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お前正直な話率直に言って日本の現状をどう思う?
To be frank, what do you honestly think of the current state of Japan?

俺はこれは憂うべき状況とは全然考えないけれども、
I don't really consider this to be a worrying situation, but...

かといって素晴らしいとは絶対思わねえな俺は。
That being said, I definitely don't think it's great either.

(だから俺は俺に聞いた。己の現状を俺に聞いた。)
(So I asked myself. I asked myself about my own situation.)

翻って己自身の現況を鑑みるに、これはやっぱり良いとも悪いとも言えねえなあ俺の場合は、君はどうだ?
Reflecting on my own current state, I can't really say if it's good or bad. What about you?

俺はこれは憂うべき状況とは思っていないけれども、ならばこれが良いのかと問われればまあまあだと答えざるをえないのがおおいに不本意だ。
I don't think this is a situation to worry about, but if you ask me if it's good, I have to say it's just okay, which is quite unsatisfying.

もっと力強い生活をこの手に!
I want a more powerful life in my hands!

OH! 胸を張って、胸を張って出かけようぜ。
OH! Let's go out with our heads held high!

俺が生まれたのはそう所謂高度経済成長の真っ只中で、
I was born in the midst of the so-called high economic growth period.

それは日本が敗戦に象徽される黒船以降の欧米に対する鬱屈したコンプレックスを一気に解消すべく、
It was to quickly relieve Japan's frustrated complex towards the Western countries since the Black Ships that symbolized Japan's defeat.

我々の上の世代の人間が神風のように猛然と追い続けた、繁栄という名の、そう繁栄という名の、繁栄という名のテーマであった。
It was the theme of prosperity that the generation before us pursued with divine wind-like passion.

OH!
OH!

嗚呼そして我々が受け継いだのは豊かさとどっちらけだ。
Oh, and what we inherited was both prosperity and indifference.

あげくがお前人の良さそうな変な奴がのせられて偉くなっちゃて、それでもそこそこ俺達は生活してんだから訳わかんねえよなあ。おい。
And in the end, some weirdo who seems like a good person gets put in charge and becomes important, and yet we're still living somehow. It's confusing, isn't it? Hey.

化けの皮剥ぎにでかけようぜ、化けの皮を剥がしにでかけようぜ。
Let's go strip off the disguises, let's go strip off those disguises.

"くだらねえ世の中""くだらねえ俺達"そんなのお前百年前から誰でも言ってるよ。お前変わんねえんだよそれ、お前縄文時代から変わんねえんだよお前それ。それ縄文時代から現代まで変わってねえんだよお前それは...。
"This world is ridiculous" "We're ridiculous" Everyone's been saying that for the past hundred years. You haven't changed, not since the Jomon era. That hasn't changed from the Jomon era to present day. You haven't changed, that's what it is...

ただなあ 破壊されんだよ駄目な物は全部。OH!
But you know, everything useless will be destroyed. OH!

この世の中にはそりゃあ思い通りにならないことはいくらもあるってことはお前さすがの俺も百も承知だけどなあお前、
Of course, there are countless things in this world that won't go as planned, and even I know that very well. But you know,

しかし、俺は折角のロックンロールバンドだ。あいつらの化けの皮を剥がしにいくってことをなあ、さっき自問自答の末結論した。
However, we're a hard rock band after all. That's why I came to a conclusion after asking myself why we do this - to strip off their disguises.

世の中にはさあ知ってるよなあお前、正直な話。ただなあ、
You know, the truth is, you know far more than I do. But,

だからそうお前、それはお前そんなにお前がっかりしてんなよ、お前、
So, don't be so disappointed, will you? You,

あのキリスト教の聖書にも載ってるってことはお前BC時代から同じこと言ってんだみんなお前。
The fact that it's written in the Christian Bible means everyone's been saying the same thing since BC, including you.

だからそう、だからそう、だから胸を張ってそう! だから胸を張ってそうさ! だから胸を張ってさ!"
So yeah, that's right, hold your head up high! Yeah, hold your head up high! So yeah, hold your head up!

OH!
OH!

化けの皮を剥がしにいこうぜおい。
Let's go strip off the disguises, hey.

さあ勝ちにいこうぜ。
Come on, let's win.

でたらめでもなんでもいいんだ。
Anything goes, even nonsense.

ただなあお前、破壊されんだよ駄目な物はいずれ。
But you know, everything useless will eventually be destroyed.

死ぬときがこの毎日ときっとおさらばって言うことなんだから、それまで出来うる限り、そう出来うる限り己自身の道を歩むべく、反抗を続けてみようじゃないか、出来うる限り...。
When we die, we say goodbye to every day, so until then, let's do everything we can to walk our own path and keep rebelling as much as possible...

胸を張ってさ そう
Hold your head up high