【Hammerhead和訳】オフスプリングの歌詞を徹底考察＆解説

I am the one
Camouflage and guns
Risk my life
To keep my people from harm

Authority
Vested in me
I sacrifice
With my brothers in arms

Through this doorway
What's on the other side
Never knowing
Exactly what I'll find
Locked and loaded
Voices screaming
Let's go!
Come on do it!
Here we go

Take a life
That others may live
Oh that's just the way it goes
Shut my eyes
It hammers in my head
Where it'll end
Nobody knows

Take a life
That ten others may live
Oh that's just the way it goes
It's playing over and over in my head
Where it'll end
Nobody knows

Stay the course
Reasonable force
I believe
I serve a greater good

Smoke and dust
Enemies are crushed
Nothing left
Where a man once stood

Through this doorway
What's on the other side
Never knowing
Exactly what I'll find
Locked and loaded
Voices screaming
Let's go!
But I'm just doing what I'm told

Take a life
That others may live
Oh that's just the way it goes
Shut my eyes
It hammers in my head
Where it'll end
Nobody knows

Take this life
That ten others may live
Oh, that's just the way it goes
It's playing over and over in my head
Where it begins
And where it'll end
Nobody knows

Bang, bang, it hammers in my head
Bang, bang, it hammers in my head
Bang, bang, it hammers in my head
In my head
In my head

Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
I fear no evil: for Thou art with me
Locked and loaded
Gonna find my truth
Now I'm busting through
All hell breaks loose

And you can all hide behind your desks now
And you can cry, "teacher come help me!"
Through you all
My aim is true

 和訳するにあたっての考え方メモ

 考え方メモ＜Aメロ①＞

I am the one
Camouflage and guns
Risk my life
To keep my people from harm

「the one」で、「唯一無二の、選ばれし者」というニュアンス。「comouflage」は「カモフラージュ、迷彩服」。

Authority
Vested in me
I sacrifice
With my brothers in arms

「vested in」で「委ねられている」、「sacrifice」は「犠牲になる」。「brothers in arms」は「戦友」。

Aメロは主人公の極端な思想、精神状態が描かれています。

考え方メモ＜Bメロ①＞

Through this doorway
What's on the other side
Never knowing
Exactly what I'll find

Locked and loaded
Voices screaming
Let's go!
Come on do it!
Here we go

「locked and loaded」は「弾が装填された、臨戦態勢の」。

Bメロは、主人公が事に及ぼうとしてるところが描かれていますね。

 考え方メモ＜サビ①＞

Take a life
That others may live
Oh that's just the way it goes

「take a life」は「命を奪う」。

Shut my eyes
It hammers in my head
Where it'll end
Nobody knows

「hammer in」は「打ちつける、叩き込む」。今回は後者とし、主語が明示されていないので「叩き込まれてる」としました。

考え方メモ＜サビ②＞

Take a life
That ten others may live
Oh that's just the way it goes

It's playing over and over in my head
Where it'll end
Nobody knows

考え方メモ＜Aメロ②＞

Stay the course
Reasonable force
I believe
I serve a greater good

「stay the course」は「最後までやり遂げる」。「reasonable force」は「正当防衛」。

「greater good」は「社会全体に意義があること、大義」。

Smoke and dust
Enemies are crushed
Nothing left
Where a man once stood

考え方メモ＜Cメロ＞

Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
I fear no evil: for Thou art with me

ここの部分は、聖書の詩篇、第23章4節からの引用。

意味としては「神様が一緒だから、死の恐怖や、死ぬほどの危険や苦難が来ても恐れない。」という心の有り様を謳ったもの。

ここでは、危険な思想の心の拠り所として使われてしまっています。

Gonna find my truth
Now I'm busting through
All hell breaks loose

「bust through」は「突破する」。「All hell breaks loose」は「大混乱になる、大騒動が起きる」という意味ですが、直訳に近い感じで訳しました。

And you can all hide behind your desks now
And you can cry, "teacher come help me!"
Through you all
My aim is true

学校への銃襲撃が、完全に示唆される一節ですね・・

• camouflage  カモフラージュ、迷彩服
• risk  危険にさらす
• vested in　委ねられる
• sacrifice  犠牲になる
• brothers in arms  戦友
• locked and loaded  弾が装填された、臨戦態勢の
• hammer in  打ち込む、叩き込む
• stay the course  最後までやり遂げる
• reasonable force  正当防衛
• greater good  大義、社会的な意義あること
• bust through  突破する
• all hell break loose  大混乱、大騒ぎ