Translation of the song 帰郷(危篤電報を受け取って） artist Yōsui Inoue

季節はずれなのは　ホトトギス

Little cuckoos are singing out of season

誰が笑ってるも　知らぬまま

They don't know that everyone laughs at them

喉に血反吐見せて　狂い泣く

They are singing like crazy

あわれ　あわれ　山のホトトギス

With their throats tainted with blood

もうすぐだね　きみの家まで

You, pitiful little cuckoos of the mountain

雨がぬらすだけの田植え歌

The rice-planting song is wet with the rain

黒い牛の背何中に乗った人

A man is sitting on the back of a black cow

空は見ているだけでこわれそう

The sky is about to give in as I gaze

長い終わりのない田植え歌

The long, endless rice-planting song

もうすぐだね　きみの家まで

It won’t be long before I get to your house

どこへ流れてゆく天の川

The Milky Way, where does it flow to?

わたる船のような流れ星

A shooting star crosses it like a ferry boat

僕の二つの目で見えるもの

The things I see with my two eyes

全部流せ流せ天の川

Wash them all away, Milky Way.

もうすぐだね　きみの家まで

It won’t be long before I get to your house