xparrot | Warning: attempted lyrics translation! (Yorinuki Gintama OP4)

gintama the full lyrics were posted for the 4th OP of Yorinuki Gintama, Kaatoniago by FLiP (a.k.a. the totally badass, completely un-Gintama-like cat & crow opening), and I figured I'd have a go at translating them. Because, y'know, there's nothing like banging your head repeatedly against the wall of decoding Japanese lyrics, which make if possible even less sense than the words of your average English pop song.

The biggest problem I have with translating Japanese lyrics is that it's really difficult to figure out where to parse phrases, trying to work out whether a verb phrase is on its own or is actually modifying the next noun. Maybe there's a trick to it? (other than not being dumb as a post when it comes to comprehending other languages - oh god I am lucky I was raised an English speaker, because there's no way I could ever have learned it as well as any of the ESL folks on my flist ._.; You guys are seriously amazing.) At any rate, I tend to just go with what's grouped together within a verse, treating verses as single sentences, rather than translating lines individually. ...Which is to say, yeeeeeah, don't expect much accuracy or sense here.

And any edits or corrections are terrifically appreciated! Translator notes/freakouts at the end.

カートニアゴ / KAATONIAGO
FLiP
lyrics from here (with corrections), translation by Xparrot

澱んだ路地裏石蹴飛ばせばぎらっと黒猫振り向く目と目橙の夕暮れ黙って引きずる重い足元に嫌に伸びた影	yodon da rojiura ishi ketobaseba giratto kuroneko furimuku me to me daidai no yuugure damatte hikizuru omoi ashimoto ni iya ni nobita kage
While kicking a stone in a stagnant back alley I came eye-to-eye with a glaring black cat Orange twilight silences and draws out the shadows, That stretched reluctantly under my heavy footsteps
風つかまえて夕空ひゅるりと物知り顔したカラスが見下ろす人のざま	kaze tsukamaete yuuzora hyururito monoshiri gao shita karasu ga miorosu hito no zama
Catching the breeze And whirling through the evening sky, The know-it-all crows look down upon me
のんべんだらりらっとだらりらっと生きたあたしに悲しい報せ告げるようにいま天から使い舞い降りた	nonbendararira tto dararira tto ikita atashi ni kanashii shirase tsugeru you ni ima ten kara tsukai maiorita
As if to say, "You're idling your life away, just idling," To bring the depressing news to myself there, Now the messengers swooped down from the sky
真っ黒いからだ同士通じ合って秘密のいけない打ち合わせをするように夕闇に響くカアとカアとニャアとカアとニャアゴ	makkuroi kara da doushi tsuuji atte himitsu no ikenai uchiawase o suru you ni yuuyami ni hibiku kaa to kaa to nyaa to kaa to nyaago
Pitch-black-bodied comrades, As if communicating, conspiring wickedly in secret, Their cries resound in the dusk: Caw and caw and meow and caw and meow
不穏な路地裏迷ってドン突き行くも戻れぬ地獄一丁目子らの落書き路傍のタンポポ悪戯に吹く白綿の羽根	fuon na rojiura mayotte don tsuki iku mo modorenu jigoku icchoume kora no rakugaki robou no tanpopo itazura ni fuku shiro wata no hane
Lost in the disturbing back alleys, Even thrust into the first block of hell without being able to return Children's scribbles, The white fluff mischievously blown off a roadside dandelion {...? Yeah, you got me.}
風ながされて夕空ふらふら何食わぬ顔で見知らぬ街まで飛んでけ　ほれ	kaze nagasarete yuuzora furafura nani kuwanu kao de mishiranu machi made tondeke hore
Floating on the breeze, And reeling through the evening sky, With innocent looks they fly to the unfamiliar street
まんべんなく笑ってなんとなく生きたあたしを憐れんで嘲笑うように黒猫とカラスがニヤニヤ	manbennaku waratte nanto naku ikita atashi o awaren de azawarau you ni kuroneko to karasu ga niyaniya
All of them grinning, as if, somehow or other, They pity and scorn me, The black cat and the crows smirk.
真っ黒い目で睨んでさよならって最後に言い残す言葉をせがむように不気味に響くカアとカアとニャアとカアとニャアゴ	makkuroi me de niran de sayonara tte saigo ni iinokosu kotoba o segamu you ni bukimi ni hibiku kaa to kaa to nyaa to kaa to nyaago
Pitch-black eyes glaring, as if to say farewell, To pester me with words left unsaid in the end, Their cries resound eerily: Caw and caw and meow and caw and meow
黒猫見あげた人のざま	kuroneko miageta hito no zama
The black cat looks up at me.
何遍でも迷って行き止まって生きるあたしを呆れながら諭すように黒猫とカラスがニヤニヤ	nanben demo mayotte ikidomatte ikiru atashi o akire nagara satosu you ni kuroneko to karasu ga niyaniya
As if, astonished by how often I lose my way or hit a dead end, They're admonishing me, The black cat and the crows smirk.
真っ黒い目で睨んで馬鹿だねって最後にやり残したことは何だね？　って問い質してるカアとカアとニャアとカアとニャアゴ	makkuroi me de niran de baka da ne tte saigo ni yari nokoshita koto ha nan da ne? tte toitadashiteru kaa to kaa to nyaa to kaatoniago
Pitch-black eyes glaring, Saying I'm an idiot, Saying what did you leave behind, in the end Their cries question me: Caw and caw and meow and caw and meow

* "Nonbendarira, dararira" - DONDAKE~~~~...I have no flipping clue. If it were in katakana I'd think it's a foreign phrase, but it's in hiragana. There's enough hits on Google that I'm guessing it's some kind of slang, maybe a cutesy/crude way of saying some known phrase, but I have no clue what...!
{ETA

shayera and

mizrock20 came through with definitions!

I translated "karasu" as plural "crows" simply because of the many crows in the Gintama OP; it might be better singular. The "their cries" is from the "カアとニャアゴ" and the title of the song "カートニアゴ" - I've heard the ゴ is 呱, cry, though I was wondering if it might be 語, as in language - "caw-and-meow-speech"? But no idea, really.