Official animated music video for ''Rajōmon'' from CALLIOPHIS's album - LIQUID DARKNESS
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Lyrics:
Rajōmon
Mighty
gate
once
Earthquakes
Typhoons
blasts
Famines
Now decay,
shelter for criminals,
body dumpsite.
Grows in swarms
peck on the cadavers.
Place for unwanted babies,
whereabouts of an Oni.
Relentless demon
who abducts the most beautiful girls
and harms and pains them
under the roof of the gate.
A masterless man
waits for the end
of the rain
under the gate.
Homeless without earnings,
starve to death.
Dead soon, thrown in a corner here,
endless rain.
Bleak future prospects.
Is heist his last resort?
Rajomon, sleeping place for this night.
A light in the attic,
insufferable stench of death.
Between corpses and spiderwebs,
squats a white-haired old woman.
Her eyes are on the face
of a female carcass with long hair.
She pulls out each hair at a time.
What are you doing here?
"I pluck the hair out!
Want to make wigs from it!"
This woman here
cut snakes into pieces
and sold them as fish.
But she had to do it,
otherwise, she would have starved,
just like me now.
The man wrested
the old woman´s kimono,
pushed her naked on the corpses
and fled into the darkness of the night.
Dead black, sinister night!
Night!
"This World -
wherewith compare it?
Rice fields in autumn,
dimly illuminated
by lightnings at dusk."
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