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Jigoku Dayū

Jigoku Dayū lyrics by Ibaraki. Sewing in the illustrations Endless torture, raging demons All reside in devil's fire Underworld, Yomi, home Why is she...

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Jigoku Dayū

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Sewing in the illustrations

Endless torture, raging demons

All reside in devil's fire

Underworld, Yomi, home

Why is she depicting all the

Scenes of hell and its inflictings

Into her kimono's textures?

Time to see what's come to be

She has spent her life

As a servant of

Men and their disgusting desires

Metaphorically

And symbolically

Living in literal purgatory

Sewing in the illustrations

Endless torture, raging demons

All reside in devil's fire

Underworld, Yomi, home

Why is she depicting all the

Scenes of hell and its inflictings

Into her kimono's textures?

Time to see what's come to be

She has spent her life

As a servant of

Men and their disgusting desires

Metaphorically

And symbolically

Living in literal purgatory

Long ago lived Otoboshi

Daughter of a samurai (Samurai)

Father killed, the family fled into the mountains

Ambushed soon

Bandits kidnapped her

And sold her to a local brothel

Forced into a life of servitude

A courtesan for all

Naming herself Jigoku

She wrapped herself in scenes of hell

Flame and fire, skeletons

This kimono life represented

Rising to the highest rank of courtesan she climbed

But skeletons in bags of flesh is all we are

Skeletons in bags of flesh is all we are

Skeletons in bags of flesh is all we are (Is all we are)

Soon was sought by a zen priest

Who wanted to meet this elite

Trading poems and revelations

Jigoku soon tests the monk

Sees him dancing skeletons

Consuming flesh and alcohol

Over the years, finding enlightenment from Ikkyū's teachings

Do not bury me or burn my body when I have died

Throw me in the fields

So that I may feed all the starving dogs

Do not bury me or burn my body when I have died

Throw me in the fields

So that I may feed all the starving dogs

It kills me to see just what they've done

It kills me to see just what she has become

It kills me to see just what they've done

It kills me to see just what she has become

It kills me to see just what they've done

(Fell ill, sings a song)

It kills me to see just what she has become

(The song ends, she dies)

It kills me to see just what they've done

(Young, but at peace)

It kills me to see just what she has become

(Life of hell cured by the hypocrite priest)

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