Takkei no Seijo
磔刑の聖女Takkei no SeijoThe Crucified Female Saint | |
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Length | 8:08 |
Type | Vocal |
Release Date | 15 December 2010 |
Band | Sound Horizon |
Label | KING RECORDS |
The Crucified Female Saint (in Japanese 磔刑の聖女, Takkei no Seijo) is the eighth track on Sound Horizon's seventh story CD Märchen.
Lyrics
[Zorn]
“A church with no visitors. A journeying violinist.
A crucified female saint who became a statue.
Why did you cross this border?
Come, try to sing...”
It has come! The fated time! It has come! The promised time!
[Es kam! Zeit des schicksals. Es kam! Zeit des Versprechens.]
“Come, your father is waiting.”
I proceed with determined, gray footsteps
I feel a gust of wind in my back, and turn around just once
The scent of dusk is strangely nostalgic
Yes, I even felt like it was giving me a push
I tremble alone at the surging sadness, tracing a distant promise
promise
At the ends of a fragile, twisted time of welling hatred; I stared at darkness with a kiss
Ah still empty still faded twisted ah gathering sins with a kiss
Even now I don’t forget
Even now I don’t remember
“Your Highness, I’ve brought the lady.”
“Elisabeth. Be glad! Your husband has been decided!
The one who proposed is Rhein Pfalz.
He’s a dream come true for a spinster like you, isn’t he?”
“Pardon my words, brother.”
“How many times do I have to tell you to call me father!?”
“No, brother, I have no intention of marrying anyone!”
If I have to live on while faking love
Then I don’t mind dying with the truth
I wished for the wild roses we found
To embrace you, so I planted them around the grave
But even at the very end, they didn’t bloom, did they...
The white bird in the birdcage that fell in love with the moonlight
Even knowing that it’d fall to the ground, would flap its wings till the very end
So what I’m singing at dusk is not a song of grudge...
(“Walter. You and Mother even faked your identities to protect her, and this is how it ends.”
“Your Highness...” “Hahahaha! Crucify that foolish girl.”
“Your Highness!”)
“I see. So that’s how you were crucified.
You did well in following your own will till the very end.
But would he really have wished for that at the cost of your own life?
Whatever. Now, let the revenge tragedy begin...!”
“No. I don’t wish for any of that.
Everyone has their own circumstances and fates to bear.
You came to see me. I’m happy with that alone.
Hey, do you really not remember? Those days that seem so bright even now.”
“...I’m really excited now.
Because the forest – the world is so wide!”
“What a pretty flower.”
“Woah, really!”
“I’ll put it in your hair.”
“You would? Make it cute.”
“It fits you.”
“Really?”
“Mär, make sure you’ll come for me!”
“Yes, I promise you.”
“Mär, you kept your promise, didn’t you? Even going as far as that...”
The cold chains that bind you, who have lost your flame[light]
(“Oh, the great female saint!” ”So it was true.” “With this, your sins are..”)
Are the love and hatred of the two who thought of you, who have lost love[light] to death
The bird takes towards the sky, and the corpse returns to earth, continuing to betray providence
The day breaks towards the morning of end, and our next parting is forever-
But...
I don’t regret this at all, ah , this is my life
Not《A Noble Lady》[von Wettin], nor《The Daughter of the 7th Elector》[von Sachsen],
I am 《just a girl》[Elisabeth]
Just the one who loved only you...
Just【Elisabeth】
“What now, Mär, you’ve been acting strange since a while ago. What’s wrong?
You can’t take that woman’s words seriously! Let’s just forget about her!
We have to continue our revenge. No matter what.
That’s the reason for our existence, isn’t it!?
Hey, do you really get it, Mär!?”
“Aaaaaaah! For crying out loud! Why won’t you understand?! Mär, you blockhead!
Right now, only I am your Elise!
We’ve had lots of fun, haven’t we!?
We helped take lots of revenges, didn’t we!?
It’s only going to get more fun. That’s right, of course that’s right.
You have me, and I have you!
Let’s continue! Let’s keep this up, the two of us! Hey!!
Let’s keep this up for ever and ever and ever and ever!!
Until this world ends, no, even if the world ends,
Let’s be together for ever and ever! Hey, no, no Mär,
No, don’t don’t don’t! Please, please, Mär...nooooooooooooooooo!!!”
“It’s alright, Elise...”
Translated by Defade.
Information
Summary
Vocals
Narration
Voices
- Märchen von Friedhof
- Toru Okawa (Walter)
- Yuichi Nakamura (The Father/Brother)
- Asuka Tanii (März von Ludowing)
- Saki Fujita (Elise and kid Elisabeth von Wettin)
- (placeholder for the guards)
Musicians
Computer Programming: Revo
Electric Guitar & Steel Strings Guitar: Takeshi Nishiyama
Electric Guitar & Nylon Strings Guitar: YUKI
Bass: Atsushi Hasegawa
Piano & Synthesizer & Harmonium & Cembalo: Koji Igarashi
Drums: JUN-JI
<Gen Ittetsu Strings>
【1st Violin】 Ittetsu Gen, Maki Nagata, Masayoshi Fujimura, Yoshiko Kaneko, Osamu Iyoku, Kaoru Kuroki, Satoki Nagaoka, Yayoi Fujita, Syu Watanabe
【2nd Violin】 Takuya Mori, Kiyo Kido, Masane Ohta, Koji Ohtake, Reiko Tsutchiya, Shiori Takeda, Nobuko Kaiwa
【Viola】 Daisuke Kadowaki, Shouko Miki, Chikako Nishimura, Yuko Kajitani
【Cello】 Kaori Morita, Masami Horisawa, Tomoki Iwanaga, Seigen Tokuzawa, Toshiyuki Muranaka
【Contrabass】 Yoshinobu Takeshita, Shigeki Ippon
<Choir>
【Soprano】 Satoko Kubo, Yuria Wakai, KAORU
【Alto】 Sanae Hori, Keiko Aoki, Sayaka Hane
【Tenor】 KABASHISAMA, Yohei Sasaki, Masato Kamiya
【Bass】 Yoshinori Koba, Masato Otsuka, Keiji Kitani
Choir Director: Yoshinori Koba
Trumpet Solo: Eric Miyashiro
Violin Solo: Ittetsu Gen
Sound Effects: Hirokazu Ebisu
Production
Music Producer: Revo
The song was Written, Composed & Arranged by Revo
Producer: Koji Takahashi 【RAP-PRODUCTS, INC】
Director: Mayumi Takagi 【RAP-PRODUCTS, INC】
Public Relation: Ryoko Biyajima 【RAP-PRODUCTS, INC】
Production Assistant: Shoko Aoyagi 【RAP-PRODUCTS, INC】
Recording Engineers: Suminobu Hamada 【Wonder Station】 & Akihiro Tabuchi 【Wonder Station】
Assistant Engineer: Akihiro Tabuchi 【Wonder Station】
Mixing Engineer: Suminobu Hamada 【Wonder Station】
Mastering Engineer: Yasuji Yasman Maeda 【Bernie Grundman Mastering】
Recording & Mixing Studio: Wonder Station
Mastering Studio: Bernie Grundman Mastering
Booklet Illustration: Yokoyan
Design: Takafumi Kitsuda 【KING RECORDS】
Design Coordinator: Yuriko Yamano 【KING RECORDS】 & Saki Haginoya 【KING RECORDS】
Artist Promoter: Tsuyoshi Shibuya 【KING RECORDS】
Sales Promoter: Emiko Hosoda 【KING RECORDS】
A&R: Koji Masuya 【KING RECORDS】 & Yukiko Hiraoka 【KING RECORDS】
Label Producer: Masato Asanuma 【KING RECORDS】
Mikuni Shimokawa by the Courtesy of PONY CANYON INC.
Miku Hatsune from Crypton Future Media, Inc.