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Dusk beckoned by a fox mask, festival music echoing in the distance. "Metamorphosis" is a traditional Japanese-flavored track depicting the moment one sheds a borrowed guise and decides their own name. The evocative tones of traditional Japanese instruments overlap with the shimmer of modern synths, and the heart grows lighter with each new layer of color. Shifting through hues of pale crimson, amber, and jade, one lights a core within, declaring: "Release it now, in your true voice." It is a glamorous, dynamic song that pushes you forward, reminding you that you can be reborn any number of times.
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Lyrics (Japanese)
宵闇の路地で鈴が鳴る
狐面の影が手招きする
藍にほどける千代紙の夜
名前も告げず 微笑んだ
一歩ごと装いは色を変え
薄紅 琥珀 翡翠のきらめき
ほどいた迷いを帯に結び
息を合わせて はじまる
七変化 夜を染めて
花のように心が舞う
借り物じゃないこの鼓動で
私の名は 私が決める
遠く祭囃子 和傘が弾む
足音は拍に追いついていく
簪ひと振り 髪がほどけ
過去の私に手を振った
影と光が指切りをして
戸惑いは風に溶けた
震えた声を抱きしめたら
もう戻らない 進める
七変化 風を裂いて
鼓動は明日を呼び寄せる
偽りの姿は置いてゆこう
本当の声で 今 放て
静けさの底で殻が割れる
朱ににじむ 最後の涙
ひとつずつ色を重ね直し
初めての笑顔が芽吹いた
七変化 今この身で
移ろう色に芯を灯す
何度でも生まれ変われる
私の物語は続く
色を重ね直し
初めての笑顔が芽吹き
Translation
A bell rings out in the dusk-dark alley
A fox-masked shadow beckons me near
A night of patterned paper unraveling into indigo
Without giving a name, it softly smiled
With every step my guise shifts its color
Pale rose, then amber, then jade's bright shimmer
I bind my loosened doubt into my sash
Breathing together, it begins
Metamorphosis, dyeing the night
Like a flower, the heart dances
With this heartbeat that is not borrowed
My name, I will decide for myself
Distant festival music, paper umbrellas bouncing
My footsteps catch up to the beat
One shake of a hairpin, my hair falls loose
I wave goodbye to my past self
Shadow and light make a pinky promise
The hesitation melted into the wind
Once I embrace my trembling voice
No turning back, I will move on
Metamorphosis, tearing the wind
The heartbeat calls tomorrow near
Let's leave the false guise behind
With your true voice, release it now
At the bottom of the silence, the shell cracks open
A new dawn bleeding into vermilion
I will not hide anymore
The true color begins to shine
Metamorphosis, dyeing the night
Like a flower, the heart dances
With this heartbeat that is not borrowed
My name, I will decide for myself
A bell rings once more in the morning light
The color of the future is mine to choose