Translation of the song 生まれた意味などなかった artist Mafumafu

厚紙の箱に捨てられた　命ならば値打ちはないか？

If my life was left to rot in a cardboard box, would it not be worth a damn?

バス停　待合に渦巻く　見て見ぬふりの雑踏

I write down my jumbled-up thoughts as I sit at the bus stop, neglecting the crowd around me

書き損じはどうしようもないが　それに勝る反吐が出ないか？

Even though I can't help but screw things up, isn't it pathetic that I could do so much better?

その行方は今日日じゃ　誰も知らない

Thinking like that is common nowadays; nobody seems to get it

母の手を零れた　小さな命は

Falling out of my mother's hands, this insignificant life of mine

後部座席に勝る価値もない

Isn't even worthy of being kept in the sidelines

何者にもなれる命で

This life of mine that had so much potential

救えるものひとつもないのだ

Is incapable of saving a single person

これほどに器用な手先で

With fingers as deft as ours

救えるものひとつもないのだ　僕たちは

We're still unable to save a single person

底知れた愚鈍な世界だ　書き物に筆を取れども

It's a world full of stupidity; even though I'm only writing them down

ぶちまけたインクのそれが　ひどく適切ではないか？

Aren't the thoughts written with that spilled ink awfully relevant?

死にたいかと言われりゃ　特に死ぬほどの孤独でもないが

If I were asked why I'd want to die, I'd say that I don't want to die that badly; I'm just lonely

生きたいか問われたら　何も言えない

But if I were asked why I'd want to live, I wouldn't be able to say anything

虚しさに適した表情はどれだ

Where is the emptiness that suits me so much?

書き始めの言葉は

The words that I've started to write are

『生まれた意味などなかった。』

There was no point in me being born

先見えぬ小説を読めば

If I read an unpredictable novel

捲り終えぬ世界があるのか？

Would this world where I haven't even finished turning the page still exist?

振り向けば崩れる足場で

If we turned around to look at the collapsing scaffolding

明日から何処へ向かうのだろう　僕たちは

Would we wonder where we'd head towards the day after?

アンノウン　アンノウン

unknown unknown

「私は誰だ」　「貴方は誰だ」

Who the hell am I? Who the hell are you?

アンノウン　アンノウン

unknown unknown

消しては書いて　丸め捨てては

Erasing what I've written, crumpling the pages and throwing them away

アンノウン　アンノウン

unknown unknown

自分ひとつが未だ書けない

I still can't write a single thing by myself

生まれた意味などないのか？

Was there no point in me being born?

生まれた意味などないのか？

Was there no point in me being born?

――生まれた意味などないのだ。

――There was no point in me being born!

事切れぬものなんてないのに

Even if nothing can last forever

救えるものひとつもないのに

Even if there isn't a single person that I can save

この命に意味などないのに

Even if there's no point in me being alive

優しい明日なんてないのに

Even if tomorrows will never be forgiving

行かなくちゃ　たとえ死に向かって歩いていたって

I have to go; even if I face death, I'll keep on walking

書かなくちゃ　当然余白も残っちゃいないが

I have to write; of course, even though no blank spaces should remain

知らなくちゃ　明日を　この途方もない暗晦を

I have to understand them, both my future and the absurd darkness it holds

生きなくちゃ　生きなくちゃ

I have to live! I have to live!

生きなくちゃいけない

I have to keep on living