1. 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!

Final Commander is Nana Mizuki’s 4th digital single which was released on August 25, 2019.

Underneath, you will find my translations of the songs from Daybreakers. 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. Final Commander (insert song for the anime Senki Zesshou Symphogear XV)

Daybreakers is Nana Mizuki’s 3rd digital single which was released on July 15, 2019.

Underneath, you will find my translations of the songs from Daybreakers. 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. Daybreakers (theme song for the Chinese iOS/Android game Jyusou Senki)

1. Rebellion
Lyrics: Shihori
Composer: Takao Sounosuke

As if it’s about to stop breathing
this world is going to end,
it’s just the conquering people with crosses on their backs
standing on Calvary Hill

Our misunderstood history,
the bonds that can’t be twisted anymore
Be bold, oh heroes
The time of rebellion has risen

Even if love is lost for eternity
Even if everything ends in darkness
The sword I grasp tightly is my mission
At the end of a torn reincarnation
I will go against my fate
Rather than waiting for despair, I will first fight to the better end

Surely, surely
There must be a single miracle
My will to believe piles up
Stand up, warriors!

Even if we make it through this night
we won’t be able to see the dawn
A cross on our backs
If there were someone that could save us

Our rewinding history, our loosened bonds, connecting
The da capo bestowed on us
I won’t let tragedy repeat itself

Beyond earnest desire,
We’ll take back our stolen paradise
The meaning of fighting for the truth we finally learned

On the opposite of our twisted space-time
we atone for our original sins
No matter what we sacrifice
we have the courage to keep protecting it

Surely, surely
it becomes a shield of steel
when we newly carve the legend
let us make a vow here

Even if our way back is closed off
let us sacrifice our bodies, our souls

Driven by nostalgia,
we love it more than anyone
That is why we have decided
From our hearts
Putting our holy pride on the line
Our will to fight will burn

On the opposite of our twisted space-time
we atone for our original sins
No matter what we sacrifice
we have the courage to keep protecting it

Surely, surely
it becomes a shield of steel
when we newly carve the legend
let us make a sonorous vow

Stand up, warriors!
Save the world!

1. Blue Rose

Lyrics: Shihori
Composer: Fukuda Hatsu / kikurage / Ishikawa Yosen

I should have reached out to someone
These hands are wandering an empty sky
Ah, I can’t even remember the reason
for the tears soaking my cheeks

In this absurd fate, these captured feathers
in order for them to fly across the sky again someday
while praying, I will break them compassionately

With those eyes frozen so coldly
you’re scorching that fleeting life
while swaying in the twilight, time and time again
If you’re being heartlessly torn
Keep loneliness rather than love by your side
Repeat, fight while reasoning

I’m not afraid of anything, no matter how much the wound hurts
Because the pride I need to protect until the end is burning

Even picturing the days where I would sleep,
entrusting everything I carried in my warm chest
Ah, was a foolish sin
and you strictly forbade it

In a reality in which
I continue to cross over thin ice
It’s like I’m watching an unending nightmare
The contradiction

I continue to cross over thin ice, in reality
as if I’m watching an unending nightmare
The contradiction of it makes a creaky sound in my heart

Being dropped in an ambiguous world
Even so, in order to just survive
my soul will not cease to shine
Being betrayed by dreams, throwing dreams away,
Wanting to save someone’s dreams
I stepped forward, I will believe my own determination

Oh fragile and fleeting glass butterfly…
Fly… so you won’t get caught by the darkness
Before long you will scatter, until that day
Bright… you will connect our pounding heartbeats

Dreams call into question

With those eyes frozen so coldly
you’re scorching that fleeting life
while swaying in the twilight, time and time again
If you’re being heartlessly torn
Keep loneliness rather than love by your side
Repeat, fight while reasoning

I’m not afraid of anything, no matter how much the wound hurts
Because the pride I need to protect until the end is burning

17. Final Commander -Aufwachen Form-
Lyrics: Shihori
Composer: Agematsu Noriyasu (Elements Garden)

Rubbing the solitude of being unable to recover
My sorrow turns to anger and seeks a place to go
A song that was supposedly once a prayer
has lost its harmony, and it invades my heart

I can’t even protect my stupid pride with this half-hearted strength
The frivolous moon is mocking me
The justice shakes in turbulence
While gasping for breath in the emptiness
I still madly yearn for hope

Our Holy Mother who has lost her sanity is still crying
Would you shed tears of blood while smiling?
Let us here question the reason for that pain (never lose your faith)
The meaning of me being me
The strength to stand up once again
Let’s take it back now

Engulfed in sin, ashamed of my weakness
Can we say we protect the weak?

The prelude to cool-headed destruction
Being played with the baton of fate
For example, trying to go against Shinra
not to reject it but to hold love back
I will risk this body, this life, everything
Now, stand up

The melody that was strummed by cruelty
pulls the hands of lost children and they fall
Even if they are torn of by contradiction (never lose your faith)
I believe in the warmth of those hands

People are, strength is, born right here
The reason I was able to meet you…

On days of confusion and lament
and the past that you can’t regret
To the end of the future that you continue to wish for
Surely, we are connected

Our Holy Mother who has lost her sanity is still crying
Would you shed tears of blood while smiling?
If that’s so, somehow remember (never lose your faith)
The meaning of me being me
The strength to stand up once again
Let’s take it back now

16. All for Love
Lyrics: Iwasato Yuho
Composer: Yoshiki Eriko/Kahara Daisuke

The lingering memory of the dream I saw after dawn
is shaking my heart

It’s wrapped in the glow of us being able to meet
and even the pain is fading

The sky dancer becomes a petal
and covers everything as far as the eye can see

If only you would stay with me, I wouldn’t need anything else
Because you are here, because I am living with you
Embracing everything from preciousness to despair
Just for love, just only for love
I don’t need anyone else besides you
To a world that emits light

Everything that the two of us have
Everything that the two of us don’t have
If I repeat the same prayer
would I come closer to a miracle?

The clouds rumbling with distant thunder
tell us about change of the darkening season

If you come here and stay like this, I wouldn’t need an answer
Because right now we are crossing time and we’ll go on forever
Losing it, reconnecting, we have arrived at becoming one
Just as love, just as something pointing to love
I can’t see anyone else besides you

Two hearts that will never change
A time that will never fade in color  
If it exists on this earth
I wouldn’t have anything to fear

If only you would stay with me, I wouldn’t need anything else
Because you are here, because I am living with you
Embracing everything from preciousness to despair
Just for love, just only for love
I can’t see anyone else besides you
I don’t need anyone else besides you
To a world that emits light

15. Upsetter
Lyrics: Mizuki Nana
Composer: Mizuki Nana

‘Something I can do…?’
The days where I feel exhausted
every time I wake from a dream
Waves surging faster than you can blink
asking for initiative

If I let my guard down even for a moment,
someone’s intentions will twine around me
The survival of tranquility
lurking with a straight face
Charging only beliefs and challenging them

I can’t change the world, but
I can support your smile
Let’s get rid of filters and corrective functions
and gain a real moment
Burn this high-level present moment into your memory
and let’s enjoy it? Be fully aware! Let’s seize tomorrow!

Count your wounds
and rather than pasting times that won’t return again
hold up the frontal breakthrough
This pass continues towards your goal, because it’s an important key

Smart danger avoidance, the shortest straw everyone aims for
The future we were promised? That’s nowhere to be found
Effort is what’ll make today into history

Only our imaginations become stronger
unleash our besieged instincts
We don’t have time to care about the tweeting wind’s direction
Flip out! To what your heart throbs for
let’s start the best surprise

Just by continuing to run, our freedom was tested
the battle isn’t over yet!

I can’t change the world, but
I can support your smile
Let’s get rid of filters and corrective functions
and gain a real moment
Burn this high-level present moment into your memory
and let’s enjoy it? Be fully aware! Let’s seize tomorrow!

14. Rebellion
Lyrics: Shihori
Composer: Takao Sounosuke

As if it’s about to stop breathing
this world is going to end,
it’s just the conquering people with crosses on their backs
standing on Calvary Hill

Our misunderstood history,
the bonds that can’t be twisted anymore
Be bold, oh heroes
The time of rebellion has risen

Even if love is lost for eternity
Even if everything ends in darkness
The sword I grasp tightly is my mission
At the end of a torn reincarnation
I will go against my fate
Rather than waiting for despair, I will first fight to the better end

Surely, surely
There must be a single miracle
My will to believe piles up
Stand up, warriors!

Even if we make it through this night
we won’t be able to see the dawn
A cross on our backs
If there were someone that could save us

Our rewinding history, our loosened bonds, connecting
The da capo bestowed on us
I won’t let tragedy repeat itself

Beyond earnest desire,
We’ll take back our stolen paradise
The meaning of fighting for the truth we finally learned

On the opposite of our twisted space-time
we atone for our original sins
No matter what we sacrifice
we have the courage to keep protecting it

Surely, surely
it becomes a shield of steel
when we newly carve the legend
let us make a vow here

Even if our way back is closed off
let us sacrifice our bodies, our souls

Driven by nostalgia,
we love it more than anyone
That is why we have decided
From our hearts
Putting our holy pride on the line
Our will to fight will burn

On the opposite of our twisted space-time
we atone for our original sins
No matter what we sacrifice
we have the courage to keep protecting it

Surely, surely
it becomes a shield of steel
when we newly carve the legend
let us make a sonorous vow

Stand up, warriors!
Save the world!

13. Light Births Shadow

Lyrics: Matsui Goro
Composer: Ramsini/Kodaka Kotaro/Fujii Ryota

It’s not a dream, when I feel your real lips
I desperately want an answer
In the abrupt silence our sighs are scattered about
our words also change meaning

The loop of destiny that should have bound us
goes against our happiness again
the more I’m by your side, the more I start to notice
the future that we longed for and wanted to know

Even though I like you, this happiness, tenderness, brightness
is trembling so much, so much, so much
The pain, the trembling, the shadows of loneliness
won’t disappear, ah
The loneliness, sadness, weakness I’m hiding
so much, so much, so much in my heart
I want to always, always, always
embrace this throbbing of my heart, ah
Even though I like you, why

Does ‘forever’ exist? Promises are risks too
Time is just full of riddles
Our distance, the repeating scenarios
I’m always scared to be alone

Chapter 2 of wishes that I want to come true
The sound of my heart is being entwined…
The more I confirm, the less I understand
Our intermingling answer we believed in
Even though I like you, why

What are you looking at?
Because your eyes look far away
What continuation of a story
will be waiting for us?

Even though I like you, this happiness, tenderness, brightness
is trembling so much, so much, so much
The pain, the trembling, the shadows of loneliness
won’t disappear, ah
The loneliness, sadness, weakness I’m hiding
so much, so much, so much in my heart
I want to embrace this throbbing of my heart
more, and more, and more, ah
Even though I like you, why
Even though I like you, why