#2011.04.06

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A downpour of falling stars touched by outstretched hands Changes into dirty water underfoot

Hey, I’ll close my eyes And if my wish comes true, flowers will grow from the earth

Passing time made to be lost, a moment of stillness And with a sigh the playful fever soars until I can float

I tore apart the lies without anything to replace them From deep within my heart shines a wish that should have been locked away

The nights come and go, and soon even pain will be forgotten

A downpour of falling stars touched by outstretched hands Changes into dirty water underfoot

Hey, I’ll close my eyes And if my wish comes true, flowers will grow from the earth

Dreaming only of tomorrow, I leave yesterday behind Would I be sad to learn if somewhere else, you were smiling?

The last traces of it are snatched away by the flickering spring’s evening wind

A distant moon, piling upon how I long for that sky And if I were to look down, I would see my feet, because my heart has lost its shape

Hey, I’ll close my eyes And if my wish comes true, flowers will grow from the earth

The hands of angels had led us to that season when we passed one another But our eyes met for only a second, and we kept walking

A downpour of falling stars touched by outstretched hands Changes into dirty water underfoot

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Boredom Machine

Though one should be able to put 16 pieces together in no time at all, Here they are before my eyes as a puzzle not so easily solved

Telling ambiguous lies for some reason, love is fragile Shining feelings, a coarse shout, fed up with it all Molding and bending it, I wonder what sort of face I should put on?

A bed of nails sends the eyes spinning around All that work everywhere is pitiful, so let’s just ignore it Get up close and comfortable with inconvenience An accident from the days found in the trash

But on the surface, we put on our best face Come on, play hide-and-seek to kill the boredom

Telling ambiguous lies for some reason, love is fragile And the transparent amber loses its luster There weren’t any breadcrumbs left to follow The Trojan horse is empty Let’s begin this strange drama, even though it’s boring Put on the silk hat

The outcome is a depressing one, but the puzzle solved in my sleep Is here now

That crime called deceit is sadistic To desire nothing less than love Innocence is probably a hallucination And by the time I realized it, the point had run me through. La la la

Telling ambiguous lies for some reason, love is fragile Shining feelings, a coarse shout, fed up with it all

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Midnight rain, thoughts to question the silence flow forth and dive in

To be submerged, submerged in the colors of me

A film rewinds, the desire to peer into the kaleidoscope of the passing days, merging together

Turning, turning, the colors of me

Love, blue and red emotions are bruises left behind to one day disappear completely

Blurring, blurring, the colors of me

The pantomime continues, at the back of the stage a secret withers and scatters, scatters

Scattering, scattering, the colors of me

A breath, a voice, fingers, a body, a heart – that’s you, isn’t it Little by little you disappear and the world is left empty once more Surrendering to the upside-down, I fall “Welcome home.” Entirely

It falls, it falls, the essence of me

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“Lonely Person”

If I can speak figuratively, the lonely person Has become my usual costume

The windows are all covered up and a key has locked the door tight To reject the arrival of tomorrow is to destroy the usual way of things Circles, triangles, and squares created this country of two

At some far corner of the quiet night, I sleep, barricaded within my memories

The kind lies stacked together to form love are already collapsing Like toy blocks, and the heart lies scattered in hundreds of multicolored pieces

The wastebasket is overfilled with withered words like fallen leaves I’ll feed the fire with all of the memories that can’t be thrown away, and forget them

Deep within the cold night, I simply sleep, wrapped in borrowed love

Buried in a dream beneath the ashes of bygone days, I can no longer see, and even though I don’t exist, I want to leave behind an impression of my heart

The kind lies stacked together to form love are already collapsing Like toy blocks, and the heart is just scattered in hundreds of multicolored pieces Buried in a dream beneath the ashes of bygone days, I can no longer see, and even though I don’t exist, I want to leave behind an impression of my heart Leave it behind, leave it behind Leave it behind

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When wrapped in lies One loses the way home The sound of your footsteps And the stars lost overhead If you could get a Clear Your skill would rise Come this way, blindfolded one

Hey, The heart is always swaying Hey, Come here, come here!

The reason isn’t deep The silence is uncomfortable Sparks flew A chainsaw made clean Things thrown away Self-deprecation with both hands And a whistle to mimic a nue

Hey, The heart is always swaying Hey, Come here, come here!

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A butterfly of moonlight dances in the air in dispute of its distance So unusually vivid

Let’s keep playing amidst the deciduous trees Let’s keep dancing all through the night Fluttering beautifully, the dead leaves fall

He speaks in this place Dressed in devilishness, the sound of the drum echoes out “How is it that the singer of the trees is one of insolent wit and beauty?” One eye spinning round and round was plucked out And drew an arc in the moonlit night

The mercury lamp at the line between reality and dreams resists its distance So beguilingly it gleams

The playwright always hangs his head He hangs it all through the night Crumpled paper hits the waste bin one by one

He sees in this place A doll adorned with makeup, fruit that’s melted into sordid mush “How is it that the singer of the trees is so altogether hideous?” Spinning on and on and on and on and on

From a distance, all the incidents you¹ had talked about Are so numerous that it’s like waking disoriented amidst them all, wouldn’t you say? You’ve come to be so associated with all of those incidents that I² remember And yet now my heart simply, simply thinks of you fondly. How blind I am

The deciduous trees drink together with distant demise So floridly guilty

Skulls let loose a quiet laugh They laugh all through the night The starry sky gleams and bears its fangs

It destroyed the significance of him being in this place A quarrel shatters into icy feeling “May the singer of the trees not be so lonely” Let’s sleep. It’s time to say goodbye to love, compassion, and today

Huddled close, an avowed kiss upon my³ hand With the last of its power spent, it’s falling beneath my⁴ feet This leaden heart will fall to pieces with you⁵

One must not think it cruel. They sing for eternity

In the garden

La lala, la lala

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T/N: Several different pronouns are used in these lyrics, which lends the feel of this being a duet between two people

¹This verse uses 君 (kimi) for “you”

²This verse also uses 僕 (boku) for “I/me” – this is generally a masculine pronoun

³This line uses 私 (watashi) for “I/me” – this is gender neutral and could be interpreted as polite

⁴This line uses 僕 (boku) for “I/me” again

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Tokyo’s ghost cries in prose It falls asleep to mercury lamps and dreams frigid dreams Who is it that fades away with a calm goodbye? As lovely as a baptizing rain

I love you so – a utopia I love you more – will fall I love you always – and break into a thousand I love you forever – pieces

A restless imagination is the ghost in Tokyo The super explosion within a dream squeezes through a vacuum Space warping, gravity disappearing, Emotions felt in excess, and disillusionment

I love you so – a momentary utopia I love you more – achieved for just an instant I love you always – and in the end breaks into a thousand I love you forever – fragments

(nothing to see nothing needed nothing disappears) (hollow vacant low)

Tokyo’s ghost cries in fragments Lured by neon light traps, the butterfly is destroyed!