Friday, July 20, 2007

   Cloud 9
I hear a voice
A voice, resounding through the sky that stopped crying
It has shot the target of my heart.

Chasing the summer I spent with you,
I pass through the end of winter.
The words I heard from you that day
Are guiding me.

The smell of a snow storm,
High frequencies mixed in a harmony.

There's more than enough memories, but
If I turned around, I could lose just as much.
So recklessly went down that road,
praying for tomorrow.

The wild sleeping within is driving us
To the eternal, endless, irreplaceable dream.
The aimless, simple, helpless days,
We keep walking through them,
Because we are the children of the journey.

So you're guilded?
do you keep running from something?
(The endless world)
Someday, when you've reached your destination
You'll be able to see the rest of your dream.

Unchanging, fearless, our strength,
We had it since the first time of despair.
Unforgettable, inseperable, memories of the distant days,
A tail with a small bone left.

The wild sleeping within is driving us
To the eternal, endless, irreplaceable dream.
Like a climber ascending to the summit,
I want to reach someday the place of beatitude.
So let's keep on walking,
Because we are children of the journey.

I hear a voice,
From beyond the sky that stopped crying.
I am waiting for you.

-Yoko Kanno/Yuho Iwasato/Maaya Sakamoto
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Friday, June 22, 2007

   Dearest
It would be nice if we could put away and throw out
Everything except what really mattered, but
Reality is just cruel.

In such times,
I see you laughing
Whenever I close my eyes.

Until the day I reach eternal sleep,
That smiling face will
Have to stay with me without fail.

People are all sad, so
They go and forget, but--

For that which I should love,
For that which gives me love, I will do what I can.

Back then, when we met,
It was all awkward.
We went the long way, didn't we?
We got hurt, didn't we?

Until the day I reach eternal sleep,
That smiling face will
Have to stay with me without fail.

Back then, when we met,
It was all awkward.
We went the long way, didn't we?
We got there in the end.

-Ayumi Hamasaki
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Monday, June 18, 2007

   Stray
Stray!

In the cold breeze that I walk along
The memories of generations burn within me
Been forever since I cried the pain and sorrow
I live and die, proud of my people gaining

I'm here standing at the edge
Staring up at where the moon should be

Stray!
No regrets 'cause I got nothin to lose
Ever stray!
So I'm gonna live my life as I choose
Until I fall...

Stray!

In the white freeze, I never spoke of tears
Or opened up to anyone including myself
I would like to find a way to open to you
Been awhile, don't know if I remember how to

I'm here waiting on the edge
Would I be alright showing myself to you?
It's always been so hard to do..

Stray!
No regrets 'cause I got nothin to lose
Ever stray!
So I'm gonna live my life as I choose
Until I fall...

Stray!

Is there a place left there for me
Somewhere that I belong
Or will I always live this way... ?
Always

Stray...

-Steve Conte
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Wednesday, June 13, 2007

   Blue
Never seen a blue sky
Yeah I can feel it reaching out
And moving closer
There's something about blue
Asked myself what it's all for
You know the funny thing about it
I couldn't answer
No I couldn't answer

Things have turned a deeper shade of blue
And images that might be real
May be illusion
Keep flashing off and on
Free
Wanna be free
Gonna be free
And move among the stars
You know they really aren't so far
Feels so free
Gotta know free
Please
Don't wake me from the dream
It's really everything it seemed
I'm so free
No black and white in the blue

Everything is clearer now
Life is just a dream you know
That's never ending
I'm ascending

-Yoko Kanno & The Seatbelts
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Tuesday, June 12, 2007

   Gotta Knock a Little Harder
Happiness is just a word to me
And it might have meant a thing or two
If I'd known the difference

Emptiness, a lonely parody
And my life, another smokin' gun
A sign of my indifference

Always keepin' safe inside
Where no one ever had a chance
To penetrate a break in

Kept my cool under lock and key
And I never shed a tear
Another sign of my condidtion

Fear of love or bitter vanity
That kept me on the run
The main events at my confession

I kept a chain upon my door
That would shake the shame of Cain
Into a blind submission

The burning ghost without a name
Was calling all the same
But I wouldn't listen

The longer I'd stall
The further I'd crawl
The harder I'd fall
I was crawlin' into the fire

The more that I saw
The further I'd fall
The lower I'd crawl
I kept fallin' into the fire

Suddenly it occurred to me
The reason for the run
and hide
Had totaled my existance

Everything left on the other side
Could never be much worse that this
But could I go the distance

I faced the door and all my shame
Tearin' off each piece of chain
Until they all were broken

But no matter how I tried
The other side was licked so tight
That door it wouldn't open

Gave it all that I got
And started to knock
Shouted for someone
to open the lock
I just gotta get through the door

And the more that I knocked
The hotter I got
The harder I'd knock
I just gotta break through the door

Gotta knock a little harder
Gotta knock a little harder
Gotta knock a little harder

Break through the door

-Yoko Kanno
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Monday, June 11, 2007

   Heaven's Not Enough
Heaven's not enough
If when you get there..
Just another blue
And heaven's not enough
You think you've found it
And it loses you

You've thought of all there is
But not enough
And it loses you in a cloud

"There" most everything is nothin'
That it seems
"Where" you see the things you only wanna see

I'd fly away
To a higher plane
To say words I resist
To float away
To sigh
To breathe.... forget

And heaven's not enough
If when I'm there I don't remember you
And heaven does enough
You think you know it
And it uses you

I saw so many things
But like a dream
Always losing me in a cloud

Cause I couldn't cry
Cause I turned away
Couldn't see the score
Didn't know the pain
Of leaving yesterday really far behind
In another life
In another dream
By a different name
Gave it all away
For a memory
And a quiet lie
And I felt the face
Of a cold tonight
Still don't know the score
But I know the pain
Of leaving everything really far behind
And if I could cry
And if I could live what truth I did then take me there
Heaven goodbye

-Steve Conte
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