Wienners' FACTION - English Retranslation
This is my attempt to reconfigure the English translation that Wikimon provides for the Digimon Ghost Game theme song "FACTION" by the band Wienners into something more comprehensible as a song. Poetry isn't my strong suit.
FACTION, FACTION: It's an abstraction;
enigmatic FACTION LIFE.
FACTION LIFE: Mysterious,
strange, and odd, and confusing us.
When I reveal what is behind,
my mind perceives unknown material.
It's a FACTION, FACTION versus what is real.
FACTION, FACTION: Nothing's ideal.
FACTION, FACTION: A whisper behind me,
(FACTION, FACTION) "We're right here."
Is the distant hand's invitation a truth or a lie?
It beckons from the border-less gradient realm to follow.
You can't trust your senses beyond these broken fences.
Chase after; You won't catch the vanishing point on mere pretenses.
Now and then, I'm fraught with surprise, (BANG!)
lost in this labyrinth, wandering at times:
A bizarre puzzle that's in disguise. (GASP!)
There aren't words for phenomena you can't describe.
More FACTION, FACTION: Opposition to everything that you once believed.
More FACTION, FACTION: Dig a bit deeper you'll learn what's imperceived
Real or fiction?
You believe in truth, but in between, in the gaps, in a warp between dimensions,
you don't believe there's a door in me leading down to darker descensions,
Where fear straddles terror, where it crosses the border
Fear on a straight line from friendship to horrible realization
A wavering tightrope from which I'll fall in exhilaration
FALL. DOWN.
Truth and lies and duplicity, (Thump)
intersecting, a maze into dichotomy.
With fear or denial, can you reach me? (Gulp)
Leap into the pit of my distorted screaming!
More, FACTION, FACTION, swim unto the core, so close, you think you can touch.
Will, FACTION, FACTION, you choose who you want, or what you can clutch?
Now! Take action!
FACTION, FACTION: You cannot see
(FACTION, FACTION) beyond fantasy.
FACTION, FACTION: Now can you hear,
enigmatic FACTION LIFE?
Night, night!
Now and then, I'm fraught with surprise,
lost in this labyrinth, wandering at times:
A bizarre puzzle that's in disguise. (GASP!)
There aren't words for phenomena you can't describe.
More FACTION, FACTION: Opposition to everything that you once believed.
More FACTION, FACTION: Dig a bit deeper you'll learn what's imperceived:
Real or fiction?
Real or fiction?
Real or fiction?