Текст и перевод песни Shinji Tanimura - 神のマリオネット

神のマリオネット

今朝来た一枚のハガキ 手から落ちて
静かに目を閉じた祈る母の姿は マリア

勇敢に戦った一人きりの息子
名誉ある戦死だと誰が信じられる?
臆病者だから 誰よりも愛した
彼女以外の誰も 知らない彼の叫び

遠い異国の空の下 銃を抱きしめ見上げた空と
同じ世界の空の下 彼の声さへ聞こえない

悲劇の時代だと歴史は語るだけ
本当の悲しみを若い詩人達よ歌え...

怒りも憎しみも 何も持たない兵士が
戦場で殺しあう 皆んな母から生れて
抱きしめられ乍ら 愛を感じ乍ら
若者になったのに 何故に戦うのか?

遠い異国の空の下 銃を抱きしめ見上げた空と
同じ世界の空の下 彼の声さへ聞こえない

悲劇の時代だと歴史は語るだけ
本当の悲しみを若い詩人達よ歌え...

臆病者だから 誰よりも愛した
彼女以外の誰も 知らない彼の叫び

神よ貴方が神ならば 何故に消せない戦いを
宿命の糸に操られ錆びたナイフで糸を切られる

悲劇の時代だと歴史は語るけど
戦う若者は「神のマリオネット」ではない

God's Puppet

This morning a postcard came, but it fell out of my hands.
The image of my praying mother, her eyes gently closed, is like the Virgin Mary.

A lonely son who fought valiantly.
Who could believe it was an honorable death in battle?
A coward, but I loved her more than anyone else.
No one knew his cries except her.

Underneath the sky of a distant foreign land, he cradled his gun and looked up at the sky.
Beneath the same sky, his voice cannot be heard.

History will just say that it was an era of tragedy.
Oh youthful poets, sing of the true sorrow...

A soldier who holds no anger or hatred kills on the battlefield.
Every man was born from a mother.
Loved in her arms, feeling cherished.
Why did they become young men only to fight?

Underneath the sky of a distant foreign land, he cradled his gun and looked up at the sky.
Beneath the same sky, his voice cannot be heard.

History will just say that it was an era of tragedy.
Oh youthful poets, sing of the true sorrow...

A coward, but I loved her more than anyone else.
No one knew his cries except her.

Dear Lord, if you are God, why can't you erase war?
Fates controlled by rusty knives cut the thread.

History will say that it was an era of tragedy,
but the young men who fight are not "God's Puppets".