edge

About This Song:

Series: .hack
Placement: //liminality Opening
Japanese Title: edge
Time: 3:33
Style: Techno
English Lyrics: Adam Pulver
Stephen T. of Anime Music Fan-Dubbing suggested this song last November, and I honestly didn't know how I was going to do it. And for awhile, I wasn't planning to. But after I caught a few episodes of .hack//sign, I became a little more in-touch with what the series was hinting at, and was motivated enough to try the song. It ended up being one of the hardest ones I've ever done, but the extra effort really paid off.

edge

As you run and run to complete yourself,
As you lie and lie to defeat yourself,
As you search and search for a new road,
You end up losing the way to come home.
As you make and take someone's jumbled dream,
And you fall into an uncolored scheme,
And you wish and wish to escape but you are already on the other side.

We look at tomorrow, the future is dim.
We look at the outside, we look at within,
But the search for true perfection has no possibility.
We live, we hope for such a futility.
Is the thing we search for the same for you and I?
For anything truthful, for anything you and I,
Can say that is truthful, can feel that is true.
Searching worlds for a fragmented clue.
A quest for reality that's not thrown askew.
A search for some emotion we can hold onto.
Our dreams and life are suddenly being fused,
We're too close to the edge!

As you run and run to complete yourself,
As you lie and lie to defeat yourself,
As you hope and hope to get lost,
You could find yourself losing the way to come home.
As you try to find out just where you are.
And you gaze out to some locale afar,
If you love and love someone else, it won't matter how distant.
The hearts of two lovers won't separate.

When tomorrow comes, When our hearts are near.
Walking to the calm of a twilight shining.
When we can believe, futures that are feasible,
Reachable, graspable within our arms.
Wherever we are. If our hearts are near.

We look at tomorrow, the future is dim.
We look at the outside, we look at within,
But the search for a strength, to help us believe.
Although it may be foolish, it's what we achieve.
As our lives go by, and we happily waste it all,
Making delusions, so we don't feel small.
We lose regret but we lose what is true.
Set in motion, not following through.
Pretend we're going forth, not lifting a shoe.
We search for some emotion we can hold onto.
But if one day we ever started to move,
We're too close to the edge!

As you run and run to complete yourself,
As you lie and lie to defeat yourself,
If you know and know that you're lost,
You know you'll end up losing the way to come home.
As you looked and took in an awesome sight.
And you wonder what's in that blinding light.
When you love and love someone else, it won't matter how distant.
The dreams of two lovers won't separate.

English lyrics by Adam Pulver. All Rights Reserved.
Please do not publish elsewhere without permission.