【In The End和訳】リンキンパークの歌詞を徹底考察＆解説

It starts with one thing
I don't know why
It doesn't even matter how hard you try
Keep that in mind
I designed this rhyme to explain in due time

All I know
Time is a valuable thing
Watch it fly by as the pendulum swings
Watch it count down to the end of the day
The clock ticks life away
It's so unreal

Didn't look out below
Watch the time go right out the window
Tryin' to hold on
But didn't even know
I wasted it all just to watch you go

I kept everything inside
And even though I tried
It all fell apart
What it meant to me will eventually
Be a memory of a time when I tried so hard

I tried so hard and got so far
But in the end
It doesn't even matter
I had to fall and lose it all
But in the end
It doesn’t even matter

One thing/I don't know why
Doesn't even matter how hard you try
Keep that in mind/I designed this rhyme
To remind myself how I tried so hard

In spite of the way you were mockin' me
Acting like I was part of your property
Remembering all the times you fought with me
I'm surprised it got so[far]

Things aren't the way they were before
You wouldn't even recognize me anymore
Not that you knew me back then
But it all comes back to me in the end

You kept everything inside
And even though I tried/It all fell apart
What it meant to me will eventually
Be a memory of a time when I tried so hard

I've put my trust in you
Pushed as far as I can go
For all this
There's only one thing you should know

 和訳するにあたっての考え方メモ

 考え方メモ＜Aメロ①＞

It starts with one thing
I don't know why
It doesn't even matter how hard you try
Keep that in mind
I designed this rhyme to explain in due time

「it doesn't matter」は「重要じゃない、問題じゃない」。

「in due time」は「時が来れば、そのうちに、やがて」

考え方メモ＜Aメロ②＞

All I know
Time is a valuable thing
Watch it fly by as the pendulum swings
Watch it count down to the end of the day
The clock ticks life away
It's so unreal

「valuable」は「価値がある」。

「fly by」は「飛ぶようにすぎる」。「pendulum swings」は「振り子の揺れ」。

「tick away」は「カチカチ時を刻む」

 考え方メモ＜Bメロ①＞

Didn't look out below
Watch the time go right out the window
Tryin' to hold on
But didn't even know
I wasted it all just to watch you go

「look out below」は「足元をよく見る、気を付ける」というニュアンス。

考え方メモ＜Bメロ②＞

I kept everything inside
And even though I tried
It all fell apart
What it meant to me will eventually
Be a memory of a time when I tried so hard

「fall apart」は「バラバラになる、壊れる、粉々になる」。

「eventually」は「結局」。

ちなみに訳していて初めて気づきましたが、ここの最後の部分とサビの最初の「I tried so hard」はシンクロするように構成されていて、とってもカッコいいですね。

 考え方メモ＜サビ＞

I tried so hard and got so far
But in the end
It doesn't even matter
I had to fall and lose it all
But in the end
It doesn’t even matter

「get far」は「遠くまでいく、成功する」。

後半冒頭の文、歌詞カードの表記は「I had to fall and lose it all」ですが、実際にはチェスターが「I had to fall to lose it all」と歌っています。

ニュアンスとしてはどちらでも同じような意味になると思います。

考え方メモ＜Aメロ③＞

One thing/I don't know why
Doesn't even matter how hard you try
Keep that in mind/I designed this rhyme
To remind myself how I tried so hard

考え方メモ＜Aメロ④＞

In spite of the way you were mockin' me
Acting like I was part of your property
Remembering all the times you fought with me
I'm surprised it got so[far]

ここは文の途切れ目がどこなのか？わかりにくいですが、前半2文と後半2文で分かれていると考えました。

「in spite of」は「～にもかかわらず、だけど」。「mock」は「嘲笑う、バカにする」。

「property」は「所有物」。

「Remembering~」は分詞構文になっている部分と解釈しました。

「it got so far」は「すごく遠くなった」。自分と相手との距離のことを言っていると考えらえます。

考え方メモ＜Bメロ③＞

Things aren't the way they were before
You wouldn't even recognize me anymore
Not that you knew me back then
But it all comes back to me in the end

「recognize」は「認識する、見分けがつく、識別する」。

「back then」は「その当時、その時、あのとき」。迷いましたが、「come back」は「戻ってくる」という他に「記憶がよみがえる」という意味があり、そちらで捉えました。

考え方メモ＜Bメロ④＞

You kept everything inside
And even though I tried/It all fell apart
What it meant to me will eventually
Be a memory of a time when I tried so hard

「keep everything inside」で「全てを内に保つ」という意味から、「何もかもを隠す」というニュアンスになります。

考え方メモ＜Cメロ＞

I've put my trust in you
Pushed as far as I can go
For all this
There's only one thing you should know

「pushed」で「プレッシャーをかけられる」。