【Not The One和訳】オフスプリング歌詞を徹底考察＆解説

I'm not the one who made the world what it is today
I'm not the one who caused the problems started long ago
But now I deal with all the consequence that troubles our times
I carry on and never once have even questioned why

I'm innocent
But the weight of the world is on my shoulders
I'm innocent
The battles started are far from over

We're not the ones who leave the homeless in the streets at night
We're not the ones who've kept minorities and women down
Still we grow and then the problems, they become our own
We carry on without even realizing why

We're innocent
But the weight of the world is on our shoulders
We're innocent
The battles left us are far from over

We're not the ones whose pollution blackened our skies and ruined our streams
We're not the ones who made the nuclear bombs that threaten our lives
We're not the ones who let the children starve in faraway lands
We're not the ones who made the streets unsafe to walk at night

And even if we try and not become too overwhelmed
And if we make some contribution to the plight we see
Still, our descendants will inherit our mistakes of today
They'll suffer just the same as we and never wonder why

 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'm not the one who made the world what it is today
I'm not the one who caused the problems started long ago
But now I deal with all the consequence that troubles our times
I carry on and never once have even questioned why

「never once」はneverをさらに強調した形式で、「ただの一度もない」。

考え方メモ＜サビ①＞

I'm innocent
But the weight of the world is on my shoulders
I'm innocent
The battles started are far from over

 考え方メモ＜Aメロ②＞

We're not the ones who leave the homeless in the streets at night
We're not the ones who've kept minorities and women down
Still we grow and then the problems, they become our own
We carry on without even realizing why

「keep～down」で「～を押さえつける、自由を制限する」という意味。

「carry on」で「進み続ける、継続する」。

 考え方メモ＜サビ②＞

We're innocent
But the weight of the world is on our shoulders
We're innocent
The battles left us are far from over

「far from over」で「当分、終わりそうにない」。

「The battles left us are far from over」は直訳すると「俺たちを置き去りにした戦いは当分終わりそうにない」かとも思いますが、意味合い的に上記のようにしました。

 考え方メモ＜Aメロ③＞

We're not the ones whose pollution blackened our skies and ruined our streams
We're not the ones who made the nuclear bombs that threaten our lives
We're not the ones who let the children starve in faraway lands
We're not the ones who made the streets unsafe to walk at night

And even if we try and not become too overwhelmed
And if we make some contribution to the plight we see
Still, our descendants will inherit our mistakes of today
They'll suffer just the same as we and never wonder why

「overwhelmed」で「打ちのめさせる、参る、圧倒される」。

「inherit」は「受け継ぐ、引き渡す」。

• carry on  進み続ける
• never once  ただの一度も
• far from over   当分終わりそうにない
• keep down   押さえつける
• blacken   暗くする
• ruin  台無しにする、破壊する
• overwhelmed  圧倒される、参る
• plight   窮状
• descendant　子孫
• inherit   引き継ぐ、受け継ぐ