Hi kururéba
Sasoëshi mono wo
Akanuma no
Makomo no kuré no
Hitori-né zo uki! (x2)

Was in the month of June
On one unlucky day,
A hunter´s arrow
Whispered through
The thickest air

He wasn´t a bastard at all
But the famine had him
Overwhelmed
And his judgment easily blinded

By the side of a pond he found
Two sacred swans embracing each other
In loving devotion

Hunter, disturbed,
Prepared an arrow
And shoot
Sadly accurate
It pierced the male´s chest
He yelled out and closed it's eyes

His spouse couldn´t believe it yet
Her heart was also pierced
That noon at Akanuma

Sad
With a single arrow
He pierced two hearts
He didn´t know until that very night
When at midnight he woke up
With a fever and

By his side saw a girl on her knees
Crying bitterly
Next to his bed
The walls were crying loud
The moon lit up her face
So withered
Hers was a misery unspeakable

Said "YOU killer tomorrow
We shall meet there
Where a pound of flesh
Worth more to you than
A love sacred"

At dawn hunter left the shack
And ran
Through the forest,
Reached the marsh

The lonely spouse
Tored her heart
With her beak
To end up with her misery

Yet hunter yield to guilt
He understood
How unspeakable her misery was