Purple Prose

Only a few days on Ko-Fi and we've already been treated to so many cups we'll probably have the caffeine jitters for the next year! Thanks a lot folks. You're the best! And feel free to keep it coming. Our appetite for coffee is bottomless.

Anyhow, by request of some of our coffee-buyers: a translation of "Murasaki no Yoru," from Yottsu no Yoru ("Four Nights"), the one and only record ever released by Issay Meets Dolly. We don't own a copy of this record, so we can't be sure of which kanji and what sort of line spacing Issay used for the original lyrics, but we are certain that we were able to describe the entire thing accurately without mondegreens, otherwise we wouldn't have done this translation at all.

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Purple Night

Lyrics: Issay

Music: Mari Fukuhara

Turn off the light in this room, and show me everything

Toy with sin and shyness, sink with me

Pour liquor like fire from your chilly lips

Forget today and lose tomorrow

I would float intoxicated (1)

For I hear the sobbing of Fate

Let us drink ourselves into a stupor on the purple twilight

For everything is destined to crumble away

Soak this night in a spray of pleasure

Sinking into a room reefed of coral (2)

Melt the closed-up keyhole with butter (3)

I long to taste the sweet scent presaging rot

For I hear the decay of Fate

Let us be shot through with purple lightning

For everything is destined to break down

The footsteps of Fate are fading far away

Let us drink dry the purple poison

For everything is destined to disappear

The purple night

When we could abandon Fate

1) The word here, "tadayou," means "to drift," but its homophone, "tada you," means "to just get drunk." Sakurai used the same word play in the lyrics to Buck-Tick's "Cain."

2) For those of you who doubt that the "coral reef room" is a vagina, watch the live video.

3) *Rings bell* congratulations, this line, you've won the "Dirtiest Lyric Ever" prize!!!!! If you, dear innocent reader, don't get this reference, watch the film Last Tango in Paris. No trigger warning because fuck that shit, the world isn't a safe space. Watch it when your kids and grandparents are in the room with you, it's a family film. It's also worth noting that the singer of this song is very definitely on the receiving end of the butter.

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紫の夜

作詞：Issay

作曲：Mari Fukuhara

部屋の明かり消して　何もかも見せておくれ

罪と恥じらい弄んで　沈んでゆこう

冷たい唇から　火の酒を注いでくれ

昨日忘れ　明日をなくし　漂いたい

運命のすすり泣き　聴こえるから

紫の宵闇に酔いつぶれてしまおう

何もかも崩れてく定めだから

快楽のしぶきで　この夜を濡らしてくれ

珊瑚礁の部屋の中に堕ちてゆこう

閉ざした鍵穴を　バターで溶かしておくれ

腐る前の甘い薫りを味わいたい

運命がくちはてる　音がするから

紫の稲妻に貫かれてしまおう

何もかも壊れてく定めだから

運命の足音が　遠ざかってく

紫の毒薬を飲み干してしまおう

何もかも消えてゆく定めだから

運命に見放せた　紫の夜

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Murasaki no Yoru

Lyrics: Issay

Music: Mari Fukuhara

Heya no akari keshite

Nani mo ka mo misete okure

Tsumi to hajirai moteasonde

Shizunde yukou

Tsumetai kuchibiru kara

Hi no sake wo sosoide kure

Kinou wasure ashita wo nakushi

Tadayoitai

Unmei no susurinaki

Kikoeru kara

Murasaki no yoiyami ni

Yoitsuburete shimaou

Nani mo ka mo kuzureteku

Sadame dakara

Kairaku no shibuki de

Kono yoru wo nurashite kure

Sangoshou no heya no nakani

Ochite yukou

Tozashita kagiana wo

Bataa de tokashite okure

Kusaru mae no amai kaori wo

Ajiwaitai

Unmei ga kuchihateru

Oto ga suru kara

Murasaki no inazuma ni

Tsuranukarete shimaou

Nani mo ka mo kowareteku

Sadame dakara

Unmei no ashioto ga

Toozakatteku

Murasaki no dokuyaku wo

Nomihoshite shimaou

Nani mo ka mo kiete yuku

Sadame dakara

Unmei ni mihanaseta

Murasaki no yoru

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