Moonless Orchard

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A dry wooden knock answers from the dark
(乾いた木を打つ音が闇の奥から応える)
Leaves shiver without wind
(風もないのに葉が震える)
Something beneath the roots begins to pulse
(根の下で何かが脈打ちはじめる)

No moon has touched these branches for a hundred years
(百年ものあいだ月はこの枝々に触れていない)
Still every limb is heavy with a borrowed glow
(それでも枝という枝は借り受けた光を重たげに宿している)
I came to find the voice I lost beyond the gate
(私は門の彼方で失った声を探しに来た)
Where black-skinned fruit remembers what the living drop
(そこでは黒き皮の果実が生者のこぼしてゆくものを記憶している)
Names gather softly in the bark like sleeping insects
(眠る虫のように名が樹皮の内へひそやかに群れる)
Faces turn inside the pulp and vanish when I blink
(果肉の奥でいくつもの顔がこちらを向き瞬きをすれば消えてゆく)
I hear my sister laughing from the tallest bough
(いちばん高い枝から血を分けた彼女の笑い声が聞こえる)
The orchard bends as if it knows why I have come
(果樹園は私がここへ来た理由を知るかのように身を屈める)

Do not taste what calls you home
(故郷へ呼び戻すものを口にしてはならない)
Some doors open inward only
(内側にしか開かぬ扉もある)

Moonless Orchard
(月なき果樹園)
Keep your silver mouths away
(その銀色の口を私から遠ざけろ)
I will not trade my living years for one recovered day
(たった一日を取り戻すために生ある歳月を差し出しはしない)
Moonless Orchard
(月なき果樹園)
Shake the dead from every tree
(すべての樹から死者を振り落とせ)
If memory demands a name then let the roots remember me
(記憶がひとつの名を求めるのならこの根に私を刻ませればいい)

I split the first fruit open with a trembling hand
(震える手で最初の果実を裂いた)
Her summer voice spills out and circles through the leaves
(あの夏の彼女の声があふれ出し葉群のあいだを巡ってゆく)
For one bright breath she stands beside me as before
(光に満ちたひと呼吸のあいだだけ彼女は昔のように私の隣に立つ)
Then every road that led me here disappears from thought
(そしてここへ至ったすべての道が私の記憶から消えてゆく)
The second fruit restores the shape of mother’s eyes
(二つ目の果実が母の瞳の面影を蘇らせる)
The price is every room where we once learned to speak
(代償はかつて私たちが言葉を覚えた部屋のすべて)
By the third I cannot tell which memories are mine
(三つ目を口にする頃にはどの記憶が自分のものなのかさえ分からない)
Yet still the higher branches whisper there is more
(それでもなお高き枝々はまだ先があると囁き続ける)

Leave one truth beneath your tongue
(ただひとつの真実だけは舌の下に隠しておけ)
Guard it while the garden feeds
(この園が喰らい続けるあいだそれだけは守り抜け)

Do not bloom inside my skull
(私の頭蓋の内で花開くな)
Do not write across my blood
(私の血におまえの言葉を刻むな)
Crush the seed
(種を砕け)
Split the root
(根を断ち裂け)
Let the buried mouths go mute
(埋もれた口どもを黙らせろ)
I choose the wound that still belongs to me
(私はなお自分のものと呼べる傷を選ぶ)

I know one thing
(ただひとつだけ分かっている)
She wanted me alive
(彼女は私に生きていてほしかった)
I know one thing
(ただひとつだけ分かっている)
No memory is worth becoming empty
(己を空虚にしてまで守るに値する記憶などない)

Moonless Orchard
(月なき果樹園)
Drop your stolen stars and break
(奪い取った星々を落とし砕け散れ)
I carry love without the proof your hungry branches take
(飢えた枝々が愛の証を奪おうとも私は愛そのものを抱いてゆく)
Moonless Orchard
(月なき果樹園)
Hear the ground reject your claim
(大地がおまえのものではないと告げる声を聞け)
When morning finds this field in ruin I will leave without my name
(朝が滅び果てたこの野を照らす時私は名を失ったままここを去る)

The branches lighten
(枝々から重みが消えてゆく)
The roots fall still
(根はついに脈動を止める)
No answer follows
(もはや何ひとつ応えない)

Prompt

Fast symphonic death metal built around human-perceived velocity rather than BPM alone. Drive it with double-time motion, relentless twin kicks, blast bursts, tremolo riffs, and tight chugs. Growls remain the main lead in verses, choruses, breakdown, rebuild, and final chorus. Female cleans appear only in brief pre-choruses. Open with the Falling Fruit Motif, a three-note descending figure shared by muted strings and guitar harmonics, answered by a dry wooden knock. Use rhythmic string attacks, brass punctuation, choir weight, and counterlines that answer riffs without masking them. Create clear A-to-B shifts from fierce verses to lifted pre-choruses and instantly identifiable growled choruses. Mid-song, strip to sparse harmonics and motif fragments, fall into a crushing half-time breakdown, then fire into a lead event and rebuild toward a larger final chorus. Keep drums punchy, transients sharp, mids articulate, lows controlled, growls forward, and the orchestra wide but uncluttered.