【歌詞翻訳・意味解説】Arcite/アーサイト The Escape Key/ザ・エスケープ・キー【歌詞翻訳・意味解説】

イギリスのバンド。
メタルコアに分類されることがあるが、実際にはかなりメロデス、デスラッシュの要素が強い。

バンド名の「Arcite」を辞書で調べると、チョーサー（Geoffrey Chaucer）のカンタベリー物語（The Canterbery Tales）の騎士の物語（The Knight’s Tale）を翻訳した寓話「Palamon and Arcite」に登場することがわかりました。

You’ve got to make your escape
While you can
Take the pieces of the life you live
And force them deep underground
You’ve got to roll with the punches
Take all the chances
That life throws your way
Cause if we don’t you know
This life will be the death of us
This life will be the death of us

This life will be the death of us
This life will be the death of us
This life will be the death of us
This life will be the death of us

When there’s nothing good to stay for
Then why are we still here
We work our fingers red raw
To disappear

Once the door is opened
It’s time to leave
Time to take a step outside
And find what could have been
You don’t want to grow old
Take a look at your life
Realize that it’s nothing
That you’d hoped
Every day was the same
No one remembers your name
Now you’re left wondering all alone

When there’s nothing good to stay for
Then why are we still here
We work our fingers red raw
To disappear

But there’s still so much to play for
Before it’s time to leave
We keep one foot in the door
So we can disappear

Into the night
Into the life that we want to live
This could mean everything
And we won’t let it pass us by
We might only get one chance

This is the time
This is the life that we want to live
This might just be nothing
We won’t know until we
Try this for real
See how it feels
If we don’t move now
We never will