This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
kioku no kakera ni egaita bara o mitsumete
togireta omoi de kasaneru kawaranai yume ni
Oh Rusty Nail
dore dake namida o nagaseba
anata o wasurerareru darou
Just tell me my life
doko made aruite mitemo
namida de ashita ga mienai
jyosho ni owatta shuumatsu no kizu wasurete
nagareru toki ni dakaretemo mune ni tsuki sasaru
Oh Rusty Nail
dore dake namida o nagaseba
anata o wasurerareru darou
utsukushiku iroasete nemuru bara o
anata no kokoro ni sakasete
sugao no mama de ikite yukereba kitto
hitomi ni utsuru yoru wa kagayaku yume dake nokoshite
asa o mukaeru kodoku o wasurete
akai tekubi o dakishimete naita yoru o owarasete
kioku no tobira o tozashita mama de furuete
togireta omoi o kasaneru aoi kuchibiru ni
Oh Rusty Nail
dore dake namida o nagaseba
anata o wasurerareru darou
Just tell me my life
doko made aruite mitemo
namida de ashita ga mienai
kurushikute kokoro o kazatta......ima mo
anata o wasurerarenakute
togireta omoi de kasaneru kawaranai yume ni
Oh Rusty Nail
dore dake namida o nagaseba
anata o wasurerareru darou
Just tell me my life
doko made aruite mitemo
namida de ashita ga mienai
jyosho ni owatta shuumatsu no kizu wasurete
nagareru toki ni dakaretemo mune ni tsuki sasaru
Oh Rusty Nail
dore dake namida o nagaseba
anata o wasurerareru darou
utsukushiku iroasete nemuru bara o
anata no kokoro ni sakasete
sugao no mama de ikite yukereba kitto
hitomi ni utsuru yoru wa kagayaku yume dake nokoshite
asa o mukaeru kodoku o wasurete
akai tekubi o dakishimete naita yoru o owarasete
kioku no tobira o tozashita mama de furuete
togireta omoi o kasaneru aoi kuchibiru ni
Oh Rusty Nail
dore dake namida o nagaseba
anata o wasurerareru darou
Just tell me my life
doko made aruite mitemo
namida de ashita ga mienai
kurushikute kokoro o kazatta......ima mo
anata o wasurerarenakute
Lyrics submitted by JRocker-girl
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My third favorite X Japan song besides Weekend and Art of Life. this song truly seems to speak to me, and I feel that not many people are truly able to understand it's feeling.
Yeah, this is a great song.
This is one of their best, but I think its not a happy one, I looked up that a Rusty Nail is an ancient torture device, and I think this song is about how bad his life is and how he wants to be set free. I'm not too sure though just cuz most of its Japanese though haha
To me, "Rusty Nail" has such an 80s-rock feel to it, and for that alone it brings up memories of a happier, more innocent life filled with big hair and great guitars. But considering the fact that "Rusty Nail" just happens to be an X JAPAN song, well--let's just say things invariably pool a bit deeper than that.
I looked up the translated lyrics a long time ago, and I'm sorry to say that I have forgotten the gist of them between then and now. Yet while X Japan's music almost always has that hidden edge, that sorrow and pain, I can't help but think that "Rusty Nail" really IS a happy song. There's just something so free about it, there are no constraints... You can hear the longing in Toshi's voice when he sings that last "wasurenarenakute" (don't yell at me for my questionable transliteration), but even so, that final plea/hope/desire is not without its silver lining. Maybe I'm rambling uneducated nonsense at this point, but I really don't care. I love this song. It's one of the X Japan greats that keeps me such a loyal fan.
have you seen its animation PV??? Bwahahahahaha...
Great Song Love the part where Yoshiki whispers "I can't die , I can't live, I couldn't let you set me free"