おしゃかしゃま (Oshakashama) Lyrics (English Translation) – 宮本浩次 (Hiroji Miyamoto)

[Verse 1]
The crows are multiplying, so we kill them.
The monkeys are multiplying, so we reduce their numbers.
But the pandas are disappearing, so we increase their numbers.
But the human race continues to increase, even as it multiplies.
We always pray and worship to God,
But before we know it,
Yes, we humans have become God.
And before we know it, we’ve become God.
Who do we think we are?

[Verse 2]
I’ve never seen one.
I see them in paintings here and there.
And the gods I’ve heard about are all human in shape.
Is it a coincidence or a fateful coincidence?
Or perhaps a selfish sketch.
Which way is this, this way, that way?
What’s going on, Da Vinci?

[Chorus]
Whether there’s an afterlife or not, so what does it matter?
Whether we’re reborn or stay the same, it doesn’t matter.
People always do whatever they want,
Even if they stand at the top of this chain,
They insist that there’s still a top.

[Verse 3]
If I were God, If I could decide everything
I’m sure I wouldn’t try to create a world in seven days.
I’d take more time and make a proper plan.
Because I rushed and created it, I cut and pasted, made and destroyed.

[Verse 4]
Increase and decrease, decrease and increase.
Why, why? Why? Pretending to ask “?”
Even though you know the answer

“Tell me, tell me, why, why?”
Because humanity is stupid,
I know that’s true,
So they should just be wiped out in 1, 2, 3.
Because, after all.

[Pre-Chorus]
Stupidity can’t be cured unless you die, so there’s no point in thinking about it.
Now, I have high hopes for me in the next life, but wait, what should I do in this life?
Now, let’s do something reckless, and make a mess, and let’s combine the two and make chaos.
Now, let’s make it vague, and let’s make it vague, and let’s combine the two and make it vague.

[Chorus]
So, even if it’s no good, they say there’s always something to come.
Why, even if it’s no good, they say there’s always something to come.
Why, even if it’s no good, they just throw it away, and they say what’s next.
But, but, but, but, yet, what should I do?
No matter what I say, no matter what I do, they say it’s no good, no good.

[Bridge]
So what should I do? Where should I go?
If being here or not is no good, then where?

[Chorus]
Whether there’s an afterlife, or even if there isn’t, so what?
Whether I’m reborn, or even if I don’t change, that doesn’t matter.
Whether I go to heaven, or even hell, so what?
It doesn’t have to be up, it doesn’t have to be down, there’s a path to the side.