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This Is Not My Language
03:23
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This is not my language
My mind has not aged much
Like how I speak in my mother's tongue
Sink myself in the sea of doubt
Splitting into two outputs
So that I don't freak out
When I'm in my uniform
To show them where I'm from
Nothing behind the veil I swear
I can see discomfort in your eyes
You sat in front of me
And looked at my face
Shouted "what the hell are you doing here?"
No word came out of my mouth
As this is not my language
Nothing behind the veil I swear
If that means anything
Nothing is covered there I swear
If that ever means anything
I can see discomfort in your eyes
Nothing behind the veil I swear
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Forever and Ever
03:43
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“As days go by, things will get better and better”, you said
Floating on the water until my dream dies
A bright white light and a shiny black room I’ll see myself there
What if I share the same
But I know it’s not about it after all
Two sides collide and get mixed up
Where’s the exit?
End up being in the middle of this fine dichotomy
Forever and ever
I watch you down into the big pool and melt with the other end
This sadness never fails to let me face my enemy
Forever and ever
“So days went by, things just got worse than ever”, I said ‘cause
It’s hard to justify my own place and stories
I’m still sitting on a seat for a spectator and
What if I share the same
But I know exactly what it takes to be there
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For now, set aside all the little details
It is what it is and nothing else
If I could turn around
I've seen this like two years ago
I must have lost the key to my house
Well, you're like it's never on the page before
Fair, I am presenting like it's half as good as it used to be, so who's to care?
Take it all the way with you until you hit the end roll of it
Skim through all the names of it to look for a vacancy
Maybe it's a part of it, and that's something I've been missing
Guard your place, we're after it
At least I think I have to be
And I sat beside the small shining panel
It is what it is and nothing else
I won't look around for sure
These extension parts are occupying my life I must have lost the key to my head
この夜も明けそうにないけど
朝がさして好きということもなくて 困るな
どうして心にもないことを
そうしてどこにも行けない思いを留めて
If there's the other side
嘘も何もないような星の
I shouldn't say otherwise
他に声も聞かれない街で
I melt away
I melt away alone
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I Might As Well Swim
03:58
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If it's my kindness that ties us
I'm just worthless if I can't calm you down
I guess you sort of deserve it if leaving would leading to your fall
You'd end up hugging till I'm dead
I was worried about what's to come
I'll do better than anyone around me is not what I wanted to hear
Don't try to find yourself through my eyes
Inside there's a void as you've always told me
So carry on
Tell me to stay calm
So that you
You can lose your mind
Chain smoke the same thoughts
Till it hide my blue sky
It's not so dark out there
Mix of different kinds of grey
So carry on
Tell me to stay calm
So that you
You can lose your mind
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Hatch
04:39
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And you slip your shackles off right in front of me
Your beautiful hatch
2cm left and 0.6 scores less than getting a sick leave
Landscape is sliding fast behind my head in the express to the white boxes
And I think of caring about myself
In my bed, when I have to wake up 4 hours later
My dead eyes floating on the surface of whatever
To keep my head filled up
Nothing really matters
A pity, bottomless, and nerve wrecking cycle down to the numbness
I said I don’t hate it
But it could have been just more human, or untied
And we haven’t seen each other for a while now
Who’s left behind
Out of ten times I said I’m fucked up
I really meant that every time and that is devastating
When would you want me to give in to what’s right in your mind Sometimes it’s just easy to
I cannot say I don’t hate it
But it could have been just more human, or untied
Landscape is sliding
My face is melting into what’s behind the train window
And this again
Watching me from the bird’s eye view and said to myself
“I could’ve done it better, or worse”
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6. |
I Walk
03:53
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Compressed time span
Thoughts not meditated on
Not enough days spent on
A broken brake handle
Circling back down
The steep slope slowly
Never reaching the tail end
It won't accumulate
Leave it half open
Until it gets rusty
Always need polishing
Before the heat kicks in again
And eventually burn it all down
Burn it all down for good
I walk
I walk faster than I should do
I walk
I walk faster than I should do
And wave my fear away
My fear of losing my sight
I walk
I walk
And I wave with my hands my fear away
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Ukas Tokyo, Japan
Ukas is a DIY songwriter from Nagoya, Japan.
Largely influenced by indie-rock/pop and alternative music, he writes catchy, noisy, messy and packed songs that are turbulently mixed up and fused with ennui.
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