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Miwaku no Rōma - 魅惑のローマ - Malice Mizer (Translation)

My shayla! I feel like this song is a bit underrated, and I adore its almost sassy sound and the subtle details in the instrumental. As a bonus, it also feeds into my dying Italian pride (is there anything to be proud of at this point? All we have is art, pasta and a Malice Mizer mention).
Just like I did for Kioku to sora, I will put the sung parts that differ from the written lyrics in brackets in the rōmaji section, but I will only translate the original version because the differences are mostly repetitions. Thank you for reading and let me know what you think!

魅惑のローマ

(lyrics: Tetsu / music: Mana) 

二人戸惑い 彷徨いながら 歩き続けてる
鐘の音と 静寂だけが 追いかけてくる

突然一筋の奇跡色の閃光 包まれる様吸い込まれていく

そこは無色の理由もない空間
今だけの為にある 君だけ在れば全て無限

same guilt same crime
makin' me dance around for killing time 
ときめきに操られ

centenly 
瞳閉じて指先と舌で 盲目の愛
いつかきっと 愛しあう言葉 途切れ途切れ

sometime somewhere 
onceagain kiss around for our ties 
ときめきに身を任せ

Miwaku no Rōma

[ Same guilt same crime 
Makin' me dance around for killing time 
Tokimeki ni ayatsurare ]

Futari tomadoi samayoinagara aruki tsuzuketeru 
Kane no oto to  seijaku dake ga oikakete kuru

Totsuzen hitosuji no kisekiiro no senkō  tsutsumareru you  [ni]   suikomareteiku

Soko wa mushoku no wake mo nai kuukan 
Ima dake no tame ni aru  kimi dake areba subete mugen

Same guilt same crime
Makin' me dance around for killing time 
Tokimeki ni ayatsurare

Centenly  *
Hitomi tojite yubi saki to shita de  momoku no ai 
[Centenly]
Itsuka kitto  aishiau kotoba  togire togire 

[Soko wa mushoku no wake mo nai kuukan 
Ima dake no tame ni aru   kimi dake areba subete mugen]

Sometime somewhere 
Onceagain * kiss around for our ties 
Tokimeki ni mi wo makase 

[Same guilt same crime
Makin' me dance around for killing time 
Tokimeki ni ayatsurare

Sometime somewhere 
Onceagain * kiss around for our ties 
Makin' me dance around for killing time 
Onceagain * ring around * for our ties] 

Enchanting Rome

We keep walking and wandering around, disoriented
Only chiming bells and silence run after us 

Suddenly, a beam of light tinged with mystery appears, and we are swallowed up, as if it were engulfing us

That is a space without any colors or reason 
It only exists for the sake of this moment... Only if you exist is everything infinite

Same guilt, same crime
Makin' me dance around for killing time 
I am dominated by this thrill  

Certainly
Close your eyes, and with my fingertips and tongue... this is a blind love
Surely one day our love words will be interrupted

Sometime somewhere
Once again, kiss around for our ties
I surrender myself to this thrill


These lyrics are so fuuuun, I think it's about two lovey-dovey vampires that are wandering in Rome, sightseeing and mostly looking for 'dinner'. Then, they are possessed by the need to suck blood and, as it seems, to twirl around and do some vampire føreplay. How obscenely fun. 
Notes: I added a couple * for the "Centenly" and the "Onceagain", which I find delightful. When it talks about the beam of light, I chose "tinged with mystery" because a more literal translation would be something along the lines of "the color of a miracle", meaning somehow supernatural. Finally, Tetsu sings "(tsutsumareru) you ni", meaning "as if", but in the written lyrics the particle "ni" is missing; I added it in the rōmaji section, and I wonder if it's a typo. 
Thank you for reading, and thank you Maiden Death for the code! I managed to lose the Tumblr post I picked the background from, but it's a picture of the Church of St. Ignatius in Rome.


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