Gekkabijin
Beauty in Moonlight

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Album / Collection: Shijin Vocal Collection Utagasane
Track # 3

Description: Tachibana no Tomomasa Song

sung by Inoue Kazuhiko

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Original / Romaji Lyrics	English Translation
Lyrics from Animelyrics.com midori-iro [kanji: suishoku] no hane  tawamure ni tori wo otte mori fukaku mayoikonda koi kono mama kaerenakunarou ka	Lyrics from Animelyrics.com An emerald-green wing playfully chasing after the bird -- I wonder if a love that lost its path as though in the depths of the forest cannot return to the way it is now?
Lyrics from Animelyrics.com hashagi tsukarete nemuru [kanji: madoromu+ru] kimi yokaze ni mi wo makase gekkou yoku	Lyrics from Animelyrics.com Sleeping worn out from the day's frolicking, you entrust to the night wind (the vision of you) bathing in moonlight.
Lyrics from Animelyrics.com taikutsu na jinsei ga zeitaku na samishisa o shiru mou nidoto kodoku to asobenai [kanji: yuugi+benai]    mujaki na ashimoto ni hisamazuki    tsumasaki ni hoho yosereba    aa outou no mi no katasa de	Lyrics from Animelyrics.com My tedious life knows a surfeit of solitude; I won't play with loneliness again.    Kneeling in your carefree footsteps,    as though (you moved) on tiptoe, if I could gather (fruit like this)...    ah... your cheek, with the suppleness of a ripe cherry's beauty.
Lyrics from Animelyrics.com uroshi-iro no yami  kon'ya no tsuki wa utsukushii kono mune no yami wa yori fukaku  kimi wa yori azayaka ni hikaru	Lyrics from Animelyrics.com In a lacquer-colored darkness, tonight's moon is beautiful. More deeply than the darkness of my heart, you are more vividly shining.
Lyrics from Animelyrics.com fui ni mezamete warau kimi  karenai eien no gekkabijin	Lyrics from Animelyrics.com Suddenly waking to smile, you are an unfading, eternal beauty in the moonlight.*
Lyrics from Animelyrics.com isshun no eien ni nanimo ka mo kakeru oroka de koufuku na otoko ga koko ni iru    hana no you ni awai sono hada ni    waga mune wo nose kono mama    aa    oshibana ni shite shimaou ka	Lyrics from Animelyrics.com In this moment of eternity, foolishly gambling everything I have, I am a deeply blessed man standing here.    Light as a flower, your body    rests upon my heart...    ah... can I make this moment a pressed flower (captured in time)?
Lyrics from Animelyrics.com isshun no eien ni nanimo ka mo kakeru oroka de koufuku na otoko ga koko ni iru    hana no you ni awai sono hada ni    waga mune wo nose kono mama    aa    oshibana ni shite shimaou ka	Lyrics from Animelyrics.com In this moment of eternity, foolishly gambling everything I have, I am a deeply blessed man standing here.    Light as a flower, your body    rests upon my heart...    ah... can I make this moment a pressed flower (captured in time)?
Lyrics from Animelyrics.com kimi ga nozomeba kanawanai yume wa nai darou  itai keredo [kana: kede] yurubi nai manazashi    kakete mo mata michiru    ano tsuki no tsuyosa ni mo nite    kizutsuki   aa   mata utsukushikunaru kimi	Lyrics from Animelyrics.com If you wish it, I will grant you any dream you have.** Despite how it hurts, that unabating gaze,    waning and waxing yet again,    like the strength of the moon --    wounded, ah... yet still you become more beautiful.

Notes:
() means things that aren't stated but that I'm extrapolating.
* Like utsusemi and kachoufuugetsu, gekkabijin has a lot of potential interpretations/uses. Literally the components assemble as "a beautiful person beneath the moon," but the combination seems to have been used for everything from a particular night-blooming flower to the Queen of the Night. Since it's quite possible Tomomasa could have meant either the comparison to the flower or the more literal "beautiful person" meaning, I left it as "beauty in moonlight" so that humanity wasn't specified but could be read in...
** more literally "there are no dreams that will not be granted," but the double negative sounds awkward in English.
+ I'm taking kede to be a mutated form of dake de and yurubinai to be an oddly-conjugated negative form of yurumu "to abate/loosen". Mu to bu is a fairly common mutation, but I admit I haven't found either of these specifically documented anywhere...

Translated and transliterated by Risu-chan

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