【Gotta Get Away和訳】オフスプリング歌詞を徹底考察＆解説

I'm getting edgy all the time
There's someone around me just a step behind
It's kinda scary, the shape I'm in
The walls are shakin' and they're closing in

Too fast or a bit too slow
Paranoid of people and it's starting to show
There's one guy that I can't shake
Over my shoulder is a big mistake

Sitting on the bed
Or lying wide awake
There's demons in my head
And it's more than I can take
I think I'm on a roll
But I think it's kinda weak
Saying all I know is
I gotta get away from me

I tell you something just ain't right
My head is on loose but my shoes are tight
Avoiding my friends 'cause they all bug
Life is like a riddle and I'm really stumped

If you reason, don't you know
Your own preoccupation is where you'll go
I think I'm being followed, I look around
It's only my shadow creepin' on the ground

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 考え方メモ＜Aメロ①＞

I'm getting edgy all the time
There's someone around me just a step behind

「get edgy」は「イライラする」。「a step behind」は「一歩後ろにいる」。

It's kinda scary, the shape I'm in
The walls are shakin' and they're closing in

「kinda」は「kind of」の略で、「ちょっと」。「close in」は「近づく、迫ってくる」。

自分自身の姿が怖いし、壁が揺れながら迫ってくる、とかなりキてる様子が歌われています。

考え方メモ＜Aメロ②＞

Too fast or a bit too slow
Paranoid of people and it's starting to show

There's one guy that I can't shake
Over my shoulder is a big mistake

「shake」は「振り切る、うまく逃れる、撒く（まく）」。「over my shoulder」は「肩越しに、振り向きざまに」。

歌詞には「見た」まで書いてありませんが、その意味だと捉えて意訳しています。

 考え方メモ＜サビ＞

Sitting on the bed
Or lying wide awake
There's demons in my head
And it's more than I can take

「wide awake」は、「すっかり目が覚めて」。

I think I'm on a roll
But I think it's kinda weak
Saying all I know is
I gotta get away from me

「on a roll」は「絶好調、うまくやる」。「gotta」は「have got to」の略で、「しなければいけない」。

「get away」は「逃げる」。

考え方メモ＜Aメロ③＞

I tell you something just ain't right
My head is on loose but my shoes are tight

「loose」は「緩い」。「tight」は「窮屈」。

Avoiding my friends 'cause they all bug
Life is like a riddle and I'm really stumped

「bug」は「害虫」。「riddle」は「なぞなぞ、難解」。「stump」は「困らせる、途方に暮れさせる」。

考え方メモ＜Aメロ④＞

If you reason, don't you know
Your own preoccupation is where you'll go

「reason」は「理由」という名詞の他に、「論理的に考える、説得する」という意味が。今回は後者です。

「preoccupation」は「先入観、最大の関心事」。

I think I'm being followed, I look around
It's only my shadow creepin' on the ground

「creep」は「這う」。

• get edgy  イライラする
• a step behind  一歩後ろにいる
• kinda　＝kind of
• close in  近づく、迫る
• paranoid 偏執狂、被害妄想、こだわり過ぎの
• shake  撒く、振り切る
• over one's shoulder  振り向きざまに、肩越しに
• wide awake  目が覚めてる
• on a roll  絶好調、うまくいってる
• gotta  ＝have got to
• get away  逃げる
• loose  緩い
• bug  害虫
• riddle  なぞなぞ、難解
• stump  困らせる、途方に暮れさせる
• reason  論理的に考える、説得する
• preoccupation  先入観、最大の関心事
• creep 這う