[translation] ウラノメトリア (URANOMETRIA) - GRIMOIRE - グリモア

Uranometria – Measuring the Heavens¹

kowareta hito tsuboshi no

I take the fragments

kakera wo atsumete

of a broken morning-star

fukai fukai umi no soko de

if you turn on the lights

akari wo tomoseba

in the deep, bottom of the sea

hora uchuu ni natta

you will see the universe

nanzen kounen mo saki no

thousands of light-years ago,

shoutai fumei no kimi ga wa natta

you had already become a stranger

nanzen RUKUSU no hikari mo

neither thousands of lux can

kochi ni wa todo kanai no ni

light this place

mada miteru

I still can see

“otonari no ohime sama nanto sutekina koto deshou

"how cute this princess who lives next door,

namida wo onegashi dekakushite

dressing up to hide her tears,

hanataba wo sasage you”

let's give her flowers"

someni chiriba meta

I started to stud*

hoshi kuzu no koe ga

the voice of a star, that never appeared*

awanoyouni kieru

Like bubbles bursting,

soreta maru de bokutachi no

we lost each other completely

[** not sure about this two lines]

mono gatari no you

Like a fairy tail

SO MAYBE TIME IS OVER

hajime kara zutto

but, from the beginning to the eternity,

kimatteta koto nano ni

everything was already decided

I’M SORRY

mayakashi no ito

for this false intents,

demo hodokenai

but I can't let it go

“soko ni watashi ga ita nara…”

"if I was there..."

machibouke no PIRIODO

in this useless waiting period

namikaze wa sowa sowa

in which the wind and waves was restless

togireta te to te no sen

we stop, join our hands and

URANOMETORIA

measured the heavens

sora ni chiriba meta

I stud the sky with

ikutsu mono yume wa

lots of dreams

awa ni tokete ochiru

that like bubbles bursting, vanished

soko wa tobenai ningyo ga

In a miniature garden

oboreta hakoniwa

a mermaid that couldn't fly drowned

[this two lines looks weird on context, but I translated it literally]

moshimo tsugini boku jyanai mono ni

If in next time, I don't

umarekawatte

reborn,

kimi to mita subete ga kiete mo

even if you and all I know has vanished

kowareta hoshi ni negai o kake you

a broken shooting star will fly

itsukamata

and some day

koko de aemasu you ni

we will meet here again

Translator notes:

¹ The word "Uranometria" derives from Urania, Muse of the heavens and "uranos" (oυρανός) the Greek word for sky / heavens. A literal translation of "Uranometria" is "Measuring the Heavens" (to be compared with "Geometry"-"Geometria" in Greek, literally translated to "Measuring the Earth"). >> Read more <<

I received SO MANY requests of this translation that I submitted myself to the challenge of reading the scribbles of the booklet and try to bring the best as possible to you, nobody can say I'm not cool u-u

To translate anything only from hiragana is a hard work (even more when the hiragana is a fukin scribble) I stayed about hours looking to the part that says “ほしくずのこえが (hoshi kuzu no koe ga) thinking if it is 星屑 (hoshikuzu = stardust) or 星くず (hoshi = star ; kuzu= "to come" in the negative form) 'cause none of this was making sense on my mind (or maybe it doesn't make sense because I was about hours looking to the same phrase)

Probably I will still think about this, and maybe I edit the parts I didn't understand well in future, but in general, you can understand the song well. Hope you like it!

You can send me corrections, comments, theories, criticisms and whatever else you want to send, if they find any errors or find something that can be improved!