Talk:Butterfly Sky

Lyrics
The lyrics are taken from this scan:

http://lh3.ggpht.com/_zXtEwdGgMHM/TQjU92dvysI/AAAAAAAABHY/sNA3ctrRkv8/3-4.jpg

and the readings were confirmed by listening to the song on Youtube (somewhere). The translation, however, is pretty much off the top of my head, with some reference to various Japanese-English and Japanese dictionaries. I'm not a professional, and I wasn't really trying to translate the song 100% idiomatically, because that would take much more time and effort (in trying to understand what the song is really about) than I'm interested in spending lol. Corrections and whatnot are welcome; if the song has already been translated elsewhere, please post up a reference/link.

Finally, I just wanted to point out the reason for the various question marks: quite often, grammatical subjects, objects, and other phrases (which would be vital to say explicitly in English) are not said in Japanese, and much of the understanding/meaning is contextual. So if I write something like "I'll [?]", it means that in my opinion, I think there should be a 1st-person subject here, but I could be wrong. Also, when I wrote [???] for 小さな世界の話だと, it's because I don't really understand what this is to be taken as meaning: it literally says "small world talk" or "talking of/about a small world", and I couldn't find any references on whether this is an idiomatic expression in Japanese or whether I'm just missing clues from the context, so I left it untranslated and moved on from there. Again, help is welcome! Rtl42 17:48, April 20, 2011 (UTC)


 * Forgot to mention two things: (1) I translated 道標 as "lodestar" in this case because of the context (flying off to the sky, call out to the stars). "Michishirube" just means a "road sign/post; guide; landmark", but in this context, I thought something to do with stars might actually more appropriate. (2) 温度 does mean "temperature", but I suspect this is to be taken perhaps more figuratively/loosely, in the sense of something like a temperature scale. Rtl42 02:30, April 21, 2011 (UTC)