Song: Zankoku na Tenshi no TE-ZE (Cruel Angel’s Thesis)
Artist: Takahashi Youko
Anime: Shin Seiki Evangerion (Neon Genesis Evangelion) – 1st Opening

Verse 1

残酷な天使のように
少年よ神話になれ

Zankoku na tenshi no you ni
Shounen yo shinwa ni nare

Like a cruel angel
Young man, become a legend

Verse 2

青い風がいま
胸のドアを叩いても
私だけをただ見つめて
微笑んでるあなた

Aoi kaze ga ima
Mune no DOA wo tataite mo
Watashi dake wo tada mitsumete
Hohoenderu anata

Even if the blue wind
Knocks on the door of your chest now
You’re still looking only at me and
Smiling

Verse 3

そっとふれるもの
もとめることに夢中で
運命さえまだ知らない
いたいけな瞳

Sotto fureru mono
Motomeru koto ni muchuu de
Unmei sae mada shiranai
Itaike na hitomi

Absorbed in yearning
For things that you gently touch
Your childish eyes
Still don’t even know destiny

Verse 4


だけどいつか気付くでしょう
その背中には
遥か未来めざすための　
羽根があること

Dakedo itsuka kizuku deshou
Sono senaka ni wa
Haruka mirai mezasu tame no
Hane ga aru koto

But will you notice someday?
That on your back
There are wings
For aiming for the faraway future

Chorus (First and last line are similar to the first verse of the song)

残酷な天使のテーゼ
窓辺からやがて飛び立つ
ほとばしる熱いパトスで
思い出を裏切るなら
この宇宙(そら)を抱いて輝く
少年よ神話になれ

Zankoku na tenshi no TEZE
Madobe kara yagate tobitatsu
Hotobashiru atsui PATOSU de
Omoide wo uragiru nara
Kono sora wo daite kagayaku
Shounen yo shinwa ni nare

A cruel angel’s thesis (these)
Will take off from the windowsill before long
On a surging, hot pathos,
If you betray your memories
Embracing this universe and shining
Young man, become a legend


Verse 5

ずっと眠ってる
私の愛の揺りかご
あなただけが夢の使者に
呼ばれる朝がくる

Zutto nemutteru
Watashi no ai no yurikago
Anata dake ga yume no shisha ni
Yobareru asa ga kuru

You’re forever sleeping
In my cradle of love
Only you are the coming morning
Called upon by the messenger of dreams

Verse 6

細い首筋を
月あかりが映してる
世界中の時を止めて
閉じこめたいけど

Hosoi kubisuji wo
Tsukiakari ga utsushiteru
Sekaijuu no toki wo tomete
Tojikometai kedo

The moonlight is reflecting
Your slender nape
You want to stop all the time in the world and
Shut them in, but-

Verse 7

もしもふたり逢えたことに
意味があるなら
私はそう自由を知る
ためのバイブル

Moshimo futari aeta koto ni
Imi ga aru nara
Watashi wa sou jiyuu wo shiru
Tame no BAIBURU

If there’s a meaning in the fact
That we were able meet
Then that’s right, for me to know freedom
It’s the bible

Verse 8 (First and last line same as chorus)

残酷な天使のテーゼ
悲しみがそしてはじまる
抱きしめた命のかたち
その夢に目覚めたとき
誰よりも光を放つ
少年よ神話になれ

Zankoku na tenshi no TEZE

Kanashimi ga soshite hajimaru
Dakishimeta inochi no katachi
Sono yume ni mezameta toki
Dare yori mo hikari wo hanatsu
Shounen yo shinwa ni nare

In a cruel angel’s thesis (these),
The sadness will then start
The shape of the life that you embraced
Is the moment when you woke from your dream
Shining more light than anyone else
Young man, become a legend


Verse 9

人は愛をつむぎながら　
歴史をつくる
女神なんてなれないまま
私は生きる

Hito wa ai wo tsumugi nagara
Rekishi wo tsukuru
Megami nante narenai mama
Watashi wa ikiru

While people weave love,
They create history
I still can’t become a goddess,
Yet I’ll live

Chorus (Repeat)

残酷な天使のテーゼ
窓辺からやがて飛び立つ
ほとばしる熱いパトスで
思い出を裏切るなら
この宇宙(そら)を抱いて輝く
少年よ神話になれ

Zankoku na tenshi no TEZE
Madobe kara yagate tobitatsu
Hotobashiru atsui PATOSU de
Omoide wo uragiru nara
Kono sora wo daite kagayaku
Shounen yo shinwa ni nare

A cruel angel’s thesis (these)
Will take off from the windowsill before long
On a surging, hot pathos,
If you betray your memories
Embracing this universe and shining
Young man, become a legend