WHO'S THAT BOY
冷たい雨の
路地裏走る
きっと綺麗なのは 誰かが傷いたから
★It's Wonder Nightmare
You Come Over Night
すべては
I Can't Say WHO'S THAT BOY?
聞いてはいけない約束 だけど
WHO'S THAT BOY?
おんなじ
You Can't Say WHO'S THAT BOY?
何処から来たの 何処までゆくの
WHO'S THAT BOY?
誰もが自分だけを 愛する狂った都会
It's Wonder Nightmare
You Come Over Tonight
すべては偶然ね
I Can't Say WHO'S THAT BOY?
夜空の色の不思議な瞳
WHO'S THAT BOY?
You Can't Say WHO'S THAT BOY?
WHO'S THAT BOY?
★REPEAT
tsumetai ame no machi1 wa metaru2 no tsuki no sabaku
hikari3 no pazuru4 kun de dakishimeau yoru ne
rojiura hashiru neon5 hikarete6 odoru kokoro7
kitto kirei na no wa dareka ga kizuita kara
★It's Wonder Nightmare
You Come Over Night
subete wa maboroshi8 ne
I Can't Say WHO'S THAT BOY?
kiite wa ikenai yakusoku dakedo
WHO'S THAT BOY?
onnaji machi1 de hagureta9
You Can't Say WHO'S THAT BOY?
doko kara kita no doko made yuku no
WHO'S THAT BOY?
dare mo ga jibun dake wo aisuru kurutta machi
purizumu10 toki11 no arashi yume12 wo koroshite sugiru
It's Wonder Nightmare
You Come Over Night
subete wa guuzen ne
I Can't Say WHO'S THAT BOY?
yozora no iro no fushigi na hitomi
WHO'S THAT BOY?
kogoeta machi1 wo mi orosu
You Can't Say WHO'S THAT BOY?
sobieru bira wa yume no bohyou ne
WHO'S THAT BOY?
★REPEAT
The city in the freezing rain is a metallic moon desert
The rays of light link together like a puzzle and embrace in the night
The neon light flashing in the back alleys tempt my dancing heart
For sure, its beautiful because someone gets hurt
★It's Wonder Nightmare
You Come Over Night
Everything's an illusion, isn't it?
I Can't Say WHO'S THAT BOY?
I shouldn't listen to the promises, but...
WHO'S THAT BOY?
I got myself lost in the same city
You Can't Say WHO'S THAT BOY?
Where did he come from? Where is he going?
WHO'S THAT BOY?
A crazy city where people only love themselves
A storm of prismatic time kills our hopeful dreams
It's Wonder Nightmare
You Come Over Night
How sudden everything is
I Can't Say WHO'S THAT BOY?
His strange eyes the colour of the night sky
WHO'S THAT BOY?
Looking down disdainfully at the frozen city13
You Can't Say WHO'S THAT BOY?
The towering buildings are the gravestones for our dreams
WHO'S THAT BOY?
★REPEAT
Footnotes
1 sung as machi, "town" (spelled 町), but written with the word for "city", tokai, on the lyrics sheet. Machi is very, very commonly used in everyday Japanese language to refer to anything from a large town to a literal city, so the kanji appears to be used to impress that they're referring specifically to a city in this song (Tokyo, naturally). ▲
2 sung as metaru, "metal", but written with the word for, uh, "metal", kinzoku. As this is a pretty much on the dot translation, I'm thinking maybe Ookawa-sensei just chose the kanji in the lyrics for aesthetic purposes -- this isn't unheard of. ▲
3 sung as hikari, "light", but written with the word for "beam of light, ray", kousen. Just defining the form of light in question. ▲
4 sung as pazuru, "puzzle", but written with the word for "figure", zukei. This one's a little cryptic, but I think it's giving the image of a puzzle/riddle presented as a single object, figure, or picture. ▲
5 sung as neon, "neon", but written with the word for "lightning", denkou -- both kanji in the word literally mean "electricity" and "light", respectively, so it's making the definition between the lighting style and the element. ▲
6 sung as hikarete (spelled 引かれて), "charmed", but written with the word for "tempted", yuuwakurete. Implying while this seduction is certainly charming, it's also rather dangerous. ▲
7 sung as kokoro, "heart" or "mind" (or the blurry area where both combine), but written with the word for "love, affection", aijou. YMMV, but to me, this swings the meaning of kokoro more towards heart, thus an emotional state, rather than mind, a more intellectual or thoughtful one. ▲
8 sung as maboroshi, "phantom, vision, dream", but written with the word for "hallucination, illusion", genkaku. Skewing the meaning towards something being a vision, but not necessarily a healthy or benign one. ▲
9 sung as hagureta "averted, turned away from" (spelled 逸れた), but written with the kanji for "stray/lost child", maigo. I say "kanji" here and not "word" because, technically, there's no such word as maigoreta; maigo is a noun while hagure(ta) is a verb. Overall it gives a vibe of choosing to become lost. ▲
10 sung as purizmu, "prism", but written with the word for "diffuse reflection", ranhansha. YMMV, but to me it's giving imagery of light scattered through a prism. ▲
11 sung as toki, "time", but written with the word for "moment or instant", shunkan. When they say time, they mean a very short amount thereof. ▲
12 sung as yume, "dream", but written with the word for "hope or wish", kibou. Wishful dreaming, anyone? ▲
13 mi orosu can have two meanings, both using the same kanji: "to overlook, to command a view of, to look down upon" (as in, geographically), and "to look down upon, to despise". I combined both meanings in my translation here. ▲