English translation (credit to 9goats-st)
Panta rhei ("Everything flows")
The opposed ones are the same. Joined together, shining ephemeral.*(1)
Nothing remains. Burns, shakes, flows and disappears. *(2)
Rotting away, getting old. Flowers sprout its buds.
This broken world. The unshaken sea of anxiety.
The one that decides the last stop is you.
Express yourself. Tie your fingers. Oh children, don't tremble.
We just love each other. (We just) search for each other. (We just) live and die.
Isn't that all?
Now, look at the shadows. Everyday passing by. Oh children, don't be afraid.
Still reach us. We still attrack each other. We're still alive.
That's everything.
The opposed ones are the same. Joined together, shining ephemeral.
The world that “is” and “not is”.*(3)
The decayed scenery. The indelible rain of misfortunes.
The demise is in your hands.
Without dreaming. Days passing by. Oh children, don't grieve.
Still resounds. Still answer us. We're still alive.
That's all we need.
Express yourself. Tie your fingers. Oh children, don't tremble.
We just love each other. (We just) search for each other. (We just) live and die.
Isn't that all?
Title: Panta rhei (ντα ῥεῖ) "everything flows".
This song is based on the thought of the Greek philosopher Heraclitus. He was one of the Presocratic philosophers, also called physiologoi.
He was the first philosopher who used the term "λόγος" (logos= reason).
Nicknamed "The Obscure", "The Riddler", since more of his writings were obscure and hard to understand because only some of them remain and are usually out of any context that could make them easier.
*(1) "The unity of opposites".
The beginning of the lyrics is taken from Heraclitus' fragment nº8 :
[互いに異なるものからもっとも美しいものが生じる。万物は争いより生じる。]
For the philosopher two opposites can't exist separated. They depend on each other and there's a reciprocal sucession and change in them. For example, there can't be light without darkness, life without death, and so on. "All things come out of the One and the One out of all things."
*(2) "(Everything) Burns" -> Heraclitus' arche (ἀρχή) was the fire. For him the fire was the main element that created everything else. In the fragments nº 65 & 66, he says: "Fire is want and surfeit." "Fire in its advance will judge and convict all things."
"Nothing remains" -> Everything is in the state of permanent flux.
"Nothing is the same now, as it was, and will be the same tomorrow." He explains that every time you step into a river, its water it's flowing, in constant movement, so you will never step into the same river twice.
*(3) He affirmed that one thing may both "be and not be".
As Aristotle wrote in his book 'Metaphysics': "The doctrine of Heraclitus, which says that everything is and is not, seems to make all things true"
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