KAKUTASU no aka
A Kind of Cactus

Is such a distorted shape unique?
Covered all over with thorns, so obscene.
I live in my idle rythm -
what do you actually expect from me?

This doesn't mean that I'd want you to care.
I'm afraid of too much care.
If you grant me too much of it...
I might just rot down.

I bath in the falling sunlight quietly
I don't know anything.
Do I actually have a name?

Everybody's watching
though you reach out your soft hand
and draw closer, gently smiling..
I didn't mean to, but hurt you.
Blood spreads over you fingertips
and the thorns you touched
gently fall down to the ground.

Through my roots I suck up a dull, little fever.
I feel like going mad while I approach the taboos.
This very first heartbeat is so violent
that I even forget about the time passing by.

If that is real compassion...
Is there anything I could offer in return?

Everybody's watching
though you reach out your soft hand
and draw closer, gently smiling.
While you know you'll get hurt
You reach out your soft hand and
shedding your warm blood,
you smile gently.

Following many nights and the wind at the window
I will soon yield red flower buds
Will I be able to make them bloom
If you look sad some day?

Lyrics (C) by HITOMI
Translation (C) by KIBOU (http://nigeguchi.wareta.net)