ZUN
Last Occultism ~ Esotericist of the Present World
When the street lights are bright, and when the sky lights are dim
You have no way of knowing what shadows there are trapped within
But some eyes can see through. Now this is my gift to you:
One extraordinary night before that rising of the greatest dawn
When the world comes to end, and when the truth comes around
The debris of your sad daily lives will start to tumble down
All your rules will be waste, once all the lines are erased
And yet through the pandemonium, my legacy will carry on
Those who lead and those who follow – both are shallow, both are hollow
Trading words of empty praise without a thing to show worthwhile
The mindless bunch can live like this, content with artificial peace
For those like me without a basic role to play, it’s not my style
We look the same, yet so unlike, just waiting for the clock to strike
It’s me against the world, and so if one is wrong, then one is right
The proof is in the boundary. I think at last I’ve found the key:
The secret seal is shattering tonight
“Hahahaha! The club’s first president, Sumireko Usami, will
Unleash the power of the occult balls and expose the esoteric!”
Voices shook, and rumors spoken: Is it nothing but a joke to you?
A way to keep the rest in line doing as you think they should?
It’s time to burst your bubble; it was never worth the trouble
Now the secret seal is shattering for good
Generations jaded and old, I see the lies that they told
Became a truth that they could never bear to hold
Again, now what will it take for you to see just how fake you are
To disbelieve in your own words?
There’s a time to be still, and there’s a time to be loud
And I’ve saved up this voice to be shouting out into the crowd
From the most faded past into the most fateful future
Behold the esemplastic link, the rebel of the present world!
One to move the immovable, and think the unthinkable:
Woke in her sleep, she is totally invincible
Bearing this curse, until the worse comes to worst
All your cards foresee the future on these shoulders of a single girl
Snap a shot to capture every moment of the rapture;
It develops into nightmare if your lens to view is shoddy
On the border of existence, I will reach the outer limits
Soon discovering another me beyond this fragile body
As the mood is set, the shade is thick; the last occult, the greatest trick
The intellect, the only weapon left to win the crucial fight
The stakes are to be born anew, the strongest thing that I could do:
The secret seal is shattering tonight
Time to take a leap of my own, into the epic unknown
I might as well; I would be better off alone
To put an end to the strife, if all it takes is this life
I stand preparing for my final act…
This fantastic horizon, shining bright in my eyes
Is the sun that will bathe that necropolis of filthy lies
I’ll expose to the world what you were too blind to see:
I bet you wouldn’t ever have been ready for the likes of me
When the world comes to end, and when the truth comes around
The debris of your sad daily lives will start to tumble down
All your rules will be waste, once all the lines are erased
And yet through the pandemonium – live on!
I’ll etch this name into the fabric, into the annals of all space and time
(Light as a dream, and heavy as fact…)
For the world, and despite the world, this legacy is truly mine!
I’ll break clean through the night. This power has been in my hands all along
(Up to the stars, and down through the gaps…)
Nevermore, and forevermore, my legacy will carry on!