【SynthV x 5 Chorus】Witch Hunt【English Cover】

Original by SuzukiP https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm14835645
Translyrics by JubyPhonic (with some edits)    • Witch Hunt (English Cover)【JubyPhonic】魔女  
Illustrated by Hiyoko ManjuuP https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/19867365
vsqx by SuzukiP https://piapro.jp/t/xUA3
Cover, mix by glitterbees

This one's a classic, and a joy to cover and I hope I've done it some justice. This blew my mind in middle school and you know what? Middle-school me was right. It's been over a decade since it came out, and it still slaps.

These are mostly Juby's lyrics, though I did make some alterations (especially the ending, I hope I can get across a fraction of how raw that line is originally. Not crying about how sad the story is, which it is, but about how this is everyone in the crowd's fault for either instigating or being complicit.) If you've had a unit on the Salem Trials or The Crucible, you know. Besides outright changes, though, there are moments where tense and pronouns change minorly depending on who is speaking, which I have confined to the description because having them in the burned-in subs hindered clarity more than helped it, but I don't want anyone to miss out on those little idiosyncrasies. I hope this is an okay-compromise.

Only after publishing did I think that instead of 'tears of blood' at the end it'd be more fitting to say 'rains of blood' bc A) more powerful sound and imagery for the mood and B) sounds like 'reigns of blood', with reference to how she's unlikely the first and won't be the last to be burned at the stake in this town. Oops.

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Come now, gather around
Behold such a saddening tale.
Come now, leave not behind your handkerchief
it may keep you well.
One time long long ago,
there lived a young mage in the land.
It's said she once convinced a young prince
to offer her his hand.

I've no need for magic to stop time,
no spell can achieve what I feel.
Love bounding through every hour,
joy lights a new day.

Tied up tight to a cross,
I look longing for the sky.
(Penitence for the crime! Penitence and your life!)
If I pray? Look around,
I'm drowned out by tones and sound!
(Devotion turned to certain doom!)
If my love was just a curse,
then I have only tears to shed.
(Penitence for the crime! Penitence and your life!)
Let it light, let it burn,
and make ashes of hatred!
(Now feel the weight of death, and soon...)

Come now, open your eyes.
Look up to flames in the sky.
Come now, do not forget those embers
are the final judge.
There lived, so long ago,
a mage fine and fair like a rose.
Her smile never failed to enchant,
or so the story goes....

She hid spells and charms to decieve you!
Why else would I [we] pine in dismay?
Love dies in a flash of passion!
Now she'll have to pray [pay]!

Hear that witch crying louder
as she's tied up to her eyes!
(Penitence for the crime! Penitence and your life!)
Right before shouting curses
that may take away your life!
(A virtue vitrified to vice!)
If our love was just a farce,
then I have only tears in mind.
(We [They] will do what we [they] must! Let it [them] all turn to dust!)
Let it light, let her burn,
this has to be what is right!
(No hand to help her [me] find her [my] way!)

Can't believe you're all such fools!
She has fed you filthy lies!
(Penitence for the crime! Penitence and your life!)
Searing flames rise up higher
as the sun itself [herself] will die!
(Now feel the weight of death, and soon...)

No need for a magic to stop time,
no spell can achieve what we feel.
Love bounding through every hour,
joy lights a new day.

Tied up tight to a cross,
I look longing for the sky.
(Penitence for the crime! Penitence and your life!)
If I pray? Look around,
I'm drowned out by tones and sound!
(Devotion turned to certain doom!)
If my love was just a curse,
then I have only tears to shed.
(We will do what we must! Let it all turn to dust!)
Let it light, let me burn,
choke on ashes of hatred!
(No hand to help her find her way!)

As the flames sear the sky with deep red above it all,
(Penitence for the crime! Penitence and your life!)
may you never forget you caused these tears of blood to fall!
(Now feel the weight of death, and soon-)