命辛辛 (Inochikaragara / By the Skin of My Teeth)
NILFRUITS
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Night, night, night- in so much pain and trouble. Huckleberry running out of ideas.
Suddenly wanting to become grotesque one night- Gummy, chocolate, pine.
Fake, fake, my art are all just fakes-
Using an antipyretic pad to cool my hot head.
Not following the recommended dosage, so I've only got one pill left.
No, no, there is no other way- Kent paper still waiting to come alive.
Convincing myself to transform into anything,
I'm a fashion model with a heavy duty.
One-way runway, getting bored without audiences.
Even if I have to make them ROM,
I want to dig till I strike oil.
Raran ran, raran rara...
The remnants of dream of failing to become a saint.
I am waste.
Even on the verge of losing my life, I'm "good at heart",
"Good at heart" even if I'm being revered as the people’s darling.
In other words, I'm just ordinary till death.
So I pretend to be that and I dance.
Even on the verge of losing my life, I keep a rock solid spirit,
In the next life I will transform as a complete ayakashi.
I behave as I please, I behave as I please.
I want to shapeshift freely and survive.
“Ran, ran, ran!” Sing along-
Yes, we’re all huckleberry.
This kind of night makes me want to do great things-
Gummy, chocolate, pine!
Let’s have a fight, playfully laugh and lie,
I’ll depict the hodgepodge of pain and pleasure
Until I see pink elephants- Jitter, butter, step, you.
The remnants of dream of failing to become a saint.
Rest in peace.
“Treat yourself,” huh, since my spirit’s weak
In this life, tricking myself into stability
I indulge to become chimimōryō, I indulge to become chimimōryō.
Are you going to disappear without being remembered?
Even if it’s just the last minute, by the skin of my teeth,
I’m an exemplary lost prisoner,
Even if I’m laughed at, I’m the people’s darling.
Till the talisman comes off,
I am nothing but a jiangshi-
So I pretend to be it and I dance.
Even holding on for dear life,
Rebellious spirit’s all I have.
In the next life I will transform as a complete ayakashi.
I behave as I please, I behave as I please.
I want to shapeshift freely and survive.
A down-on-their-luck artist...
Fuck this song means so much to me.
Our character here is Narrow Le, and their respective OCs: Gummy, Chocolate, and Pine(apple).
As a lot of artists do, you always imagine yourself as your OCs. Narrow would seemingly give anything to be their characters.
Hey, this takes place in the Traffic Light universe! We briefly see Flurry and Welter in the background.
I found this in strangeispowerful's analysis, but "jitter, butter, step, you" sounds like the idiom じたばたしてよ (jitabata shite yo), or "stop panicking"/"stop being so flustered".
We know Narrow is hallucinating at this point because he's so drunk, so of course he'd mishear a common idiom.
Narrow's antipyretic pad doubles in meaning. It also symbolizes the jiangshi's talisman- both are placed on the forehead. Narrow's comparing himself to a reanimated corpse, only kept alive by medication.
