[English translation] 业火苍云歌 - Song of Hellfire and Ashen Clouds

The original cover that I intended to put was taken down from Youtube. I especially liked the opera singing in Ba Du's cover.
This is the video from Bilibili: https://www.bilibili.com/video/av8367029/

原唱//Original vocal：音频怪物 (Yin Pin Guai Wu)
作编曲//Music：TONY_MS
作词//Lyrics：荀夜羽 (Xun Ye Yu)

翻唱//Cover: Lao干妈 (Lao Gan Ma) [In the Youtube video above]

翻唱(戏腔)//Cover (opera singing)：八度 (Ba Du) [In the Bilibili video]

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谁在翻云覆雨掌控这天下

燃三界烽火当赏红莲炎华

战鬼转生自然历灭天劫杀

是英雄就要耐得寂寥萧飒

Who’s stirring up storms to seize control of this world

Igniting war on realms of mortals and immortals alike, rightfully rewarded the tortures of hell

The warrior’s ghost incarnate has naturally seen the worst of catastrophes

One who calls himself a hero must endure bleak solitude

为守千秋霸业做漂泊生涯

拼死搏杀胜负往往只一刹

恩怨不提只因为无从做答

宿命无情索性莫要在意它

To defend my grand ambitions I live a wandering life

Battling to the death, difference between victory and defeat made oft in split seconds

Grace and vengeance shall not be addressed, as there’s simply nowhere to start

Fate’s merciless anyway, so I pay it no mind at all

男儿自当磊落

胸怀凌云壮阔

历经生死劫破

荡尽乾坤浑浊

Men should be open and frank

With guts rivaling the breadth of heaven

Brave through tribulations of life and death

Exhausting the entirety of this murky world

为你坠星劫火

换我堕天心魔

此生荣辱功过

休管他人做何评说

I down the stars and rob its flames for you

In turn I fall out of grace with heaven into demonic paths

For my lifetime glories and shames, achievements and failings, 

I care nothing for the judgement of others

关山 为血脉 谁肯割舍

拓疆土 与英魂对酌

江河 横利刃 哪个来夺

守家国 以血赋长歌

For one’s own flesh and blood, who’d be willing to part with their homeland

We’d expand our borders, and toast with heroic souls

Before our rivers I brandish my blade, who dares to come claim?

To defend my homeland, a song shall be written in blood

因你 勘不透 内心执着

荣华梦 千秋换予我

毁天灭地 便重新雕琢

举身赴山河 换你回眸一顾 秋波

Because you fail to see through your obsessions

Your dream of eternal glory becomes mine to own

Even with total destruction of heaven and land, I’ll sculpt it back again 

I charged into battle, in exchange for your rippling glance back at me

为守千秋霸业做漂泊生涯

拼死搏杀胜负往往只一刹

恩怨不提只因为无从做答

宿命无情索性莫要在意它

To defend my grand ambitions I live a wandering life

Battling to the death, difference between victory and defeat made oft in split seconds

Grace and vengeance shall not be addressed, as there’s simply nowhere to start

Fate’s merciless anyway, so I pay it no mind at all

酒方尽惬意时

负陌刀策飞马 

纵千里快哉风 

袭万里月霜沙 

Still in ecstasy after a drink

Carrying my blade, I drove a dashing horse

Over hundreds of miles like a hurricane

Assailing thousand miles of frost and sand under the moon

喋血刃绽朱花 

射苍狼星挂甲 

宣武讨战争霸

男儿自当立于天下

Killer blades bloomed crimson flowers

Arrows shot the armored Wolf Star

Declaring war, goading battles, fighting for dominance

Men ought stand proudly on their own under heaven

出鞘 一步外 平山破浪

引风雷 哪个敢来挡

设防 盾围内 铁壁铜墙

势如虹 谁人妄逞强

One step away, my unsheathed blade made mountains razed and broken waves

Drawing thunder and wind, who dares get in my way

Defenses set, within shield walls of impregnable iron and bronze

Facing such unstoppable forces, who dares flaunt their bravado

若果 入苍云 注定沧桑

以血 染江山 又何妨

悍将 渴战 舐刀头血凉

不知吾心者 切莫笑

轻狂

If devotion to the Ashen Clouds dooms us to vicissitudes 

What’s the fuss if the landscape should be dyed with our blood

For a vicious warrior thirsting for battle, blood on his blade shall cool his tongue

Those ignorant of my heart, laugh not

At my brazen arrogance

微醺意正酣

追风天嗣横

崩星卷飒沓

猎猎裹裘轻

雁门锁雕翎

敌血染红缨

Tipsy to the point of bliss

The warrior god dominates upon his steed

An avalanche of stars swept up behind him

His fur cloak flutters in the wind

Archers locked behind Yanmen Gate

Enemy blood dyes his tassel red

出鞘 一步外 平山破浪

引风雷 哪个敢来挡

设防 盾围内 铁壁铜墙

势如虹 谁人妄逞强

One step away, my unsheathed blade made mountains razed and broken waves

Drawing thunder and wind, who dares get in my way

Defenses set, within shield walls of impregnable iron and bronze

Facing such unstoppable forces, who dares flaunt their bravado

不知吾心者 切莫笑

轻狂

Those ignorant of my heart, laugh not

At my brazen arrogance

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Translator's note:

If this isn't a manly song I don't know what is. 

It's really quite fun to attempt translation for songs with different sets of emotions (as compared to the usual, of the softer, gentler, melancholic variety we usually get).

But again, there's quite a number of terminology that's quite culturally specific, and makes references to mythology. I'm not sure if I've done them justice, but I tried my best. E.g. 红莲炎华 (or 红莲业火, "hellfire of red lotus") meaning tortures of hell. 

Background for the song: it's a song devoted to the Ashen Cloud sect, one of the two warrior sects as far as I'm aware of, from the Chinese MMORPG game Jiang Wang 3.