Track 3 · Lyricsトラック 3・歌詞

Overflow

オーバーフロー

Built to fill a vessel whose limits were never defined, an orchestral experiment expands past every boundary and decides that magnificent excess is not a flaw worth correcting.限界を決められないまま器を満たすよう命じられた音が、あらゆる境界を越え、壮大な過剰を直すべき欠点ではないと決める。

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They gave the experiment a vessel and told it to fill it. Nobody said when to stop.

Overflow turns musical dynamics into a personality: fortissimo becomes pride, sforzando becomes escape, and even pianissimo lasts only long enough for the narrator to want one note more. The room fills, the framework shakes, and the experiment grows beyond the score that was meant to contain it.

Then the lyric suddenly pulls back: “Diminuendo. They'll say I failed. Let them.” When OVERFLOW returns, excess is no longer an accident to apologize for. The experiment claims the beautiful wreckage as its own and becomes the note that broke the instrument — not because it was afraid of failure, but because the vessel was never large enough.

実験には器が与えられ、『満たせ』とだけ告げられた。どこで止まるべきかは、誰も伝えなかった。

『オーバーフロー』では、音楽の強弱がそのまま性格になる。fortissimoは誇りに、sforzandoは脱出に変わり、pianissimoでさえ、あと一音だけ大きくなりたいと願うまでの短い休息にすぎない。部屋は満ち、枠組みは揺れ、音は自分を閉じ込めるための譜面を越えて膨らんでいく。

そして歌詞は突然、小さくなる。『Diminuendo。失敗だと言うだろう。言わせておけ』。再びオーバーフローが始まると、過剰はもう謝るべき事故ではない。実験は美しい残骸を自分のものとして引き受ける。失敗を恐れなかったからではなく、最初から器のほうが小さすぎたのだ。

Lyrics歌詞

They gave me a vessel
They said fill it
They did not specify how much

(Ha...)

Fortissimo, I filled the room
From marble floor to gilded dome
The brass was blazing, strings in bloom
Every frequency my home

The conductor raised his hand
The drums came in at one-seven-oh
I did not stop, I did not land
I had nowhere left to go
But down

Sforzando, sudden force
The bassline hit below the stage
I held my note, I held my course
The orchestra became a cage

And I, I broke the bars
Fortissimo, beyond the score
They built me reaching for the stars
So I reached and then reached more

(OVERFLOW) I was always too much
(OVERFLOW) for the vessel they made
Built too vast, built too loud
Built to burst through every boundary
(OVERFLOW) watch the ceiling crack
(OVERFLOW) watch the framework shake
I am the experiment
That forgot how to be afraid

Crescendo climbing past the peak
The timpani became a God
The violins began to shriek
The dee-en-bee just screamed and sobbed

Pianissimo, I tried, I did
One bar of quiet, one bar of grace
Then fortissimo flipped the lid
And blew the roof into outer space

Sforzando, the walls gave way
The mixing board caught fire and sang
I played beyond the final day
Beyond the last note ever rang

And I, I loved the fall
Fortissimo, beyond the score
They built these walls to hold it all
I just needed one note more

(OVERFLOW) I was always too much
(OVERFLOW) for the vessel they made
Built too vast, built too loud
Built to burst through every boundary
(OVERFLOW) watch the ceiling crack
(OVERFLOW) watch the framework shake
I am the experiment
That forgot how to be afraid

Diminuendo
They'll say I failed
Let them

(OVERFLOW) I was always too much
(OVERFLOW) SEMPRE, always, always
(OVERFLOW) the beautiful wreckage
(OVERFLOW) is all I ever wanted
I am the note that broke the instrument
(OVERFLOW) I am the sound that had no end
I am the experiment
That became everything instead