[ENG sub] DIR EN GREY ● Ningen wo kaburu (人間を被る)

"人間を被る - Ningen wo kaburu" - "Wearing human skin" or "To masquerade as a human being"

This live version can be found on the "The World of Mercy CD+DVD LTD" edition and was recorded during the "TOUR19 The Insulated World".

Notes:
0) I've tried my best to convey the harsh tone and the raw emotions of the original without watering anything down with a bland word-by-word-translation. Please bear with me.

1) "残響 - zankyou" ("reverberation") sounds a lot like "Thank you"... Or maybe I'm just imagining things.
But I do wonder what the "Twelve" means in this context. Thinking about it, the number 12 plays an important role in Buddhism - the Twelve Nidānas, which describe how all suffering originates from ignorance, and how that ignorance influences any further thinking and action we take, physically and spiritually. To overcome it means to be reborn as a new person and, ultimately, the end (the "death") of ones suffering. It's just a shot in the dark, but the only one I got.

2) 2:45 - Kyo is shouting the name of the venue here which is called "Studio Coast", but he abbreviates it to "Coast".


~This is my translation / interpretation.

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