Hiroshima Fact File
sung by Far East Native

words/music by Ryu-Young
translation by Alinda Sue...

Please, Mama!   Hanashite kure
mou ichi do yasashii kuchibiru de
nan do mo   nan do mo   yonde mita kedo
kotoba ni nara nai sakebi ga   hoho wo tsutai mega mezameta! No-no!

manekazaru raihousha  sora kara mai ochite
akuma no raku in ni   kanojo wa okasareta
Black rain   furi sosogi ida ano natsu
shaku netsu no hikari to kaze to yami no sekai
Black rain, Blood rain   nani wo miru
Hiroshima Fact File

Yes, Mama! kokoro ni chikau
mou ni do to okasanu ayamachi wo No-no!
keredemo   keredemo   nodo moto sugireba
atsusa wo wasureru ningen wa   mujou no rekishi wo kurikaesu

Black rain   ushina wareshi atsui natsu
hito kage ga kowareta  kabe ni yakitsuita
Black rain, Blood rain nani wo shiru
Hiroshima Fact File

Black rain   furi sosogi ida ano natsu
shaku netsu no hikari to kaze to yami no sekai
Black rain, Blood rain   katari dasu
furureru tamashii no Fact File
Please, Mama! Tell me, please
One more time from your gentle lips
Many times...  Many times... I’ve tried calling out for
unspoken words that are conveyed by your face and awakened in your eyes

An uninvited visitor, fluttering and falling from the sky...
By that demon’s brand, she was violated

Black rain... pouring down that summer
A world of near impossibly hot light, and wind, and darkness
Black rain, blood rain... what did you see?
Hiroshima Fact File

Yes, Mama! I swear in my heart
Never again to allow this to start
Even now...  even now... If the words could escape throats...
For if people forget - if the information remains unknown, history will repeat again

Black rain... A summer that was lost
... a person’s shadow burned into a broken wall
Black rain, blood rain... What do you know?
Hiroshima Fact File

Black rain... pouring down that summer
A world of near impossibly hot light and wind and darkness
Black rain, blood rain...  Speak out
the fact file in your trembling soul

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