Colony

Lyrics

 * 1 "Kiteki (汽笛) literally means “steam whistle” (like the one you can hear in “Haldyn Hotel”, especially the Switched-on Lotus remix), but I was surprised to find that you could also translate the same word as “siren” (サイレン), considering what album comes after this one…"
 * 2 "The basic meanings of e (絵) and kaku (描く) are “picture; painting” and “to paint; draw; sketch” respectively, but one of kaku’s other meanings is “to have/take the form of” (形をとる, katachi wo toru).
 * Example: とんびが円を描いて飛んでいる (Tonbi ga en wo kaite tondeiru) = “The kite (i.e. bird) is flying in a circle.”"
 * 3 "Hito means “person”, but can be also translated as “people”.  For example, the phrase takusan no hito would be translated as “a lot of people”. The other word for “people”, hitobito, is rarely used in daily conversation, appearing mostly in written texts and speeches to mean “people in general”.
 * Other possible translations for the lines containing the word hito in this song would include, “There is a person who imitates the sky…S/he will come to meet you”, etc."
 * 4 "Sora (空, “sky”) is the reading given here for uchuu (宇宙, “universe; cosmos; space”)."