LIBRA by MUCC, new version by Joel Sattler

New title:  “Spirit High in the Sky” 

[this is a new interpretation of the original lyrics,

But cannot be called a true translation]

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5^th draft:

On the one hand you grab for the realistic

On the other hand holding up the phony moralistic

Deep inside you are hot blooded bright red

Weighing up the planet down scale in your head too

In dark night of the soul it’s three o’clock

So you hide inside the echoes of your abacus

So you’re now in a trouble with the world shouting

Hey! Please stop!

Please stop it! Please stop it!

This world where your feelings only simply slow you down now

Just shoot me and kill me now!

Tell me who will use the abacuses?

Use the flute? Who will use the counterbalance?

Who’s gonna come up with all the lame excuses

Who is gonna cry wolf? Who is gonna chance it? 

Rather than admit I care a bit about it 

I’ll say, goddamn,  I love it, I love it

Spirit high in the sky tell me of the why and how 

Tell me what’s the meaning of here and now 

Spirit in the sky tell me where should I go

If you knew tomorrow never knows?

With the right hand try to take what you desire

With the left hand try escaping under the wire

Shut your love up and try to lock it in your soul

The saint in your head he is laughing out of control

Brave little rose grown up in a vacant lot

Surrounded by mountains of buildings all blocking the sun with the darkening shadows 

And so many eyes at night are shining the mighty mighty light of death

Soon the little flower couldn’t take a single breath

The gentle wind is only just a state of mind

The kindly breeze is only just a state of mind

You live in the darkness you wonder why you’re here

While you lie inside the aura, you cannot see your own fear

The mystery of, of why the hell we die but

To end or begin, it’s never enough

We must make ourselves to light the world on fire

Release the radiation that is burning deep inside us

Just to prove that, with our own lives

We are more, more than merely just the dust

so

Spirit high in the sky tell me of the why and how 

Tell me what’s the meaning of here and now 

Spirit in the sky tell me where should I go

If you knew tomorrow never knows? 

I am gonna die when and if I find the way 

If not now, I know it has to be someday

we can shine a light like a sun brave and free

On this world for all eternity  

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2^nd draft:

On the one hand you’re grabbing at reality

And on the other hand you’re holding up morality

Set your heart on fire hot blood and red

While you’re weighing up the planet with the scale inside your head

In the dark night of the soul it’s always three o’clock

So you hide inside your shadow echo click clack abacus 

Shouting at the world please stop please stop it

In a world where your feelings slow you down

Shoot me up and kill me right now!

Who has got the scale? Who has got the flute?

Who has got the abacus? Shoot shoot shoot!

Rather than giving a single damn about it too

All I can say is right now I love you

Lotus in the sky please tell me why

The meaning of now the meaning of life

Why is there tomorrow why is there today

Teach all that you have got to say

With the right hand you have desire

With the left you hide under the wire

If you could shut your love up deep inside your soul

The saint that’s in your head would laugh out of control

The brave little flower growing in the vacant lot

Surrounded by skyscrapers light it has not

So many eyes shining with the light of death

Soon the little flower couldn’t take a breath

The wind was only a gentle state of mind

The breeze was blowing only being kind

The mystery of why the hell we’re here

Lying in the darkness can’t even see a thing

The mystery of why the hell we die

The ending and beginning cannot be the reason why

This is the reason we must light up the sky

Use ourselves as the fire the burn as our pride

Release the radiation that’s buried deep inside

And make it all true with the proof of our lives

Lotus in the sky you told me why

The meaning of now the meaning of life

Why there is tomorrow why there is the why

All I know is someday I’m gonna have to die

But I can do right now

Is shine like a sun brave and free

In and on this world through eternity

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Original lyrics in Romaji:

kikiude ni genjitsu o tori

mou kataude ni doutoku o kazashi

mune no oku ni ai o tomoshite atama no naka de tenbin ni kakeru

ussou to shigeru yami no naka

jibun no kage o kakusu you ni

kitanai soroban hajiku oto nari hibiku

sekai yo tomare

kanjou wa jama ni naru dake no sekai sa

uchikoroshitekure yo

tenbin ni kaketa no wa dare?

soroban de hajiku no wa dare?

haamerun no fuefuki wa dare?

ookami shounen wa ittai dare?

sonna no doudemo ii hodo

ima kimi o aishiteru yo

hana yo ima sakihokore

boku ni oshieteokure

ima koko ni ikiru imi o

asu ga kuru wake o

kikiude ni yokubou o mochi

mou kataude ni haitoku o kakushi

mune no oku ni ai o tozaseba

atama no naka de seija ga warau

akichi ni saku kenage na hana

furisosogu hikari o ubau biru ga sobietachi

hitobito wa sono biru ni me o kagayakase

yagate hana wa kokyuu o tometa

kaze ga tada yasashiku nadeta

kaze dake ga yasashiku nareta

ikiru koto sore wa

nani mo mienai yami no naka o samayou you na

shinu koto sore mo mata yami

owari wa keshite hajimari dewa nai

dakara koso ima yami o terasu

saikou ni naru you inochi moyasu

kagayaki o hanatsunda

ikiteru akashi hakanaku tsuyoku

hana yo ima sakihokore

kimi ga oshietekureta

ima koko ni ikiru imi o

asu ga kuru wake o

itsunohika shiniyuku boku wa

kimi ni nani ga dekiru darou

hi wa nobori hikari wo sosogu

towa ni kono sekai ni

My version is based on a recording by MUCC:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixS2c1Ac2n0

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