New Day
New Day (NIHILIST EP /OTOR-003/2009)
Sakura Nozaki - Voice
Eric Jonson - Drums
Chris Rob - Keys
Hideshi ‘heedey’ Omachi_Bass
Sam McIlvain – Guitar
GM Yamashita&Vibe- Backing vocal and pre-production assistance
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Yesterday is past
This moment will be over soon
Better get off the bus (The possibility of explosion is not zero)
I’m always being let down, so I’ll stop
Don’t even want to take a few seconds to put my middle finger up
What “LIVING” means is resisting the “despair” that keeps me standing on the edge
I chose this way this morning, crying alone
Endure a bit more, my voice. ..
Music One
Truly treasure it
Music Two
Creativity, that is to say the opposite to violence
Music Three
Have the phrase “LEAP BEFORE YOU LOOK” tattooed on my heart
Chasing only status makes me feel uncomfortable
Music One
My Voice is the only outlet for the thoughts that keep circling around my head
Music Two
The consequences make my unconscious yell out the words
Music Three
Maybe I won’t only stop this
Cause I will die certainly
This is not a probability
Cried, cried, till my skin peeled
I think it’s because I didn’t know how to draw a line
Hey you I met yesterday, if you call me a cowardly escapist,
I will be hugging you today
I’m just a mass of cells, drowning in the gap between ambiguities
I wish my face wasn’t necessary
Determined to part with pretending not to see things though out my life
Knowing Gérard is laughing at me
If it’s so called tenderness…,
If it’s so called success…,
Tell me what you really wish would leave your mind
Tell me why you really really wish it
Just realized that today is a new day
That’s enough. Let’s go back to the studio.
Everyday is a new day
The fact has been for a long time
I’ve lived for 27 years and finally just realized it ..
Music One
Truly treasure it
Music Two
Creativity, that is to say the opposite to violence
Music Three
Have the phrase “LEAP BEFORE YOU LOOK” tattooed on my heart
Chasing only status makes me feel uncomfortable
Music One
My Voice is the only outlet for the thoughts that keep circling around my head
Music Two
The consequences make my unconscious yell out the words
Music Three
Maybe I won’t only stop this
Cause I will die certainly
This is not a probability
(CHORUS)
Dance to the new day
Sing to the new day
Rhyme to the new day
Dance to the new day
It was as expected
Struck myself speechless and then fell
It was my inferiority complex wandering obstinately
It’s been wondering and never left me even a single second for these years
Just found out it was my only strength
If a Nihilist, who wishes to be a good man, dies, everything might become meaningless
Just laugh it off, thinking every event is decided by “GOD’S RECIPE”(*1)
Just sing it off intolerable despair and loneliness
Yesterday is past
This moment will be over soon
Better get off the bus (There will be explosion)
I’m always being let down, so I’ll stop
Don’t even want to take a few seconds to put my middle finger up
What “LIVING” means is resisting the “despair” that keeps me standing on the edge
I chose this way this morning, crying alone
Endure a bit more, my voice
Vibrating sounds of the bass drum
If I had stopped, this wouldn’t have happened
Musicians, who lied on their stomachs
Never let their instruments go and keep playing while crawling
I was dumped again OK
Then just copy Donny Hathaway
Then everything is gonna be flowing
Vibrating sounds of the bass
Now will be passing
Sounds will keep sounding
DANCE!
What “LIVING” means is resisting the “despair” that keeps me standing on the edge
I chose this way this morning, crying alone Endure a bit more, my voice.
Keep myself standing on the edge
Keep myself standing on the edge
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Translation by Andrew Lawrence and Sakura Nozaki
（*1）“GOD’S RECIPE” is a quotation from”Odubon-no-inori”written by Kotaro Isaka /Publisher: Shin- Cho, Ltd (2003/11)／ISBN-10: 4101250219