[miku/luka] Circle You, Circle You (かこめかこめ)

Feel free to use these lyrics to record a cover of the song, but if you choose to do so, please credit either emeralddarkess on livejournal/dreamwidth, or this blog!

A note: The line "Little bird in a cage" is not actually a translation of the line in question - the original is either "Kakome, kakome" (Circle, circle [around you]) or (probably) "Kagome, kagome" which are essentially nonsense words, sung in the children's song/game Kagome, Kagome. The (translated) rhyme goes something like:

Kagome, kagome, the bird in the cage,
When, oh when will you come out?
In the evening of the dawn,
the crane and turtle slipped.
Who is right behind you?

Two of the lines in the song - yoake no ban ni (In the evening of the dawn) and "Ushiro no shoumen daare?" (Who is right behind you?) - are direct lifts from the Kagome, Kagome song, so I figured I'd take a few liberties and replace the nonsense words with ones that fit in with the rest of the 'borrowed' lyrics.

In a building rotting in the shade
There, at the end of a dim hallway
Lies a room long forgotten by all
In it, poor lost neglected children dwell

They
They've waited so long for you to come and visit, waited for years
We are so happy! We're all so happy!
Won't you come play with us here?

Circle you, circle you
Don't run and don't try to escape
Circle all around you
What's a game that you love playing?
When the first light starts to fade
You can join us, come be our friend!
Little bird in a cage
Who's standing behind you right now?

Here's an orphanage hidden by trees
Used to test a horror-filled technique
Medicine derived from children's brains
Immortality built on death and pain

The
The children of the orphanage circled round the teacher in charge
They would sing a song and would play a game:
Circle you, circle you

Circle you, circle you
Round a child who just lost the game
Circle all around you
Make sure that the brat can't escape
When the first light starts to fade
Behead all the ones who tamper
Little bird in a cage
Who's standing behind you right now?

Now
Now even if their heads are crushed or an arm is torn away
These children won't die, they will never die
They still laugh sweetly and play

Circle you, circle you
Don't run and don't try to escape
Circle all around you
Come and drink the magic tonic
Then just like us, you won't age
Come and play with us forever
Little bird in a cage
Who's standing behind you right now?

If anyone has any concrit to offer, it is both welcome and appreciated.