This is my English translation of エルの肖像 (Elle’s Portrait) from Sound Horizon’s “Elysion” album. Use as you will, but please do not take MY translations and claim them as your own, because you obviously did not translate these. If you’re using it, please don’t forget to link back to http://chimera.fragiled.com !

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Japanese:
白い結晶の宝石は　風を纏って踊る
樹氷の円舞曲　遠く朽ちた楽園
黒い瞳孔(め)の少年は　風を掃って通る
樹氷の並木道　深い森の廃屋
少年が見つけた　少女の肖像画
『彼』は病的に白い　『彼女』に恋をしてしまった…
幼い筆跡の署名(Sign)　妙に歪な題名(Title)は
【最愛の娘エリスの八つの誕生日に…】
退廃(Decadence)へと至る幻想 背徳を紡ぎ続ける恋物語(Romance)
痛みを抱く為に生まれてくる 哀しみ
第四の地平線─その楽園の名は『ELYSION』
──そして…幾度目かの楽園の扉が開かれる……
やがて少年は彼の《理想》(idea”L”)を求めるだろう…
やがて少年は彼の《鍵穴》(keyho”L”e)を見つけるだろう…
やがて少年は彼の《楽園》(e”L”ysion)を求めるだろう…
やがて少年は彼の《少女》(gir”L”)を見つけるだろう…
娘もまた母になり　娘を産むのならば
楽園を失った原罪を　永遠に繰り返す……
始まりの扉と　終わりの扉の狭間で
惹かれ合う『E』(EL)

と『A』(ABYSS)──愛憎の肖像
禁断に手を染め　幾度も恋に堕ちてゆく
求め合う『E』(EVA)と『A』(ADAM)──愛憎の肖像
やがて少年は♂(オトコ)の為に自らを殺し　少女は♀(オンナ)の為に自らを殺す
時の荒野を彷徨う罪人達は　其処にどんな楽園を築くのだろうか？
──幾度となく『E』(Elysion)が魅せる幻影　それは失ったはずの『E』(Eden)の面影
嗚呼…その美しき不毛の世界は　幾つの幻想を疾らせてゆくのだろう──

English
Wearing the wind, white crystal jewels dance.
The Paradise Waltz rots away in a silver forest.
A black-eyed boy passes by, swept by the wind.
The deserted house deep in the forest where there is an avenue of frozen trees.

The boy finds the portrait of a girl.
“He” fell in love with “she” who was abnormally white…

A signature in childish handwriting.
The strangely distorted title says:
“On the eighth birthday of my dearest daughter Elise…”

A fantasy that leads to Decadence, and a Romance that continues to spin immorality.
The sorrow of being born to embrace pain.
The fourth horizon – the name of that paradise is “Elysion”.
— And then… how many times was the door to Paradise opened?

Maybe the boy will soon demand for his idea”L”
Maybe the boy will soon find his keyho”L”e
Maybe the boy will soon demand for his e”L”ysion
Maybe the boy will soon find his gir”L”

If the daughter becomes a mother, and her daughter bears a daughter, she’ll forever repeat the original sin that lost paradise… (lust)

Between the door at the beginning and the door at the end,
Elle and Abyss attract each other–
portraits of love and hatred.

Hands dyed with sin, they fall in love many times.
The portrait of “Eve” and “Adam” – portraits of love and hatred.

Soon the boy will kill himself for the sake of a man, and the girl for the sake of a woman
What kind of paradise will the criminals wandering in the ruins of time create?

— The vision of Elysion that was shown many times, that is an Eden that should have been lost.
Ah… How many fantasies will that beautiful barren world build?

Translated by Ria Rosa Quinto.