Beatmap Listing » Yorushika - Thoughtcrime

The theme of "Thoughtcrime" is a plagiarism from George Orwell's novel "1984". At the moment when I proclaimed that it is plagiarism, plagiarism turned into a homage. The line between plagiarism and homage seems to be vague but, actually, it doesn't exist anywhere. Vice versa. All homages have the potential to become a plagiarism.
The poem of this song is a homage to Housai Ozaki's haiku and his later years.
I believe that someone can also say it is a plagiarism.
- n-buna

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思想犯というテーマは、ジョージ・オーウェルの小説「1984」からの盗用である。そして盗用であると公言したこの瞬間、盗用はオマージュに姿を変える。盗用とオマージュの境界線は曖昧に在るようで、実は何処にも存在しない。逆もまた然りである。オマージュは全て盗用になり得る危うさを持つ。
この楽曲の詩は尾崎放哉の俳句と、その晩年をオマージュしている。
それは、きっと盗用とも言える。
- ナブナ

Why would this spirit be ever understood by you, who is being tender for other people?
Cursing people is comfortable for me, that's why I was writing songs
It was my dream to be mentioned one day on the morning news report
And for this reason, I sharpen my knife

Sound of hitting the glass, tearing some sort of paper
The setting sun after a farewell was beautiful
Even you can understand this!

Madder of a crow's song
Even this solitude now turns into a sound
Twilight felt by my face
I'm standing on tiptoes, clouds glow red
"Goodbye" slipped from my tongue

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他人に優しいあんたにこの心がわかるものか
人を呪うのが心地良い、だから詩を書いていた
朝の報道ニュースにいつか載ることが夢だった
その為に包丁を研いでる

硝子を叩きつける音、何かの紙を破くこと、
さよならの後の夕陽が美しいって、君だってわかるだろ

烏の歌に茜
この孤独も今音に変わる
面影に差した日暮れ
爪先立つ、雲が焼ける、さよならが口を滑る

Eng translate from nkvoqz on youtube

- "pattern" is a term we can also use in a poem
- in japanese an idiom "烏合の衆" exists, it means people that gathering like a group of crows, a.k.a the crowd; this word also appears in the cover song "Plagiarism"