Headphone Actor

Headphone Actor (ヘッドフォンアクター Heddofon Akutā) is the fourth song of the series.

Background

 * Lyrics / Composition / Arrangement: Jin
 * Recording / Tuning: Gacchan
 * Mix: Sun Plaza-P
 * Illustration / Video: Sidu

Description
This song tells the story of Takane Enomoto's experience in the Kagerou Daze. On an average day in summer, she finds herself extremely bored, so she turns on the radio to hear the voice of the country's president, announcing that the world is going to end today. She had a half-finished game with no save and a textbook. Scared, she put her headphones on, trying to stop her body from trembling. Listening to an unknown song, by an unknown artist, a voice from her headphones suddenly asks her if she wants to survive. She soon realizes the voice is her own. It tells her to go 20 minutes ahead and cross a hill, better or worse she would find out what it means.

On her way, she crosses a crowded intersection. Her voice tells her that 12 minutes are left. Takane believes if everything is going to vanish, she has no other choice but to listen to the voice from the headphones. Many minutes pass as she runs with tears in her eyes, having only one minute left. Eventually, she can no longer hear the voice because the hill that she is supposed to cross is right in front of her. When she gets to her destination, a group of scientists congratulate her. She finds out her town was an experiment that was no longer needed, so one of the scientists calmly detonates a bomb. The girl is told she was living her whole entire life in a box. As she looks at her town, all she can see is a burnt wreckage. From her headphones she hears a faint "Sorry" and the video shows an outline of Ene.

Lyrics & Translation
その日は随分と平凡で 当たり障りない一日だった 暇つぶしに聞いてたラジオから あの話が流れだすまでは
 * -|Kanji=

「非常に残念なことですが 本日地球は終わります」と どこかの国の大統領が 泣きながら話をするまでは.

窓の外は大きな鳥たちが 空覆い尽くしてく渋滞中 三日月を飲み込んでどこかへと向かってる

やりかけてたゲームはノーセーブ 机にほぼ手付かず参考書 震える身体をいなすように すぐにヘッドフォンをした

不明なアーティスト項目の タイトル不明のナンバーが 途端に耳元流れだした 「生き残りたいでしょう？」

蠢きだす世界会場を 波打つように揺れる摩天楼 紛れもないこの声はどう聞いても 聞き飽きた自分の声だ

「あの丘を越えたら20秒で その意味を嫌でも知ることになるよ. 疑わないで. 耳を澄ませたら 20秒先へ」

交差点は当然大渋滞 もう老若男女は関係ない 怒号やら赤ん坊の泣き声で埋まってく

暴れだす人　泣き出す少女 祈りだした神父を追い抜いて ただー人目指すのは逆方向 あの丘の向こうへと

ヘッドフォンから依然声がして 「あと12分だよ」と告げる このまま全て消え去ってしまうなら もう術は無いだろう

ざわめき出す悲鳴合唱を 涙目になってかすめる10秒 疑いたいけど誰がどうやっても 終わらない人類賛歌

「駆け抜けろ、もう残り1分だ」 その言葉ももう聞こえない位に ただ目指していた丘の向こうは すぐ目の前に

息も絶え絶えたどり着いたんだ 空を映し出す壁の前に その向こう白衣の科学者たちは 「素晴らしい」と手を打った

疑うよ

そこから見る街の風景は まるで実験施設のようでさ 「もう不必要だ」科学者は 片手間に爆弾を投げた

箱の中の小さな世界で 今までずっと生きてきたんだなと 燃え尽きていく街だったモノを ただ、呆然と見る耳元で

ヘッドフォンの向こうから 「ごめんね」と声がした Sono hi wa zuibun to heibonde Atarisawari nai ichinichi datta Hima-tsubushi ni kīteta rajio kara Ano hanashi ga nagaredasu made wa
 * -|Romaji=

"Hijō ni zannenna kotodesuga honjitsu chikyū wa owarimasu" to Dokoka no kuni no daitōryō ga Nakinagara hanashi o suru made wa.

Mado no soto wa ōkina toritachi ga Sora ōitsukushiteku jūtai chū Mikazuki o nomikonde doko ka e to mukatteru

Yari kaketeta gēmu wa nō sēbu Tsukue ni hobo tetsukazu sankōsho Furueru shintai o inasu yō ni Sugu ni heddofon o shita

Fumeina ātisuto kōmoku no Taitoru fumei no nanbā ga Totan ni mimimoto nagaredashita "Ikinokoritaideshō?"

Ugomekidasu sekai kaijō o Namiutsu yō ni yureru matenrō Magure mo nai kono koe wa dō kīte mo Kikiakita jibun no koeda

"Ano oka o koetara nijūbyōde sono imi o iya demo shiru koto ni naruyo. Utagawanaide. Mimi o sumasetara Nijūbyō saki e"

Kōsaten wa tōzen dai jūtai Mō rōnyakudanjo wa kankei nai Dogō yara akanbō no nakigoe de umatteku

Abaredasu hito nakidasu shōjo Inoridashita shinpu o oinuite Tadā hitori mezasu no wa gyaku hōkō Ano oka no mukō e to

Heddofon kara izen koe ga shite "Ato jūnibun dayo" to tsugeru Kono mama subete kiesatteshimaunara Mō sube wa naidarō

Zawameki dasu himei gasshō o Namidame ni natte kasumeru jū byō Utagaitaikedo dare ga dō yatte mo Owaranai jinrui sanka

"Kakenukero, mō nokori ichibun da" Sono kotoba mo mō kikoenai kurai ni Tada mezashiteita oka no mukō wa Sugu me no mae ni

Iki mo taedae tadoritsuitanda Sora o utsushidasu kabe no mae ni Sono mukō hakui no kagakushatachi wa "Subarashī" to te o utta

Utagauyo

Soko kara miru machi no fūkei wa Maru de jikken shisetsu no yōdesa "Mō fuhitsuyōda" kagakusha wa Katatema ni bakudan o nageta

Hako no naka no chīsana sekai de Ima made zutto ikite kitanda na to Moetsukiteiku machi datta mono o Tada, bōzento miru mimimoto de

Heddofon no mukō kara "Gomen ne" to koe ga shita (Unofficial Translation)
 * -|English=

It was an extremely average day, Without a single obstacle in my path Until I was bored, listening to the radio, And I heard this said:

"It's very unfortunate I have to say this, But the world is going to end today" So said some country's president, In tears as he spoke.

Out the windows was a huge flock of birds, Congesting to cover up the sky Swallowing up the crescent moon, headed some unknown direction.

I had a half-finished game with no save; A scarcely-touched textbook lay on my desk And to stop my body from trembling, I promptly put on my headphones

Just as I was listening to an obscure artist, A number they did with an unknown title, Just as it came to my ears, I heard: "You want to survive, yes?"

Waving over the wriggling world, The skyscrapers seemed to tremble This voice seemed unmistakable: It was my own, which I was tired of hearing

"If you cross that hill, then in twenty seconds, You'll know what I mean, for better or worse Don't doubt, just listen close - Go twenty seconds ahead."

The intersection was crowded, of course; Man, woman, child, it didn't matter I was buried under people yelling and babies' cries.

Rioting people, a sobbing girl, A priest praying, I passed them all by One single person headed the other way, Towards what was beyond that hill.

The voice from the headphones persisted: "Twelve minutes left," it told me If everything was going to up and vanish, Then I had no other way.

The chorus of shrieks and screams Turned to tearful eyes in ten seconds I had my doubts, but no matter who did what, There was no ending humanity's song

"Run, run, there's one minute left," But I couldn't even hear it by then; The hill which I thought to cross Was right before me.

My breath faint, I finally arrived Before a wall which projected the sky. Behind it, scientists in white applauded; "Magnificent," they said -

Doubt.

From there, I saw the town Was some kind of experimental facility; "No longer necessary," a scientist said, And calmly tossed a bomb

I was told I had been living My whole life in a little world in a box. So I could only stare, dumbfounded At the burnt wreckage that had been the town.

And from the headphones at my ear, I heard a faint "sorry"...

Trivia

 * This is one of Takane's four character songs. The others are Jinzou Enemy, Ene no Dennou Kikou, and Yuukei Yesterday.
 * This song is the first IA song that entered the VOCALOID Hall of Fame, which happened before IA was released.
 * It was voted as the #15 Kagerou Project song in the KagePro Song Popularity Ranking 2019.