【Welcome To The Black Parade和訳】マイケミの歌詞を徹底考察＆解説

When I was a young boy
My father took me into the city
To see a marching band
He said, "Son, when you grow up
Would you be the savior of the broken
The beaten and the damned?"
He said, "Will you defeat them?
Your demons, and all the non-believers
The plans that they have made?
Because one day, I'll leave you
A phantom to lead you in the summer
To join the black parade“

When I was a young boy
My father took me into the city
To see a marching band
He said, "Son, when you grow up
Would you be the savior of the broken
The beaten and the damned?"

Sometimes I get the feeling she's watching over me
And other times I feel like I should go
And through it all, the rise and fall, the bodies in the streets
And when you're gone we want you all to know

We'll carry on, we'll carry on
And though you're dead and gone, believe me
Your memory will carry on, we'll carry on
And in my heart I can't contain it
The anthem won't explain it

A world that sends you reeling from decimated dreams
Your misery and hate will kill us all
So paint it black and take it back, let's shout it loud and clear
Defiant to the end we hear the call

To carry on, we'll carry on
And though you're dead and gone, believe me
Your memory will carry on, we'll carry on
And though you're broken and defeated
Your weary widow marches

On and on, we carry through the fears
Disappointed faces of your peers
Take a look at me, 'cause I could not care at all

Do or die, you'll never make me
Because the world will never take my heart
Go and try, you'll never break me
We want it all, we wanna play this part
I won't explain or say I'm sorry
I'm unashamed, I'm gonna show my scar
Give a cheer for all the broken
Listen here, because it's who we are
I'm just a man, I'm not a hero
Just a boy who had to sing this song
I'm just a man, I'm not a hero
I don't care!

We'll carry on, we'll carry on
And though you're dead and gone, believe me
Your memory will carry on, we'll carry on
And though you're broken and defeated
Your weary widow marches on
We’ll carry on

 和訳するにあたっての考え方メモ

 考え方メモ＜イントロ①＞

When I was a young boy
My father took me into the city
To see a marching band
He said, "Son, when you grow up
Would you be the savior of the broken
The beaten and the damned?"

「savior」は「救世主」。

「broken」「beaten」は似たようなニュアンスで「くじけた、打ち負けた人たち」。

「damned」は「呪われた者、地獄へ落とされた者、社会から排除された人たち」。

考え方メモ＜イントロ②＞

He said, "Will you defeat them?
Your demons, and all the non-believers
The plans that they have made?
Because one day, I'll leave you
A phantom to lead you in the summer
To join the black parade“

「defeat」は「打ち負かす」。「phantom」は「幻影、精霊、など実体の無いもの」。

 考え方メモ＜Aメロ①＞

Sometimes I get the feeling she's watching over me
And other times I feel like I should go
And through it all, the rise and fall, the bodies in the streets
And when you're gone we want you all to know

「Sometimes I get～」の「She」は「死」を意味するという考え方と、ジェラルドの祖母を意味しているという説もあります。

（ジェラルドは人生において最も影響を受けた人物として祖母を挙げていて、「Helena」という歌で、亡くなった祖母に対する思いを歌っています）

「watch over」は「見守る」というのと「監視する」という別のニュアンスを持っていて、文からも上記のどちらを意味してるか？または全く別の意味なのか？はっきり読み取れません。

なので直訳に近い、どちらとも取れるような訳をしました。

「through it all」は文脈によって色々な訳ができると思われますが、ここでは「全てを乗り越えて、くぐり抜けて」というニュアンスで読み取りました。

「bodies」は「遺骸、屍」。

 考え方メモ＜サビ＞

We'll carry on, we'll carry on
And though you're dead and gone, believe me
Your memory will carry on, we'll carry on
And in my heart I can't contain it
The anthem won't explain it

「carry on」は「続ける、進み続ける、引き継ぐ」という意味。

「anthem」は「賛歌」で「national anthem」で「国歌」。ここでは、「何かの時に決まって流れる歌」という意味合いで用いられていると考えられます。

ちなみにサビの最後の部分は２番、３番だと

「And though you're broken and defeated Your weary widow marches」となっていて「weary widow」は直訳すると「未亡人」。

この歌では「この世に残っている人達」を意味していると考えられます。

考え方メモ＜Aメロ②＞

A world that sends you reeling from decimated dreams
Your misery and hate will kill us all
So paint it black and take it back, let's shout it loud and clear
Defiant to the end we hear the call

「reel from」で「たじろぐ、よろめく」。「decimate」は「全滅する、台無しにする」。

「loud and clear」で「ハッキリと、明瞭に」。

「defiant」は「反抗的な、傲慢な、開き直った」。「to the end」で「最後まで」。

考え方メモ＜Cメロ①＞

Do or die, you'll never make me
Because the world will never take my heart
Go and try, you'll never break me
We want it all, we wanna play this part

「do or die」で「命がけで、いちかばちかで」。

「make me」は「～にする」。「make me」だけだと「やれるものならやってみろ」というニュアンスもあります。

「break」は「壊す、中断させる」。

「play a part」は「役割を演じる、一役買う」。

考え方メモ＜Cメロ②＞

I won't explain or say I'm sorry
I'm unashamed, I'm gonna show my scar
Give a cheer for all the broken
Listen here, because it's who we are

「explain」は「説明する、釈明する」。

「unashamed」は「恥知らず、羞恥心のない」。

「give a cheer for」は「声援を送る」。

考え方メモ＜Cメロ③＞

I'm just a man, I'm not a hero
Just a boy who had to sing this song
I'm just a man, I'm not a hero
I don't care!

「自分は特別な存在でもなんでもないけど、自分の信念に誇りを持っている・・」という叫びが歌われてる部分です。