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A Little Longer Thus

All lyrics written by Keiji Haino
English Translations by Alan Cummings
all photos on this page: Hirumi Wakui


the wisdom prepared (6)

1.  Not that way

Not that way

aihiyo (4)

3.  Within two times

The voice born within two times
Where does it wish to go
The voice born within two times
How tightly will it ensnare us
A word birthed
Between that where is and that where is not
Engolding in its breast gentle, murderous intent
I, conceived between joy and humiliation
This opened wound, further...



the wisdom prepared (5)

4.  No reason to know

No reason to know       Have doubts         Everything
Reason to know           Have doubts         Everything
Know                          Doubting              Everything

Know            Continuing to have doubts    Everything
                     For everything

aihiyo (3)

5.  Charged with fever

Crazed, calling to me
From the bottom of a yet unseen land...myself
beckoning me in
crazed into an endless expanse
The trap created by a fragment of timev
Nowhere accepts
This soul, charged with fever

A grain of light oozes out within me
  Them - forgotten, perishing, Doomed to live



the wisdom prepared (2)

6.  Head-first

Falling, falling head-first
Falling, falling, falling, falling, falling head-first
Faint smile like a vertical
Toreru toreru



the wisdom prepared (4)

7.  No second chance

No second chance anywhere
Just one chance eternally, eternally, eternally, eternally, eternally, eternally, eternally
The other fragment is only you
No second chance anywhere
Entering the laid trap
Having become this, this form, we live
Which came first
Gazing around just as though we live
In the mids of ruins, of ruins, of ruins, of ruins, of ruins, of ruins
I laugh at the mystery, the mystery, the mystery




the wisdom prepared (3)

8.  White inflamed thought

Inflamed
Inflamed white thought
Inflamed
Inflamed white thought is
Inflamed
White, white thought




a little longer thus (2)

9.  A little longer thus

Even if it becomes dark
Still I can see
As long as you never stop even
Longing for something
But that is because
I understand
That we have become this form
A little longer thus
Because it is longed for
Everything yet exists unvanished
It is alright
Everyone, thus
I won't go by myself
Because still I can think