simple word
Even though I know that, I can’t become honest
A sad Q.E.D.
Aim for the dawn

Approach with strength, one try! Two try!
Surrender already, hands up, hands up!
Historically, to the end of the dispute
only leave behind love!

The longer it gets dragged on, the tougher it gets – a woman’s heart
(Love Fight! La la la la! Love Fight! La la la la!)
Will I win or will I lose, let’s determine who’s right or wrong already
(Love Fight! La la la la! Love Fight! La la la la!)

Aim for the heart, one shot! Two shot!
Until I shoot out, I can’t stop, can’t stop!
For the sake of my glorious victory,
fire now!

Love Fight! La la la la!
Love Fight! La la la la!
Reach now!

2. Carpe Diem

Lyrics: Yoshida Takumi (saji)
Composer: Agematsu Noriyasu (Elements Garden)

Like a joke, it’s so worthless
My life which is filled with crying
Why is it always just my loss?

A person like ‘him’ seems like he’s living happily
That’s nice, it’s just that ‘I haven’t shown my determination yet’

Whenever I compare myself to people around me
I get overconfident, I get even more conceited
I was convinced everything would turn out well
I still can’t become my future self
there’s still no change in my current situation
I just mutter that it would be too easy

The times left me behind
as if they were scoff-laughing

In my dreams, I’m narrating my dreams
Embracing all expectations and anxieties, what am I looking at?
In this world that’s like a deception
I just continue to wonder by myself, like a puzzle
while I still don’t have any answers
I’m going to walk in search of and yearning for tomorrow

Like a joke, my lack of motivation
My life which is filled with taking the easy way
Why am I still in the same place?

A person like ‘him’ is what I want to become, that’s what I pleaded
Even though I haven’t worked enough to be rewarded

Whenever I compare myself to people around me
I back myself with theoretical arguments, I’m conceited until the end
I lasted because of affirmations
I run away from confrontation
If I could just throw away my current situation
Because I don’t even need expectations anymore

In my dreams, I still cling to my dreams
I run about inside this temporary beginning without reality
My heart which I kept deceiving
is still repeating the self-contradictions, it’s just grieving

While putting up a weakling’s courage
where am I gonna go embracing all the expectations and anxieties?
In this world that’s like a deception
I just continue to wonder by myself, I’m lost
But…

In my dreams, I still wish for my dreams
I will embrace and fight off all the expectations and anxieties
telling myself there is a way especially through darkness and despair
Release all my own traps I got caught in, let’s run through
The answers will always
live on inside yourself

1. Higher Dimension

Lyrics: Fujibayashi Shouko
Composer: EFFY (FirstCall) Ota Masatomo (FirstCall)

Fire! Ignition
It’s dangerous even if you’re prepared
Higher Dimension

I don’t feel like loosening the accelerator
I’ve also already conquered the tough race (make you surprised, make you surprised)

Anxiety invites rotation
I pass through any height or judge (leave it behind, leave it behind)

What’s chasing me are
my own ghosts from the past, always (don’t get in my way! Don’t bother me!)
With the fastest speed
I’ll run through a new era

I’ll never stop (I’ll never stop)
My heart (rise to the top)
is running to aim for
the checker flag of my dreams (I’ll never stop)
I will blow a kiss filled with love (rise to the top)
to the past
I won’t look back anymore

(oh yeah) Let me choose
(go straight) the exciting life
(oh yeah) to the higher dimension

I’ll never stop (I’ll never stop)
Towards a dazzling (rise to the top)
and delightful time
My goal (I’ll never stop)
is still (rise to the top)
Beyond the sleepless passion, wow
Please watch me properly
Run together

Fire! Ignition
It’s dangerous even if you’re prepared
Higher Dimension
Do it again, do it again
Fire! Ignition
Until I pierce through another dimension
Higher Dimension
Do it again, do it again, yeah

Cannonball Running is Nana Mizuki’s thirteenth studio album, which was released on December 11st, 2019.

Underneath, you will find my translations of the songs of Cannonball Running. 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. Higher Dimension
2. Carpe Diem
3. Love Fight!
4. Daybreakers (theme song for Chinese iOS/Android game Jusou Senki)
5. Knock U Down
6. Blue Rose (theme song for RPG game ‘Mareless’ series of Quiz RPG Mahotsukai to Kuroneko no Wiz)
7. Sweet Dealer
8. What You Want (ending theme for anime Monster Strike)
9. Margaret
10. Metanoia ~Aufwachen Form~ (opening theme for anime Senki Zessho Symphogear XV)
11. glitch
12. Never Surrender (theme song for anime film Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha Detonation)
13. Light Births Shadow
14. Rebellion (theme for anime online RPG Hangyakusei Million Arthur)
15. Upsetter
16. All For Love
17. Final Commander ~Aufwachen Form~ (insert song for anime Senki Zessho Symphogear XV)

Lyrics: Mizuki Nana
Composition: Mitsumasu Hajime (FirstCall)

3. Summer Pirates

Stand up, ready! (come on)
Picture a victorious smile
Emphasize that eye line (make-up)
I will eliminate the moderate aesthetics just for today

Chances always come at a fast pace
Knock on wood? No, no! Out of the question
Life is a surprise! Paradise, realize
Pre-established harmonies are just boring

With surging passion and throbbing DNA,
let’s move! OK? Greedily
This world only has one way to the future,
everyone needs to enjoy the best route!
(Don’t look back) It’s now or never (Don’t stop)
until you seize your own initiative
(Frankly) I don’t care if it’s because it’s summer (instinctively)
You can start whenever! Just take your own timing
You’re right!

Stand up, ladies! (Alright!)
Don’t just long for the right thing
Boldly (Tune up!) pretending to be good people and cry, let’s stop it already

It becomes more complicated the more we review
Time is money! Go, go! Rush madly ahead
Life is colorful! Joyful, careful
Isn’t it okay to be willful once in a while?

With tension that bursts into flight, always DIY,
let’s boost! (Do it!) Don’t run away
There are lots of obstacles in this world
wouldn’t it be just right to do a little too much?!
(Let’s break through) let’s fling it off! (let’s dominate it)
If we can’t customize it to our personal taste,
(let’s try it out) I’ll leave it to summer (let’s challenge it)
Good fortune is always on standby just around the corner, savvy?

Take my hand! Let’s dance!
We’ll go over the top, it’s okay even if it’s
a little lame, it doesn’t matter
Don’t you want to meet your unexpected self?
See, entrust yourself to the beat without fear

With savagely throbbing DNA,
let’s move! OK? Greedily
This world only has one way to the future,
everyone needs to enjoy the best route!
(Don’t look back) It’s now or never (Don’t stop)
until you seize your own initiative
(Frankly) I don’t care if it’s because it’s summer (instinctively)
You can start whenever! Just take your own timing
You’re right!

If it’s because it’s summer…Yeah!
I’m ready!

Lyrics: Yoshida Takumi
Composition: Minamida Kengo

2. Born Free

It seems like ‘the real self’, being yourself,
is an eternal labyrinth where no-one reaches the end

How am I reflected in your eyes?
Will I be able to keep playing the ‘me’ that everyone wishes for?

Unknowingly, we only care about valuation
Behind the proper mask of manners and behavior we’ve taken on
In the inner, inner depths of our hearts,
there is a crying voice

No one has correct answers
about their reason to live
But even so, we desperately live on

What do we throw away, what do we acquire,
what are we searching for?
Embracing our regrets, we continue to walk
our endless journey, now and forever

It seems that ‘the real freedom’, the way it is,
is something no-one reaches, like eternally lost children

Your voice continues to support me
I want strong power that will never break

For whose sake do ‘I’ exist?
Time and time again, we’ve been asking ourselves
All people, not knowing who they are,
are playing themselves

For example, even if tomorrow
there would be pessimistic rain
Before long, the madder sky
will cast a rainbow

‘Strength means accepting your weaknesses’,
this is not a saying,
It’s what you taught me

‘The real self’
isn’t actually anywhere
The answer that lies in my heart
is always unchanging, undecorated
No matter how many times you fall
If you could laugh one last time, where would it be?

Unknowingly, we only care about other people
Discard the proper mask of outward appearances we’ve taken on
and one more time, with real words,
let’s make a vow

No one has correct answers
about their reason to live
But even so, we desperately live on

Stand up again and again
Cast a rainbow towards tomorrow
Let’s play all of it, both joy and sadness
Now and forever
On an endless journey

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

1. Metanoia

Live, live your life now!
Can live freely!
Live! Live your life now!
Can live freely!

What do we believe, what do we choose?
People are always like that, in their freedom
Longing for freedom, holding themselves back
Without being able to catch the truth

(We’re wandering) gently wrapping (pulling closer) the palm of this hand
(Glistening) searching for a piece of love
(Selfishly) rather than changing the passing present (chasing) into regrets
(Try) connect (Try) to tomorrow

(Live, live your life now! Can live freely!)

Is my heart’s song there?
This beat that is born and that keeps repeating
For whom is it made to resound?
I will pierce through the path
Roar, if you are prepared
Come on, release the unequalled melody

(Live, live your life now! Can live freely! Live, live your life now! Can live freely!)

The lament of justice, painting over a jet-black moment
Grieving imperfectly, unable to erase the impact of tragedy

(Quietly) fingering the wounds, the short-lived wish (from that day)
(When I noticed) spreading like poison
(The more I protect it) hope becomes distant (each time I run) despair sidling up
(Why) Where is (Why) tomorrow?
‘Wrench open that cell called the past’

(Live, live your life now! Can live freely!)

Oh, unstoppable song, I deliver it to you
Lay bare all your faults and weaknesses
I want to be able to feel all of that
with the heart I was born with
(Cry) strongly… (Cry) strongly…

Going on ahead, going around in circles,
meeting dead ends, coming to a halt,
Facing the confrontation is my beginning

Even if the world returns to nothing
Even if this body is reduced to dust
That single song that I played with you
(can you hear it?) show me (can you hear it?) the light (can you hear it?) and reverberate
‘Live this time with all your might’

Is my heart’s song there?
This beat that is born and that keeps repeating
It’s made to resound for you
Piercing through the dream of two people
Roar, if you are prepared
Come on, release the unequalled melody

The sound of life…

Live, live your life now! Can live freely!

Rebellion is Nana Mizuki’s 2nd digital single which was released on January 23, 2019.

Underneath, you will find my translations of the songs from Rebellion. 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. Rebellion (theme for anime online RPG Hangyakusei Million Arthur)